07-06-15 14:54 Holger Granholm wrote to Ed Vance about Re: OS/2   
      
    HG> @MSGID: <559C4E3A.14276.windowsa@capcity2.synchro.net>   
    HG> In a message dated 07-04-15, Ed Vance said to Holger Granholm:   
      
    HG> Hi Ed,   
   Howdy! Holger,   
      
    EV> OS/2 .INF files need the OS/2 Viewer to see what is in them.   
      
    HG> Yes, they are help files for OS/2 are intended to be read in an   
    HG> installed OS/2 environment.   
      
    EV> Microsoft .INF files are ASCII files.   
      
    HG> I wonder if M$ help files can be read before Windows is   
    HG> installed with an ASCII reader such as List? I don't think so.   
      
   You are right, I can't read the M$ help files in XP with LIST.   
   I took a look at NotePad's files ending with .CHM .CHW and .HLP and   
   they can't be read in a ASCII viewer.   
      
    EV> In the OS2WORLD.BBS file I looked for Your BBS but didn't see it.   
    EV> The OS2WORLD.BBS file I looked at was dated 07Sept1992.   
      
    HG> That is because my BBS software, the PCBoard didn't have OS/2   
    HG> support until 1995 or 1996 so I ran the BBS under DOS/DesQview.   
      
   At least I thought of You when I was looking at that old file.   
      
    EV> You may not have had the BBS up then.   
      
    HG> Certainly my BBS was up then but I updated the BBS to OS/2 in   
    HG> 1996 or 1997.   
      
   My first BBS experience was on some local 2 Meter Ham Radio RTTY BBS's.   
      
   I was using a Netronics Video Card and Keyboard with a homebrew Audio   
   Freq-shift keyer circuit using a 555 ic, and a RTTY Demodulator I made   
   that was connected to the speaker output on the radio.   
      
   In March 1984 I got a C=64 computer and 300 baud Modem.   
      
   I joined a Local Commodore BBS and later joined a local BBS that was on   
   the GT POWER Network and I remember reading messages written by people   
   in the USA, and also in England and Tiawan on that BBS.   
      
   I learned a lot about pc compatibles by reading messages on that BBS,   
   so that in Feb 1994 I had a 486DX33 box built for me.   
      
   And Your BBS was already on line when I got the 486, and it was helping   
   people interested in learning more about computers in Your area just   
   like I was doing where I lived here.   
      
   Two questions.   
      
   When did You start running Your BBS using DOS/DesQview?   
   And was it on a BBS Network then?   
      
   Thanks es 73   
      
      
      
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