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  • Help Needed Setting TER500 Up On New Computer

    From Al Kaiser@1:142/926 to All on Thu Mar 17 23:10:04 2016
    Hello World!

    It's been a very long time since I have seen a message here, I hope there is still activitiy.

    I need some advise resetting up TER500 on a new computer.


    I reciently built a new dual boot comptuer Windows7 / WIN XP Pro I need XP to be able to run TERMAIL and also one other program that will not run under anyting other than DOS. Windows 7 does not have a DOS enviorment and does
    not support these program.

    I had no trouble move TER500 over the the computer, (have not tried BINKD
    yet), TER500 runs but when I start it I get the message "ERROR Finding archive program PKZIP. I press enter and it says "WARNING no mail can be packe for user 1, press any key. Next I get the blue screen which starts the mail tossing but give me the option to delete the packet because the mail was not extracted.

    Answering no I go to the read screen where I can read the messages in the areas.

    Now this XP setup is the same as the other just on a new computer.


    The PKZIP and PKUNZIP files are located in the ARC directory like on the other computer.

    How do I tell TER500 where to find the packer and I guess the unpaker?

    Please help so I can get to using the new computer!

    Thanks


    Al



    Al Kaiser n1api@cox.net <=-

    Toodeloo!

    Al Kaiser - Meriden, CT, 17-Mar-2016 at 23:11.
    Fido : 1:142/926 - Internet : n1api@cox.net

    .!. But my computer doesn't have an "ANY" key!
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  • From Nicholas Boel@1:154/10 to Al Kaiser on Thu Mar 17 20:22:11 2016
    Hello Al,

    On 17 Mar 16 23:10, Al Kaiser wrote to All:

    The PKZIP and PKUNZIP files are located in the ARC directory like on
    the other computer.

    How do I tell TER500 where to find the packer and I guess the unpaker?

    Please help so I can get to using the new computer!

    Since this is a DOS program, you may want to try putting PKZIP and PKUNZIP in your TER500 directory. If that doesn't work, you may have to add your ARC directory to your system path.

    Regards,
    Nick

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  • From mark lewis@1:3634/12.73 to Al Kaiser on Fri Mar 18 04:44:50 2016

    17 Mar 16 23:10, you wrote to All:

    The PKZIP and PKUNZIP files are located in the ARC directory like on
    the other computer.

    How do I tell TER500 where to find the packer and I guess the unpaker?

    do you have the ARC directory in your path?

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  • From Al Kaiser@1:142/926 to Nicholas Boel on Sat Mar 19 03:46:10 2016
    Nicholas Boel wrote to Al Kaiser Subject: Re: Help Needed Setting
    TER500 Up On New Computer

    Hello Al,

    On Wednesday, 17 March 162 23:10, Al Kaiser wrote to All:

    The PKZIP and PKUNZIP files are located in the ARC directory
    like on the other computer.

    How do I tell TER500 where to find the packer and I guess
    the unpaker?

    Please help so I can get to using the new computer!

    Since this is a DOS program, you may want to try putting PKZIP
    and PKUNZIP in your TER500 directory. If that doesn't work, you may
    have to add your ARC directory to your system path

    Regards, Nick


    I fixed it! I am now running TER500 from my new 6 core Windows7/WindowsXP
    dual boot comptuer.

    Fourtunally I have a pretty good working knowledge of DOS and Windows and
    I had to give it some thought while working on the Windows 7 side of computer setting up my Ham Radio programs. This computer is a "radio" computer for use in contesting and my ham radio operations.

    I kept seeing that PKZIP was not in the path so going to a DOS window and typing the command PATH I see that it was not seeing the ARC directory. A work around was to place PKZIP in IN directory of TER500 it would still see the error but unpack the packets.

    The fix was to modify the Windows PATH statement so on startup the XP system sees the ARC directory for a DOS file. I do not remember having to do this with my current machine. I'm wondering why there was a problem with this computer, possibly because is is a very advanced machine.

    I'm sort of proud of myself for figuring this out! I don't know if any of the "young generation" computer "geniuses" would be able to figure this out?

