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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

 http://davidjmoberg.googlepages.com/ppp-2.4.1-i486-libc5.tgz
> http://davidjmoberg.googlepages.com/fetchmail-6.2.5-i486-uclibc0.tgz
> http://davidjmoberg.googlepages.com/msmtp-1.4.0-i486-uclibc0.tgz

Maybe you and Lee can put together something smaller and more versatile 
than pmail for the next BL, which does authentication and base64.

> I ran out of space at the other site. I should move stuff from there
> over to here. If there is interest, I can put these on my BL3 page.
>
> The latest version of ppp is 2.4.3, released two years ago. I do not
> know how it differs from 2.4.1. The BL3 pppd is perfect if you stay
> with a sane kernel (i.e. 2.2.27 or earlier).

I did not follow what this version does better than the older one.

> Serious Word editing requires OpenOffice or the real thing, I think.
> Even then it's hit-or-miss for anything complicated. Not really much
> better than "strings file.doc".

antiword to convert doc to text followed by a wordprocessor is what I 
usually use, but they wanted tabular format returned.

> > Could not even import tables.
>
> AbiWord 1 doesn't do tables.



> I wonder if sed can be used to convert the manroff formatting to ANSI codes.
>
> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=manroff+to+ansi
>
> Hmm, looks like no one else is doing that. If I have time I might be
> able to write a BL sed script to do that. Or maybe Lee could. He seems
> to know a lot about shell/sed and that sort of thing.

That would be lovely.  man2html | lynx is not quite adequate for the 
mplayer documentation.

> > > > I keep everything on hard disk.  My 1.44MB floppies are always failing.
> > > > THe 720s last longer, 360K's almost forever.  We are now using USB memory
> > > > sticks for most file transfers, or zip drive (parport) if no USB>
> > >
> > > Are those not using volatile RAM? If so, how can you trust them?
>
> They seem to be more durable than hard drives physically (you can drop
> them off a table, for example) and nothing short of an EMP or short
> circuit should be able to erase them without a computer. If you shield
> them correctly and take care of them, they should last for centuries.

I thought USB memory sticks wore out after 10,000 cycles or so.

The friend who told us to go get an $8-after-rebate $50-marked-down-to-$16 
1.0G stick just before Christmas at some chain office store just dropped
off another one that he got free (they gave him two) this week from the 
same store.  I hope some day 2.2.28 can deal with these.  But DOS 7.1 with 
drivers works.  (Posted at my site).

> > > Lee
> >
> > Sindi
>
> David

Sindi