roelofs@nas.nasa.gov (Cave Newt) (02/13/91)
Is the MBOOT program (preferably, the whole vol10n04 archive) available anywhere besides CompuServe yet? This is a program which takes over the boot record of a disk and allows the user to choose an operating system/ setup from a menu at boot-time. Note that this is NOT the same as the BOOTANY program recently posted; that one let you pick the partition from which to boot (one OS/setup per partition), whereas this program allows you to have 4 different OS's on the same boot disk (e.g., DOS 3.3, DOS 4.0, OS/2 1.2, DOS/Windows3). I would dearly love to get my mitts on this...I will personally e-mail a chocolate chip cookie to whomever uploads the dude to Simtel/wuarchive. :-) On a completely different topic, several people have been complaining about cbip being quiet; the problem is with your sites, not cbip. The first few parts of gcc/g++ were recently posted (the other 32 parts are still out there somewhere, but it's a start), and just today the first four or six pieces of some 11-parter came in (I don't remember what it was, but it wasn't very interesting). And, of course, there's always the Japanese group fj.binaries.msdos--they just posted a Tek4014 plotter/ emulator or something...
w8sdz@rigel.acs.oakland.edu (Keith Petersen) (02/14/91)
PC Magazine VOL10N04.ZIP is available from SIMTEL20. It's in the pd1:<msdos.pcmag> directory. Keith