wright@m.cs.uiuc.edu (02/04/90)
I am requesting help with 2 unrelated questions; while I do read this
group, email would be preferable to avoid cluttering with answers
to these questions. If there should be any general interest, I will
summarize and post.
1) I need to develop a custom communications program to exchange
files with a mainframe that insists on using a custom file
transfer protocol. I would like to accumulate some
recommendations and experiences with commercial / shareware
communication libraries.
My development environment is DOS and MSC 5.1.
2) A friend of mine is having trouble with his IBM PS/2 Model 50Z.
It will not boot off of the hard disk, but I did get it to boot
off of A: with DOS 4.x. Poking around with Norton Disk Doctor
indicated that it appears to think that its configuration
includes:
Drives: A = 720K, B = 360K, no other drives
While the actual configuration includes:
Drives: A = 1.44M, B = 1.44M, hard disk (32 Meg, I think)
This being my first experience with PS/2 (I'm still on a
6MHz AT :-(, I am only able to hypothesize that I need to run
a SETUP procedure on this machine. Can someone confirm this
hypothesis, and if true, tell me how I run it (ie- is the setup
procedure in ROM (and what is the "magic" sequence to invoke it),
or do I need a separate disk?
PS- If I understand correctly, the B: disk was recently installed
into this machine by a third person, and the battery may have
been replaced as well. Why, I don't know, the person I'm
helping knows less about the PS/2's than I do.
Thanks in advance-
David Wright
wright@cs.uiuc.edu
wright@cs.uiuc.edu@uiucvmd.bitnet
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