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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Sun, 11 Apr 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Sindi Keesan wrote:
> >
> > What changes or additions are you already planning?
> 
> I've removed one font (the large helvetica) and added 
> two (a 14x24 and a scalable).  I've also stripped all 
> the fonts (except the scalable).  Nothing else has been 
> removed (so far).  There is one significant addition --
> a new application that runs in X.

I might try this same set of fonts in BL2.  What does it mean to strip 
fonts?

> > I suggest telling people to bypass himem.sys in config.sys 
> > in MSDOS 6.22 by hitting F5 or using a menu in the README 
> > file. 
> 
> The README file already says:  
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Problem?
> ~~~~~~~~
> To boot correctly, BL3 needs a relatively clean DOS.  If BL3 
> refuses to boot (or it crashes when you try to run X), start 
> your DOS without extras: no CONFIG.SYS, no AUTOEXEC.BAT, no 
> Windows.

Note that I suggested telling beginners HOW to bypass config.sys.  I did 
not know that you could do this using either F5 or a boot menu, and 
thought I would need to boot from floppy disk.  


> ------------------------------------------------------------
>  
> > Also mailto from links directly, not to outbox.
> 
> Why would I want to do that???

So it would work the way mailto usually works, at least that is how it is
set up at two shell accounts that I have.  You mail something to a link
immediately, while browsing.  Same thing in my DOS version of lynx.  And
in Opera.  I am used to sending all my mail immediately, not if I happen
to remember later to send mail from the outbox after writing it, before I
forget and hang up the connection.

I have also been using pmail while online
pmail -s subject address     
I think this sends it immediately instead of to outbox.  


I would also appreciate vga=ask in order to use 100 or 132 columns in text 
mode.


> Cheers,
> Steven
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