arachne-digest Monday, May 14 2001 Volume 01 : Number 1528
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Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 21:09:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: ANDY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: end of a personal era
sorry, misinformed again (:, I *AM* able to menu/script both digital lines
using Trumpet Winsock Or Arachne :) it's simply a matter of adding a few
more commands to the script or Arachne log-in session... my ISP chap/pap
auth. is an experimental server so just adding a few extra keystrokes I
can get to the old menu and so can my Winsock scripts and Arachne
dialer... sorry for jumping to conclusions... the only major change to
both scripts and log-in is the new phone number :)
sorry again for the confusion
Andy
On Sat, 12 May 2001, ANDY wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> my ISP has closed their former analog dial-in telephone lines (: I now
> have only 2 dial-in digital lines [provided to my ISP by a new local AND
> national telecom competitor] (: no longer do I have the luxury of
> unlimited duration shell sessions (: one of the new digital lines ONLY
> allows for chap/pap authentication and the other is about 50% chap/pap and
> 50% script/menu... I will have to take my chances (: because though
> Arachne's InSight mailer has been good to me, most of the time I need
> Netscape to do much of anything on the web and I don't have dialer
> software for chap/pap for my Win3.1 (: I must rely on a Trumpet Winsock
> menu script (: I will be okay, and, I guess, taking my 50/50 chances
> with this one digital line, it's just that it's the end for me of a
> personal era of ease of internet connectivity (: 1995-2001
>
> Andy
> in Phila.
> East Coast of the USA
>
> god bless Michael Polak for Arachne and Arachne's InSight e-mailer!
>
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Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 21:27:41 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Thomas Mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sunday Salsa with nasty splinters
- ---(begin quote)
Back in the good old days all homes were built only by real men.
Real men are tough-handed. You can even drive nails through the
palms of a real man. He will suffer the most excruciating pain,
but he won't get squeemish about it. Such is the way of a real
man and a real carpenter. A real man and a real carpenter knows
how to handle the rough stuff. He can conquer anything. Also he
knows how to be very gentle.
Sam Heywood
- ---(end of quote)
Ouch!
Anybody who talks like that ought to be crucified<g>.
If that's your definition of a real man, count me proud of my femininity!
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Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 21:27:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Thomas Mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: MS NT server connection
from Valentin Karpovitch:
I had for a long time used Arachne for my Internet connection
until my provider (this is Novosibirsk State University computer
center) changed from Unix server to MS NT server. Now I simply
cannot log in. I connect with my modem to provider but then the
server doesn't ask me neither for login nor password, and
nothing at all happens.
(snip)
Maybe the NT server requires MS-CHAP? Is that supported by DOSPPPD? I believe
the documentation file for DOSPPPD said MS-CHAP was not supported.
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Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 21:27:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Thomas Mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PCI hardware modem in DOS
- ---(begin quote from Thomas Tabler)
I don't use a PCI modem in DOS, but I use a ISA one. However,
I use the 'Port 0' option or "non-standard IrQ" in Arachne for it.
As Sam said there are many programs you can get that will detect
your modem, or you can download and install Norton Utilities from
a website and use "sysinfo" to find it out. I have Norton installed
too. Do you know what advantages there would be to using a PCI
modem?
- ---(end of quote)
I forgot to answer that last question. ISA is going out of style in favor of
PCI. I think PCI is more efficient, more sparing of IRQs, and avoids
Plug & Pray (?) of ISA. I am not really sure of this, so anybody who knows
better is welcome to correct me.
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Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 21:07:15 -0500
From: "Sam Ewalt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Readable format
On Fri, 11 May 01 13:27:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Howard Schwartz) wrote:
> Almost everyone mentioned View which costs a little money. Catdoc.zip
> also does a pretty decent job and is freeware. There is also a handy
> freeware utility called rt that simply strips all characters outside
> the ascii text range from a file and uses its own intelligence to
> try to present the remaining text in a decent format. It seems to
> convert MS word documents quite well.
