Re: Looking for a text string search program

2003-08-01 Thread Kevin JCJD Symons
On Fri, 01 Aug 2003 22:47:33 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: > Can anybody recommend a very nice DOS-based text string search > program that can search for a phrase throughout an entire > directory full of text files? Also would like very much to get > a search utility that can search for phrases

Re: Looking for a text string search program

2003-08-01 Thread Glenn McCorkle
On Fri, 01 Aug 2003 22:47:33 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: > Can anybody recommend a very nice DOS-based text string search > program that can search for a phrase throughout an entire > directory full of text files? Also would like very much to get > a search utility that can search for phrases

Re: FORMATTING...

2003-08-01 Thread Glenn McCorkle
On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 21:23:19 -0400, Roger Turk wrote: > Bastiaan, > I don't believe that you can put C: on HD#1, D: on HD#2 and E: on HD#1. > As soon as you put a second partition on HD#1, it automatically becomes D:, > and the first partition on HD#2 automatically becomes E: Nope *THIS* how

Looking for a text string search program

2003-08-01 Thread Samuel W. Heywood
Can anybody recommend a very nice DOS-based text string search program that can search for a phrase throughout an entire directory full of text files? Also would like very much to get a search utility that can search for phrases within an archive of pkzipped text files. I need such a program main

Re: FORMATTING...

2003-08-01 Thread Roger Turk
Bastiaan, I don't believe that you can put C: on HD#1, D: on HD#2 and E: on HD#1. As soon as you put a second partition on HD#1, it automatically becomes D:, and the first partition on HD#2 automatically becomes E: You can never have more than one active primary partition at a time. Programs

Re: FORMATTING...

2003-08-01 Thread Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ
On Fri, 01 Aug 2003 11:12:23 -0700, Rick Orr wrote: > Hi Bastiaan, > Did you boot from a anti-virus floppy set [like FProtect]? I would do > that first. > Like Roger says try a HDD diagnostic disk, either one from the HDD maker > or like Ontrack. > You may find that you will have to let one of

Re: FORMATTING...

2003-08-01 Thread Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ
On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 10:36:47 -0400, Roger Turk wrote: > Bastiaan, > I gather that your HD is partitioned into: > C: Windoze 95 partition = first part of HD #1 > D: = first 1Gb of HD #2 = just command.com + IO.sys In future planned for DOS only > E: The drive that you are having problems

Re: FORMATTING...

2003-08-01 Thread Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ
On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 10:24:37 -0400, Roger Turk wrote: > Bastiaan, > A couple of more questions. > What is the total size of your HD? 814Mb > Are you booting from a floppy? No, with boot manager from C:\ = first part of this HD = HD #1 > If so, what OS is your floppy set up for? DOS on floppy bu

Re: HELP! The web site for F-PROT doesn'

2003-08-01 Thread Glenn McCorkle
On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 18:44:13 -0400, Roger Turk wrote: > Sam Heywood wrote: > .. > I don't know why the virus purveyors are sending zipped binaries. > .. > Is Window$ so badly designed that it can even automagically unzip > .. > and run an attached executable binary just by the operator's opening >

Re: HELP! The web site for F-PROT doesn'

2003-08-01 Thread Roger Turk
Sam Heywood wrote: . > I don't know why the virus purveyors are sending zipped binaries. . > Is Window$ so badly designed that it can even automagically unzip . > and run an attached executable binary just by the operator's opening . > an email? I know Window$ is very bad and that it is getting m

Re: HELP! The web site for F-PROT doesn't work any more!

2003-08-01 Thread Ron Clarke
Hi Folks, On Fri, 01 Aug 2003 16:12:26 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: > I went to F-PROT's web site, "http://www.f-prot.com"; today > and I found that the site no longer works with Arachne. > Does anybody know of an ftp site or an alternative web site > where I might be able to download the lat

Re: HELP! The web site for F-PROT doesn't work any more!

