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Oh, so that's what Mapi32.dll is. Perhaps I haven't noticed anything because I use Thunderbird and just have a normal pop email account. (Not that mapi's abnormal!)

By the way, that young feller on the main Windows 98 thread doing a Windows Me service pack should hire a ghost writer or something. I kind of get the feeling that what he's doing works but the way he's expressing it makes me afraid, very afraid. He shouldn't be making comments like your computer will think it's running XP or NTFS. It'll look like it if he installs a theme, but comments like that make it sound like vaporware, and inspire replys from experienced programmers like "How?".

I wouldn't want to discourage him though. A Me service pack would be cool!

Edit - OMG. I just read some more from mitchellvision. Um, could someone a bit older start working on this? He, he. The kid's got spunk though. "I HATE SPUNK!" (Thank you "MaryTylerMoore Show.")

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-mdgx: Rescue "OS-on-a-CD":

-not sure about smartdrv, but the way that rescue works is ya make your own win98se install, anything ya want, as long as the entire os fits w/in 650mb or so... then it copies it and modifies the registry to work from a cd and w/in RAM, & updates links, etc, then burns it to cd... so I *think* 32-bit access is running, as long as I had the driver originally installed, which of course I did...

I'll double-check, tho...

>;]

(btw, it's "Rescue v1.2", I think, nagware screens show up on cd-boot, annoying, but hey, it's free & it works! Instant win98se, any way ya like it... -except fast... lol)

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randeroo76073,

Yeah. And I wish I was as "spunky" as I used to be.

I was referring to Ed Asner as Lou Grant reacting to Mary sticking up for her rights in the 1st episode's job interview. I used to love that show.

Darn it, I fubarred my 98 installation last night by mess'n around with the joystick's too much. By the time I was through I couldn't get any to show up in the joystick control panel even with them all appearing to be fine in device manager. I got so annoyed that I F-DIS-K'ed the drive!

I just reconnected my A7V880 with XP that I had left fully functioning last time. A few hours of software updates and it's all set.

Between the Saitek drivers, trying to get that Boom PSX/N64 USB adapter working, and the Sidewinder 3.02 and 4.0 stuff it all got messed up. I just finished an email coorespondence with Saitek where they couldn't understand why their driver always caused me Windows 98SE conflicts (startup, shutdown, closing programs making Windows crash, the Saitek Control Panel's "About" tab freezing, etc). They couldn't help. The Saitek stuff worked but would interfere with Windows. No problem with it on XP. Even the N64 adapter is working.

I've got XP set up with a theme so it looks and sounds like I had 98 set up, but without the bugs. I'm sure I'll be rediscovering XP's bugs now.

FDISKing is kinda "spunky" isn't it? Like Kirk in Star Trek III, "I--have had---enough of---YOU!" I felt so empowered.

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Oh, so that's what Mapi32.dll is.  Perhaps I haven't noticed anything because I use Thunderbird and just have a normal pop email account.  (Not that mapi's abnormal!)

I think you're confusing MAPI with IMAP. IMAP is an email protocol. MAPI is an API for hooking applications into windows email clients (outlook & outlook express).

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Yep, your right I did confuse them. So, these media players like the stub (or whatever that smaller version is) version rather than the default one that comes with Windows Me. Hmmm. So folks with Windows Me wind up with the little stub while those using 98SE2ME get to put back the bigger, macho version whenever they update 98SE2ME.

Whatever, as long as stuff works right!

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By the way, I'm considering putting Windows Me on my A7V333. For one thing, I'd like to see if the Saitek gamepad drivers have the same effect on Windows Me as they do on any 98SE install I've had. Plus, I want to experiment and see what WinMeDos (that semi-dual boot thing) is like. Instead of providing access to Ms-Dos 8, it uses Ms-Dos 7.1 from 98SE. Interesting.

