On Sat, 16 Jun 2001, Geoff Shang wrote: > Hi Ann: > > Regarding rawrite, it's best to use it in as pure a DOS environment as > possible. Also, if you uuse speech, kill it off as much as is practical > during the write operation. It seems to cause problems with some rawrite > operations. Remember that the bios code that has to read these rawritten > disks is far less tollerant of imperfections than standard disk i/o code. > > As far as downloading goes, it is strongly recommended that windows users > use an FTP client rather than internet explorer. A number of people up > here got bad images and it turned out that they'd all used IE to get them. > I know it should be fine, but it often is not. yes that's true but, if you enter the ftp address using the ftp:// prefix, then the problem of bad images isn't an issue. > > In a standard FTP client, it will be possible somewhere to select ASCII or > binary mode. This of course will vary from client to client. It is of > course essential that one uses binary mode for downloading disk images. > I agree with this statement as well. Having said this however, I think that as an ftp client, the 2 I've found most userfriendly under the windows platform are cute ftp and ftp explorer. Shaun.. > Geoff. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
