Author: wayne johnson
Date: 14:21:07 12/09/98
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On December 09, 1998 at 00:36:54, Komputer Korner wrote: >On December 08, 1998 at 10:11:55, Harald Faber wrote: > >>On December 08, 1998 at 08:50:04, Dan Kiski wrote: >> >>>>BTW do you see a chance for us to make programmers aware of the Laptop CD-rom >>>>problem? I guess I am not the only one NOT having an internal CD-rom drive in my >>>>laptop so guess which ones are my favourte programs on the laptop. CM6000 (which >>>>needs the CD inserted when starting! the most annoying c.p.) and all the other >>>>programs with refueling (worst is randomly refueling without possibility to >>>>refuel before unplugging the CD-drive) are annoying if one uses a laptop. In >>>>this group Fritz/Junior etc. with >30 days left after refueling are acceptable, >>>>but the rest... >>> >>>On my Fritz 5.0 I get 40 days at refuel? >>>Dan Kiski. >> >>I know and as I wrote above this is acceptable. But what about Tascbase e.g.? I >>haven't found a certain frequency when the original CD is requested. It is from >>time to time but noone nows when. And no chance to refuel... >>And what about CM6k where at ech start the CD has to be in the drive? See my >>problem? > >If you take your laptop with you to different places, it goes into a bag. It >shouldn't be too much trouble to also bring along the CDROMS for those programs >that you will use on the trip. However I agree that 40 day refueling would be >nice on any program. Copiers will simply copy the whole CDROM anyway. >-- >Komputer Korner I kind of agree with KK; but, I don't believe in any copy protected software. There more of a pain in the neck-- I remember having a damaged master floppy and I couldn't of made a back-up to due to copy protection. CD-roms do scratch and data can be miss-read. So if you wan't me to shell out some more money. Please forget it.
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