On or about: 04-10-08  12:36, Tika Carr did engage James Bradley regarding,
but not limited to: BW Shortcut in Vista

 > ...Getting free SWAG!  *Good* SWAG too!!!

 TC> Tell me about it! :) I have good computers and just recently got done 
 TC> reinstalling the OSs and re-setting up things on all 3. Three
 TC> computers and a  chair with wheels describes me best. LOL! Two are
 TC> laptops though so luckily I  can just relax in a good chair somewhere
 TC> and work. 

Tell *me* about it!  I buy pieces of crap from auction, and pick
up bails of SCSI drives for nothing. So far, my #1 runs SATA, #2 IDE +
SCSI, and I'm working on the HW to two SCSI systems, with cached RAID
controllers. It gives me a reason to burn electricity... I mean, wake up in
the morning.  I won't even start with the pile of junk I have
crammed into an anvil case.

 > be *any* congruity?

 TC> Nope. You got to right-click on the taskbar and click Properties to
 TC> [...]
 TC> Lots of differences. 

Not so surprised. )-:

 TC> I never thought of having it in my PATH statement. Ah well, making a
 TC> batch  file with shortcut to it did work. To me, it was the easiest
 TC> solution. (Hey,  Vista does not have a My Computer icon! LOL! So
 TC> getting to the Environment  Variables is rather tough. I even keep
 TC> forgetting where they are located in  the GUI maze! LOL!

Frankly, I went looking for it on W2K, and I'll be damned if I remember how
\bat and \util stuck. BW does use a "Working" directory, via a
PIF here.

 > "command.com /p BWAVE386.EXE", but I've almost no
recollection of those
 > workings.

 TC> Problem is, it gave the error anyway, even if all parameters were
 TC> correct. :/  It was odd. I didn't try the command.com /p though. Never
 TC> knew of that. But I  don't think there's a command.com in Vista.
 TC> There's a DOS-like interpertor I  think     from what I can see, they
 TC> have pretty much limited DOS stuff so  it's hard to get to. I guess
 TC> they want people to forget about DOS. :( 

Elsewhere, I found out cmd.com (or was it .exe... Just looked, and W2K has
command.com, cmd.exe AND CMD.EXE! 8-) was edging out command.com, and it
gets harder to run with each release. Why am I not surprised?

 TC> Great to see there's still some of my old favorite Echoes though. :)

It's a map in flux. My sysop just made MISTRESS.RUS available. Now I have
to learn Russian! 

 TC> You  probably know Nancy Backus, a very close, dear friend of mine whom
 TC> I'm in  constant contact with (we live in the same a    . I guess she

Always been a hoot for as long as we've spouted off. I guess we first conversed here.

 TC> helped me  re-kindle some of my interest, as well as Mike Roberts who
 TC> runs the Holodeck  BBS. It's nice to have some familiarity in all the
 TC> "New-fangled" internet  (which is becoming
"old-fangled" by now, for
 TC> me. LOL!) 

A shell account connected me here in '90, or '91. PPP wasted my time until
about five years ago. Because this sysop provides NG and email gates, I
only get my fill of WB through community connections now. That's *plenty!*

Well, as Nancy is likely too busy looking up her family tree, or chasing
the wizard's wand,  I guess I'll formally welcome you back!


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