[arachne] Re: My Gopher Hole
- From: Thom Hance <thom_h_97@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 13:26:14 -0700 (PDT)
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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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