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axolotl farmer posted:posting on page 100 i still don't know what they were
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njsykora posted:i still don't know what they were 90s LAN-only Dropbox.
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in a well actually posted:90s LAN-only Dropbox. network and diskette importantly, so the metaphor was that you put things you worked on in there and there were some ui conveniences for syncing it onto a floppy or a network location (crude merge info etc.) i never used it either, but tbh it seems both a good metaphor and idea
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i like how some programs will just add their poo poo to the right click menu like yeah i can’t wait to add this file to an sfx file or merge this word doc into git
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Aug 18, 2023 14:34
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right click to extract be nice tho
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thats one of the only useful ones.
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Jonny 290 posted:The very first thing i do to a new computer is downlod the whole Propaganda tile set and set it to tile and rotate every 30min quote:| P R O P A G A N D A Desktop Enhancements For Linux by Bowie J.Poag | lol i remember when this guy had an account here like 20 years ago and got banned
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:network and diskette importantly also via laplink cable iirc which now sounds less like a cable to connect two computers for file transfer and more like a brand name for a teledildonics standard
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Aug 18, 2023 15:07
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the parallel port was so under-appreciated
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Jonny 290 posted:the little 2 pin SPDIF header on motherboards. I actually used this back in the day when i set up a lovely "htpc" across the living room from the stereo, and it passed flawless surround sound with no fiddling. i was amazed I just plugged in a combined spdif and optical out backplane card today so I could use the optical out to get a total of three separate inputs into my desktop amp also the line out was noisy as poo poo. e: the card cost about 15x the parts for it cost and got shipped direct from china lol
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Wild EEPROM posted:i like how some programs will just add their poo poo to the right click menu like yeah i can’t wait to add this file to an sfx file or merge this word doc into git I had to use teracopy to move a trillion little files a while ago, and it added an option where now when I paste a file it makes me choose whether to use explorer.exe or Teracopy and its wild that a program can just do that 
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nudgenudgetilt posted:the parallel port was so under-appreciated without dma a parallel laplink cable would softlock a win98se box during the transfer...at 230kbps
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nudgenudgetilt posted:right click to extract be nice tho the only thing I don’t like about this is how it’s a gamble if it’ll unarchive into a folder or just dump the contents into the folder holding all your downloads or whatever there is NO solution to this and it is IMPPSSIBLE to know what’ll happen
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DJ Commie posted:without dma a parallel laplink cable would softlock a win98se box during the transfer...at 230kbps that's on the laplink software parallel was still amazing because it was basically gpio and with dos you could get away with bit banging. as a kid i made a link cable to load programs on my calculator from dos by cutting a goddamn headphone cable in half then jamming the bare wires into a parallel port along with a pair of diodes
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Aug 18, 2023 21:32
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winrar has separate extract here and extract to folder menu items, works for me.
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Silver Alicorn posted:winrar has separate extract here and extract to folder menu items, works for me. it does yes, and extract here is the one i’m moaning about, extract to folder is the safe option, but is still a gamble, you might end up with a nested folder 😭
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that’s the archive’s fault
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echinopsis posted:the only thing I don’t like about this is how it’s a gamble if it’ll unarchive into a folder or just dump the contents into the folder holding all your downloads or whatever Ark has "extract Archive here, autodetect subfolder" which extracts here if there is only one folder in the archive and extracts to archivename/ if there are more files in the top level. I don't know any program that provides that for windows, though.
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VictualSquid posted:Ark has "extract Archive here, autodetect subfolder" which extracts here if there is only one folder in the archive and extracts to archivename/ if there are more files in the top level. i think the 7zip shell extensions have an option for this too
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in what world would this: 1) differ from the filename; and; 2) not be a bad idea that it differs from the filename? e: to be clear i know the answer to 1 is "this world" as unix weirdos *love* archives named differently from the single directory in them, but that's dumb as poo poo and 2 has no answer.
