arachne-digest Saturday, May 26 2001 Volume 01 : Number 1534 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 09:44:38 -0700 From: "Gregory J. Feig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Seek Help #2 et al, I just sent Seekhey the ARCHN170.EXE as an email attachment...I know it went, 'cause I saw it go... My ISP wuuuuvs me...!!!...actually he lets me do just about anything like this I want to do....someone tried to receive a 200Mbyte email attachment, once, and jammed up all the servers, except the main portal server, and he got a bit miffed, but other than something like that, he just lets us jump in and try the water to our hearts content.....<g g g > Seedhey should get back to me later today and let me know if the attachment got through.... If it did, then we are one step closer to SeekHey's install...BUT we need to get instructions ready, as to how he should install it, where, his file-directs (e.g. f:\mail\, i:\cache\, etc. I think we all agree that Arachne runs best from an approximately 12Mbyte, or bigger, RAMDisk. Installed this way, Arachne is the fastest Downloader on the whole web, as far as dialup ISPs go. ..and even 14.4 should be reasonably fast. .......gregy - -- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 09:59:48 -0700 From: "Gregory J. Feig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Seek Help ALSO, dear et al, Any posts you make concerning this topic, CC them to me: SUBJECT: Seek Help I want to bundle/edit them all as a compilation of "NewbiesHelp" and don't want to have to dig them out of the individual DIGESTS to get them all in one heap.. After we have SeekHey up and running, and edit these, we can give them to...maybe...Clarence...to post in a "NewbiesHelp" .zip file, for a "typical" optimum installation. ......gregy - -- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 18:16:50 +0200 From: "Lars Wigrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: DOS Graphics Programs > I don't think that I have ever run into the "notorious Runtime Error 200 > bug." Could you expand on this? Of course. Actually I'm not into programming very much, but AFAIK it's a bug in the CRT library of TurboPascal 5 and/or 6, or similar. Effectively this means that if you run the program on a "fast" machine, usually faster than 150-200 MHz, the program aborts with this Runtime Error. Some programs can easily be fixed using a small, universal patch program, sometimes called TPFIX.EXE or similar, but CShow2000 can't, probably due to it has been compressed and/or encrypted. Another solution is to simply slow down the computer by emulating a 386 at 100 MHz or so. There are slow-down programs around. One is written by a guy named Bret Johnson (I *think* that's his name :-), and is about 35kB. If the list is interested, I can either try to find the URL to his web site, or send the program to someone on this list who can put it for download on his/hers own web site (Bernie? G�nter? Michael?) Oh, btw, sorry for using M$OE ;-) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 18:27:29 +0200 From: Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Down with windows Christof wrote: >Arachne like every other browser will always need to have some kind >of e-mail module. Otherwise she would not be able to proceed all >those mailto-links. But would it not be possible to hand mailto-links >over to another program, eg. PMail? Sure, that's the idea about using sendmail in Linux. As it is now Arachne (core.exe) handles all the sending/receiving, not insight.exe //Bernie ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 18:34:26 +0200 From: Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: DOS Graphics Programs Lars wrote: >Of course. Actually I'm not into programming very much, but AFAIK it's a bug >in the CRT library of TurboPascal 5 and/or 6, or similar. Effectively this >means that if you run the program on a "fast" machine, usually faster than >150-200 MHz, the program aborts with this Runtime Error. Actually in pratice this shows to not be correct. The problem comes when you use a Pentium Pro class CPU with those speeds. CPUs that are affected are: Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III, Pentium IV, Duron and Thunderbird. For instance an AMD k6-2 will still run those programs fine even if you are well above 200MHz. >If the list is interested, I can either try to find the URL to his web site, >or send the program to someone on this list who can put it for download on >his/hers own web site (Bernie? G�nter? Michael?) I think "moslo" is the program you're looking for. Searching for it on Google and "feeling lucky" we get: http://www.hpaa.com/moslo/ Ah, how I love a search enginee that works (as opposed to Altavista). But it isn't made by the same author so you must refer to something else. //Bernie ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 12:57:41 -0400 From: Roger Turk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: DOS Graphics Programs Thanks, Lars. I have CompuShow2000 on a 300 MHz laptop (at home) and I will check it out tonight or when I go home for lunch. I'm sure that I have used it before on the laptop as I converted some photos to 800 X 600 .GIF to display using the "Razzle Dazzle" screen saver. Roger Turk Tucson, Arizona 104 deg (F) yesterday (40C), warmer today! Summer is almost here! Lars