Re: VMs: Some Fundamental Questions

["Robert Teague" <rteague@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> >2. The list archives for 1998, 99, and 2001 are inaccessable to me.
> >They are Microsoft Access files, but that program won't open them.
> >I can change the filename extention to "txt" and WordPad will open
> >them, but the formatting is gone, making them unreadable.
> 
> Where did you download them from?

I got them from the archive Zip files, but don't remember what site,
since that was about when I joined this list.

> I just dowloaded the 1998 file from Joge Stolfi's site to check:
> 
> http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~stolfi/voynich/mirror/reeds/vmail.html
> 
> And, once unzipped, you have one file per month, named, e.g.
> 1998.01.Jan, the contents of which are plain ASCII text.
> (It figures, since Jorge Stolfi and Jim Reeds use Unix.)

Okay, Windows asked what program do I want to open
the files with, so I said WordPad. It opened the January
file, but the formatting is still gone.

> I doubt very much that the mail archives are available
> anywhere in Microsoft Access format.

But it set up "Access shortcuts" in the unzipped files. That's
what confused me.

> I could read it even using good old Qedit (a DOS editor).
> I could also read it using NoteTab Light by Eric. G. Fookes,
> a (very good) freeware editor for Win3 and Win9x. You are
> sure to find it at TuCows or WinSite... actually, it's here
> too:
> 
> http://www.fookes.com/notetab/index.html

Thanks.

Robert
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