Re: VMs: Some Fundamental Questions

[steve ekwall <ekwall2@xxxxxxxx>]

HI all :-)


well, apparently we cannot even say/agree on "fold'em & flip'em" can
we
@ least say:
 "MicroSuckS winDOZE?"  :-) yes another world DOES exist here totto! 


steve ( not in KANSAS) ekwall
 

 Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 20:56:25 -0500
 From: Robert Teague <rteague@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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 Subject: Re: VMs: Some Fundamental Questions
 
 > >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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