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RE: [ECS] Potential ECS Newbie with lots of questions Kevin Keast Sat, 6 Feb 1999 09:24:52 -0500

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I am real confused now.

Dan's ACE requires the ACE-32 to take advantage of the WinAMP (A 32-bit app)
control.

Kevin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael David [mailto:michael@michaeldavid.com]
> Sent: Saturday, February 06, 1999 1:14 AM
> To: ecs-list@netbloc.com
> Subject: Re: [ECS] Potential ECS Newbie with lots of questions
>
>
> Hi Keven!
>
> Actually FAT16 and FAT32 only refer to the file system.  32bit and 16bit
> programs run fine together under both Win95 and Win98, with
> either FAT16 or
> FAT 32.  I do it all the time.  :)
>
> For the record, I prefer FAT32 file systems.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Michael David
> michael@michaeldavid.com
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Kevin Keast <libertyc@prodigy.net>
> To: <ecs-list@netbloc.com>
> Sent: Saturday, February 06, 1999 12:03 AM
> Subject: RE: [ECS] Potential ECS Newbie with lots of questions
>
>
> Mark,
>
> I don't know if you got any input on this so I hope I am not
> repeating whay
> you may already know:
>
> With the 32 bit system, If you are using ACE you can't run WinAmp with the
> ACE-32 obviously.  Also you can't run 32 bit apps obviously on the FAT16
> machines.  I would recommend installing win95 ver b to bring everything up
> to FAT32 of course you would have to reformat hard drives!
>
> Also I just ran into this the other day.  I am using windows 3.1 for
> workgroups on a touchscreen and needed to transfer files.  I wanted to use
> the Dos programs intersvr.exe and interlnk.exe.  They are great but you
> cannot link a FAT32 and FAT16 machine together this way.  Just a trivial
> matter though.  I had to revive an old 486 that was almost dead
> but I got it
> going.
>
> This may or may not have helped....
>
> Kevin
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mark Sekelsky [mailto:Mark@sekelsky.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 1999 9:10 PM
> > To: ecs-list@netbloc.com
> > Subject: RE: [ECS] Potential ECS Newbie with lots of questions
> >
> >
> > Dan,
> >
> > I am potentially purchasing a couple PCs from Michael David.
> > These PCs have
> > Win 95 and FAT 16.  My other PCs are running Win 98 and FAT 32.
> > Will there
> > be any issue with this?
> >
> > Mark Sekelsky
> >
>
>

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