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rcurl
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response 25 of 205:
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Sep 29 03:34 UTC 1996 |
dang, the usual way to have gotten a .login and .cshrc was to copy them from
someone. There's a standard pair somewhere, but I can't remember where, but
I keep a pair in my directory so I can tell a helpee to copy them from there.
Now, with the new wrapper - all that fuss has been bypassed. Yea! Somewhere
in the cycle of shells you went through, you picked up a .cshrc - but it
should not have been empty, so maybe you made it (inadvertently?).
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arthurp
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response 26 of 205:
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Sep 29 04:03 UTC 1996 |
/etc/skel ?
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rcurl
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response 27 of 205:
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Sep 29 04:20 UTC 1996 |
Re #20: http://europa.cs.mun.ca/~dsquires/lyrics/copa.html
(Its amazing what one can do with Grex and Netscape on together.)
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robh
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response 28 of 205:
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Sep 29 13:42 UTC 1996 |
It's more amazing that someone would have an entire HTML document
devoted to the lyrics of that song.
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popcorn
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response 29 of 205:
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Sep 29 18:17 UTC 1996 |
Dang -- It's possible that some random staffer noticed that you were missing
some dot files and created them for you. I did that for a *lot* of people
when we had the disk problem.
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popcorn
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response 30 of 205:
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Sep 29 18:18 UTC 1996 |
I've changed Pine's configuration so that instead of putting a > before the
current message, it highlights the whole line. I think this may be less
confusing to new people.
If you already have your own pine configuration file, I'm not sure this change
will affect you.
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wh
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response 31 of 205:
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Sep 29 20:14 UTC 1996 |
How do we change it back to the arrow?
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popcorn
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response 32 of 205:
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Sep 30 14:53 UTC 1996 |
To turn it back from a highlighted bar to a > character, from Pine's main menu
choose "setup" and "config". X the box for "assume-slow-link".
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popcorn
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response 33 of 205:
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Sep 30 16:27 UTC 1996 |
I've put Agora 9 back on-line. It is read-only. You can look around in it
by typing "join agora9" at an "Ok:" prompt. I scanned through a few of the
items there; it contains the crazed spellings of matts, rather a lot of banter
between ziggy and vidar, and a discussion of the OJ Simpson car chase.
It's a huge conference. Oh my.
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nephi
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response 34 of 205:
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Oct 1 05:02 UTC 1996 |
I'd say that given Grex's slow link, maybe Pine *should*
"assume-slow-link". It really does make a speed difference,
even over a 9600bps link. Over our 'net link, I'm sure that
the speed of Pine will drop from unbelievably slow down to
ludicrously slow. (Hint: it doesn't just highlight that one
line.)
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popcorn
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response 35 of 205:
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Oct 1 18:13 UTC 1996 |
Okey dokey, I can put it back the way it was. I was concerned that "slow but
makes sense to new users" was better than "slightly faster but confuses the
heck out of new people".
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dang
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response 36 of 205:
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Oct 1 21:11 UTC 1996 |
Re 29: Possible, but this very much predates the disk bug. Almost back to
the time of getting the link. Who knows? I'll shut up now, and not drift.
:)
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srw
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response 37 of 205:
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Oct 3 06:41 UTC 1996 |
IWLTA that the grex front page on its website has been slightly altered to
appear more harmonious. The credit for this edit is nephi's.
Basically, the white space has been better arranged. Check it out.
http://www.cyberspace.org/ using a graphical browser (i..e not grex)
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audrey
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response 38 of 205:
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Oct 4 02:09 UTC 1996 |
I saw it earlier, and I was very impressed with the new layout. Makes me
proud to say I'm a Grexer!
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nephi
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response 39 of 205:
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Oct 5 03:51 UTC 1996 |
(I'd have to say that the credit goes mostly to Rob Argy,
who knows HTML much better than me.
Gosh, it's hard not to ryhme after that last item! 8^)
Anyway, although I don't have the patience to use Pine on
Grex, I'm sure that those who do really thank you for
backing out that "assume-slow-link" change, since it will
really "speed" up their Pining, Valerie. You're cool. 8^)
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popcorn
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response 40 of 205:
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Oct 6 01:34 UTC 1996 |
Actually, I haven't backed it out yet. I'm waiting for more input.
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nephi
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response 41 of 205:
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Oct 6 03:04 UTC 1996 |
Well, if you are wondering what you should do, you should
telnet to Grex from somewhere on a busy day and try to use
Pine.
Pine was simple for me to learn when Grex had it set to
"assume-slow-link" last year. I'm pretty sure that the
additional highlighting really does little to make things
clearer to the new user. I'm thinking that the additional
lag caused by assuming a fast link might be more confusing
for the new user . . .
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steve
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response 42 of 205:
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Oct 8 14:03 UTC 1996 |
Grex will be moving to its new home, sometime on either October
17th (Thursday) or Friday the 18th.
The move will take anywhere from several hours to an entire
day, depending on the success of moving the phone lines. Not
only does Ameritech have to move 15 lines, but they also must
change us over to Centrex service, which makes for a combination
that makes me a little nervous, given Ameritechs previous track
record. ;-)
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janc
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response 43 of 205:
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Oct 8 15:45 UTC 1996 |
Is it up to us to configure the lines into a truck hunt once Ameritech
installs them?
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birdlady
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response 44 of 205:
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Oct 8 15:45 UTC 1996 |
(Nephi's right about the last item. When I get to this one, it's hard to get
out of "I have to write a poem" mode). ;-}
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steve
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response 45 of 205:
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Oct 8 16:07 UTC 1996 |
No, the trunk hunt should be as it always has been. We just have
the ability to change it ourselves, now.
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davel
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response 46 of 205:
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Oct 8 16:16 UTC 1996 |
"truck hunt", heh
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meg
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response 47 of 205:
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Oct 8 16:26 UTC 1996 |
Actual, when we got Centrex at DSC, they did a pretty good job. Only
screwed up one minor thing, which was easily fixed.
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blh
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response 48 of 205:
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Oct 9 00:19 UTC 1996 |
In my younger days and moving my office or other traumatic changes I would
go ballistic over what the "phone company would screw up next on". Yes,
there will be problems. Yes, it will create all kinds of problems. Yes,
there will be a problematic frustration. But it will all work out, most
of the time.
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nephi
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response 49 of 205:
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Oct 9 04:41 UTC 1996 |
Heh. We recently ordered more lines for one of our POPs,
and when Ameritech added the lines, they didn't add them
on to the end of the hunt. Instead, the placed them in
the middle and ten lines mysteriously disappeared from
the hunt on us. We were a little upset . . . 8^)
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