There is a pretty detailed explanation about this in the help file under the section called Internet.
In your Windows folder, you will see a file called Hosts no file extension. This is the file that is used by DXbase and also by your Windows system. You can either copy the Hosts file from your DXbase folder into here and overwrite your existing Hosts file. Or you can copy and paste from a previous hosts file such as the .bak file you list into your hosts file. I am quite surprised you even have this issue because during the installation, we locate your existing Hosts file and automatically rename it to a .bak file and then install our default Hosts file. I guess you may have manually tried to modify something, not sure. But I do see the .bak file we create listed in your message, so I know we did perform the process I described. Regards, Jack Regards, Jack ----- Original Message ----- From: "JNMazzoni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2005 1:56 PM Subject: [Dxbase] DX Clusters/Hosts files I am a new user trying to set up the sytem to allow me to access DX clusters. Here is the situation...... * In the Internet tab the IP Hosts window has one listing/ message " Could not open PKTCMDS.TXT" * In my system (Widow 98) there are eight (8) Hosts files as listed below . Each one contains many > other files. Hosts.sam LMHosts.sam Hosts.001 Hosts.002 LMHosts.002 Hosts.dxb25.bak Hosts.dxb25.bak ..........recent When I look directly at the DX base host file it seems to contain the same files as the ones I have listed above, e.g. excel, explorer, MS Access, MS Backup etc. etc. I couldn't tell what to copy to paste to one of my Hosts files and which of my Hosts file to use. Can anyone help? ______________________________________________________________ Dxbase mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected]
