Set-up help with OLD (junk) computers

[dritchie]

I moved this from general helt to this forum in hopes that SOMEBODY could help

We have been using, for YEARS, "Alfie-it" (a dos program) and am down to only 5 pagers, from 35, 10 years ago.

We have had little problems with it until USA mobility turned off a local terminal access number.
I was given a "UVA" ( universal access) number.
The UVA needs a 10 digit "account number"
( aka - pager number with area code)

Because "Alfie-it" won't take an "account number" over 8 digits,
I went on the hunt for another "free" paging program.

I found NotePage 32, which seems to work fine
( after I transfered it to my laptop, because it is
the only computer in the house with a modem that
I could EASILY get a telephone line to. - worked great !

Now for my PROBLEMS

we have two old computers that are used for word processing and paging,
nothing else, both are old p2's with windows 98 without network access.
and I found out today without usb support, so I can't transfer it via a flash drive..

I copied the files to 2 floppies and tried to install them.
The old machines don't have a "windows/prefetch" folder, so I made one and placed the PF files in it.

On one machine it can't find the modem, while I KNOW it's on port 2

On the second machine notepage won't run at all, error message
" missing *** dll " I forgot to write down the name of the dll because by this point it was time to "give up" for today.

Can anyone shed some light on my problems, so I can get this done
sometime Monday ?

Thanks

[Tech Support]

Part of the problem you're running into is that the program has to be installed on the computer, you can't just copy over the contents of the program directory. The program registers certain DLL files and program functions with Windows and they have to be there in order for it to run properly.

After you install the program, though, all you should have to transfer over is the npp.mdb - the database for the program that contains all of the setup information (carriers, recipients, etc) that you've entered in on the other system.

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