-=> ROY J. TELLASON wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 RJT> Wayne Chirnside wrote in a message to Charles Angelich:

 RJT> (...)

 WC> Takes a bit of effort but the rewards are great.
 WC> I mean here I am sitting on a 20 meg partition that with all the
 WC> junk currently in /tmp shows 31 percent usage of that partition and
 WC> I can telnet, edit, write and edit files, receive e-mail, browse
 WC> and open JPG's off the local weather radar page already!!!

 RJT> Only using 31% of a 20M partition?  Cool...   What are you using to
 RJT> open jpegs?
 
 Vimage
 
 RJT>  Some command-line utility,  I'm sure.

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

 WC> Another thing before lights out, I'm going looking for the modem
 WC> init string and nuke the damn pulse dialing in favor of DTDF.
 WC> Can't stand hearing that darn relay snapping all the time using
 WC> ppp-on :-(

 RJT> I killed a relay in a (Zoom) modem,  one time.  Not pulse-dialing,
 RJT> either! Just dialing out a *lot*.  The damn thing wouldn't release the
 RJT> line,  either, when the modem thought it had done so,  which was not
 RJT> fun.

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