Re: HPCOPY on a new PC

From: Chris Worth (caw@bcc.louisville.edu)
Date: Mon Jan 22 2001 - 18:16:48 EST


My guess is that it isn't the computer's bios at all.

the problem is that HPCOPY(which I've never used) probably checks to see how much
space is available.  well the computer returns this massive number of 12,000 MB or
even 12,000,000 Bytes... the program chokes

make a smaller partition to put the data on initially, then move it off.

I've seen this with other old programs, that were written pre gigabyte/100's of
megabytes of drive space.

I hope this can help


Chris



On Fri, 19 Jan 2001 15:58:07 -0500, Paula Lavery wrote:

>
>Hello everyone
>
>Our lab installed a new Pentium III computer, with Windows 98 version 2,
>about a month ago and we have been having trouble transferring our HP files
>with HPCOPY. I e-mailed Dr. Lollini, who said it was possibly a problem with
>the computer's BIOS, and thus unsolvable. I was wondering if anyone else was
>having similar problems and if they had overcome them.
>
>Thanks for your help!
>
>
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>Paula Lavery
>Transplant Immunology Lab.
>Royal Victoria Hospital
>McGill University
>Montreal (QC) Canada
>Paula.Lavery@mcgill.ca
>
>"If we knew what we were doing it wouldn't be called research, would it?"
>-- Albert Einstein
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