This article was posted to the Usenet group alt.hackers in
1995; any technical information is probably outdated.
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Re: Headers - (Was Re: First time - this better work)
Article: 8870 of alt.hackers From: stevehol@lucky.cloverleaf.com (Steve Holiman) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Re: Headers - (Was Re: First time - this better work) Date: 17 Oct 1995 01:23:43 GMT Organization: Cloverleaf Inc., Lakewood, CA, USA Lines: 34 Approved: Steve Holiman Distribution: world Message-ID: 45v0iv$p47@news.cloverleaf.com NNTP-Posting-Host: shell.cloverleaf.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Status: RO
Andy Welch (andy.welch@lexis-nexis.com) wrote: : ObReplytoObNewsHack: : Wanna play headers...? Keep hearing talk about which newsreaders are : easier to post with... Well I use tin for reading, but XVNEWS for posting. : Mainly cos I HATE vi, which tin uses as it's text editor. (Yeah I'm NOT a : UNIX guru... sorry, but I'm learnin g) Tin normally uses whatever you have set up as your default editor. I also prefer not to fight with vi for something as simple as news. On my home system (I make _no_ assumptions for yours) my settings are in a hidden file in my home directory called ".profile" - change your default editor to something friendly like pico (yes, I use pine for email) and next time you log in you're in business. Oh, better go to your .tin directory and edit tinrc and set start_offset=off; vi lets tin set the cursor position in the command line call to vi and so far I haven't figured out if pico will do the same (looks doubtful). ObHack I had a client who moved his business a while back and had an old program with his name and address encrypted in the program as copy protection. This old address printed on all output and since the company which produced the software was out of business there was no support or upgrade available. Since the encryption was strong enough to be more trouble than it was worth to break (no 2's complement or anything simple like that), I just wrote a DOS driver to replace the standard print driver and scanned for the address, passing everything else to the old vector. When it finds the entire string, it sends the new one. Works great. ____________________________________________________________________________ Steve Holiman / stevehol@cloverleaf.com | The rogue opinions which just HACK / Holiman Audio/Computer Kibitzing | escaped do not necessarily reflect Los Angeles CA (310) 942-0314 voice/fax | my moments of clear perception ...
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