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Hello Wayne - 

WC>> If it passes tampering with the piracy chip will have the
WC>> feds knocking at your door and your computer carted off
WC>> for evidence to be used against you. This is more than a
WC>> computer issue with me. 

CA>> The US gov already has laws on the books to allow them any
CA>> access they could ever want. With the 'Homeland Security'
CA>> thing recently any pretense of privacy went down the tubes. 

WC> I know, all the _patriots_ seem wellpleased with themselves
WC> but I wonder how many have read and understood the Patriot
WC> act and the U.S. constitution. One seeks to limit
WC> governmental powers and the other trumphs it :-( 

Somehow the 50's generation has managed to remain in control of
our politics. They continue to trust big government and seem
oblivious to the damage it has done to their children and
grandchildren. Unfortunately life spans have increased
enormously and I may leave this planet before control is turned
over to my generation. As corps bail out and leave the USA
there may be nothing left when that happens to use to repair
all the damage. :-\ 

CA>> --8<--cut 

WC>> I DID notice the condescending attitude from others. Got
WC>> dissed in newsgroups asking a question, "Well why expect
WC>> an answer when it's not Linux!" 

CA>> Usenet can be extremely hostile, yes. For Slackware based
CA>> mini-installs I would recommend trying only the usenet
CA>> groups specifically setup for Slackware users. 

WC> None too friendly in there either. Either you're a guru or
WC> they can't be troubled. 

Real UNIX programmers and system admins seem less hostile to
newbies but finding them is a bit difficult at times. 

WC> Those that do bother don't appear to know what they're
WC> talking about :-( 

Interesting isn't it? Even with the hostile environment people
without a clue will post replies to some very technical
questions. It's almost entertaining in a strange sort of way
when you have time to kill and don't mind reading foolish
nonsense. :-) 

WC>> There's a Verizon Linux newgroup but that's where I got
WC>> dissed with the SMTP question for a small footprint Linux,
WC>> not even a hint :-( Appears there are a lot of people with
WC>> that athorization problem there though if you've not a
WC>> standard distro... 

CA>> Wish I could recall what has changed. :-\ 

WC> Me too, pretty soon to Internet Junction unless I go DSL
WC> and might even then as they'll bill to your Verizon
WC> account. Cost for DSL with Verizon - IJ is about the same
WC> but a 56k dialup is 9.95/mo at IJ. 

I remember that ISPs in an infantile attempt to stop spammers
(bulk mailing) force you to access POP3 before you are allowed
access to SMTP but that's not your problem since most software
has been modified to do this for some years now. It can stop
DOS email software dead though. :-\ 

WC>>> Well I DO wish I could recall the file that sets
WC>>> environmental variables. 

CA>>> Why do you need to set an environment variable? 

WC>> I wanted to setup the Linux OLR you recommended and wanted
WC>> to create my own directorys for the two required
WC>> configuration files as well as any other software configs
WC>> in that specific directory. I could use the defaults but I
WC>> wanted it my way. I did find that file once but you know
WC>> how many files even a mini-Linux has! 

At this time the only way I can see ATP looking in other
directories for it's 'rc' file is if you altered the source
code and recompiled it. The defaults for the config files are
hard coded into the binary. Work directories and the location
of the zip/unzip can be set within '.atprc' but the location of
'.atprc' is hard coded. 

CA>> I will take a look at my installs. 

WC> No rush, you've already been a great deal of help and I
WC> likely won't move on that project for a month. 

Too late, I already looked. :-) 

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CA>> The author of WS-FTP has a homepage. 

WC> Yeah, need to visit it and add some Linux mirrors to the 32
WC> bit version. 

http://www.ipswitch.com 

WC>> Still not used to long file names in Windows and the
WC>> registry.dat hiding behind the tilde had me going for a
WC>> bit. I want a dupe so I can play some. I even tried
WC>> ALT-255 to get there until I realized while the tilde
WC>> would not display it worked for change directory. 

CA>> Not really knowledgeable about W9x backups for the
CA>> registry but there are _two_ hidden files to find, not
CA>> just one. fwiw: There are seven files to locate for the
CA>> W2K registry. LOL 

WC> I'll look for additional hidden files but I have copied the
WC> registry.dat 

Would be best to ask about this in the W95 echo because I
skipped past W9x to W2K from W31 and am not doing backups of
the registry using regedit on a regular basis. I have seven
registry files with W2K and must use third-party software to
make backups of the seven files required. 

For W9x I think the two hidden files are 'system' and 'user'
but am not sure about this. You can set Explorer (the W9x
filenmanager) to show hidden files then do a search using
Explorer rather than try to do all of this from the command
line where LFNs can get in the way. 

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