View costs money? I downloaded it from somewhere and use it once in a
blue moon. It didn't cost a thing. Maybe it's shareware. I'll confess
to not paying for shareware.
Sam Ewalt
Croswell, Michigan, USA
- -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
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Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 22:32:39 +0000
From: "Ross Virgin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sending mail with Arachne
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As always on this list, the replies to my question about
"Sending mail with Arachne", have been great.
First, for Clarence Verge:
1. I have 80 to 90 mailing list FILEs. You asked if just
one of them, or all of them, during the last few weeks fail
when Arachne attempts to send mail To: @FILE
Your thinking is exactly the same as mine. I first thought
I had 1 corrupted FILE of mailing addresses. Therefore,
I have tried 20 to 30 out of the 80 or 90 FILEs. They all
fail in the same manner.
2. You asked if there could be a DOS error being generated.
I have experience that in the past, with a DOS error message
overwriting the Arachne page, in the upper left corner, with
a message such as "Bad file or command".
That is not happening, when Arachne refuses to send
To: @FILE
3. The error message is actually being reported, within
Arachne, at the bottom of the Arachne screen, on the
"progress reporting line" (if that is what the bottom line
might be called.
The "progress reporting line" starts reporting that Arachne
has linked to the SMTP server with the following series of
statements on the "progress reporting line". Some of these
lines include (something else) because the statements change
so fast, just flashing for a second, that it is impossible
to fully read some of them:
Copyright (c) 1996-2000 Michael Polak, Arachne Labs
processing form
asking domain (and something else)
connecting to SMTP (port 25)
HELO (and something else)
RCPT TO: <(null)>
RCPT TO: <(null)>
RCPT TO: <(null)>
RCPT TO: <(null)>
4. The "RCPT TO: <(null)>" repeats and repeats, very rapidly,
until I exit/crash Arachne. Otherwise, it would continue in
that loop forever.
5. I have followed your advice and copied over a fresh version
of ARACHNE.CFG (with no improvement). I am searching for a
fresh version of MIME.CFG to copy over, to see if that solves
the problem.
Second, to Sam Heywood:
6. Do appreciate your information that some ISPs are limiting
the number of recipients of a single mailing, to help control
spam. I had never heard of this. Great idea. Anything to
prevent unwanted mail from clogging our mailboxes is great.
7. However, each of my 80 to 90 mailing FILEs has a
maximum of 5 or 6 addressees. I suspect the effort to stop
spam might set a limit of a 100 or 1000 addressees. Nevertheless,
I will contact technical support, since I find your information
valuable. I totally endorse all effort to stop spam.
Thanks to all for your interest and help in chasing down my
problem of TO: @FILE
It worked so well for 6 months that I am now spoiled, and want
to get it working again.
Ross Virgin
Toronto, Canada
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On Wed, 09 May 2001 17:11:24 -0500, Clarence Verge wrote:
> Ross Virgin wrote:
>> For 2 weeks now, everytime I try to mail to one of those
>> 80 or 90 "FILE"s Arachne says "syntax error".
>> Yet the 80 or 90 FILEs have not been changed or touched
>> in any way from the same FILEs which have been used
>> for many months ..... previously with no problem, no
>> "syntax error".
>> I have been using the Arachne 1.66 , on the same computer,
>> with the same modem, on the same phone line, to the
>> same ISP
>> What the heck is going on ..................
> Hi Ross;
> Do you mean that ONE of the 80/90 files gives a problem or ALL of them do ?
> Where do you see the error message ?
> I ask this because it sounds like a DOS message.
> It is possible that your Arachne.cfg has been corrupted, but I can't imagine
> exactly what change would produce that DOS error message. I only say this is
> possible because it happens frequently.
> Or maybe the error is in MIME.cfg. This contains a series of one line command
> strings that are fed to DOS by Arachne.
> I'm just guessing here without checking, but it seems possible that commands
> like copy, rename, delete, find etc. could produce that message under some
> conditions.
> Taking care not to lose your current .CFGs, copy over those two config files
> from another version.
