#garfield Logs

Jan 01 2013

13:33 rue_bed 2.5"
13:33 rue_bed between 2G and 8G
13:33 rue_bed whatever thickness
13:35 rue_bed I have laptop cdroms I can forward, heh, and a lot of floppy drives (unused)
14:23 iamturnip do they have to be 2 to 8?
14:25 rue_house no
14:25 rue_house anywhere in between or over is just fine
14:25 rue_house I cant install linux on less than about 2G
16:39 iamturnip shouldnt be a problem but it may take a few weeks since most drives in that range are NFG
17:16 Tom_itx rue_house, what's a good way to transfer data between 2 dos machines reliablly
17:16 Tom_itx 2 locations
19:41 rue_house Tom_itx, how many files?
19:41 rue_house 3 or 400
19:47 Tom_itx just a few
19:48 Tom_itx but floppy is becoming very unreliable
19:48 Tom_itx maybe a floppy full
19:48 Tom_itx i think i got a cd to work finally but i'd rather not burn a cd every time
19:55 rue_house serial via uh whats it called
19:55 rue_house procommplus
19:56 Tom_itx they're not in the same building
19:56 rue_house oooh
19:56 rue_house I wonder if the w95 usb falsh driver could be wedged into config.sys and work
19:57 Tom_itx well i got the cd to work finally
19:57 Tom_itx it hadn't been working
19:57 rue_house otherwise, running dos in a VM and using the outter machine to transfer the images any way you like
20:03 Tom_itx runing dos in a windows shell, how does dos print to windows printers?
21:05 rue_house not in windows, something with less overhead
21:06 rue_house but a dos port canbe mapped to a windows printer
21:11 Tom_itx how do you go about that?
21:11 Tom_itx they're defined as lpt1 etc in the program
21:11 rue_house you create a printer with soem options, I'd have to see to remember
21:12 rue_house I think you crete a 'dos' printer and link it somehow
21:12 Tom_itx yeah i don't know how
21:24 rue_house I dont know how unless I'm doing it