Hi Jon et al... On Thursday 27 December 2001 20:46, Jon Pennington wrote:
On Thu, 2001-12-27 at 05:50, Jim Hatridge wrote:
I got it up and running! I used the M$ software on her machine and Samba on mine. Now my /cdisk looks like her "D:" dir on her 386.
You should write an article or something. Seriously. I'm not kidding. A page or two giving the broad strokes of how you got a 6-year-old laptop to participate in a network using free software.
I'm working on that. In a day or two I'll put up on the list what I did. BTW her system is not the laptop. She has an Compaq Deskpro 386/25e. It was made sometime around 1992 or so. It has 4mb of main memory and 120mb HD. She only "upgraded" to that about a year ago after she wore out my 1987 XT.
Now she's after me to put email (Pine) and lynx on her system. Oh well back to the salt mines....
Cool! Something like this?
I'll check in to that tonight, thanks.
I used this once when a 486SX2 wasn't ancient yet, and it worked very well. Cygwin works better, but you need at least 95 or NT4 to use that, neither of which will run very smartly on that laptop. May I also offer Mutt and Links as suitable replacements? Each of these has "compatibility modes" witht the programs you mentioned, and are IMHO vastly superior. I'm sure there's a Mutt port for MS CLI environments, but I'm not sure about links...perhaps w3m?
Thanks for you all's help!
Right there with you, buddy. :)
Thanks! -- Jim Hatridge Linux User #88484 ------------------------------------------------------ BayerWulf Linux System # 129656 The Recycled Beowulf Project Looking for throw-away or obsolete computers and parts to recycle into a Linux super computer