> - Clarence Verge
> --
> - Help stamp out FATWARE. As a start visit: http://home.arachne.cz/
> - The internet is infected - Windows is a VIRUS !!
> --
- -- Arachne V1.66, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
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Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 23:35:09 -0400
From: "Clarence Verge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sending mail with Arachne
On Sat, 12 May 2001 22:32:39 +0000, Ross Virgin wrote:
> 3. The error message is actually being reported, within
> Arachne, at the bottom of the Arachne screen, on the
> "progress reporting line" (if that is what the bottom line
> might be called.
> The "progress reporting line" starts reporting that Arachne
> has linked to the SMTP server with the following series of
> statements on the "progress reporting line". Some of these
> lines include (something else) because the statements change
> so fast, just flashing for a second, that it is impossible
> to fully read some of them:
> Copyright (c) 1996-2000 Michael Polak, Arachne Labs
> processing form
> asking domain (and something else)
> connecting to SMTP (port 25)
> HELO (and something else)
> RCPT TO: <(null)>
> RCPT TO: <(null)>
> RCPT TO: <(null)>
> RCPT TO: <(null)>
> 4. The "RCPT TO: <(null)>" repeats and repeats, very rapidly,
> until I exit/crash Arachne. Otherwise, it would continue in
> that loop forever.
Hello Ross;
My original suggestion that it was a DOS error message was due to you
reporting a message like: "Syntax error".
I have searched core.exe and insight.exe for both A1.66 and A1.70 and
find there is no message similar to this in either. It was DOSlike tho.
I will assume now that that message never appeared except in a drug
induced haze, <G> and offer a couple of suggestions based on the
above.
1) Something has gone wrong with your "@" files - possibly something
invisible to your current text editor. In place of <(null)> above,
you should be seeing sequential recipients I'm guessing.
2) Something has happened to Insight and it isn't actually looking at
the "@"file. Copy over a new version.
3) Something could have changed at your email provider. Try a different
one temporarily.
Good luck.
- - Clarence Verge
- - Back to using Arachne V1.62 ....
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Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 22:22:07 +0000
From: "Ray Andrews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: arachne-digest V1 #1528
> Since industry standard is rough cut dimensions, all planed lumber
> and timber is "smaller" than the designated size ... you can't take the
> surface off of anything without making that thing smaller. Since
> builders want planed lumber -- easier on hands, easier to handle in all
> ways, easier to see knot holes and splits and other flaws -- the lumber
> we buy is going to be smaller than 2"x4" ... but it is NOT a scam, or a
> rip-off or a conspiracy. It's a way to avoid splinters and splits.
Sorry my man, but you are only half right. It is quite true that the
*original* excuse for the under-dimentioned 2X4 was the fact that these
had been planned, but that only takes off about 1/4" or less. The fact
is that "2X4's" have been getting thinner and thinner for years
irrespective of planning. Modern econo-studs are sawn at barely over 1
1/2" X 3 1/2" ... garbage wood. My house is about 40 years old and is
made of good, old-growth B.C. Douglas fir; the studs are 1 3/4 X 3 5/8
and quess what? they aren't planned and didn't need to be because the
wood was of such high quality. BTW, I'm an ex professional carpenter,
so I know what I'm talking about.
Ray, Vancouver Canada.
- -- Arachne V1.66, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
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Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 22:47:03 -0700
From: "Gregory J. Feig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: re: PAP/CHAP problem
On Fri, 11 May 01 13:17:28 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (howard schwartz) wrote:
>Even if PAP/CHAP is used for initial connects, there are separate
>programs that often require additional ID/passwords. For instance,
- ------------snip------------
>I have also, on occasion found it useful to disable PAP/CHAP and
>use a terminal emulator to access my ISP, in order to troubleshoot
>problems that happen at/or just after connection. Then you can see
>the prompts, if and when the PPP characters start coming, etc.
Howard, I only did this AFTER I started to get my authentication
failure.....normally, with my usual ISP, my normal Arachne PAP works
just fine.
