BIW109@URIMVS.BITNET (03/02/89)
I have fogured out how to get machine language programs to load
with the SpatraDOS X cart., but now I have run across a strange
problem I can't quite figure out. I put a vt100 terminal on a newly
formatted disk, and then I put a config.sys file on the disk with
the command COPY CON: CONFIG.SYS. I then ran the vt100 program with
the command X VT100.OBJ. I wanted to see if everything was ok, so
I logged onto the schools system and did an ascii capture. I also
wrote a default file and a macro key file to the disk for the terminal
program. I then got a directory of the disk. The ascii file I had
just captured was over 200 sectors long! I knew this was wrong because
it was only four or five screens worth.. I went back into dos and got
a directory, and the ascii file, the config.sys file, the macro, and
the default file were all over 700k long! Some simple arithmatic will
tell you that 4 700k files do not fit on a 180k disk... The terminal
program works, because I have been using it for a long time with MYdos,
and it works fine. What bothers me is that a file put there by sparta
dos it self didn't seem to work right... Aside from this problem, I
still can't get the terminal program to load with the faster data trans-
fer (the X command seems to dissable it..). If anyone can help me, it
would be greatly appreciated... Otherwise, I think the disk based
version of sparta dos is starting to look very good....
Thanks, Raymond Courtois
Bitnet: biw109@urimvsajy2208@ultb.UUCP (A.J. Yarusso) (03/06/89)
Raymond, I just recently purchased SpartaDOS X and have had no problems using it whatsoever. I use it with a 1MEG MIO, 2 20 meg hard drives, 2 1050's (one of them is US Doublerized), an INDUS GT, R-Time 8, 130XE, and an XEP80. oh yea, and an INCOMM 2400 baud modem. I've found so far that Sparta X runs nearly EVERYTHING (especially when using the X command). Is the VT100 emulator you are using Public Domain or Shareware? If so, can you post it to the net (or Email it to me) so I can try to duplicate your problem? Albert Yarusso, ajy2208@ritvax.bitnet (preferred) ajy2208@ultb.RIT.edu