[Dixonary] OT sort of: Dealing

[Dodi Schultz]

Tim B reveals:

>> There's a nice freeware package called DOSBox that makes a modern PC
>> nearly as good as an old DOS PC.

Oooh, that's good to know!

Thanks, Tim.

--Dodi

[Judy Madnick]

----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "Guerri Stevens" <guerri (AT) tapcis (DOT) com>

<< Tell the machine to copy something to a CD
<< and what it does is mark it as "waiting to be written". And you have to
<< say "go ahead and write it". What's the point?? Probably there is one,
<< but I wouldn't tell it to write if I didn't want it to write and right
<< now, please.

Yes, it's very annoying. What I do is either a "save as" (d:\*.*) or go to "My Computer" and "drag and drop" (using "copy," not "move") to avoid the scenario you have described. (You have to chose "Folders" to do this.)

Judy

[Christopher Carson]

USB to parallel port adapters are very iffy, sometimes they work but more often they don't. The best solution is a PC Card parallel port adapter. They're more expensive but they are far more reliable. Same goes for USB to serial cables/adapters.

[Guerri Stevens]

I can't remember exactly what I did to write to the CD. I thought I just
selected the files I wanted to copy, then dragged them to the CD and
said "copy", but maybe not.

Guerri

Judy Madnick wrote:
>
> Yes, it's very annoying. What I do is either a "save as" (d:\*.*) or
> go to "My Computer" and "drag and drop" (using "copy," not "move") to
> avoid the scenario you have described. (You have to chose "Folders"
> to do this.)