[Dxbase] DX Clusters/Hosts files

Sat Jan 8 14:22:17 EST 2005

There is a pretty detailed explanation about this in the help file under the 
section called Internet.
In your Windows folder, you will see a file called Hosts
no file extension.
This is the file that is used by DXbase and also by your Windows system. 
You can either copy the Hosts file from your DXbase folder into here and 
overwrite your existing Hosts file. Or you can copy and paste from a 
previous hosts file such as the .bak file you list into your hosts file.
I am quite surprised you even have this issue because during the 
installation, we locate your existing Hosts file and automatically rename it 
to a .bak file and then install our default Hosts file. I guess you may 
have manually tried to modify something, not sure. But I do see the .bak 
file we create listed in your message, so I know we did perform the process 
I described.
Regards,
Jack
Regards,
Jack
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "JNMazzoni" <JNmazzoni at comcast.net>
To: <dxbase at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2005 1:56 PM
Subject: [Dxbase] DX Clusters/Hosts files
I am a new user trying to set up the sytem to allow me to access DX 
clusters. Here
 is the situation......
 * In the Internet tab the IP Hosts window has one listing/ message " 
Could not
 open PKTCMDS.TXT"
 * In my system (Widow 98) there are eight (8) Hosts files as listed below . 
Each one contains many
> other files.

 Hosts.sam
 LMHosts.sam
 Hosts.001
 Hosts.002
 LMHosts.002
 Hosts.dxb25.bak
 Hosts.dxb25.bak ..........recent
 When I look directly at the DX base host file it seems to contain the same 
files as the ones I have listed above, e.g. excel, explorer, MS Access, MS 
Backup etc. etc. I couldn't tell what to copy to paste to one of my Hosts 
files and which of my Hosts file to use.
Can anyone help?
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