Re: Unix/Linux Box

[Jeff Blakeney <CUTjblakeney@syndicomm.com>]

On 23 Aug 2003 18:37:17 -0700, julian814@hotmail.com (Ralph Glatt)
wrote:

>Jeff Blakeney <CUTjblakeney@sentex.net> wrote in message news:<i6r7kvcsn9ts55l38qtfe9oitl1g9f9vom@4ax.com>...
>> There is a program called STerm 2.0 that you could use instead if you
>> wanted to run Windows on that 486 instead.  I used to run Windows 95
>> on a 486DX4-100 with 16 or 24 MB of RAM and it worked okay.  Here is
>> the description of STerm from one site I found that lists it for
>> download (ZDNetIndia I believe it was):
>> 
>>      "STerm is a Windows terminal server that provides Telnet, RLogin,
>>       Ping, traceroute, finger, lookup, getmail, and other Internet
>>       services to serial terminals. It makes it possible to use a
>>       serial VT100/220/320/420 terminal on the COM port of a Windows
>>       computer. Up to four terminals can be used simultaneously. STerm
>>       also has support for SOCKS 4 firewalls."
>> 
>> It is a freeware and is only a 500 KB or so download.  If you want to
>> use Lynx to browse the web from you //c, there are several places that
>> you can telnet to and use the version of Lynx that they make
>> available.
>
>Jeff, do you have a copy of this program you could email me? I can't
>seem to be able to download it off of ZDNet India. It seems the server
>the program is stored on is down. (At least every time I tried to
>download!) My email address is rbg at penn dot com. Thanks!

It turns out that after I wrote this message I discovered that not
only do I not have it currently installed but I no longer seem to have
the archive stored anywhere.  I almost always keep archives of stuff I
like because you never know when it might disappear from the internet
and this seems to be almost what has happened here.

All the sites that I have found that mention it all point to the
original site at:

     ftp://eot.student.utwente.nl/pub/sterm/st32v20.exe

Unfortunately, that site always times out on me.  What I finally ended
up doing was using this site:

     http://www.filesearching.com/

to search for the filename "st32v20.exe" and it found it at this site:

     ftp://ftp.nwg.ru/SoftWare/WinNT/Telnet/st32v20.exe

I just downloaded it and installed it and it is the version I remember
using when I last used it.  I wonder why so many places just pointed
at a school ftp site instead of keeping a local copy of the file
themselves?  After all, it is only 511 KB.

I now have the archive again and I'm going to make sure I back it up
soon so I don't have to go through all of this again.  :-)

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