Re: [Freedos-user] A few words about AOL and Yahoo

2017-04-25 Thread Thomas Mueller
from dmccunney: > On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 5:04 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote: > How busy are those eCS lists on Yahoogroups? > Note that Verizon has acquired Yahoo and plans to rebrand it. It > already owned AOL. It has informed Verizon email users that Verizon > will no longer provide email servi

Re: [Freedos-user] A few words about AOL and Yahoo

2017-04-25 Thread Felix Miata
dmccunney composed on 2017-04-25 22:29 (UTC-0400): > Verizon may keep Yahoo Groups active (but change the name as part of > the re-branding.) I hope it continues. A lot of useful help groups and archives will disappear if it does not. Before it became yahoogroups in 2001 it was eGroups, which II

Re: [Freedos-user] eComStation on yahoogroups (was: Quattro Pro releases)

2017-04-25 Thread Felix Miata
Thomas Mueller composed on 2017-04-25 21:04 (UTC): >> ecs-techni...@yahoogroups.com >> ecomstat...@yahoogroups.com > How busy are those eCS lists on Yahoogroups? https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/eComStation/info The former: 20 messages April, 0 March, 29 February, 30 January https://groups.ya

Re: [Freedos-user] A few words about AOL and Yahoo

2017-04-25 Thread dmccunney
On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 9:54 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: > All I can contribute to this discussion is that yahoogroups, many of them, > still exist. I am a member of several getting posts from them each day. I'm on several myself. The question is how long they will *continue* to exist. > However

Re: [Freedos-user] A few words about AOL and Yahoo

2017-04-25 Thread Karen Lewellen
All I can contribute to this discussion is that yahoogroups, many of them, still exist. I am a member of several getting posts from them each day. However, I do not subscribe using either a yahoo or aol e-mail, and never had one from Verizon. those I know with yahoo e-mails began changing after

[Freedos-user] A few words about AOL and Yahoo

2017-04-25 Thread dmccunney
On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 5:04 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote: > How busy are those eCS lists on Yahoogroups? Note that Verizon has acquired Yahoo and plans to rebrand it. It already owned AOL. It has informed Verizon email users that Verizon will no longer provide email services, and that they should

Re: [Freedos-user] Quattro Pro releases

2017-04-25 Thread Thomas Mueller
> > Felix Miata composed on 2017-04-24 23:07 (UTC-0400):... > >> OS/2 needed the upgrade to MCP that eCS incorporated, and Dani's 506, DASD > >> and ATAPI drivers to run on hardware that wasn't perfectly sync'd up to > >> that in the PC hardware IBM was selling, or even when it did > > I went t

Re: [Freedos-user] Quattro Pro releases

2017-04-25 Thread Felix Miata
dmccunney composed on 2017-04-25 08:53 (UTC-0400): > Felix Miata composed on 2017-04-24 23:07 (UTC-0400): >> I was never able to figure out how to make any of >> the non-OS/2 DOS emulators do SVGA text modes, required to produce the 132 >> column text modes that make QPro so valuable to me. > the

Re: [Freedos-user] Corel dos ebay thing

2017-04-25 Thread Dale E Sterner
none On Mon, 24 Apr 2017 22:40:27 + (UTC) Gregg Eshelman writes: > Any plan to share this find? :) > > > On Monday, April 24, 2017, 9:07:19 AM MDT, Dale E Sterner > wrote:It is pure dos abandoned when corel went > to windows. > Sounded like it came out of the trash can type. > It is some

Re: [Freedos-user] Quattro Pro releases

2017-04-25 Thread dmccunney
On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 9:13 AM, Mikkel C. Simonsen wrote: > dmccunney wrote: >> Only existing OS/2 users run OS/2 apps, I don't think *anyone* runs >> Win 3.1 apps, > > I do, so there's at least one... PageMaker, CorelDRAW! and Photoshop is > in regular use. And also more spezialised stuff like

Re: [Freedos-user] Corel dos ebay thing

2017-04-25 Thread dmccunney
On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 9:46 PM, Gregg Eshelman wrote: > On Monday, April 24, 2017, 9:29:48 AM MDT, dmccunney > wrote: > On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 11:14 AM, Dale E Sterner > wrote: >> I think there must have been a 5.5 otherwise you wouldn't >> have a 5.6. > >> The problem for both products was fa

Re: [Freedos-user] Quattro Pro releases

2017-04-25 Thread Mikkel C. Simonsen
dmccunney wrote: > Only existing OS/2 users run OS/2 apps, I don't think *anyone* runs > Win 3.1 apps, I do, so there's at least one... PageMaker, CorelDRAW! and Photoshop is in regular use. And also more spezialised stuff like Keil µVision and some filter design tools. > Tell me why anyone who

Re: [Freedos-user] Quattro Pro releases

2017-04-25 Thread dmccunney
On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 11:07 PM, Felix Miata wrote: > eCS works much better than DesqView and QEMM ever did with "large" file I/O, > which is truly dismal in any DOS I ever seriously tried. And of course, eCS is > useful for other things. QPro is one of those apps where the better DOS than > DO

[Freedos-user] OS/2 Re: Quattro Pro releases

2017-04-25 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Have you ever installed OS/2 Warp 3 Upgrade from floppies? I did, on a Packard Bell 486 SX system with a 63 Mhz Pentium Overdrive. For some reason once it got to the GUI stage and I was feeding it disk after disk, I'd have to keep the mouse in constant motion while it was reading a disk or it'd

Re: [Freedos-user] Quattro Pro releases

2017-04-25 Thread Felix Miata
Thomas Mueller composed on 2017-04-25 06:56 (UTC): > I used 3D (.WQ2) with Quattro Pro. What if you have data for each month of > the year? Third dimension is 12 deep. https://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/mailman/freedos-user/thread/2173a1b7-7f02-da55-6568-108380912f09%40earthlink.net/#msg3580509

Re: [Freedos-user] Quattro Pro releases

2017-04-25 Thread Felix Miata
Thomas Mueller composed on 2017-04-25 06:56 (UTC): > Felix Miata composed on 2017-04-24 23:07 (UTC-0400):... >> OS/2 needed the upgrade to MCP that eCS incorporated, and Dani's 506, DASD >> and ATAPI drivers to run on hardware that wasn't perfectly sync'd up to >> that in the PC hardware IBM was s