[arachne] FAT32 vs. NTFS was Re: How to fix this puter?

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Hi Rob,
              If you like NTFS then that's fine.
I'm glad for you. Enjoy.
      I don't like my experience with NTFS
and I like to have access to my partitions
from DOS and W98 and XP.  I can't do that
with NTFS. I prefer the W98 DOS to the
XP command line/DOS emulator...but
I'll work with both if I have to.
     So, different strokes for different folks !  :-}

Eric


On Tue, 19 May 2009 18:12:00 -0500 (CDT) Rob <robo13@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
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> Eric,
> I never ran 2k or XP on FAT, since NTFS is a far superior
> filesystem, much more stable and certainly more secure. I
> ran alot of DOS programs including Arachne and Nettamer.
> EDIT comes with the system, and I used it all the time cuz
> I hated notepad. XP also has an app you can add programs to
> and will run in 'realmode'. After trying various flavours of
> win9x, which I feel are clunky JUNK, I definitely preferred
> the commandline of 2k and xp to the DOS 7.x in 9x. It's
> much more configurable too. The telnet and ftp in 9x are some
> of the worst programs I ever encountered, much improved in
> NT. Sam has a problem that needs fixed
> and I don't believe it is because of CMD.exe or NTFS. I
> would give him the same advice as glennmcc tho. Delete windo$e
> and install DOS and Linux. Or some other better system than M$.
> Rob
> 
> On Tue, 19 May 2009, Eric S. Emerson wrote:
> 
> > Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
> >
> > Hi Sam H.,
> >                     I explained that for you in my
> > previous post.  It's  because the XP is
> > setup with NT file system.  When setup
> > w/NT file system it uses cmd.exe instead
> > of command.com.
> >
> > Eric
> >
> > On Tue, 19 May 2009 14:29:49 GMT sheywood@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> >> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
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> >>> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
> >>>
> >>> Haven't read full thread on this, but ...
> >>>
> >>> 1.  XP does not have a "DOS box" (there are some available apps
> >> that
> >>> work to do that.)
> >>>
> >>> 2.  If you want to try to run at the cmd level (required for DOS
> >>> programs) you need to know that batch files will sometimes work
> >> with BAT
> >>> suffix, but ms advises changing suffix to CMD so system 
> recognizes
> >> it
> >>> and uses the appropriate part (there no longer is command.com in
> >> XP).
> >>>
> >>> 3. Some DOS exe programs run just fine, but they will be full
> >> screen and
> >>> some fonts may be munged.  All my attempts to resize window were
> >> failures.
> >>>
> >>>   HOWEVER ... there *is* a way to set up a separate 
> instance
> >> of CMD, with
> >>> a screen icon and parameters set to where you want them ... 
> window
> >> or
> >>> full screen, choice of colors, etc.  I just thought of this
> >> possible use
> >>> because I'd lost that icon and choice & tried to redo it 
> yesteray
> >> (only
> >>> partially right at present).
> >>>
> >>> If anyone wants more info on this, I hereby declare it a "do it
> >>> yourself" process ... <GGGGGG>
> >>>
> >>> To see the whole ball of wax, and learn how to do all sorts of
> >> neat
> >>> things (maybe) go to <http://www.allenware.com> ... I'm 
> referring
> >> to the
> >>> "Batch File Course" under "Free demonstrations"
> >>>
> >>> I never managed to get Arachne to run on my XP machine.  
> However,
> >> this
> >>> controlled window direct link to cmd *might* be a possibility 
> ...
> >> I
> >>> suggest you do what the required is to set up the 'playpen' 
> batch
> >> window
> >>> and experiment from there.  Using the technique they show, it
> >> might even
> >>> be possible to establish a "cmd window" as part of a "script" to
> >> run DOS
> >>> or other programs.
> >>>
> >>> l.d.
> >>
> >>
> >> Ok, so, strictly technically speaking, maybe XP doesn't have a
> >> "dos-box",
> >> but it does have a dos-box emulator that looks like a real 
> dos-box
> >> and it
> >> is supposed to be capable of running most dos apps.  I have other
> >> XP's
> >> computers that work for running dos apps.
> >>
> >> BTW, the Pentium IV XP desktop that I rescued from the landfill 
> will
> >> run
> >> and process DOS batch files but it won't run DOS programs, such 
> as
> >> "edit.com"
> >> and many other DOS-based utilities that come with XP and are on 
> this
> >> computer.
> >> Very strange!
> >>
> >> Sam
> >> Heywood
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