>> "login and password prompts"? I hope that someday it will dawn on some
>> members of this list that we are the only ones who have ever heard of
>> encountering these when dialing an ISP in these days (ie. post 1995 -
>> perhaps earlier). Everyone is using PAP/CHAP, if not they are probably
>> limited to a speed for the user at 14 400 since they haven't upgraded for
>> ages. All ISPs support DOS, they may not know it - especially considering
>> that some people suggests scripts and weird stuff that they don't know
>> anything about. They shouldn't need either, and nor should anyone in the
>> known world, since this technique is obsolete and offers nothing extra to
>> make it worth the trouble to use and take into account.
>> //Bernie
I don't know why you included Bernie's quote here.....I fully agree...
and don't mess around with anything but Arachne's normal PAP/CHAP, but,
when this failed, I dropped to a terminal status to see what was going
on...AND...found out that is was the "PAP Authentication Failed" that
was happening..
NOW...WHY..??? do you think this might be....??? Is this ISP using
some non-standard type of authentication...???.....other than Arachne's
normal, standard PAP/CHAP...???
I've noticed allusions to "Ms-PAP" or "MS-CHAP"...is this some wierd,
non-standard, excluding type twist on the PAP/CHAP standard...??
I'm google-searching and coming up with quite a bit of interesting,
useful information, but I wanted you folks to throw in your thoughts,
to maybe help me narrow my field of study....<g>
.....gregy
- -- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client
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Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 23:14:21 -0700
From: "Gregory J. Feig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: re: Problem with DOSPPP, etc
On Fri, 11 May 2001 19:09:10 John Musielewicz wrote:
>I discovered my ISP changed their dns server and software from bind to
>something else. The new server software is incompatible with the above dos
>ppp software. WWW/LX works but that is the only dos ppp software I've found
>to work and it doesn't work with arachne. Oh well, dos is dead anyway.
>Might as well join the rest and be smothered in windows and linux.
John .... if I was running into your problem, I'd want to try to find
out WHY my ISP wasn't working with my perfectly standard, GOOD, DOS
software, and then fix it...
I don't think DOS is dead...and...since windows is so widespread we're
going to have to make DOS work with it (which it can do, very well)...
...and THEY (those schmarmzers writing/selling/using Wnzdoez) HAFTA
conform to web standards, even though they'd like to force us all to
use THEIR pseudo-standards...<g g g>
......gregy
- -- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client
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Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 23:04:21 -0700
From: "Gregory J. Feig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: re: PAP/CHAP problem
On Fri, 11 May 2001 23:18:43 +0800 "J. J. Young" wrote:
>I've had exactly the same for a couple of secondary ISPs I wanted
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>.. say you're using "the dialer that comes with IE5 for Win3.1"
aahhhh....Jake...you mistake me for someone who is "state-of-the-art"
<g g g>....I am using the Shiva Dialer that comes with IE3.03d....
The question still remains...Arachne's standard PAP/CHAP works...with
all the other ISPs in this area...and doesn't work with this ISP...
nor does Win3.1Shiva or OS/2Warp3Connect DialupClient....has anyone
heard of some non=standard PAP/CHAP type authentication.....???
.......gregy
- -- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client
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Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 08:33:32 +0200
From: Florian Xaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: FOSSIL Drivers
Hi!
I found this link http://www.juge.com/bbs/Dos.1.Html
bye, flox
Dr-DOS - the unofficial page - http://www.drdos.org
SEAL - the best GUI for (Free)DOS - http://www.seal.de.vu
Ostbahnkurti - http://www.archlab.tuwien.ac.at/~hase/franz/konzert_kal.html
- -=Lieber Inl�nder Rum als Ausl�nder raus!=-
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Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 13:29:25 +0800
From: "J. J. Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PAP/CHAP problem
>>.. say you're using "the dialer that comes with IE5 for Win3.1"
>
>aahhhh....Jake...you mistake me for someone who is "state-of-the-art"
><g g g>....I am using the Shiva Dialer that comes with IE3.03d....
