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i've got an obscure question. if i want to register a domain name, i must provide two servers. what are they talking about? my computer or my internet provider? and how do i know what isp address to give?

when you register a domain, you need to tell Internic which name servers will be "hosting" the official name of your site. you cannot do this yourself unless you have access to the servers you enter in there! you can, however, use the servers here at the spring and just host your site off of here. you will have to ask terry how much he might want to charge you for that wolfie. i will gladly do all the setup for you, including the actual domain name registration. i have to do this anyway for this site that terry has asked me to set up for him, and that i havent done yet. (i know, i know...)!!!!

and to find out what the Spring's two numbers are (just for your own knowledge) go to http://www.internic.net/ and look up spring.net it will give you the primary and secondary numbers for here...

[9/58] Respond, forget, or pass? !whois spring.net Registrant: Spring (SPRING9-DOM) Rt 2 Box 56R Cedar Creek, TX 78612 US Domain Name: SPRING.NET Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact: Walhus, Paul Terry (PW30) terry@SPRING.NET 512.303.4000 (FAX) 512.303.3200 Billing Contact: Walhus, Paul Terry (PW30) terry@SPRING.NET 512.303.4000 (FAX) 512.303.3200 Record last updated on 06-Mar-98. Database last updated on 9-Feb-99 15:17:13 EST. Domain servers in listed order: NS1.SPRING.NET 206.97.234.70 NS2.SPRING.NET 206.97.234.71 The InterNIC Registration Services database contains ONLY non-military and non-US Government Domains and contacts. Other associated whois servers: American Registry for Internet Numbers - whois.arin.net European IP Address Allocations - whois.ripe.net Asia Pacific IP Address Allocations - whois.apnic.net US Military - whois.nic.mil US Government - whois.nic.gov !

thanks guys. gotta determine if i have the funds to splurge on this adventure!

We'll give it to you for nothing or next to nothing. The main cost will be the $70 to the Internic to secure the name.

i saw that it went down. which is good. now the big question "what do you need it for?".....i'm not interested in making money off of it, just would be neat to have a domain of my own without anybody else's rules to follow.

The sky's the limit!

then Terry's the guy for you, Wolf!!!

I need a script that displays when a page was last updated, but it needs to give a 4 digit year something like <script> document.write(document.lastModified + " GMT") </script> but with a 4 digit year... any suggestions?

I got it! Used HomeSite's Javasript utility to make two different file last modified scripts which I then cut and pasted together until I got the one I wanted.

great...any chance of posting the final code??

yep...I just keep forgetting to do so... probably will put it up on Friday (maybe tomorrow)

<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript"> <!-- // new options introduced by Bernhard Friedrich; should work in all browsers // additional code to display date in Month Day, Year format by Robert Crooks var lutext; var lutime; var ludm; var ludd; var ludy; function sstr(a,b){ //extract substrings ret=lutime.substring(a,b); if (ret=="Jan" || ret=="01") ret="1"; if (ret=="Feb" || ret=="02") ret="2"; if (ret=="Mar" || ret=="03" || ret=="Mrz") ret="3"; if (ret=="Apr" || ret=="04") ret="4"; if (ret=="May" || ret=="05" || ret=="Mai") ret="5"; if (ret=="Jun" || ret=="06") ret="6"; if (ret=="Jul" || ret=="07") ret="7"; if (ret=="Aug" || ret=="08") ret="8"; if (ret=="Sep" || ret=="09") ret="9"; if (ret=="Oct" || ret=="Okt") ret="10"; if (ret=="Nov") ret="11"; if (ret=="Dec" || ret=="Dez") ret="12"; return ret; } lutime = unescape(document.lastModified); if (lutime.length == 17) { // Netscape 3 and higher, Internet Explorer 4 ludm = sstr(0,2); ludd = sstr(3,5); ludy = sstr(6,8); } if (lutime.length == 20) { // Netscape on MacOS ludm = sstr(0,3); ludd = sstr(4,6); ludy = sstr(16,20); } if (lutime.length == 25 || lutime.length == 24) { // Netscape 2 ludm = sstr(4,7); ludd = sstr(8,10); ludy = sstr(20,24); } if (lutime.length == 29) { // Opera 3 ludm = sstr(8,11); ludd = sstr(5,7); ludy = sstr(12,16); } if (lutime.length == 23) { // Internet Explorer 3 ludm = sstr(3,6); ludd = sstr(7,9); ludy = sstr(19,23); } lutext = ""; // US date format if (ludy.length==2) { if (ludy >= 90) { yearNow = 19 } else { yearNow = 20 } } else yearNow="" lutext += ((ludm.length < 2) ? '0' + ludm : ludm) + "/" + ludd + "/" + yearNow + ludy; document.write("Last Modified " + lutext); // --> </script>

sorry the tabs, etcetra, aren't formatted to look right through a browser...

You cannot imagine how useless those tabs really are when one is posting via telnet. I still do not know what is special about posts done this way. pine is incredibly slow and fixing errors is a huge job. I just abandoned the first attempt at this. I got two rows ofOCOD thingies and you cannot access the row above to eliminate them. What are they OAOAODOD and how do you get up one row to rid your post of inadvertent ones? Is that obscure enough?

If I could have seen the script you posted, I would not have bothered anyone with my stupidity on the telnet problem...I am humbled and sorry to have bothered you.

ok, well, i have no idea what all that other stuff was. gotta question for terry: i tried my userid and password at access and it didn't work. suggestions?

Were you FTP-ing? That is the only place I have to use mine and I have it saved automatically.

i sure did, marcia, am trying to get something going on my website and i must be doing something wrong. terry???