[CVALE] Another Slackware question:

[Gaijin]

Hello and thank you.  Trying out NVDA and it doesn't seem to work with 
Thunderbird.  I can read the messages, but not edit them, extracting 
quoted text.  Hope this is getting to you.  At least the keyboard is 
saying I'm typing something.

         Michael


Terry wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> ftp.slackware.com does NOT have the ISO files only the checksum files. There are many mirror sites 
> that really do mirror what's on the Slackware site and therefore also don't have the ISO files either.
> 
> The following USA sites listed at slackware.com appears to have the ISO files for Slack 11.
> 
> ftp://slackware.cs.utah.edu/pub/slackware/
> http://slackware.mirrors.easynews.com/linux/slackware/
> ftp://ftp.cs.stevens-tech.edu/pub/Linux/distributions/slackware/
> 
> Note that Slackware 12.0 was just released yesterday but the USA mirror sites don't appear to have 
> it yet.
> 
> I don't have a favorite site for downloading Slack as I support the project by buying the CDs when 
> they are distributed.
> 
> Terry
> 
> 
> Gaijin wrote:
>>      Hi again,
>>
>>      Tried downloading the Slackware 11 .iso files so I could write some 
>> disks for safe-keeping, but only got these little 5???? bythe files, and 
>> I haven't a clue what they are, or how to use them.  Do these work with 
>> something like installpkg or pkgtool, or what?  I didn't see any/an 
>> explanation of them on the wevsite.  Just to keep the feed going as much 
>> as possible.  I must have missed a sentence somewhere in all the docs to 
>> explain what I'm supposed to do with these .iso files.  Usually I just 
>> buy disks from cheapbytes, as I used 56K and couldn't keep a connection 
>> open long enough to download a complete disk image.  Unless I used up 
>> most of my bandwidth on it.  Usenet took most of that.  Anyway, it's new 
>> territory for me, and I missed the speaker's introduction...I guess. 
>> Didn't see anything in SlackBook, either.  TIA,
>>
>>          Michael
>>
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