But isn't it the same? I put it in those terms so Tech-Support-Guy
would think "Hmmm, I understand IE5, and we've got users with it
for Win3.1x" rather than telling you to "upgrade". AFAIK, M$ took
the Shiva Dialer and treat it as their own. I know of a liberated version :-)
>The question still remains...Arachne's standard PAP/CHAP works...with
>all the other ISPs in this area...and doesn't work with this ISP...
>nor does Win3.1Shiva or OS/2Warp3Connect DialupClient....has anyone
>heard of some non=standard PAP/CHAP type authentication.....???
Not administering any servers, all I can repeat is that I've had the same
problem, which was fixed at the ISP end.
Keep mailing `em. It would be nice to get a declaration of the reason.
Jake
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Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 13:48:16 +0000
From: "Mel Evans, Registered Arachne User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sunday Salsa May 13th (12a) 2001
Hi Gangue
Yesterday and to-day absolutely glorious weather here in Edinburgh.
Temperature up at 21 degrees, about 68 to 70 in real money (GRIN!).
Spent the day yesterday with a paint brush in hand slapping wood
preservative onto the front fence. The two or three beers helped pass
the time a bit as well!. There's something very satisfying about putting
on wood preserver, it's very therapeutic. You can almost hear the wood
of a rough sawn fence sighing and saying - -
"Oooooooh, That's good"
as it soaks up the preservative. Now we've got a "brand new" fence for a
few hours work and a can of preserver. It used to be creaosote, but that
seems to be just about banned in the UK because it's a bit (lots?)
toxicky.
In the afternoon, my two daughters appeared with family and barbecue
stuff. Burgers, steaks, sausages, chicken (and another couple of beers,
or three, or was it four?). BBQ dragged on till light started to go,
well it was such a lovely night. All in all a very satisfying and
pleasant day.
On the Foot and Mouth scene, we're down to single figures in confirmed
cases each day, so maybe it's on the run to the finish. Mind you, with
over 2.6M animals killed, it's going to take a bit of time to get back
to normal, that's for sure.
No luck with the Lottery, so I won't be visiting any of you this week.
What about the space tours man. Cost him loads of $ to go up into space.
In one breath its "good Luck to you" but in the other, I cant' help but
feel what would that amount of money done in the hands of one of the
Third World Aid agencies? Think of the Child Poverty it could have
helped. Or even Medical aid. OXFAM, one of the third world agencies here
in the UK has a TV advert where they say give a man a fish and you feed
him and his family for a day, give hime the fishing stuff and teach him
how to fish, and you feed him and his family for a lifetime. That "Space
Return" would have tauvhgt a lot of men to fish.
Sad news to hear of the death of Douglas Adams, the writer of
"Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy" The sci-fi/cult scene has lost an
icon there. I shall re=read all the books over the years many times I
would think. If there's anyone on the list who is Scottish and into
cult sci-fi, try "But 'n Ben a GO-Go" This is a post holocaust tale
where only those countries with populated high ground have survived.
That makes two of the major world powers, Brazil and Scotland. If you
are Scottish, then it's superbly funny. If you're not a Scot, it's
written in Lallans/Braid (Scottish English) so nothing makes any sense
whatsoever, sorry. Unless you can guess what a "molly cyberjanny" is
you've got no chance! And one of the main caharacters is Paolo Broon.
Mr Blair (the Prime Minister) announced a General Election for June 7th.
Lock up your babies, politicians of all parties are out there looking
for photo opportunities and babies to kiss! I like the description from
one of my other lists.
"Politicians are like babies nappies (diapers in the colonies, GRIN),
they need changing on a regular basis, and for the same reasons, they're
full of ****"
This morning I've gone mad and cleaned the front tiles with the power
washer. This weather is definitely affecting me badly.
Take care guys 'n gals. Have you noticed, on the ladder of life, when
you look down, all you see are people below you looking up. But when you
look up, all you can see is the a**holes of those above you?
