Hello, I have downloaded the zip file hosts.zip. I can not see a hosts.txt file. There is Hosts executable licence.txt mbvps.bat privacypolecy.txt and readme.txt. Please what am I missing. Thanks for any help. Max > On 1 Jan 2015, at 12:49 am, DD <dandun...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Someone asked: > > "This is a very interesting post. I've downloaded the hosts.zip file but I > find in the zipped folder only files that I would consider to be windows > files only. In the private/etc folder, there's no equivalent host file that I > could > replace. The downloaded zipped file only has a unix executable file, and > hosts.bat. The private/etc folder on my mac doesn't have hosts.bat file. but > only hosts TextEdit.app Document. How can I accomplish what the instructions > in the link you sent tell me to do? > > I've been on the website from which one can download the file but there's no > reference on it to the os mac operating system." > > Me: > > The text edit "hosts" file is the one to use. It is a pure text file which > is why text edit sees it. After making a copy of the hosts file already > there just put the new one in its place. > > Except for that "hosts" text file ignore everything else in the zip file. > > On the zip source page do a search for "Mac OS", that is the header for the > os10 instructions section. > > > > > XB
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