dewhirst@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (04/27/91)
Extreme frustration is the keyword here. Is anyone else out there using the PC software for America Online from dual 720K drives? The installation instructions clearly state that the software requires a Meg or more on disk, but I think there are three possible solutions to this problem: --> Install the software on hard drive, delete all of the files I will never need like printer software and the help file, then copy to floppy. I am willing to sacrifice a lot in the way of an interface to get it to run. Anybody know what files are *essential* to running the software? --> From the structure of the AOL.BAT file, it appears that the software simply looks for all of the files on the same volume. Is it possible to modify this? Are the other paths in the GEOS.EXE? --> Or, has anyone heard of a utility that makes the CPU think that two floppies are actually a single small HD or floppy? CS relations and CR Hotline both stonewall and say it is not possible to run the software from low density drives. This is crazy. I will be stuck in the middle of nowhere this summer, and am in danger of losing my e-mail (or going to another service) if I cannot get the software to run on my laptop PC - Dual 720K floppies only. -- Rob Dewhirst Sysop: The MacRocosm BBS - (913) 841-9446 < --Best route AOL:Echopapa <-- Okay route dewhirst@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu <-- Yuck! "A computer without a modem is like a sportscar without wheels -- it's fun to sit behind, but it won't take you anywhere!"
tnaa7@isuvax.iastate.edu (Steven M. Knapp) (05/07/91)
In article <1991Apr27.152721.30125@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>, dewhirst@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes: > >--> Or, has anyone heard of a utility that makes the CPU think that two >floppies are actually a single small HD or floppy? > I think DOS join has some possibilitys. A friend of mine here at school is a master at making things run on a dual 720k system...try emailing him...he will be glad to help. His address is XAP28@evax.iastate.edu or XAP28@ISUEVAX.BITNET. Note school ends on 5/17... sTEVE
dewhirst@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (05/09/91)
In article <1991May7.021245.7801@news.iastate.edu>, tnaa7@isuvax.iastate.edu (Steven M. Knapp) writes: > In article <1991Apr27.152721.30125@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>, dewhirst@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes: >> >>--> Or, has anyone heard of a utility that makes the CPU think that two >>floppies are actually a single small HD or floppy? >> > I think DOS join has some possibilitys. > A friend of mine here at school is a master at making things run on a dual 720k > system...try emailing him...he will be glad to help. His address is > XAP28@evax.iastate.edu or XAP28@ISUEVAX.BITNET. Note school ends on 5/17... > sTEVE Here's what I did: Tried all combinations of join, append, etc., that I thought would redirect accesses to the second drive. Finally, after prodding, poking, and finally demanding more info from AOL I got them to to tell me (voice) that the software uses Geos Ensemble, so nothing will work. Instead, I just subscribed to PC Link. The whole situation would have been easier for me if CS Relations would have told me this in the frist place. I kept posing options to them, and they just kept responding with "AOL software requires a single volume with over a meg of space..." They just never told me *why*! -- Rob Dewhirst Sysop: The MacRocosm BBS - (913) 841-9446 < --Best route AOL:Echopapa <-- Okay route dewhirst@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu <-- Yuck! "A computer without a modem is like a sportscar without wheels -- it's fun to sit behind, but it won't take you anywhere!"