Noticed one or two saying goodbye and "moving on" from Arachne. My
http://www.arachne4dos.freeserve.co.uk site is still picking up
about 100 hits each week, and I still don't have time to update it much.
I could be thinking the same soon, although I don't really want to. Can
anyone in touch with Michael find out if rach4dos makes much of a
difference. I don't have tracking facilities to see if it's sending folk
for downloads or not?
Regards
Mel
- -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/
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Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 14:35:1 +0800
From: "J. J. Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PAP/CHAP problem
Came across this:
<quote>
By the way, included here is the not-very-last-version "05" of Toni Lopes'
DOSPPPD DOS packet driver: Because the theoretically better and
later version "06", precisely because of its correct use of the PPP
standard, shows difficulties with illegally tweaked PPP of some Net Access
Providers and ISPs - regrettably a more and more frequent condition.
The earlier PPP "socket" still manages to get around there.
</quote>
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Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 12:21:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: ANDY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: end of a personal era
sorry again! :) my original post was correct (: i.e. that I can't
establish a connection/log-in using Trumpet Winsock or manual log-in
with Arachne and my ISP's, albeit experimental, chap/pap auth. server...
hence, I *am not* able to menu-script both digital lines... I must take my
50/50 chances with that one digital line (:
sorry again for so much confusion (:
On Sat, 12 May 2001, ANDY wrote:
>
> sorry, misinformed again (:, I *AM* able to menu/script both digital lines
> using Trumpet Winsock Or Arachne :) it's simply a matter of adding a few
> more commands to the script or Arachne log-in session... my ISP chap/pap
> auth. is an experimental server so just adding a few extra keystrokes I
> can get to the old menu and so can my Winsock scripts and Arachne
> dialer... sorry for jumping to conclusions... the only major change to
> both scripts and log-in is the new phone number :)
>
> sorry again for the confusion
>
> Andy
>
>
> On Sat, 12 May 2001, ANDY wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > my ISP has closed their former analog dial-in telephone lines (: I now
> > have only 2 dial-in digital lines [provided to my ISP by a new local AND
> > national telecom competitor] (: no longer do I have the luxury of
> > unlimited duration shell sessions (: one of the new digital lines ONLY
> > allows for chap/pap authentication and the other is about 50% chap/pap and
> > 50% script/menu... I will have to take my chances (: because though
> > Arachne's InSight mailer has been good to me, most of the time I need
> > Netscape to do much of anything on the web and I don't have dialer
> > software for chap/pap for my Win3.1 (: I must rely on a Trumpet Winsock
> > menu script (: I will be okay, and, I guess, taking my 50/50 chances
> > with this one digital line, it's just that it's the end for me of a
> > personal era of ease of internet connectivity (: 1995-2001
> >
> > Andy
> > in Phila.
> > East Coast of the USA
> >
> > god bless Michael Polak for Arachne and Arachne's InSight e-mailer!
> >
>
>
DOS TCP/IP * <URL:http://www.ncf.ca/~ag221/dosppp.html>
DOS HTML servers:
1. look for "boa" -> <URL:http://www.fdisk.com/doslynx/>
or <URL:http://www.volks-pc.org/download/boa_dos/>
2. WATTCP FTP and Web server:
(binary:) ftp://dark.uwaterloo.ca/webserv.zip
"*Every*! child is gifted."
please visit: <URL:http://www.reusers.org> ( my story )
also please visit: <URL:http://eop.com/recruiting-cd.html> lists companies
actively recruiting professionals with disabilities
please visit: <URL:http://worldccr.org/kiosks.htm>
or call Dr. Poe at: (USA) 1-775-829-1799
get (donated computer) kiosks for *your* country!
also please visit: <URL:http://www.eff.org> (where I hope to work one day)
Linux for old PCs: <URL:http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~ichi>
"If life wasn't a challenge, it wouldn't be worth living." :)
"If I am I because I am I, and you are you because you are you, then I am
and you are ...... But, if I am I because you are you, and you are you
because I am I, then I am not, and you are not." - Rabbi Mendel in 1971
"Freedom is a light for which many men died for in darkness" -
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Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 18:51:28 +0200
From: Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: re: PAP/CHAP problem
Gregy wrote:
>has anyone
>heard of some non=standard PAP/CHAP type authentication.....???
