On Sunday 10 June 2018 07:19:14 dep wrote:
> said William Morder:
> | This is just a wild guess ... but is there any chance that you have
> | downloaded the Pale Moon browser recently?
> |
> | Steven Pusser's repo appears after you download Pale Moon. However, I
> | don't allow that to happen. I copy the URL of that repo to my
> | sources.list manually, then backup and maintain my sources.list on an
> | external hard drive.
>
> This reminds me of a DOS game I bought (for I think $5 at a computer show)
> back in the late 1980s. It had a small install routine that copied the
> program to the hard drive and overwrote autoexec.bat with the name of the
> executable file. In those days autoexec.bat could run to a couple of
> pages, with us all trying to make our machines a little faster and getting
> use of memory above 640k, which was a delicate thing. To say nothing of
> the TSR programs many of us ran. Setting comspec right after we copied
> command.com to a RAM drive. That kind of thing. So autoexec.bat was a
> nontrivial thing, and turning a well-tuned machine into a single-game
> console was troublesome.

I swear, this mailing list is sort of like Jurassic Park: a place where 
dinosaurs still roam the earth. 

Bill