gallo@cs.albany.edu (Andrew Gallo) (05/08/91)
A suggestion: identify a program with its minimum hardware requirements. For example, I just finished cat-ing, uu-ing, and downloading the oscilloscope program only to find that it did not run on my machine because I don't have a VGA card. If the program's posting had clearly tagged the hardware requirements I would have saved a fair amount of time. This is not a flame, only a suggestion. Thanks for listening. >-----------------------------------------------------------------------------< > Andy Gallo | State University of | "If six, turned out to be < > gallo@cs.albany.edu | New York at Albany | nine, I don't mind..." 8-) < >-----------------------------------------------------------------------------<
ldstern@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Larry Stern) (05/08/91)
In article <817@hartmanis.albany.edu> gallo@cs.albany.edu (Andrew Gallo) writes: > > A suggestion: identify a program with its minimum hardware >requirements. For example, I just finished cat-ing, uu-ing, and >downloading the oscilloscope program only to find that it did not run >on my machine because I don't have a VGA card. If the program's posting >had clearly tagged the hardware requirements I would have saved a fair >amount of time. > This is not a flame, only a suggestion. Thanks for listening. > >>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------< >> Andy Gallo | State University of | "If six, turned out to be < >> gallo@cs.albany.edu | New York at Albany | nine, I don't mind..." 8-) < >>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------< That's odd- I downloaded that program and it runs perfectly on my Compuadd 286, EGA only... -- Larry Stern LDSTERN@RODAN.ACS.SYR.EDU