said William Morder: | 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. Well, where were we supposed to go after they closed down Prodigy and the GeoWorks-based AOL? (Compuserve was too expensive.) -- dep Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. Because privacy matters. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
