Subj : Daynbr
To : Dallas Hinton
From : mark lewis
Date : Wed Aug 29 2012 02:30 am
ml> i know what you mean about "fixing" a working system...
DH> Yup! :-)
ml> [current DoY]
DH> Where are you getting DoY from? It's not built into W7.
that's one of the main things that daynbr does.. actually, the main thing...
but i also thought you said that you were able to use 4DOS/4NT/4OS2 (one of
them) on your setup...
ml> FWIW: everything, other than the new coding of an app for this, is
ml> all 16bit stuff... everything in BATPOWER that might help you seems
ml> to be but it is possible that i've overlooked something...
DH> I'd have to recompile it for 64 bit, and that's beyond me.
hunh? maybe... but it seems to me that while 16bit is out, 32bit is in??
ml> does daynbr not run for you any more or is it the shelling to the
ml> called apps that is failing??
DH> No, it just doesn't run.
ok... and i've also seen that you are running a 64bit OS...
ml> BTW: what version of daybnr do you have?
DH> 2.1
wow! i've only ever had v1.0... and it has a misspelling in the copyright if
you hadn't noticed :P
where can i get a/the daynbr v2.1 original archive from Ben Baker??
DH> I'll have to study this stuff -- it's pretty messy, but could be
DH> turned into an EXE once it's done. Thanks!
if you are talking about my "stream of consiousness" stuff, i dunno... and i
can't fathom why it would need to be an executable... but then again, i don't
run a 64bit OS... and likely won't until a true and real need is depicted that
i cannot refuse...
on that note: the major things seen with going with 64bit stuff is nothing more
than memory usage... 16bit stuff quadruples and 32bit stuff doubles... other
than that, there is no *real* enhancement or capabilities... the main thing
that happens is that memory storage of data doubles when it is converted to
64bit... it has also been shown that 64bit processing takes a hit in speed when
compared with the same functions in 32bit... but, the world wants to advance
further and the driving forces are storage sizes and memory usage...
if you have a 64bit machine at your disposal and you want/need to carry on with
your 16bit operations, the only answer these days is to set up a VM... others
have already pointed out the available recovery options... moving past that is
dancing on the razor's edge but someone has to do it ;) -=B-)
i can only hope that my previous postings have offered some assistance and an
answer to your plight... especially since most everything in BATPOWER is 16bit
;)
