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Skriven 2014-03-01 22:31:00 av Ed Vance (12626.windowsa)
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Ärende: Re: Foxit Reader Tip
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03-01-14 10:57 Paul Quinn wrote to Ed Vance about Re: Foxit Reader Tip

 PQ> @MSGID: <5311C713.12615.windowsa@capcity2.synchro.net>
 PQ> Hi! Ed,

 PQ> On Thu, 27 Feb 14, you wrote to me:

 EV> I did try Saving a web page in Firefox by changing the extension to
 EV> Text but it still saved it with a .HTM extension.

 PQ> You could have changed the extension during the save dialogue,
 PQ> Ed.

Paul,

I did that yesterday as a test and it saved the page with .TXT ext
that I manually added B4 I clicked the Save button.  Ta Da!
-----snip---
 EV> I talk to someone who lives a few blocks away that uses a XBox Game
 EV> System and he tells me about the troubles he has sometimes just trying
 EV> to get all the way through a game he is playing. I tell him that it's
 EV> just the way the programmer wrote it and for him to be able to
 EV> continue on in the game he has to do everything that is written in the
 EV> game's Code and then it will let him go to the next section of the
 EV> game.

 PQ> Absolutely.  That's why it pays to make regular 'saves' in such
 PQ> things, because you just know that you're going to get blown
 PQ> away in the next section till you master it.  :)

I couldn't do that with the C=64 until I bought a SuperSnapshot plug in
cartridge that had a Save button on it that let me save the Memory to
a Floppy Disk.

 EV> I don't usually play a game on my computer(s) anymore. There were
 EV> some that I liked playing that run on the Commodore C=64
 EV> but I haven't played any of them for quite a while.

 PQ> Bummer.  There's probably a fix for that by using an emulator.
 PQ> (I'm just guessing, mind you.)  Very occasionally, I run one of
 PQ> my MS-DOS vBox PCs and play a GWbasic game or three (from the
 PQ> late 80s).

I have downloaded a C=64 emulator but haven't tried it out.

I learned to save GWbasic files with the ,a option so QBasic could run
them.


 EV> Paul, Was your first Personal Computer a 8-bit computer such as a
 EV> Commodore, Atari or Texas Instruments PC?

 PQ> The first PC that I got my mits on was an Apple ][.  That was
 PQ> at work, where our HQ was issued one for 'familiarisation'.

The ][ was a very good PC, a Ham Radio Operator ran a BBS using a ][
and I could Log On it using my Netronics ASCII Keyboard Video Terminal
over the airwaves.

Later on I used a C=64 program called DIGICOM to Log On to another Ham
Radio BBS that was running on a IBM compatible, using Packet AX.25 .
--snip---
 PQ> My first actual PC was a '286/1Mb RAM, bought in 1990 IIRC.  (I
 PQ> recall that I stuffed-up in Norton Commander once, and managed
 PQ> to re-date every file in a directory tree to 1st September
 PQ> 1990.)  It came with MS-DOS 4.xx IIRC but eventually I was

I've been there, Done that too.

I got a Floppy with a magazine that had a program called DOS HELP 4.0
and learned lots about DOS.

One thing I especially remember reading was Not to ever use the DOS
RECOVER command unwisely because it could rename every file on the HDD
to the name REC##### (IIRC), where ##### is a set of numbers.
-----snip---------
 EV> I tell the people who think that I know a lot about computer,
 EV> "I've been whipped by one ever since the first day I turned one on.".

 PQ> Yes, a slave to th emachine.  I know what you're on about.

One thing I liked about the Commodore Disk Drive was it had DOS inside
the drive on a ROM, I didn't have to use a HELLO disk as the ][ users
had to have to wake up the Apple DOS.    <GRIN>

BTW, I've always thought the ][ was a better Personal Computer than the
C=64 but the ][ was $300.00 USD higher, that's why I got the Commodore.

 EV> Mine sure keeps me humble.

 PQ> In the end, I always win.  I know where the power comes from;
 PQ> it doesn't.  ;-)

Which reminds me about a TV Show on the Educational Television Channel
where a Mechanical Arm was used at the Beginning and End of the
program to move some Blocks.

The Program was about Computers.

At the end of the show it showed the Arm removing the last Block and
then grabbed the AC Power Plug and pulled it out of the Outlet, and
then the Arm dropped to the table lifeless.

... Simon says Stand!  Simon says sit!  Format drive C: !  HA!  Gotcha!
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