Msg: 1027 *Conference*
11-30-91 04:26:51
From: ELWIN HENNIS
To : RICHARD HANSON
Subj: SOFTWARE QUESTIONS
I work on the railroad and I ride a lot of trains. Earlier this year my Model 100 finally wore out and couldn't be fixed without a total keyboard replacement. EXPENSIVE! I bought a new Model 102. This past summer I lost my portable disk drive (PDD-1) on a train somewhere. I just purchased a new one but it is a portable disk drive 2 (PDD-2). I can read the data on my four boxes of PDD-1 formated disks O.K., but the software used to operate the old drive will not work with the new PDD-2. I used POWR-DOS by Acroatix Inc. for the PDD-1. It was nice because I could save or load data from a text file without leaving it. I could use disk utility programs writen to access features of a transparent machine code POWR-DOS program in memory. I could make quick back-up copies of disks and read text from DO files from those listed on an on-screen Disk File Directory. I could hi-lite files and execute a task on all the hi-lited files automatically one after another. I could KILL, SAVE, and LOAD files in groups. One utility program could copy disks, another utility sent disk files to a printer, and yet another utility could edit files on a disk and save the updated file back to disk. I could enter BASIC and format a disk or use a utility file to format it differently. QUESTIONS: 1- I have PDD-1 formated data/program files on aprox. 45 disks that need to to transferred to the PDD-2 format. It took me hours to transfer over the data one file at a time into memory until full, one file at a time onto a new disk, delete one file at a time from memory, and repeat the process until all the files were transferred over. The BACKUP.BA program failed to transfer over the files using the old format. Do you know of a disk "copy" or "backup" program that can do this easily? 2- Do you know a source for an updated POWR-DOS by Acroatix Inc. for the PDD-2? 3- Are their other DOS programs just as good as POWER DOS described above? Does TS-DOS have the features of POWER DOS? I will need a TS-DOS for my Ultimate Rom 2, but once I am booted up I can use another DOS program. 4- There must be something better than TELCOM. Do you have a program that will let you save and pull files from a disk, ECHO to a printer and edit a response file while recieving data or being connected to a BBS? 5- I'm looking for an easy, fast schedule-life and or project planning software system that is popular and USED by a large number of 102 users. If its used its usually useful. 6- I want a Sardine spell checking program when they become available. When do you think this product can be shipped by Club 100?