Hi all looks like I missed something there... never mind. Solved? - yes well the bits that were really bugging me are fixed - the primary...
Hi Welshjim, aleekat and all Welshjim, you make very good sense - impossible to faultbust a situation without knowing the background - here, if...
aha getting somewhere at last: Microsoft KB226223 it's a known problem if IE upgraded without upgrading OE as well - now, why didn't I think...
Hi aleekat, Welshjim and all - re aleekat's points: 1) Did you completely uninstall AOL? no it isn't uninstalled at all as yet - we have to...
Hi all apologies if I am missing something basic here, but... I'm just changing from AOL, thus starting to use Outlook Express - and I...
Hi Anakalia in the old days of DOS (pre Windows9x) the dot character was indeed illegal as part of a file name, but no more - there are still...
This does sound as if it could be serious, it's not unknown for CRT's themselves to "lose" Red, Green, or Blue and if it really is the tube...
Dear All ahh, it was the port after all - which led me a merry dance in its own right - got the printer working fairly readily by going down...
Dear Zephyr and all well I got about as far as I could with pencil and paper, there was a link to "Cable Pinouts" as well, which looked like...
Hi again Zephyr thanks for the link, pencil and paper time for a while! I'd trawled around quite a bit but inconclusively, lots of mutually...
Dear Folks I'm trying to discover the pin connections for bidirectional and non-bidirectional parallel printer cables - DB25 to Centronics -...
ahh sussed it. In case it's got anyone else going, here's the thing: part of the setup is to check that the port speeds match, and that...
Yo Daizy, 'tis nearly 6AM here & I'm trying to catch up on the coffee front (tho' still a way to go, that's only the 5th pint) - you any good on...
further to previous... have tried using both hardware and Xon/off for flow control, also tried it both ways round (host/guest-wise), still no...
Dear Folks I'm trying to set up the Windows Direct Cable Connection between a W98 PC and a W95 PC using a null modem cable. I've run the...
Hi Zephyr, Daizy and all... well I scrabbled around a bit more without really getting anywhere [although did discover that DOS 6.22...
...further to previous, I've found EXTRACT.EXE (in \WINDOWS\COMMAND among others) EXTRAC32.EXE (in \WINDOWS) ...but I am still no closer to...
Dear All, call me an egg-head if you wish, but at the moment I find the subject of file compression extremely interesting indeed......
Hi Daizy the files that I meant are like on the Windows CD or wih a printer for example - they're often supplied "squashed" to save space...
a rather basic query: files on install disks etc are often in compressed format, *.EX_ for example; what was used to compress them in the first...
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