Daynote ,Svenson
Daynote ,Svenson |
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MM-lvi Friday |
2000-02-25 |
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The day starts with high winds and heavy rain (and at 7°C). By the time I arrive inVenlo it has al but finished raining and the wind has blown itself out. The afternoon is dry and sunny with a brisk wind. Very nice indeed (if you could go for a walk, cloistered up behind a computer however ... )
I know I was busy today but with what? Any one's guess is as good as mine. I remember assisting Robert (Belgium) on the phone with a printing problem. And I discussed the problem from Loek with Frank, from OLI. He will pick it up. And I handled some mail. And I started on the Project and Accounting problem, not that I did get far with someone unexpectedly closing down the AS/400. Ah yes. I tried to help Wilbert with the PC he is installing for the Progress guys who will (attempt) to get a web application, based on our TeleSales program, ready. The machine is a Tulip (P166, 98MB and 8Gb disk) and we need to install WinNT on it. The disk is new and Wilbert wants to set it up in some 2GB partitions. The strange thing is that the FDISK from DOS 6.22 doesn't see more than 16MB of the disk. WE want to get the partitions formatted in FAT but using the FDISK and FORMAT from DOS 7 (from Win95 OSR2) he always gets FAT32, regardless of the size we choose. That is why we try out all the DOS versions we have handy ( MS DOS 5.0, 6.0 and 6.22) without success. In the end Tom gets the 2GB partitions by using FDISK from DOS 7.0 but selecting not to use the 'large disk' option. The warning you get claims you can only make 512MB partitions, but once past this warning it happily creates the 2GB partition which subsequently gets FORMAT-ed (DOS 7.0) in FAT. The problem was (probably) that we didn't have a normal DOS boot disk with all the required tools on it, the disks we used were cobbled together by copying all the programs from various computer. I have never seen so many "Incorrect DOS version" messages on one day as now. Well I was busy but mostly with unproductive things. I did clear some, OK a lot, of paper from my desk and organized some other things so with luck I can get a good productive day on Monday. (And it looks likely that I get all the remaining V9 things finished by Friday. :-) Adios |