I believe Dxbase is purposely designed to not overwrite the operating systems HOST file during installation. I certainly would not want it to overwrite my operating system's HOSTS file.
You need to find the HOST file that Dxbase installed in its directory; open it and copy the contents of that file. Locate the operating system's HOSTS file and paste Dxbase's HOSTS file contents that you copied into it..... You can search on HOSTS to find that file. If you can not open the file by double clicking it, use NotePad to open the file..... Ron ..... NU1U PS - This is explained in DXBase's Help files. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of FireBrick Sent: March 14, 2002 12:52 To: Frank - ON9CC; [email protected] Subject: Re: [DXBase] 2002 and XP Sounds like something got goofed up. But... The hosts file that is installed when you install DXB2002 also has a copy placed into the DXB2002 directory. At least all mine have. Use Windows explorer and compare the size of the Host file in DXB2002 directory to the one that SHOULD have been installed in: Windows, System32, Drivers, etc. (etc is the name of the subdirectory under Drivers) You will also notice that the name of the file is Hosts and does NOT have a .txt or any other suffix. If they appear different in size and properties, I would make a copy for safekeeping and then use copy/paste to grab the latest one in the DXB2002 directory and place it in the 'etc' subdirectory. Under File, Modify Host file, this action ONLY modifies the Host file in the etc subdirectory and NOT the original placed in the DXB2002 directory. At least as far as I can determine. Hope this helps. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Frank - ON9CC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 10:58 AM Subject: [DXBase] 2002 and XP > hi group, > > I have installed WinXP and 2002 . > But now my hosts file is (nearly) empty and I can't connect to my > internet dx-cluster. > > When I go to user options and click on the Internet tab, then I get an error > message: > GetLastError : can not find the specific file > > Am I doing something wrong? > Anyone has a tip... ? > > Regarding the hosts file: when I used WinME, I had a hosts file with a > looooooooooong list of internet nodes... is it normal that after a > clean installation of DXBase, that this list doesn't contain any > internet clusters? I have installed the demo version of DXTelnet once > on WinME... maybe this installed the big hosts file ? > > Sorry if this is an old cow ... I admit that I don't read all the > messages on the reflector. > > Best regards / 73 de Frank ON9CC > Ing. F.W.J. Bogers > UKSMG #975 > 6m DXCC #318 > > _______________________________________________ > DXBase Reflector - Please visit us on the web at www.dxbase.com > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > To UNSUBSCRIBE please visit: > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase > > _______________________________________________ DXBase Reflector - Please visit us on the web at www.dxbase.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - To UNSUBSCRIBE please visit: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase