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:in what world would this: 1) differ from the filename; and; 2) not be a bad idea that it differs from the filename? mainly it's useful to me if there are several subdirectories along with some root level files like, a lot people used to just zip up a cd instead of making an iso etc
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Beeftweeter posted:mainly it's useful to me if there are several subdirectories that's the normal case; extract using the filename as the directory name. supported by literally every compression program on windows for 28 years (winzip and winrar to start, then all others have imitated that obviously good right-click menu option). i assumed that the op was seeking the unix weenie special case where you have programx-19980703.tar.gz with the single directory "programx" and the option only extracts in the case that is indeed the case. i will admit that it might be as likely that the op has just not used windows for 28 years Cybernetic Vermin fucked around with this message at 01:57 on Aug 19, 2023 |
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:that's the normal case; extract using the filename as the directory name. supported by literally every compression program on windows for 28 yeasr, what the op is describing is the unix weenie special case "check that there's precisely one directory at the root of this archive, extract accordingly" imo it's still useful for things that have like the same filename as the only subdirectory but only one or two files within it. generally if there's no option for it i don't really care, but having some deduplication just saves a step or two so it's kinda nice. not really a big deal
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but yeah 99.9% of the time it's usually some grognard tar.gz.xz.Z.7 bullshit doing that in the first place
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I simply extract the file. If it ends up in a directory, great. If not, well, it's not like I can't just delete the files and do it again from a directory I've just made. What if a directory with the same name as the archive already exists, you ask? Well, I suppose I like to live dangerously. 
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:network and diskette importantly, so the metaphor was that you put things you worked on in there and there were some ui conveniences for syncing it onto a floppy or a network location (crude merge info etc.) i miss diskettes
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i like using USB keys as diskettes, and when i still had a windows machine i cared about I would map the USB keys to the B: drive
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i only got to map drives for a short while in the early 90s when my friend asked me to extend the system his cousin set up. it was pretty fancy, just boot with this diskette then a whole menu showed up and you could hit 1/2/3 until you got wolfenstein or leisure suit larry i couldnt figure out how to add options but i did figure out how to just make a 7.bat file so typing 7 started doom
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rotor posted:i like using USB keys as diskettes, and when i still had a windows machine i cared about I would map the USB keys to the B: drive reminds me of the first time I installed windows off of a usb rather than cd god what a glorious time
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a PC mag article described how to do a DOS boot menu and I remember customizing the poo poo out of it 1 Windows 2 DOS with cdrom and sound 3 DOS with no cdrom and sound 4 DOS with networking 5 DOS with MAX EMS so many [sections] in my config and autoexec
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disk compression: Stacker or Doublespace
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loving up my drive by running scandisk (or maybe some other disk tool) on a stacker compressed drive
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Hed posted:disk compression: Stacker or Doublespace then stacker suing for patent infringement, and microsoft having to re-implement it in a less efficient way and renaming it drivespace
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EMS vs XMS
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4dos was the bomb so much more powerful than plain batch. Dr-dos was the bomb, especially with multitasking and somehow using some video memory to give you nearly a full 640k on boot. I never used it except once or twice in a VM but desqview/X was sooo under appreciated and came close to making DOS into a respectable single user no-security platform. Absolutely criminal that nobody used it. I wish it was at least successful enough to get an x11r6 compatible release. At R5 it just barely falls short of maybe supporting some really useful modern apps. dd was a great colorful dir replacement anyone else remember those drivers that would let you get nearly 2 megs on a floppy? I remember making massive bootable archives for my friends that would start up, load the driver and start dearchiving like 40 floppies worth of crap to their hard drive.
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echinopsis posted:reminds me of the first time I installed windows off of a usb rather than cd the speed. it shaved install times down to 1/4 of a disc
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lol, funny that we were just talking about archive support on windows. i just read a thing saying they're integrating libarchive with windows 11, meaning most formats should be natively supported
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