Re: [Freedos-user] Wordstar 7 archive

2024-08-03 Thread EdzUp via Freedos-user
Hi Jim, Thanks I will have a look :) -Ed EdzUp On Sun, 4 Aug 2024, 06:45 Jim Hall via Freedos-user, < freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > Will do! I'm planning to get most of the book written then reach out to a > few academic publishers (IEEE, STC, …). If no one picks it up (it's a

Re: [Freedos-user] Wordstar 7 archive

2024-08-03 Thread Jim Hall via Freedos-user
Will do! I'm planning to get most of the book written then reach out to a few academic publishers (IEEE, STC, …). If no one picks it up (it's a pretty niche topic) I'll self publish as pdf and print via the Technically We Write website. You might also be interested in Technically We Write. It's an

Re: [Freedos-user] "Web 1.0" style hosting and mail [WAS: freedos, or dos based mail clients?]

2024-08-03 Thread Michał Dec via Freedos-user
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Re: [Freedos-user] Wordstar 7 archive

2024-08-03 Thread EdzUp via Freedos-user
Hi Jim, Please post a link to the completed book when it's ready as I would like to buy it I am always interested about reading about the DOS days and have many fond memories of that time from DOS 2.0 onwards. -Ed EdzUp On Sat, 3 Aug 2024, 21:30 Karen Lewellen via Freedos-user, < freedos-user@

Re: [Freedos-user] "Web 1.0" style hosting and mail [WAS: freedos, or dos based mail clients?]

2024-08-03 Thread Mart Zirnask via Freedos-user
I came across a "Web 1.0 hosting" provider who is also offering webmail (the login page looks like SquirrelMail?): https://web1.0hosting.net/ https://mail.w10.host/src/login.php Who knows for how long this provider manages to survive, but it is a great initiative. (Edit: Whoa, according to the web

Re: [Freedos-user] Wordstar 7 archive

2024-08-03 Thread Karen Lewellen via Freedos-user
Hi Jim, Congratulations! Not a big fine of posting at the bottom. Still, I imagine you have perhaps come across the articles where George r. r. Martin shares that he writes his novels in DOS using Wordstar? would rock if you got an interview, but at the very least any Wordstar chapter should

Re: [Freedos-user] help troubleshooting a time / date issue?

2024-08-03 Thread Karen Lewellen via Freedos-user
Thanks for all the interesting ideas and perspectives. As I write? The problem has stopped entirely. When it happened a week or so back, I thought it might be heat related. However, I have not only a different power supply, but a different processor in the computer. Were it the clock battery, w

Re: [Freedos-user] Wordstar 7 archive

2024-08-03 Thread Jim Hall via Freedos-user
Liam Proven wrote: > >> From Canadian SF novelist Robert J Sawyer. (I've met him and read > >> quite a few of his books. I like them.) > >> > >> He writes solely in WordStar so he's put together a freebie distro of > >> the final version. > >> > >> https://sfwriter.com/blog/?p=5806 Jim Hall wrote:

Re: [Freedos-user] help troubleshooting a time / date issue?

2024-08-03 Thread Ian Park via Freedos-user
Usually CR2032 (Cell Round, 20mm diameter, 3.2mm thick)IanIan ParkEmail: i.d.c.park@chalmers-park.nameMobile: +44 (0) 7785 300290Sent from my Galaxy Original message From: Daniel Essin via Freedos-user Date: 03/08/2024 20:37 (GMT+00:00) To: Karen Lewellen via Freedos-user Cc

Re: [Freedos-user] help troubleshooting a time / date issue?

2024-08-03 Thread Daniel Essin via Freedos-user
Time for a new cmos battery? On 8/3/2024 8:57 AM, Karen Lewellen via Freedos-user wrote: Hi all, At the most basic level, what helps a computer keep time / date? I have a situation where mine is skipping time / date, often within seconds, even when set back. My computer is not over heating, fa

Re: [Freedos-user] help troubleshooting a time / date issue?

2024-08-03 Thread Jerome Shidel via Freedos-user
Hi, > On Aug 3, 2024, at 12:09 PM, Norby Droid via Freedos-user > wrote: > > You can check the cmos battery. This battery is round and thin and is what > keeps the date and time from resetting. May be some other issue, but that is > one place ya can start. Some laptops use the main battery

Re: [Freedos-user] help troubleshooting a time / date issue?

2024-08-03 Thread Norby Droid via Freedos-user
You can check the cmos battery. This battery is round and thin and is what keeps the date and time from resetting. May be some other issue, but that is one place ya can start. On Sat, Aug 3, 2024 at 11:58 Karen Lewellen via Freedos-user < freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > Hi all, > A

[Freedos-user] help troubleshooting a time / date issue?

2024-08-03 Thread Karen Lewellen via Freedos-user
Hi all, At the most basic level, what helps a computer keep time / date? I have a situation where mine is skipping time / date, often within seconds, even when set back. My computer is not over heating, fan running quite cool to the touch. Was working just fine until late last night when I turne