Re: [trinity-users] Re: got a puzzle

On Sunday 10 June 2018 07:19:14 dep wrote: > said William Morder: > | This is just a wild guess ... but is there any chance that you > | have downloaded the Pale Moon browser recently? > | > | Steven Pusser's repo appears after you download Pale Moon. > | However, I don't allow that to happen. I copy the URL of that > | repo to my sources.list manually, then backup and maintain my > | sources.list on an external hard drive. > > This reminds me of a DOS game I bought (for I think $5 at a > computer show) back in the late 1980s. It had a small install > routine that copied the program to the hard drive and overwrote > autoexec.bat with the name of the executable file. In those days > autoexec.bat could run to a couple of pages, with us all trying > to make our machines a little faster and getting use of memory > above 640k, which was a delicate thing. To say nothing of the > TSR programs many of us ran. Setting comspec right after we > copied command.com to a RAM drive. That kind of thing. So > autoexec.bat was a nontrivial thing, and turning a well-tuned > machine into a single-game console was troublesome. I swear, this mailing list is sort of like Jurassic Park: a place where dinosaurs still roam the earth. Bill