2003-08-01 Thread Glenn McCorkle
On Fri, 01 Aug 2003 16:58:35 -0500, Sam Ewalt wrote: > This is yet another instance of Arachne needing Javascript to be > truly useful. Or maybe the problem is CSS or frames or something > else again. I don't know. You are sorely mistaken in THAT statement. Here's the TRUTH of the matter. Thi

Re: HELP! The web site for F-PROT doesn't work any more!

2003-08-01 Thread Dean Coffey
If it's the one I've been seeing all day long, it is Mimail.A and you can get more info at http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/[EMAIL PROTECTED] It is an UPX packed binary that they are still trying to work all the details out on. I received the first one about 5 hours ago, and have receive

Re: HELP! The web site for F-PROT doesn't work any more!

2003-08-01 Thread Samuel W. Heywood
On Fri, 01 Aug 2003 15:43:09 -0500, Dean Coffey wrote: > ftp://ftp.f-prot.com/pub > HTH > Dean Coffey >> Does anybody know of an ftp site or an alternative web site >> where I might be able to download the latest version of >> F-PROT and also the latest updates for the virus signature >> files?

Re: HELP! The web site for F-PROT doesn't work any more!

2003-08-01 Thread Sam Ewalt
On Fri, 01 Aug 2003 16:12:26 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: > I went to F-PROT's web site, "http://www.f-prot.com"; today > and I found that the site no longer works with Arachne. > Does anybody know of an ftp site or an alternative web site > where I might be able to download the latest version

HELP! The web site for F-PROT doesn't wo

2003-08-01 Thread Roger Turk
Sam, Try, ftp://ftp.f-prot.com:21/pub You can download the definition files from there and you can go from there to "/dos" to get the latest DOS version of F-prot (3.13). It seems that the web site has: javascript not commented out for non-javascript browsers white text on white bac

FOUND: Alternative F-PROT download site!

2003-08-01 Thread Samuel W. Heywood
http://fprot.org/fr_anleitung.htm F-PROT in Deutschland und antivirus-shop.com Works with Arachne! You don't need to understand German in order to almost instantly figure out where to click for downloading the latest F-PROT updates. Most likely the folks who run this web site will never even th

Re: HELP! The web site for F-PROT doesn't work any more!

2003-08-01 Thread Dean Coffey
ftp://ftp.f-prot.com/pub HTH Dean Coffey >Does anybody know of an ftp site or an alternative web site >where I might be able to download the latest version of >F-PROT and also the latest updates for the virus signature >files? > >TIA, > >Sam Heywood

HELP! The web site for F-PROT doesn't work any more!

2003-08-01 Thread Samuel W. Heywood
I went to F-PROT's web site, "http://www.f-prot.com"; today and I found that the site no longer works with Arachne. Does anybody know of an ftp site or an alternative web site where I might be able to download the latest version of F-PROT and also the latest updates for the virus signature files?

Re: FORMATTING...

2003-08-01 Thread Rick Orr
Hi Bastiaan, Did you boot from a anti-virus floppy set [like FProtect]? I would do that first. Like Roger says try a HDD diagnostic disk, either one from the HDD maker or like Ontrack. You may find that you will have to let one of those progs "write 0's to disk" & then reformat & fdisk ... in

Re: FORMATTING...

2003-08-01 Thread Roger Turk
Bastiaan, I gather that your HD is partitioned into: C: Windoze 95 partition D: E: The drive that you are having problems with. What do you have in partition D:? (Don't say the CD drive.) Roger Turk Tucson, Arizona

Re: FORMATTING...

2003-08-01 Thread Roger Turk
Bastiaan, A couple of more questions. What is the total size of your HD? Are you booting from a floppy? If so, what OS is your floppy set up for? Is your Windoze partition set up for FAT16 or FAT32? Are you using a multi-OS boot program to select the partition you wish to boot to? I believe

Re: FORMATTING...

2003-08-01 Thread Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ
On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 22:24:25 -0400, Roger Turk wrote: > Bastiaan, > That is strange. I just did a Google search on "repairing clusters" and came > up with only one hit. > A couple of questions: > Did you do a low level format on this HD? No > Does your HD have a "write protect" jumper? No >