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There are 17 messages totalling 367 lines in this issue.
Topics of the day:
1. Article on Novaterm 9.6
2. pico spawning?
3. Lynx patches
4. OmegaQ2
5. Hard Drives and RAMLinks
6. <No subject given> (2)
7. your mail (2)
8. QLink files (7)
9. Q link files
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Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 22:06:35 -0700
From: Tim Phelps <ar249@LAFN.ORG>
Subject: Re: Article on Novaterm 9.6
>
>Whoever put the news about Novaterm 9.6 and the particulars about
>features price and where to get it please put it up here again...my
>buffer had a meltdown.
Well, I've put up an unofficial Novaterm page which also links to the
official Novaterm 9.6 site. My page address is
http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/3284/nova.html
--
Tim Phelps -- The comments I made above are my own.
T.Phelps4@genie.com / ar249@lafn.org / 103124.1546@compuserve.com
http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/3284/
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Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 10:37:20 -0500
From: Aaron Baugher <abaugher@BCL.NET>
Subject: Re: pico spawning?
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 15:11:00 EST
From: Christopher McLeod
Does anyone out there have any idea as to why my lynx provider
would not accept my pico spawning?
When I try and do a newsgroup message I get an error message
that says "Error spawning editor" and it won't let me send or
even create a message.
I'm pretty sure that you can compile lynx to disallow spawning of
external processes. Some sysadmins use this to prevent users from
getting to a shell, if they're using a menuing interface of some sort
(sacrilege!).
Sometimes I also get a message which says that it does not
recognize "vt100-color!". Can any one help out there? :-)
I'm not sure about that. Something in the chain is rejecting that
emulation. If your TERM is set to vt100, it will probably just not do
color.
Aaron
--------------------------------------------------------
Aaron J. Baugher http://www.bcl.net/~abaugher
Software Engineer abaugher@bcl.net
Basic Communications, Ltd. _Roark_ on IRC
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Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 10:40:35 -0500
From: Aaron Baugher <abaugher@BCL.NET>
Subject: Re: Lynx patches
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 17:45:00 EST
From: Christopher McLeod
Do you have any suggestions based on the below email from
Gaelyne on how we (Gaelyne and I) could get our
"administrator" to put the Lynx patch (for SSL) in for us?
Well, that's really up to you and your sysadmin. Try arm-twisting.
If not, do you know of a server in which you've installed the
patch that we could connect to to have the SSL encryption?
That's not how it works. The SSL patches have to be compiled into the
lynx "client" that you are running on your workstation. The client
that you use and the server to which you connect both must understand
SSL encryption for it to happen.
Aaron
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Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 10:52:00 EST
From: Christopher McLeod
<CMcLeod_+a_ALZA-DEK_+lChristopher_McLeod+r%Alza_Corp@MCIMAIL.COM>
Subject: OmegaQ2
Can anyone out there point me to a web site where I could download
OmegaQ2 by QLink?
I saw it on a C= site about 2 weeks ago but was unable to d/l it at
the time. I since CANNOT remember where it was! :-(
Help! It is the BEST utility I have every used. You can imagine my
surprise and chagrin when it became corrupted! :-(
Thanks in advance!
Chris McLeod (of the clan MacLeod)
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Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 11:23:49 -0500
From: Aaron Baugher <abaugher@BCL.NET>
Subject: Re: Hard Drives and RAMLinks
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 16:19:51 -0400
From: Michael Bendure <mbendure@INFINET.COM>
I would kill for the FIND command and some of the other utilities
built into the Lt. K, for the CMD. While the CMD does have a nice
wedge and subpartioning, some of the programming utilities on the
Lt. Kernal would be a nice addition for the CMD. :)
I've thought about writing a find command for ACE+CMD, but of course
it would be very slow, with all the communications that would have to
take place to the drive. It occured to me that you could speed it up
considerably by writing it to run primarily within the drive RAM
itself. For this, though, you'd need a memory map and some
programming information for the HD-DOS. Does anyone know where/if
this can be had?
On a related note, how does one go about upgrading the HD-DOS in a CMD
HD? I bought a used HD that has a DOS that's too old for Gateway128,
and I'd like to upgrade it. I'm assuming that it's available from
CMD, but it's not mentioned on their home page catalog-type info.
Aaron
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Aaron J. Baugher http://www.bcl.net/~abaugher
Software Engineer abaugher@bcl.net
Basic Communications, Ltd. _Roark_ on IRC
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Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 12:53:19 -0400
From: TJV <Tjv@CRIS.COM>
Subject: <No subject given>
QLink?
What ever happened to the millions(?) of files that were on Qlink?
On Tue, 23 Jul 1996, Christopher McLeod wrote:
> Can anyone out there point me to a web site where I could download
> OmegaQ2 by QLink?
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Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 13:19:51 PST
From: Steven A Cavanaugh <stevenc1@JUNO.COM>
Subject: <No subject given>
Are you talking about Quantum Link?I tried to get on that,but all access
numbers are down.
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Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 15:28:29 -0230
From: Adam Vardy <abe0084@INFONET.ST-JOHNS.NF.CA>
Subject: Re: your mail
On Tue, 23 Jul 1996, Steven A Cavanaugh wrote:
> Are you talking about Quantum Link?I tried to get on that,but all access
> numbers are down.
>
Yes, I think they disappeared a year or two ago. I was never on it.
I'd like to know where one might find files that used to be on it
though.
- Adam
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Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 13:58:36 PST
From: Steven A Cavanaugh <stevenc1@JUNO.COM>
Subject: Re: your mail
This is just a thought,but have you tried the WWW,and whois?They might
have something on them.I can search for you if you'd like.Just tell me
what file(s) you want,and I will try to find it.Reply soon..
