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by riverfreight

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I use a lot of 'Public Access' computers that are not set-up installed or activated in any way what so ever; this means that I'm stuck in a world without value - while I can assemble an enviroment useing word I need one for Microsoft Access on a 1.44 meg. diskette that is a self loading shell that is also self activating and fits on that diskette and I can transfer to Access so I can actually get something done in a reasonable manner, for all my prodigious computer education I'm a Computer operator who's 'sposed towork with a computer and not a blank that don't work but works me!!!

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by jackofalltech

Forgive me if I answer this wrong but I'm not sure I understand your question. Do you want a bootable floppy with a GUI and Access?? Can't be done. You could create a DOS (W98) disk that creates a RAM-disk and on a 2nd disk have a compressed DOS version of a compatible DBM. Give me some more details and I might be able to help you.

Ralph

by riverfreight

I'm sure I answered what you sent but still don't see it there; I know how to do this on a mainframe and it is only a shell, a shell that has lots of Hyper-Link addresses to up-load stuff to the shell so that it can be used to operate in aforiegn enviroment without violating the integrity of the undersystem that it is operating. these shells usually involve about 700 to 1200 kilo-bytes; and no I don't have a Mainframe available to set assembler one on, drat!
RIVER FREIGHT

by jackofalltech

I'm sorry, but although I recognize the individual words in your post, the way you are putting them together into sentences totally confuses me. Please try to explain exactly WHAT you want to be able to do as simply as possible.

Ralph

by whopi

Hello river!
Forget just a moment the words Access and mainframes, and think about what you could do if ever young people had known DOS, Lotus 123, and Dbase then Rapidefile or MS-Works. You can still offer a good working environment with DOS6.22 and Sidekick. I did bucks of Turbo Pascal code like this.

by kdub

Back in my mainframe days, we used dumb terminals (or emulators) and all the applications (and user preferences) were stored on the host. The closest to this in the Windows environment would be some kind of a remote host (via Windows Terminal Services, Citrix, etc...) but this would require a host to connect to. While you would never be able to put the whole OS on a diskette, you could get a USB hard drive with all of your applications and files, and take it with you when you go.

by tjc

you currently can NOT strip down windows and access enough to fit on one floppy disk - those days are over with. Sorry.

by tjc

I just read the poster from 10/30 - if that is the case then you could also use www.gotomypc.com and do the same thing. but my guess is that this person doesn't have a computer of his own, else he would not be using public access terminals.

by tjc

I just read the poster from 10/30 - if that is the case then you could also use www.gotomypc.com and do the same thing. but my guess is that this person doesn't have a computer of his own, else he would not be using public access terminals.

by valis

i may have the answer to your question.

i'm HOPING that most if not all of these computer that you are working on have internet access? if so, then you are off to the races.

let me share a practical example, and something that i've done on more than one occasion:
a few months ago i was visiting atlanta, late at night i couldn't sleep and wanted to do some email checking. the business center was open, but of course, i didn't want to put any of my information on this wide open and totally insecure computer. so i did this:
i went to www.realvnc.com
downloaded the small 350k realvnc viewer application (that could be quite comfortably contained on a floppy disk)
it's not an install program, just a simple viewer, so running it wasn't a problem.
using the viewer, i connected to one of my machines at home, which is always running vnc server just for this kind of thing, and BOOM. i'm hundreds of miles from home, but it's like i'm sitting in front of my home computer, with all of my applications, documents, email, programs, everything just how it is at home. i'm LOOKING at my screen at home!

no need to install anything on the computer i'm physically sitting in front of to work on delphi programming, check my email, use macromedia dreamweaver to update my website, encode video, check newsgroups, compile and code programs, whatever!

does that help at all?

valis
www.valiskeogh.com

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