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Re: Telnetting with a ][?

The Wizard of Oz wrote:

On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 08:13:19 +0000, Moll wrote:
That's not an option if your ISP is Verizon DSL, and you don't have any Linux boxen handy. :-( (Trying to get to a telnet-based *x shell with my //e) I should have mentioned I'm running Windoze 2K on the computer with the line. 

Moll.



	If you are allowed to reboot your 2K box, you may want to check out a
bootable CD or three. There are some live distributions of Linux which
will run directly from a CD (no installation required and they won't even
touch the harddrive unless you specifically tell them to). Others will run
from one of those USB RAM sticks. A good source for those distros is
http://freshmeat.net. One or another shows up usually every couple of
weeks. There is also a site which keeps track or the various distros. As
long as you can login to Linux you should be able to telnet out.

				Later
				Mike
The reason I don't run Linux on this box already is because the video processing toolchain I use includes some Windows-only stuff that doesn't work right with WINE yet... so I'm stuck with Windoze... also this computer is a junker by today's standards (700 MHz Celeron, 64 MB RAM). Does its job, but not well. I also run an IRC fileserver, and it is busy a lot of the time, so rebooting would be very disruptive.
I might look into hacking one of these programs that allows a C64 to do what I am intending, to get it to support the Apple's variety of ASCII, rather than PETSCII. I was hoping I wouldn't have to futz around with VB or C or whatall since I don't know what I'm doing there. 

Moll.