Ron et all
I just started converting my shack machine over to Windows ME and like your
experience with WIN2000, I find that a lot of the old DOS commands are no
longer supported in a DOS window from inside the Windows environment. I did
the following experiment and it seems to work although I have not tested it
thoroughly. Make an emergency boot disk and boot your computer from that.
You should then be able to get to the C: drive and the LOG directory and
everything should run OK. The problem is that making a simple boot floppy
is no longer possible under WIN-ME and WIN-2000 since </S> is no longer
supported under the FORMAT command. Another alternative would be to go to
an older WINDOWS 98 machine and make a "real" boot floppy from that and
then boot your WIN2000 machine from that floppy. Even if you could get the
thing to work under WIN2000 you may have problems with CW sending as
WIN2000 is an NT based OS which as many have noted can result in choppy and
erratic CW sending.
Dave
NR1DX
At 10:55 PM 1/4/2002 -0600, Ron Feutz wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>My old lap top just crashed and I am without a TR 'puter.
>
>Is there any way to make it work on this machine, with Win 2000 Pro?
>
>I can get a DOS looking window from "command prompt" under accessories,
>and I can apparently get to the right directory with the usual DOS
>commands, but it won't run. When I type TR, I get "TR is not recognized
>as an internal or external command......."
>
>I have set up the usual paths, e.g. log\contests\genqso. When enter TR,
>it gives me the above message. When I give the TR command from the LOG
>directory only (no contests\genqso) it seems to try and work, however, it
>sends dits at whatever speed in the the code speed field.
>
>Can I make this work or do I have to do some fancy stuff with the computer
>(partition and put older OS in)?
>
>Ron - WA9IRV
>
>
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