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Hello Wayne - 

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RJT>> Only using 31% of a 20M partition? Cool... What are you
RJT>> using to open jpegs? 

WC>  Vimage 

Steven is thinking of removing the vgalib from BL2. If he does
then LINKS will no longer display graphics on demand. I've
mentioned I disagree with this change. 

WC> Point and click up comes the graphic, yet to add additional
WC> packages. Additional graphics and video drivers await my
WC> loading them in. My local weather radar is much friendlier
WC> through Linux :-) I can load Linux, dial out and load the
WC> radar image in Vimage in the time it takes to load Windows
WC> and Netscape! Now get this in my haste to get going before
WC> I neglected some options on the Basic Linux web page. I can
WC> install a basic X-Windows using ICEWM into that very same
WC> 20 meg partition!!! I've already downloaded the required
WC> packages! Add another 5 meg partition to hold Netscape 3.04
WC> and at 25 meg I'll have mail, telnet, FTP, server package,
WC> Netscape, and a X-Windows desktop. Mind you I'm not
WC> including the 20 meg swap partition required in addition to
WC> my 20 meg RAM to run Netscape and X-Windows in the above
WC> figure so it really comes in at 45 meg should I add all
WC> this stuff. The guy hosting the Basic Linux page is now
WC> working on Basic Linux 2.0 which will be Slackware 7.1
WC> based. I'm going to see if I can prune some more DOS - Win
WC> space and add a Linux partition to include the C compiler
WC> or perhaps just wait a week or so and nuke that old
WC> Slackware 2.0 release in /hda4 replacing it with something
WC> else to play with 

It might be a good idea to get that elist working at your end
if at all possible. There are people asking for 'wireless pcmia
networking' to replace things like vgalib within BL2. At
present I am the only voice that disagrees with this. 

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WC> I'd be tempted to fix something like that. Just buy a light
WC> relay and solder it in. BTW that's what I'm worried about
WC> contact arc leading to failure of the relay to release. I
WC> STILL can't get SMTP to function with that Verizon 553
WC> authentication error but guess what, I found and subscribed
WC> to a 0.verizon.linux newsgroup and I ain't alone :-(
WC> Something like 15 percent of the posts I saw were from
WC> people with exactly the same SMTP problem and exactly the
WC> same error message 553! So far no joy in solving it reading
WC> the replies to those individuals as they are using far
WC> later mailer packages than I am and the configuration files
WC> referred to bear no resemblance to the primative mailer in
WC> Basic Linux based on SW 3.5. Soon as I figure enough of
WC> this stuff out it's bye bye Verizon, save 100+/ year and
WC> get a less restrictive user agreement. 

I've seen ISPs drop SMTP access entirely but not tell
customers. They probably get into legal difficulties allowing
spammers to use their server and solve the problem by shutting
down SMTP totally then stalling while customers blame
themselves for not getting access. 

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