doshea wrote on 2023-07-29, 08:36:
Aqua wrote on 2023-07-28, 20:29:
Now i have restored a Windows 3.1 Picture Gallery, from there are gone "lost" from some Shutdown Upload Servers in this German Windows 3.1 Support Site with a good File Hoster..
I'm a Mod on the Site from the Munich "CP/M Lady" - Admin Gaby Chaudry
http://forum31.gaby.de/viewtopic.php?t=106
Nice, thanks for sharing! I have to ask: why does "Loop+Copy Empty.txt 10s" exist?
ok, I temporarily "mounted" an external WD 500GB laptop hard drive in DOS 6.22 via USB.
Laptop hard drives have the property of switching off early to save power.
From Windows NT4.0, Win9x and up you can create for that a Windows Scripting Host file.
As far as I know there is no Windows Scripting Host for Windows 3.1x available, so what to do..
I thought for a while until I found the one with the loop.
This hard drive is partitioned in 3x FAT16 2GB, the rest in FAT32 for DOS 6.x Compatiblity without need to load e.g.
AVNTFS, PNTFS... to mounting FAT32, NTFS Partitions.
Mounting Tools Like that only works in DOS,
but not in Windows 3.x.
In my case, the next drives after the last partition of the internal hard drive are drive E:\ } drive F:\ G:\ H:\
Loop writes to either F: G: or H:
an empty *.TXT file every 10 seconds.
Namely for the simple reason:
Stop the spinning down from external Harddrive.
BTW:
About Python for Windows 3.x:
I've only found this Version on the
Python Server..
https://www.python.org/ftp/python/pc/
If you have a Link with a Higher Version from
Python, please let ne know..
Thanks
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