RE: Brin-L Chat No More?

2002-12-26 Thread Horn, John
From: Ronn! Blankenship [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Under Windows 98 I think it is called MS-DOS or something like that. And is apparently located somewhere else. How about Start, Run, type in command. OK. - jmh ___

RE: Brin-L Chat No More?

2002-12-26 Thread J. van Baardwijk
At 09:21 26-12-2002 -0600, John Horn wrote: Under Windows 98 I think it is called MS-DOS or something like that. And is apparently located somewhere else. How about Start, Run, type in command. OK. That gets you the DOS screen, but then you still need to type the command to start Telnet

Re: Brin-L Chat No More?

2002-12-26 Thread Julia Thompson
Erik Reuter wrote: Under Windows 98 I think it is called MS-DOS or something like that. On Wed, Dec 25, 2002 at 11:43:15PM -0600, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: At 05:01 PM 12/18/02 -0600, Steve Sloan II wrote: The simplest way in Windows is to hit the Start button, Check. then

Re: Brin-L Chat No More?

2002-12-26 Thread Steve Sloan II
Ronn! Blankenship wrote: then Command Prompt. Tain't no such animal. It may be hidden by the Windows feature where it hides seldom-used menu options. To get them back, click that little double-down arrow icon at the bottom of the Accessories menu, and see if Command Prompt or MS-DOS Prompt

Re: Brin-L Chat No More?

2002-12-26 Thread Jon Gabriel
From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Brin-L Chat No More? Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 11:40:19 -0600 major snippage Should be called MS-DOS Prompt. With a red, blue yellow icon. And when you have the time to do so, you *really* ought to have a shortcut to it on the desktop

Re: Brin-L Chat No More?

2002-12-26 Thread Julia Thompson
Jon Gabriel wrote: From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Brin-L Chat No More? Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 11:40:19 -0600 major snippage Should be called MS-DOS Prompt. With a red, blue yellow icon. And when you have the time to do so, you *really* ought to have

Re: Brin-L Chat No More?

2002-12-25 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 05:01 PM 12/18/02 -0600, Steve Sloan II wrote: The simplest way in Windows is to hit the Start button, Check. then navigate to Programs, Check. then Accessories, Check. then Command Prompt. Tain't no such animal. Any other ideas? --Ronn! :) I always knew that I

Re: Brin-L Chat No More?

2002-12-25 Thread Erik Reuter
Under Windows 98 I think it is called MS-DOS or something like that. On Wed, Dec 25, 2002 at 11:43:15PM -0600, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: At 05:01 PM 12/18/02 -0600, Steve Sloan II wrote: The simplest way in Windows is to hit the Start button, Check. then navigate to Programs,

Re: Brin-L Chat No More?

2002-12-25 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 01:37 AM 12/26/02 -0500, Erik Reuter wrote: Under Windows 98 I think it is called MS-DOS or something like that. And is apparently located somewhere else. Thanks, though! Too Tired To Search All 90GB Of Hard Drive Tonight Maru (Besides, now I'm playing with my new topographic map

Re: Brin-L Chat No More?

2002-12-20 Thread William T Goodall
on 19/12/02 6:33 pm, Jon Gabriel at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, William, I did reformat and reinstall everything... no crashes now in 72 hours . I also installed 512MB more memory. :-) Jon GSV Steady as she goes Lots of memory is good. I have 768MB in my eMac. OTOH I have only 256MB

Re: Brin-L Chat No More?

2002-12-20 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 12/20/2002 3:06:35 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons. - Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949 I sold to a technology museum in Phoenix a small stack of RCA

Re: Brin-L Chat No More?

2002-12-19 Thread Jon Gabriel
From: Robert Seeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Brin-L Chat No More? Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 20:43:10 -0600 - Original Message - From: Jon Gabriel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 7:14 PM

RE: Brin-L Chat No More?

2002-12-19 Thread J . v . Baardwijk
-Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Jon Gabriel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Verzonden: donderdag 19 december 2002 15:44 Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp: Re: Brin-L Chat No More? But the main advantage a permanent IRC room would have, IMO, is that night owls like me would be able to log

Re: Brin-L Chat No More?

2002-12-19 Thread Richard Baker
Jon said: Now that I think of it, the Culture list has an irc room. Rich, how popular is it with list members? It's very popular. There's almost always somebody there and often as many as five or six people. The population tends to be a little different to that of the list because it's also

RE: Brin-L Chat No More?

2002-12-19 Thread Jon Gabriel
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Brin-L Chat No More? Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 15:58:41 +0100 -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Jon Gabriel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Verzonden: donderdag 19 december 2002 15:44 Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Brin-L Chat No More?

