In a message on Saturday 12-31-15 Jean Parrot said to Holger Granholm:

VY GM Jean,

JP> The title says it all, I got that version going here and the problem
JP> is solved.

Good, the versions of Tbird, Ffox and FZilla that I intend to install,
are on a CD from 2012, but I also have older versions on CD's, from the
same magazine, dating back to 2007.

When that magazine ended the inclusion of a CD, so did my subscription.

 HG> from a swedish computer magazine that has carried a series of articles
 HG> about the matter, but I'm not ready yet.

I still have to find the command 'Run' to be able to install the ZTree
file manager. Win 10 has lost the file manager, they had in earlier
versions, and also the possibility to run a command line.

 HG> I will however still use OS/2 on all other machines.

XP will stay on the oldest TP, and the newer TP will include both OS/2
and XP, english of curse.

JP> You are a better user than I. I alwasy had problems with this darned
JP> command line stuff.

Oh that's long been a 'users' choice. Since Warp 3, OS/2 has a GUI that
got even nicer in Warp 4. I do mostly use the GUI, but am also happy to
be able to use the c-line, and also the superb built-in PCDOS.

And almost best of all, the operating system does only occupy 120 Mb of
hard disk space, and the texts one writes don't have the meta data that
M$ throws in, and all programs are more compact (HD wise) too.

The real problem with those older versions of OS/2, is the installation.
You have to install it first, and on small partitions (up to 2 Gb), and
those versions don't like duo or quad CPU's.

There's however a new version named EStn that can cope even with newer
machines, but it costs more than I'm willing to pay, as long as this old
version works for me.

I install the OS/2 operating system to a 500 Mb partition, that also can
include my most needed utilities, and then leave two 2Gb partitions for
other programs. After those partitions I install Windows or whatever on
any size partition.

The op-sys works so fast that older machines do very well even with a
small amount of RAM. This machine has a 486DX2/80MHz, 16 Mb RAM and a
256 kb cache. Nobody has yet complained that the BBS is slow, hi.

JP> 	My presence here is hit & miss.

I'm glad for the hit.


73 de Sam, OH0NC

aka Holger

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