I might wait until I'm done with a game I'm playing, but if I get antsy this game allows me to copy my saves to a cd. It depends what I want to do more, play a game or play with computers. Computers can make for long delays.

I'm sure XP would be the best choice for that computer but I only have one XP and 2 98SE full retails, a 98 Gold full retail, a Windows Me full retail, and a Windows Me Upgrade for 98 users. Gosh, I sure would like to use at least one of those!

Edit - There we go! Hopefully the thought police are busy elsewhere.

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[7za.exe] is designed to work only in Win32 GUI mode, even if it is a ["console" as it is also called in NTx] command line tool. Does not have a real DOS mode module. It's pure 32-bit.

If u would like to have real DOS mode support for the 7Z format, u could email the author and ask if he plans developing such feature:

http://www.7-zip.org/support.html

7-Zip Release Name: 4.24 beta

- Command line version now supports short file names (like FILENA~1.TXT)

Does this make it now DOS compatible ?

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Has anyone an idea about the legality of the following. I have ME and 98SE (and 95). I currently have a single computer on which I use ME but I might recycle some of my (not so) old hardware to put together a second box and install 98SE on it.

The question is : Do I need a second copy of ME if I want to use totally legaly 98SE2ME on that second computer ?

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Is there a way to slipstream 98SE2ME as part of an install?

It is a bat file after all, so I'd THINK it would work....

Could you give some advice on how to do so, following the

code\examples given in the 'Unattended and Updated Boot

CD for Windows 98' thread?

Thanks in advance!

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Has anyone an idea about the legality of the following. I have ME and 98SE (and 95). I currently have a single computer on which I use ME but I might recycle some of my (not so) old hardware to put together a second box and install 98SE on it.

The question is : Do I need a second copy of ME if I want to use totally legaly 98SE2ME on that second computer ?

-well, if ya ask the Evil Greedy Thought Police (Micro$hit), then yup, ya need at least one more copy, better yet 3 or 4, just to be safe... B) Technically, any part of the ME OS can only be on one puter at a time, is how M$ would see it... The way I'd (like to) see it, is that you have a total of 3 legal OS's, so ya should be able to use any combination of the 3 on a total of 3 puters... but I'm sure M$ wouldn't see it that way... but I wouldn't worry about it, M$ has pretty much written off those old OS's by now...

(I would include more here, about using X-SETUP to help ensure your Privacy in this matter, but I believe the Forum Gods would frown upon such details...)

>;]

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(I would include more here, about using X-SETUP to help ensure your Privacy in this matter, but I believe the Forum Gods would frown upon such details...)

>;]

Who do you mean by Forum Gods ?

Those who have failed so far to answer my interrogations about the legal aspects of Tihy's Revolution pack distributed from this Forum ?

Those who don't moderate Mitchellovision and his keygens ?

Or someone else ?

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Yep, your right I did confuse them.  So, these media players like the stub (or whatever that smaller version is) version rather than the default one that comes with Windows Me.  Hmmm.  So folks with Windows Me wind up with the little stub while those using 98SE2ME get to put back the bigger, macho version whenever they update 98SE2ME.

Whatever, as long as stuff works right!

The smaller "stub" is [probably] just a fake "stub", which means it redirects calls to/from MAPI32.DLL functions to other files installed by whatever program replaced MAPI32.DLL with the fake one.

MAPI32.DLL has nothing to do with IMAP.

IMAP = Internet Message Access Protocol (e-mail retrieval)

and is used by all IMAP compatible e-mail apps/clients.

Hope this helps.

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7-Zip Release Name: 4.24 beta

- Command line version now supports short file names (like FILENA~1.TXT)

Does this make it now DOS compatible ?

A program which supports SFNs, is not necessarily a native DOS mode program, which is the case with 7-zip console tool [7ZA.EXE].

To my knowledge, 7za.exe never was and will never be able to run from native DOS.

You could email its author for more details:

http://www.7-zip.org/support.html

Hope this helps.

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