2002-12-19 Thread Jon Gabriel
From: Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Brin-L Chat No More? Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 22:47:12 -0500 On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 03:35:33AM +, William T Goodall wrote: on 19/12/02 1:11 am, Jon Gabriel at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: Brin-L Chat No More?

2002-12-19 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: Jon Gabriel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 8:44 AM Subject: Re: Brin-L Chat No More? From: Robert Seeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Brin-L Chat No More

Re: Brin-L Chat No More?

2002-12-18 Thread Steve Sloan II
J. van Baardwijk wrote: On this evening of Wednesday dreary when I logged in, bored and weary In the world of Brin-L Chat As so oft' before I had So much it came as a surprise when I saw blackness, blackness b'fore my eyes If you can't get in through mud.sloansteady.com,

Re: Brin-L Chat No More?

2002-12-18 Thread J. van Baardwijk
At 15:31 18-12-2002 -0600, Steve Sloan wrote: If you can't get in through mud.sloansteady.com, try wtgab.demon.co.uk or 80.177.15.74. All use port 2102. It's a different MUD server, so it may take some getting used to. On this evening of Wednesday dreary when I logged in bored and weary

Re: Brin-L Chat No More?

2002-12-18 Thread Deborah Harrell
--- J. van Baardwijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Not it came as a surprise when I saw but one chatter one chatter b'fore my eyes The regulars and others of the Mud of this new place clearly they knew not So it is with this here writing that all of thee we

Re: Brin-L Chat No More?

2002-12-18 Thread Andrew Crystall
On 18 Dec 2002 at 22:26, J. van Baardwijk wrote: On this evening of Wednesday dreary when I logged in, bored and weary snip I, among several other people, would if it was on IRC rather than a MUD. AndyMr. Crick - Corpnews (www.corpnews.com) Faith and purity are inadequate

Re: Brin-L Chat No More?

2002-12-18 Thread Jon Gabriel
From: Andrew Crystall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Brin-L Chat No More? Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 22:38:14 - On 18 Dec 2002 at 22:26, J. van Baardwijk wrote: On this evening of Wednesday dreary when I logged in, bored and weary

Re: Brin-L Chat No More?

2002-12-18 Thread Deborah Harrell
--- Steve Sloan II [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Deborah Harrell wrote: I would love to chat with you. But my 'puter will not do! (Else my brain is just too dense Of instructions to make sense!) The simplest way in Windows is to hit the Start button, then navigate to Programs, then

Re: Brin-L Chat No More?

2002-12-18 Thread Steve Sloan II
Deborah Harrell wrote: This got me to the same place that William noted (and that I got to from your website), but I was unable to 'create debbi' or type any text at all. Help wasn't. :( When you get to that screen, you need to type create debbi some_sort_of_password without the quotes.

Re: Brin-L Chat No More?

2002-12-18 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: Jon Gabriel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 5:35 PM Subject: Re: Brin-L Chat No More? From: Andrew Crystall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Brin-L Chat No More

Re: Brin-L Chat No More?

2002-12-18 Thread Jon Gabriel
From: Steve Sloan II [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Brin-L Chat No More? Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 17:01:09 -0600 Deborah Harrell wrote: I would love to chat with you. But my 'puter will not do! (Else my brain is just too dense Of instructions

Re: Brin-L Chat No More?

2002-12-18 Thread Jon Gabriel
From: Robert Seeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Brin-L Chat No More? Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 18:33:14 -0600 - Original Message - From: Jon Gabriel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 5:35 PM

Re: Brin-L Chat No More?

2002-12-18 Thread Andrew Crystall
On 18 Dec 2002 at 18:33, Robert Seeberger wrote: - Original Message - From: Jon Gabriel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 5:35 PM Subject: Re: Brin-L Chat No More? From: Andrew Crystall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Brin-L Chat No More?

2002-12-18 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: Jon Gabriel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 7:14 PM Subject: Re: Brin-L Chat No More? From: Robert Seeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Brin-L Chat No More

Re: Brin-L Chat No More?

2002-12-18 Thread Erik Reuter
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 08:43:10PM -0600, Robert Seeberger wrote: And as for Yahoo being evil, well in that case I dont mind wasting their resources. G You consider the Brin-L chat a waste of resources? G -- Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.erikreuter.net/

Re: Brin-L Chat No More?

2002-12-18 Thread William T Goodall
on 19/12/02 1:11 am, Jon Gabriel at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...and on a Mac? (Some of us would like to play hooky at work. :-) Jon On Mac OS X, open a terminal window and type telnet mud.sloansteady.com 2102 (without the quotes). Much the same idea on Classic, although I can't remember