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Re: [trinity-users] Re: got a puzzle

From: dep <dep@...>
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2018 10:19:14 -0400
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.
-- 
dep

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