    I still have one ham radio program that will not run on this computer.
    It blanks out the display and I have to reboot to get out of it. My
    STSPLUS satellite program does not work.

    Al Kaiser n1api@cox.net <=-

    Works for me!

    Al Kaiser - Meriden, CT, 19-Mar-2016 at 3:46.
    Fido : 1:142/926 - Internet : n1api@cox.net

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  • From Dran Draggore@1:3634/12 to Al Kaiser on Sat Apr 9 08:37:00 2016
    How do I tell TER500 where to find the packer and I guess
    the unpaker?

    Put PKUNZIP etc. in your PATH, or try copying it into the TER500 directory.

    Please help so I can get to using the new computer!

    Man, you sound heavily reliant on Fidonet.


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  • From Dran Draggore@1:3634/12 to Al Kaiser on Sat Apr 9 08:47:00 2016
    Fourtunally I have a pretty good working knowledge of DOS
    ...
    "radio" computer for use
    in contesting and my ham radio operations.
    ...
    computer, possibly because is is a very advanced machine.
    ...
    I'm sort of proud of myself for figuring this out! I don't
    know if any of the
    "young generation" computer "geniuses" would be able to
    figure this out?

    "I have a pretty good working knowledge of DOS"
    "ham radio"
    "very advanced machine"
    "proud of myself for figuring this out"

    Man, you sound like you're 90 years old.

    I still have one ham radio program that will not run on
    this computer.
    It blanks out the display and I have to reboot to get out
    of it. My
    STSPLUS satellite program does not work.

    You may need to use a virtual machine.


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  • From Al Kaiser@1:142/926 to Dran Draggore on Mon Apr 11 12:56:57 2016
    Dran Draggore wrote to Al Kaiser Subject: Help Needed Setting TER500 Up
    On New Computer

    Man, you sound heavily reliant on Fidonet.

    Not really, but I've always enjoyed it and didn't want to give up on it even though many of the old guard is gone along with their echos.

    Al Kaiser n1api@cox.net <=-

    Byebye for now.

    Al Kaiser - Meriden, CT, 11-Apr-2016 at 12:57.
    Fido : 1:142/926 - Internet : n1api@cox.net

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  • From Al Kaiser@1:142/926 to Dran Draggore on Mon Apr 11 13:03:38 2016
    Dran Draggore wrote to Al Kaiser Subject: Re: Help Needed Setting
    TER500 Up On New Computer

    "I have a pretty good working knowledge of DOS" "ham radio"
    "very advanced machine" "proud of myself for figuring this out"

    Man, you sound like you're 90 years old.

    Far from it thankfully. I've just been around computers since the days of
    the TI-99 and my first computer was a TRS Model 4. I have one program that
    I use now excluslivy for ham radio that started out as a Model 4 database program and STILL is in producton and a program that runs under Windows 7.

    I still have one ham radio program that will not run on this
    computer. It blanks out the display and I have to reboot to get
    out of it. My STSPLUS satellite program does not work.

    You may need to use a virtual machine.

    I think that is the one program that is lost. I can find a Windows substitues if I need to. Worse comes to worse I could always put DOS 6.22 on a small HD in the internal bay but I'm not thinking of that now.


    Al Kaiser n1api@cox.net <=-

    Take care Dran!

    Al Kaiser - Meriden, CT, 11-Apr-2016 at 13:03.
    Fido : 1:142/926 - Internet : n1api@cox.net

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  • From Dran Draggore@1:3634/12 to Al Kaiser on Thu Apr 14 06:10:00 2016
    I still have one ham radio program that will not run on this
    computer. It blanks out the display and I have to reboot to get
    out of it. My STSPLUS satellite program does not work.

    You may need to use a virtual machine.

    I think that is the one program that is lost. I can find a
    Windows substitues
    if I need to. Worse comes to worse I could always put DOS
    6.22 on a small HD
    in the internal bay but I'm not thinking of that now.

    Well if you're resorting to DOS, then you should try a virtual machine.


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