[DXBase] Hosts file in DXbase 2003

Wed, 12 Mar 2003 04:41:35 -0600

no DXB sorts them so when you look through the User options they start with
the numeric IP number and then alphabetically by the first letter of the
cluster name.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim McDonald" <[email protected]>
To: "FireBrick" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 10:38 PM
Subject: Re: [DXBase] Hosts file in DXbase 2003


> Good point, Bill, but I used DXbase to modify it.
>
> Jim
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "FireBrick" <[email protected]>
> To: "Bill Nowicki [WA4OYH]" <[email protected]>; "DXbase Reflector"
> <[email protected]>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 9:03 PM
> Subject: Re: [DXBase] Hosts file in DXbase 2003
>
>
> remember the Hosts file does NOT have a suffix,.
> if you created it with Notepad, it may have appended the .txt suffix.
> And that won't work.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bill Nowicki [WA4OYH]" <[email protected]>
> To: "DXbase Reflector" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 9:55 PM
> Subject: Re: [DXBase] Hosts file in DXbase 2003
>
>
> > Jim,
> > The hosts file should be in the path listed below, system32 not system,
> for
> > WindowsXP.
> >
> > C:\WINDOWS\System32\drivers\etc
> >
> > Good Luck
> > Bill   WA4OYH
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jim McDonald" <[email protected]>
> > To: "DXbase Reflector" <[email protected]>
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 10:44 PM
> > Subject: [DXBase] Hosts file in DXbase 2003
> >
> >
> > > I converted my PC several months ago from Windows 98SE to Windows XP
> Home.
> > > I know the Hosts file is supposed to be in
C:\WINDOWS\System\drivers\etc
> > > when running XP, and that's what the DXbase Edit Hosts file window
says.
> > >
> > > I modified the Hosts file using that window, and I see in My Computer
> that
> > > the changes were reflected in that file, but the Tools--Options--User
> > > Options--Internet list doesn't reflect the file modifications that I
> made.
> > >
> > > Thinking the program was still looking in the C:\Windows folder, where
> it
> > > was under 98SE, I copied the updated file to that folder.  Still
didn't
> > > work. I rebooted in case that would make a difference (since I don't
> know
> > if
> > > it's read when the PC boots or when an application looks for it), but
> that
> > > didn't help either.
> > >
> > > I even did a file search looking for the mysterious Hosts file that
> DXbase
> > > is accessing from within the Internet Options window, but no
suspicious
> > ones
> > > popped up.
> > >
> > > Any thoughts on where the old file that's being read might be hiding?
> > >
> > > Jim N7US
> > >
> > >
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