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Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 11:38:06 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: pizzaman@mail.on.rogers.wave.ca
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Subject: Re: installing Free BDS with the WAVE
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On Sat, 31 Jan 1998 pizzaman@mail.on.rogers.wave.ca wrote:

> >Hm, ok.  What does the boot message for this card look like?
> >I'll need to know the particulars on the card before I can comment 
> >on that.  Could you post the exact error?
> 
>   I've been a little busy lately and having responded when I should 
> have...anyhow I got the ethernet card up and working at least twice 
> now....the silly thing corrupts occassional(?).

Odd.

> How how earth do you access the handbook docs though? What is a .sgml 
> file? ee shows the file with <> all through it, it almost looks like 
> html code.

You have to put them through a translator.  The nice ting about SGML is
that we can put out PostScript, roff, and ASCII output with a change in
commandline options.

>   I also can't find lynx on my disks. Where the heck is it? Or do I 
> use my Linux version (yes I have Linux on cd as well I'm just os 
> crazy) Even got a copy of OS/2 4 Server coming my way.

It should be in the ports tree on CD 3 or 4.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major