07-04-15 09:46 Holger Granholm wrote to Ed Vance about Re: Changing Acct in XP   
      
    HG> @MSGID: <55990982.14259.windowsa@capcity2.synchro.net>   
    HG> In a message dated 07-02-15, Ed Vance said to Holger Granholm:   
      
    HG> GM Ed,   
   GE Holger,   
      
    EV> I looked at the 00GLOBAL file today.   
    EV> It didn't have a Extension so I figured it was ASCII Text and tried   
    EV> opening it with NotePad but it looked like a big mess.   
      
    HG> IIRC the file was either a *.ZIP or a *.GZ compressed file but   
    HG> I can't check it right now since I have it in uncompressed form   
    HG> on this machine.   
      
   It was .GZ.   
   Before I downloaded it I looked at 7-Zip Help file to see if it could   
   unzip a .GZ file.   
   It could and it did.   
      
   The 00GLOBAL file I as talking about was inside of 00GLOBAL.GZ .   
   Sorry for confusing You with the file names looking the same.   
      
    EV> So I tried using WordPad and saw that it is a Directory List of   
    EV> Files, not what I expected it to be.   
      
    HG> I've never heard of uncompressing files Note- or Word-Pad. You   
    HG> know, there are special programs for that purpose!   
      
   NotePad only showed an unbroken series of characters, in Wordpad I saw   
   it was written in columns.   
      
    HG> Yes, the beginning of the contents shows the directory listing   
    HG> but then follows the list of files in each directory. You can   
    HG> use "Find" to get to the directory you want to look at the   
    HG> contents.   
      
   I selected a few file names that looked interesting to me, and went to   
   Hobbes and searched for those.   
   While on Hobbes I looked through the info directory and downloaded a   
   few zips from that directory.   
      
    EV> You said to sift through the contents, so I'll wander through the   
    EV> list and go D/L a few of them today to read about OS/2.   
      
    HG> There's also another way: The HOBBES OS/2 CD's from Walnut   
    HG> Creek are available from book stores too. I have a few of them.   
      
   Thanks, the next time I visit a Fleamarket, or consignment store and   
   see someone selling software CD's, I will thumb through their stuff to   
   see if I can find any of those old CD's.   
      
   I got my first DOS/Windows pc 10 years after I got my Commodore 64 pc.   
   One day after I got my DOS box I was in a second hand store looking   
   through their stuff and found a Game Cartridge for a C=64, I bought it   
   for 50 cents, figuring that if it worked when I plugged it in the C=64,   
   that I could use the cartridge to TEST it if I saw it doing something   
   strange.   
      
   Some months ago, I did have to swap out the C=64 I'd been using because   
   the video was acting up, and never thought to plug the cartridge in to   
   test it.   
   I just grabbed a spare and started using it.   
      
   Now thinking about it, I will have to bring it up here and turn it on   
   with my TEST Cartridge in it to see if it acts the same way under Test.   
      
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