Art, You are correct. Below is an extract from the DXbase help file:
At the time you installed DXbase, a check of your Windows directory was made to determine if you had an existing HOSTS file. NOTE: there is no file extension, just the base filename. If a file by this name was not found, then DXbase installed a default HOSTS file that contains most of the currently operational IP addresses that provide Internet Cluster service. If a HOSTS file was already resident in your Windows directory for Win95 or Winsystem32/drivers/etc for WinNT, DXbase left it unchanged. The default file HOSTS was also placed in your DXbase directory. If you already had a HOSTS file in the appropriate Windows or rWinsystem32/drivers/etc directory, you can copy the information from the HOSTS file located in your DXbase directory and paste it into your existing HOSTS file. NOTE: Since the file does not contain a file extension, you may have to temporarily rename it to something like HOSTS.TXT in order to use the Notepad editor. Afterwards, you must rename it back to HOSTS without any file extension. If the IP Host list box in the User Options Internet tab is empty or does not contain any valid entries for DX Cluster, then chances are that you already had a HOSTS file on your system and thus DXbase did not populate any defaults. You will need to edit your windows HOSTS file before you continue. Alternatively, you could simply copy the hosts file from the DXbase folder into your appropriate Windows folder and overwrite your existing hosts file assuming that there was nothing in your existing hosts file that you needed to retain. Copyright ©1999 - 2002 Scientific Solutions, Inc. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Art Searle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Richard Morton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, December 07, 2002 7:00 PM Subject: Re: [DXBase] Dx Base 2003 Hosts File > Hi Rick, > > I'm no expert on this but if your computer is networked and already had a > Host file, the install is a little different. You have to add the hosts to > your existing host file by editing it. The host file is in the windows > directory. I had to do this win I installed DXbase on my work computer. > > Art > W2NRA > > > > Hi, Does anyone have a updated hosts file. Somehow it did not get > installed right. > > > > KR4EY > > Rick > > > > > > > > --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- > > multipart/alternative > > text/plain (text body -- kept) > > text/html > > The reason this message is shown is because the post was in HTML > > or had an attachment. Attachments are not allowed. > > Please post in Plain-Text only.--- > > _______________________________________________ > > 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
