On Sunday 10 June 2018 07:19:14 dep wrote: > said William Morder: > | This is just a wild guess ... but is there any chance that you have > | downloaded the Pale Moon browser recently? > | > | Steven Pusser's repo appears after you download Pale Moon. However, I > | don't allow that to happen. I copy the URL of that repo to my > | sources.list manually, then backup and maintain my sources.list on an > | external hard drive. > > This reminds me of a DOS game I bought (for I think $5 at a computer show) > back in the late 1980s. It had a small install routine that copied the > program to the hard drive and overwrote autoexec.bat with the name of the > executable file. In those days autoexec.bat could run to a couple of > pages, with us all trying to make our machines a little faster and getting > use of memory above 640k, which was a delicate thing. To say nothing of > the TSR programs many of us ran. Setting comspec right after we copied > command.com to a RAM drive. That kind of thing. So autoexec.bat was a > nontrivial thing, and turning a well-tuned machine into a single-game > console was troublesome. I swear, this mailing list is sort of like Jurassic Park: a place where dinosaurs still roam the earth. Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
