Frances:

It is a command Line version that doesn't have a GUI but...It is NOT DOS and is a full Win32
program.  It is straight-forward to use and after you get used to it, you can find out how
to run it as a NT Service.

Where am I ?  I'm in Eastern Monmouth County, just feet from the beach.

Dave




"Frances Del Rio" <fdr58@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:2vkifpF2n5qbgU1@uni-berlin.de...
| NJ?  where?  I'm in Jersey City.. (work in NYC, live in J'City..)  ok, I
| think I'd rather use command line, if it's faster..  I do know basic
| DOS, so why not, and I like text-based...  (besides which I'm in the
| process of learning java now, so I do a lot of DOS right now..)
|
| so: go to site and download command line version?  they walk u thru it?
|   self-explanatory?  thanks..  Frances
|
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|
| David H. Lipman wrote:
| > Frances:
| >
| > I have been running SETI software for ~5.5 years now and I'm approaching 20K units.
| >
| > There are two versions of the software.  A command line utility and the screen saver.
The
| > command line utility is faster and needs less computing resources.  The command line
utility
| > can be executed from a command prompt or made to run as a NT Service. I run the command
line
| > utility as a NT Service on Win2K and WinXP platforms and in the past on NT4.  As a NT
| > Service you don't even know that it is running, albeit, it consumes a 16MB block of RAM.
| > That RAM consumption is true for the screen saver and the command line version.
| >
| > Please -- Join us !
| > Dave { from NJ }
| >
| >
| >
| > "Frances Del Rio" <fdr58@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:2vkccbF2m5s57U1@uni-berlin.de...
| > | Hello all, I'm thinking of joining the SETI@Home project, but before
| > | downoading the software I would like to know how everyone's experience
| > | w/it has been, above all would like to know if this is something that
| > | might slow down the performance of yr computer..  I'm running Windows
| > | 2000 on a machine that is not the fastest machine in the world but is
| > | not too slow either..  I assume their software doesn't come w/unnecesary
| > | bells and wistles, no spy-ware, etc..  ok, thanks for any
| > | opinions/impressions..
| > |
| > | Frances Del Rio
| > | NYC
| > |
| >
| >
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