Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 10:38:34 MST
Reply-To: Sean Garrett <seangar@HOTMAIL.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Sean Garrett <seangar@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: VW ETKA cd
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I am glad you had such great success with it, I did not. It temporarily
brought down one of my servers, did not work on any of my (30) platforms
here (all fairly new hardware and software, NT, 98/95), and because of the
long download and ability for hackers to jump on board these types of
downloads, gave me a little scare. I am connecteed to a large WAN and
resposible for security on my LAN.
However I appologized for my (possible) negative feed back quickly, and
eventually got it too work at home. I thanked Dominique for his help and I
now thank him (THANKS DOMINIQUE) for the availiblity of this download. Not
everyone has decent computer skills and therefore might get really
frusterated with this download/setup, I can understand this. Instructions
posted at the site claim it works on all platforms... NOT the case. A fair
amount of work is involved to get it to work on some platforms. As a list
everyone has seemed to help work out the bugs. Thanks too everyone for their
help.
SeanG
95 EVC
80 Westy
>From: Frank Grunthaner <FrankGRUN@AOL.COM>
>Reply-To: FrankGRUN@AOL.COM
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: Re: VW ETKA cd
>Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 11:57:47 EDT
>
>Dominique and fellow listees,
>
>In view of recent posts which have a negative tone and which could result
>in
>considerable support time requests from Dominique, I felt the need to make
>some comments.
>
>First, I downloaded the zip file from Dominique's site to my PowerMac G4,
>unzipped with Stuffit Expander 5.5 (Mac program) then burned a CD using
>Toast
>4.1 (Mac program) and run the CD on all my Mac platforms with Virtual PC
>(2.13 to 3.03) under Windows 98. The only difficulty has been the 1280
>pixel
>window requirement which cannot be supported by my Powerbook G3 LCD screen.
>Nonetheless, the scroll window features built into Virtual PC make it
>useable
>even under those conditions.
>
>Second, the program is far more useful than the factory microfiche or the
>parts books (I have copies of all). The utility comes from the part
>numbers,
>the searchable data base, and the ability to print the diagrams.
>
>Finally, I must say that Dominique has done the list a major service in
>posting the image to the list. This is clearly an information service and
>has
>no financial or commercial bias. While I am sure that the threat of our
>21st
>century endemic social virus (the legal establishment) will have several
>negative statements to issue, I want to applaud Dominique for making the
>file
>available (with all the time impact it has caused).
>
>Thanks again,
>
>Frank Grunthaner
>
>PS: If my obvious negative bias towards the legal establishment shows, its
>just related to the first draft of my text "The Decline and Fall of Western
>Civilization" nearing completion.
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