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[Thom Hance <thom_h_97@xxxxxxxxx>]

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Hello Sam!

Is there a Windoze version (IE or Opera or Foxfire) or can I FTP to/from it? 
When I tried
Opera she said I needed a proxy server to go through.

Thanks.

Thom Hance, 'DearOldDad' - a DP dinosaur from the 70's

--- "Samuel W. Heywood" <sheywood@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
> 
> Hello Fellow Arachne Fans:
> 
> I just want everyone on this list to know that I have a gopher hole
> that all of you can get into and ferret out any files you might want
> to get from there.  The folks on the old Arachne List at Coollist.com
> already know about it.  To get into to my gopher hole with Arachne
> go here:
> 
> gopher://sdf.lonestar.org:70/1/1/users/sheywood
> 
> To get into it by using Lynx386 go here:
> 
> gopher://sdf.lonestar.org/11/users/sheywood
> 
> On the gopher menu there is a directory having many DOS programs and also
> some text files of interest to DOS users.
> 
> Amomg the things which many of you might find of interest there is the
> complete King James Version of the Holy Bible.  It comes provided with
> a most excellent "search-and-ye-shall-find" engine that you can use for
> finding words and phrases in the scriptures.  Also the program menu will
> be displayed with some very nice ANSI colors if you want to set it up
> for doing that.  Some very easy to understand instructions for doing that
> are provided with the program documentation.  In my opinion this program
> is the very best King James Version of the Bible that has ever been
> published in digital form.  Also it is among the very few KJV Bible
> versions that have been published for DOS.  I have looked at many other
> KJV Bible programs and I have concluded that this one might be the very
> best one that is out there.  This one is public domain freeware, not
> shareware.  I don't think you can get this one from any www site.  I have
> looked for it on the world-wide-web and I couldn't find it out there.  As
> far as I know it is available for download only from underground places
> such as gopher holes.  The download is only 1,505,069 bytes.  In using the
> search engine you must take care to use only the king's English spellings.
> For example, if you wanted to look for all the places where the phrase
> "love thy neighbour" appears in the Bible, you must spell the word
> "neighbour" just like the speakers of the king's English spell it.  BTW,
> the phrase occurs in only two places in the Bible.
> 
> Other things of interest that you can ferret out of my gopher hole is
> a boot disk image file for DR-DOS, version 7.02.  Also there is a text
> file on the site where you can read instructions on how to create a
> DR-DOS v. 7.02 boot disk from the disk image file.  In addition there is
> a text file in my gopher hole which describes an ftp site where you may
> download complete DR-DOS versions.
> 
> There is also a whole lot more there which would be of interest to DOS
> users.  You all are quite welcome to go there to explore and to ferret
> out whatever you want.  Also you all may write to me by private email
> to comment about the site and to make suggestions and to ask me questions
> about the files and programs you find there.  Also feel free to post
> messages on this mailing list with your comments and questions about my
> gopher hole.
> 
> Sam Heywood
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