You just made the kill file. Son, you need to learn when to shut your
mouth and take the chip off your shoulder.
In <wNnAI5miph7G092yn@islandnet.com>, on 04/13/2008
at 01:56 PM, jberry@islandnet.com (Jonathan Berry) said:
>On a 600E or 600X, it's easy to download pics using USB and a DOS batch
>file. Provided that the camera supports recognition as a drive, you can
>"install" your camera with next to zero overhead--by not using the
>manufacturer's installation CD. You can also transfer images to
>anybody's laptop. That worked for us with a Kodak DC-215, a Sony DCR
>TRV730, and an Olympus Stylus 300. However, on our most recent purchase,
>the Canon A720, under Win2K, the camera was not recognized as a drive,
>it was more of a TWAIN device or something. Consequently, we had to
>load the bloatware software. It works, although in the time it takes
>merely for the software to load, I would already have transferred a
>dozen pics with DOS batch files.
>For most list members this is a minor issue, but Dr. Race has a
>particular history of needing to conserve disk space.
>Incidentally, Ed apologized for sending our private email
>correspondence (which he initiated) to the list. It was not purposeful,
>it was in the nature of a misconfiguration.
>Ironically, that refutes his point. Wisdom does not
>necessarily translate into technical precision in an unrelated field.
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