Re: Unix/Linux Box

[julian814@hotmail.com (Ralph Glatt)]

Jeff Blakeney <CUTjblakeney@syndicomm.com> wrote in message news:<ft4ikvogh3hh9hug274qhi6h77ls0bgj7j@4ax.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.  :-)

Got it! Thanks Jeff! Now all I need is a cable. I'll be sure to post
when I finally get things up and running.


Ralph Glatt