Posted by fred-bloggs on 10/31/05 10:42

idea sharer <idea.sharer@winmx.org> wrote in news:xOadnVGuRs9aBfjeRVn-
qQ@giganews.com:

> My WinMX sharing box is an old crash-and-burn W95 box
> with 32M of RAM. As you might imagine, I run it as a
> Secondary connection. Or did, until winmx disappeared
> last month.
>
> I see posts touting that some new mysterious (is it
> open source?) 'patch' that works for all OSs (W98/ME...)
> but W95 is not mentioned.
>
> Even though it's an old crash-and-burn PC, it still
> rubs me the wrong way to blindly trust some 'patch'.
>
> So I guess if I want to resume sharing, I need a list
> of addresses to add to my Hosts file. (Yeah, I know;
> it'll need periodic manual updating... But if it points
> my box to a Primary node, that should do it, right?)
>
> Comments? Suggestions? URL of host file entries...?

http://www.vladd44.com/files/pie2.6-manual.zip
contains only a host file which you can merge with your own.

--
fred

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