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