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Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 13:26:01 -0500
From: Timothy Christian Dotson <tdotson@JOVE.ACS.UNT.EDU>
Subject: Re: QLink files
On Tue, 23 Jul 1996, TJV wrote:
> QLink?
>
> What ever happened to the millions(?) of files that were on Qlink?
QLink did a good number (ahem) on us C= users by deleting the indexes to
several download areas, including the GEOS area.
And, of course, when they closed their doors for good, the simply deleted
the rest of them. They are lost.
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Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 14:54:37 PST
From: Steven A Cavanaugh <stevenc1@JUNO.COM>
Subject: Re: QLink files
Tim has a point.If a system is deleted,them probably 95% of the software
on them is gone..
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Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 15:56:38 -0500
From: "SySteM AdMIn(Sys0P)" <dave@TDC.SDINTER.NET>
Subject: Re: QLink files
On Tue, 23 Jul 1996, Steven A Cavanaugh wrote:
> Tim has a point.If a system is deleted,them probably 95% of the software
> on them is gone..
>
Actually Q-Link was taken over by America Online about 2 years ago.
There was an effort by a few user groups to download as much software as
possible before they removed it. I don't know how successful it was.
You can possibly try contacting CCUG as they might have been the ones who
organized the whole thing. Otherwise, the main FTP sites for Commodore
64/128 files are ftp.funet.fi and ccnga.uwaterloo.ca. (both pub/cbm) Once
there, download the CBM FAQ 3.1. It will list just about all of the current
CBM FTP sites. It also lists all of the big Magazines devoted to the
64/128 in the past and present and the main CBM order houses.
I maintain an Internet Provider here in Sioux Falls, SD. I would like
to place all of the CBM software that is available on here, but we cannot
handle the bandwidth. If and when we get a real T1 line, I will invest
in another 1.6gig SCSI for the server and start another FTP site for CBM.
Later Taters!
-Dave Engstrom
Commodore 64/128 (ab)user.
BBS #(605) 361-9754 (sorry, no CBM files)
E-Mail Dave@tdc.sdinter.net
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Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 17:02:31 -0400
From: "Lawrence F. Beals, Jr." <lbeals@PILLARCO.COM>
Subject: Re: QLink files
On Tue, 23 Jul 1996 13:26:01 -0500, Timothy Christian Dotson wrote:
>On Tue, 23 Jul 1996, TJV wrote:
>
>> QLink?
>>
>> What ever happened to the millions(?) of files that were on Qlink?
>
>
>QLink did a good number (ahem) on us C= users by deleting the indexes to
>several download areas, including the GEOS area.
>
>And, of course, when they closed their doors for good, the simply deleted
>the rest of them. They are lost.
Actually what happened was that the QLINK system had a bug in its
file system. About a year before they folded they discovered that
users uploading new software were overwriting old files on the
system. The system had lost track of where everything was stored.
They shutdown the upload feature at that point. The same company had
also started a new PC network...AOL...and they refused to pull
computer programming resources off that venture to help fix the QLINK
problem. With no uploads, a potentially corrupted file system and the
commodore market on the wain..QLINK pulled the plug. This despite
myself and a number of other users volunteering to go through their
file system and verify each and every file as correct and help them
to trace the problem.
Somewhere I have one of their file catalogs, about as thick as a
phone book with tons of files listed..what a waste.
Lawrence
Lawrence F. Beals, Jr. lbeals@pillarco.com
The Pillar Company , Newport News, VA http://www.pillarco.com
Team OS/2, Appeals Committee-alt.computer.consultant.moderated
This message was generated by VOICE under OS2 MERLIN!!!!!
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Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 14:20:15 -0700
From: "Robert E. Snider" <bobsn@CLARK.EDU>
Subject: Re: QLink files
Hello I am new to this group. I belonged to q-link from the beginning to
end. My Id was Maliki. I have 4 of the file books from qlink. I
downloaded many files of of it and still have them today. I was very
disapointed in the closeing of qlink as well as the discontinuing of the
comodore. It is still, in my opinion a fine machine.
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Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 17:29:22 PST
From: Steven A Cavanaugh <stevenc1@JUNO.COM>
Subject: Re: QLink files
You can still get commodore machines..
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Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 19:05:32 -0400
From: TJV <Tjv@CRIS.COM>
Subject: Re: QLink files
On Tue, 23 Jul 1996, Robert E. Snider wrote:
> Hello I am new to this group. I belonged to q-link from the beginning to
> end. My Id was Maliki. I have 4 of the file books from qlink. I
> downloaded many files of of it and still have them today. I was very
> disapointed in the closeing of qlink as well as the discontinuing of the
> comodore. It is still, in my opinion a fine machine.
>
Yea, I belonged to QLink for 4 years, the wealth and abundance of programs
for the commodore was overwhelming, if you couldnt find it there, it
couldnt be found. The GEOS forum was the best place to get questions and
answers.
I do believe Genie still has a large database of programs, is there anyone
with a Genie account who can confirm this? Maybe we can convince them to
add there files to a FTP sight someday before they go under, just a
suggestion.
Seeing what happened to the commodore files in Qlink is one of the reasons
I refuse to touch AOL these days.
Can you imagine if Qlink had been wise enough to store all those files
onto a FTP server before they went out, what an archive we would have!
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Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 22:01:03 -0400
From: Mark Foley <foleym@RIVER.IT.GVSU.EDU>
Subject: Q link files
I found a web site with many old Q-link files. The author of that
website has many offline files, too.
here it is:
http://www.channel1.com/users/amazon/soft.htm
I hope that is what Y'all needed..
Mark Foley
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