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Re: Ka9q/TextWin web file grabber (was: ... is it *truly* possible to flush locally?)

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From: Robert Mortimer
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 00:00
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Previously Chris Croughton <chris@keris.demon.co.uk> said:
>In article <3218a779.24251459@news.demon.co.uk>
>           robm@demon.net "Robert Mortimer" wrote:
>>You mean there are people who'd read this froup who aren't
>>fans?? Filker, I ain't no filker not even a proto-filker.
>I believe so.  And if you filk you're a filker <g>.

Hmmm, that's what they all say.

>>/* Accsuing someone of filking in public..how low can you get?? */
>Lower than that, believe me <g>.

I'll take your word for it.

>>Hmmmm... sounds like coffee to me.
>No, I don't like coffee.  Come to think of it, I don't like what the
>machine calls 'tea' either...

I don't like what our machine calls tea or coffee, but the
coffee has more caffiene and is bitter enough that I don't notice.

>>True, thinking about it I could do the same with dr-dos task manager,
>>but then I forget I've got that.
>That's a task switcher, I take it?  DesqView is a proper pre-emptive
>multi-tasker, and happily lets me run KA9Q at the same time as another
>comms program on a different port (and phone line!)...

Nope, you choose taskswitching or multitasking when you set it up.
It can do proper multitasking, you can even specify how it handles
back ground job's it's nice like that.

>>Either way an unbatch to cache would probably be the best bet, or
>>run winpacket give the http server version of ka9q it's own ip
>>and connect to the packet driven ka9q from windoze.
>Aargh!  You mentioned the dreaded W word!  Theoretically I could run

Sorry.

>KA9Q via a packet driver under DesqView, but I haven't got a dialer to
>work with that reliably.  Not that I've tried much, it's probably quite
>possible...

Most things are possible, but are they worth while.

--
RobertM
Demon Internet Ltd
         "Trust the computer, the computer is your fiend"
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From: robm@demon.net (Robert Mortimer)
Subject: Re: Ka9q/TextWin web file grabber (was: ... is it *truly* possible to flush locally?)
Date: 1996/08/21
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