There's something called MSCHAP, but EPPPD 0.6 (and up) supports it.
//Bernie
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Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 19:00:17 +0200
From: Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem with DOSPPP, Klos PPP, LSPPP
Howard wrote:
>Even if PAP/CHAP is used for initial connects, there are separate
>programs that often require additional ID/passwords.
Yes of course, but these are unrelated.
>I have also, on occasion found it useful to disable PAP/CHAP and
(snip)
On occasion it might be useful yes, but not to use as default.
BTW: There's no need to send to both me and to the list, I read the list
when I can (ie. when the ISP I have chooses to let me connect).
//Bernie
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Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 19:07:33 +0200
From: Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem with DOSPPP, Klos PPP, LSPPP
John wrote:
>I discovered my ISP changed their dns server and software from bind to
>something else. The new server software is incompatible with the above dos
>ppp software. WWW/LX works but that is the only dos ppp software I've found
>to work and it doesn't work with arachne.
The PPP driver has nothing to do with the DNS requests. Perhaps there's a
problem in WatTCP (that does the DNS requests for most DOS internet
programs). And BTW, Michael if you're reading this there's a newer version
of wattcp out that you can use for the next version of Arachne (whenever it
comes).
//Bernie
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Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 13:36:15 -0500
From: "L.D. Best" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RCPT TO: <null> [was Re: Sending mail with Arachne
Ross,
I had it happen once to me. I cannot, for the life of me, currently
remember what generated that RCPT TO: <null> message. I'll set my
subconscious to work and may remember what I'd done wrong before you get
an answer.
One thing ... a blank line at the start of the file might cause it? As
Clarence said, take a close look at the files with every editor you have
and see if there is a non-acceptable character in there somewhere. And
you might try making up a brand new "test list" to see if it flies. You
wouldn't have to bug anyone to do that, just make yourself the recipent
on each line:
"frustrated1" <your e-dress>
"frustrated2" "
"frustrated3" " etc.
l.d.
P.S. One further thought: Have you moved the address lists from the
main Arachne directory? That would result in them not being found, and
the mailto: field would then be NULL
- -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
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Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 17:47:52 +0000
From: "Ross Virgin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RCPT TO: <null> [was Re: Sending mail with Arachne
..
..
Thank you, too, for your comments.
I feel like a million bucks now, that someone else
has experienced this problem. Being the only person
with a problem in Arachne is lonlier than being
the Maytag repairman (sorry to those of you not
living in North America, where the Maytag repairman
resides).
I will be trying all the suggestions ... one by one ...
until this problem is corrected.
Yes, I've placed the addressee FILEs both in the
Arachne main directory, and outside the main directory.
During the 6 months of successful use of @FILEs
I had all 80 or 90 address lists in @\names\FILE.
And it worked super.
I will persist.
Yes, if your "subconscious" kicks in, do let me know
what caused the same error for you.
Ross Virgin
Toronto, Canada
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On Sun, 13 May 2001 13:36:15 -0500, L.D. Best wrote:
> Ross,
> I had it happen once to me. I cannot, for the life of me, currently
> remember what generated that RCPT TO: <null> message. I'll set my
> subconscious to work and may remember what I'd done wrong before you get
> an answer.
> One thing ... a blank line at the start of the file might cause it? As
> Clarence said, take a close look at the files with every editor you have
> and see if there is a non-acceptable character in there somewhere. And
> you might try making up a brand new "test list" to see if it flies. You
> wouldn't have to bug anyone to do that, just make yourself the recipent
> on each line:
> "frustrated1" <your e-dress>
> "frustrated2" "
> "frustrated3" " etc.
> l.d.
> P.S. One further thought: Have you moved the address lists from the
> main Arachne directory? That would result in them not being found, and
> the mailto: field would then be NULL
> -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
- -- Arachne V1.66, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
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