Charles Angelich wrote: > > The precise 'error' is that EZNET is inflexible, > cannot be adjusted without recompiling,
This is not correct. eznet takes a long list of parameters (eznet --help) which can be used to adjust its behavior. For example, you can use the "expect" and "reply" parameters to customize the login script and the "dialtimeout" and "chattimeout" parameters to set the timeouts. > The more standard dialup relies on text files (chatscr etc.) > that a new user could at least _attempt_ to adjust to gain > access to the ISP. What adjustments can you make in chatscr that you can't make with eznet? > Learning EZNET codes, switches, and peculiarities is of no value > once you leave BasicLinux behind for a full install of SlackWare. If you have learned eznet (and are happy with it), there is no reason why you can't continue to use it in Slackware. > Does anyone here see a reason to become proficient at using an > oprhaned abandoned piece of software? I don't. That's a strange comment on a survPC discussion group. Most of us here are proficient in abandoned software and hardware. > It's an orphan abandoned by it's author. Isn't MS-DOS an orphan abandoned by its author. > I would never even consider debugging EZNET after the author > was as rude and flippant about the program as he was when I > asked him about the program. He told me he did not care if > it worked or not, he no longer needed it I suspect you would get a similar response if you asked MicroSoft about DOS. > As I was trying to point out when the vultures decended, the > BL webpages were rearranged recently throwing all of my links > out the window. As I said before, the homepage URLs did not change. Your links were affected because they linked to specific files. > Steven and I could have come to some 'arrangement' Sorry, Charles, that was never going to happen. I change the filenames whenever I feel like it. I will not be checking with you first. > New people don't find the existence of 3 versions based on > 3 different Slack distros easy to digest. This is incorrect. You know it is incorrect (because I told you before). Are you intentionally trying to confuse people? > I had visions of people downloading Slack v8.x binaries to > plug into BL v1.x etc. Then perhaps you should leave the BL explanations to me. I have no such visions. > There is a BL webpage that seems to have fallen between the > cracks Which one is that? > and is only linked to from the hotlist when using older > BL v1.x and LINKS. The hotlist has changed many times since BasicLinux 1.0. URLs kept dying or moving. > Sorting this out to try to make it understandable for new > people who have not been following this along is time consuming Then don't do it. Simply link to the homepage and let me "make it understandable for new people". > his reply to me (posted here earlier) was that Steven had moved > files without telling him. I moved the files only after Chris told me he had copied of all of them to the new site. Editing the links after that was his problem. > As I said I have 2045 external links and can't spend all of my > time on just BasicLinux link chasing Then stop chasing links. Just link to the homepage and your "problem" disappears. Cheers, Steven ______________________________ http://www.volny.cz/basiclinux To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