Wigrell wrote: . > > I don't think that I have ever run into the "notorious Runtime Error 200 . > > bug." Could you expand on this? . > Of course. Actually I'm not into programming very much, but AFAIK it's a . > bug in the CRT library of TurboPascal 5 and/or 6, or similar. Effectively . > this means that if you run the program on a "fast" machine, usually . > faster than 150-200 MHz, the program aborts with this Runtime Error. . > Some programs can easily be fixed using a small, universal patch program, . > sometimes called TPFIX.EXE or similar, but CShow2000 can't, probably due . > to it has been compressed and/or encrypted. Another solution is to simply . > slow down the computer by emulating a 386 at 100 MHz or so. There are . > slow-down programs around. One is written by a guy named Bret Johnson (I . > *think* that's his name :-), and is about 35kB. . > If the list is interested, I can either try to find the URL to his web . > site, or send the program to someone on this list who can put it for . > download on his/hers own web site (Bernie? G�nter? Michael?) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 13:10:20 -0500 From: "L.D. Best" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Web access to UseNet [was Re: Down with windows I don't know about MailAndNews, but I have -- in the past, when totally desperate -- accessed ngs via DejaNews. l.d. ==== On Fri, 25 May 2001 02:19:42 -0400 (EDT), Thomas Mueller wrote: > On accessing Usenet through Google, might Arachne also be able to access Usenet > through MailAndNews (http://MailAndNews.com , requires registration)? - -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 13:26:42 -0500 From: "L.D. Best" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: DOS Graphics Programs I think that 2Show runs OK on a Pentium MMX also ... at least that's what my son has been using to do game reconstructions, and I haven't heard him whine to me once about the program not running correctly. The Pentium MMX is a different architecture from the II group IIRC, even though it can crank out a respectable 223 or 233 MHz .. Slowdown program are out there ... I've had them since I switched from 8088 to x86. But some of them don't work at all on 386+ machines. I haven't found one yet that's reliable enough to get stored in my archives. l.d. - -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 09:55:06 From: "Luis A. Loeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Help the kid out! Hi Fede > ridicolous. Anyway, I'm the only person I know microsoft found with a > non original copy of windows. Very unlucky........ . I suppose yours ain't original too, am I > right? I use MS-DOS 7.10 and not W98 for most of my internet stuff I have nothing against Microsoft. They sure know their business. I only resist their desire to dominate the world by introducing non-standard standards. They always make something short of standard so you end up needing to use their tools for solving it. But if you look at their bank account they are probably right. If I could, I'd just suggest you to DELETE IT and to use linux or > qnx or arachne. Only doing so, you will be the one by the side of the > law. I think it is impossible to be always on the right side of the law. What about if I need Adobe Acrobat or SSL or a page with javascript. Windows is very convenient cheap, widespread,easy to use, lots of programs for it. It is an OS made for whoever doesn't want to know anything about computers, or use the brain. Here is the reason for its success. But that is the way the world is Regards Luis A. Loeff > ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 19:52:06 +0200 From: "Lars Wigrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Runtime Error 200 > Actually in pratice this shows to not be correct. The problem comes when > you use a Pentium Pro class CPU with those speeds. CPUs that are affected > are: Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III, Pentium IV, Duron and > Thunderbird. For instance an AMD k6-2 will still run those programs fine > even if you are well above 200MHz. Thanks for the correction. > >If the list is interested, I can either try to find the URL to his web site, > >or send the program to someone on this list who can put it for download on > >his/hers own web site (Bernie? G�nter? Michael?) > I think "moslo" is the program you're looking for. No, I'm not :-) The URL for this guys web site is http://members.aol.com/bretjohn/ > Searching for it on > Google and "feeling lucky" we get: http://www.hpaa.com/moslo/ Ah, how I > love a search enginee that works (as opposed to Altavista). But it isn't > made by the same author so you must refer to something else. What's "Google"? To me it sounds like something that you ate but didn't like. "Google...<puke>" ;-) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 19:52:28 +0200 From: "Lars Wigrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Runtime Error 200 > I have CompuShow2000 on a 300 MHz laptop (at home) and I will check it out > tonight or when I go home for lunch. I'm sure that I have used it before on > the laptop as I converted some photos to 800 X 600 .GIF to display using the > "Razzle Dazzle" screen saver. Could be. Maybe you have one of those CPUs where the bug dosen't occur (see message from Bernie)? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 13:54:56 -0500 From: "Neil Parks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: mailandnews Re: arachne-digest V1 #1533 Not quite sure who posted this question in Digest #1533 > On accessing Usenet through Google, might Arachne also be able to > access Usenet through MailAndNews (http://MailAndNews.com , requires > registration)? > Arachne works moderately well with mailandnews, but there are a few gotchas to watch out for. I don't recall now whether I was able to create a new account using Arachne or whether I had to use some other browser. Once the account is created, reading mail with m-and-n requires that you turn cookies OFF. For some stupid reason, if they're on, mailandnews will burden you with some unnecessary javascript, and you'll have to keep editing out less-than signs in order to read any msgs. Writing msgs is more of a problem. If you use the "default template" interface, any msg you write and send will go exactly nowhere, though you won't get any kind of error indication. If you switch to a different interface (text-only is fastest and looks good), then you can send msgs. News in mailandnews is like email--you'll get a "folder" in which each msg can be read and deleted separately. The msgs sit on the mailandnews host and don't take up space on your hard drive, but access can be very slow sometimes. The big advantage of google is you can see a whole thread at one time, and you can reply to any msg within the thread. (To keep the html downloads from getting too big, only 10 msgs are displayed in any one html page, and very long msgs are separated also so you can conveniently read just what you want.) In short, mailandnews does work with Arachne. But given a choice between the two for news, my personal preference is google. ...This message brought to you by: NEIL EDWARD PARKS, Beachwood, Ohio mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.en.com/users/neparks ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 14:14:06 -0400 From: Roger Turk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Runtime Error 200 Yes, I have AMD K6-2 300 MHz on the laptop. Bernie's post came thru after I put mine in the pipeline. Roger Turk Tucson, Arizona Lars Wigrell wrote: . > Maybe you have one of those CPUs where the bug dosen't occur (see message . > from Bernie)? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 11:36:56 -0000 From: "Curtis Matthiesen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Eudora Lite For DOS? Hi there, I was wondering if Eudora Lite ever existed for DOS, and if so, does anyone know where I can get a copy. I searched Simtel.net but couldn't find it, and if there is something that is faster for email for DOS, I'd like to use it. Thanks for your help. Regards Curtis Matthiesen ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 14:51:20 -0500 From: Clarence Verge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Help the kid out! Luis A. Loeff wrote: > > Hi Folks > > This sextuplication of messages requires an explanation and an apology. > Actually I composed the message with Pegasus 3.50 and was sending it using > Arachne 1.66. I actually intended to send it once but for some reason > I can't explain I entered into a mode by which each time I clicked into > the "previous page" (left) arrow, I sent a message, so I guess after > seeing the problem I exited Arachne and entered again. Hi Luis and All; No need to apologize for pointing out a possible problem with Arachne, Luis. It seems at one time I suggested that the annoying trait Arachne has of repeating the last action (download, get email, send email) after hitting the back button (ESC in my case) could be the cause of some of the many repeat messages we get, but I was told it was impossible. Nothing is impossible with Arachne. <G> - - Clarence Verge - -- - - Help stamp out FATWARE. As a start visit: http://home.arachne.cz/ - - The internet is infected - Windows is a VIRUS !! - -- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 14:55:36 -0500 From: Clarence Verge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Individual Setups Gregory J. Feig wrote: > >...and...some > things (e.g. multitasking) are IMPOSSIBLE in DOS... Not so. See TSX for proof that multitasking is just another application. And also for proof that there is no free lunch. <G> - - Clarence Verge - -- - - Help stamp out FATWARE. As a start visit: http://home.arachne.cz/ - - The internet is infected - Windows is a VIRUS !! - -- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 15:08:20 -0500 From: Clarence Verge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Seek Help Gregory J. Feig wrote: > > After we have SeekHey up and running, and edit these, we can give > them to...maybe...Clarence...to post in a "NewbiesHelp" .zip file, > for a "typical" optimum installation. Sure thing. ;-) In fact, since I was informed at one time that there is no space limit at Arachne.cz for Arachne related materials, we can put up SEVERAL "typical" ?optimum? installs. <G> - - Clarence Verge - -- - - Help stamp out FATWARE. As a start visit: http://home.arachne.cz/ - - The internet is infected - Windows is a VIRUS !! - -- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 13:17:14 -0000 From: "Curtis Matthiesen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: FREE DOS Multi-tasking? Hi there, Clarence, mentioned TSX for multi-tasking but it's not free, I'm wondering if there is a freeware solution out there that'll allow me to run more than one DOS Internet program. I've tried Tripple DOS (TriDOS) but it wasn't compatible with my machine, and I've downloaded DR-DOS but I'd like to use something that is compatible with MS-DOS. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Regards Curtis Matthiesen ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 20:49:15 -0500 From: Clarence Verge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: FREE DOS Multi-tasking? Curtis Matthiesen wrote: > > Hi there, > > Clarence, mentioned TSX for multi-tasking but it's not free, I'm wondering > if there is a freeware solution out there that'll allow me to run more than > one DOS Internet program. Well, I don't know anyone that paid for it. <G> There is a demo version that will only run four (I believe that's the number) simultaineous applications. But you better have a darn fast PC. :( - - Clarence Verge - -- - - Help stamp out FATWARE. As a start visit: http://home.arachne.cz/ - - The internet is infected - Windows is a VIRUS !! - -- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 22:42:34 -0500 From: "L.D. Best" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Runaway Downloads I now have a huge collection of two whole pages which will consistently cause the "runaway download syndrome" and which can be broken out of using the "I" or "H" with perseverence. At first glance, other than the presense of javascript, I find nothing which jumps out at me as weird & shared by both pages. I need a larger collection so I can refine the possible causes, so I'm hoping that everyone using 1.70r3 who runs across a site guilty of triggering "runaway download syndrome" will save the URL and let me know ... only that way can I amass a collection 200 or 300 percent larger. <G> l.d. - -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 23:17:59 -0500 From: "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Down with windows On Thu, 24 May 2001 07:36:09 -0500, Sam Ewalt wrote: > Well, I used to download files from BBS's with a 2400 modem with my > XT without too much trouble. I did use Telix and zmodem and could > resume interupted downloads by just trying again and it would pickup > where it had left off. Nice feature, being able to resume interupted > downloads. Quite unlike its well known and highly inferior competitors among browsers designed for WIN 95, the Opera browser, version 5.02, will resume interrupted downloads, just as with ZModem transfer on BBSs. I have tried it and tested it and it does work. With Opera you can even abort the download and close the browser and hangup the modem. Then you can dial up again and log on to your ISP, open your Opera browser, access the download page, and resume your download where you left off. Amazing! So, for this reason and many more, if you must at times resort to using a Windows browser, I would recommend Opera as being far superior to any of the others. Sam Heywood - -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 23:34:20 -0400 (EDT) From: "Thomas Mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Down with windows << I see.. Anyway the important thing is not to use Outlook :).. Eudora is pretty nice, but.. why don't you modify the emailing portion of Arachne, if you can? :0 maybe it should make it better!!! :D Byeeeeeeee!! Fede. >> If you have DOS but no Windows, I don't think there is any Outlook or Eudora that you can use. What version of DOS are you using with no more Windows? Does anybody know what happens with Arachne Insight when an incoming message has a line of 1024 or more characters? I sometimes get a message with one or more lines having 1024 characters, but not more; once saw a spam message in a newsgroup with one line > 1400 characters. Net Mail for DOS gets stuck on such an email message, just appends spaces and newlines forever, until the user hits Ctrl-C. OS/2 port of popclient would download up to and including the message with the 1024-long line, then halt for segment violation, and that message would remain on server despite having been downloaded successfully. Then I had to use UKA_PPP aka NOS-BOX for rescue. << Well.. I want to thank you all for your disponibility for me, anyway I have a great idea.. I'll download my copy of arachne tomorrow at school :).. on fridays and on saturdays I have access to a PC at the library adiacent to my high school :) I think I'll download the IRC estension for arachne, too. >> Downloading at school and carrying on 1.44 MB diskette sounds like the best idea. I suppose the school would have a high-speed connection. Writing to or reading from 1.44 MB diskette is much faster than 56K modem. << I wonder how could Microsoft detect that you were using an ilegal copy of W95. This should send shivers ? through everybody using ilegal copies of OS. Here in Brazil piracy is so widespread that I can find in downtown Sao Paulo copies of W95, W98, WNT4, W2000, Wme, Wxp or whatever for U$ 4.00 each CD. Regards Luis A. Loeff >> I received a couple of email spams offering to sell CDs of Windows, clearly pirate, but the price was much higher than $4.00 US. But Wxp wouldn't be ready yet, is slated for release in time for 2001 pre-Christmas shopping season. I read about an anti-piracy plan by MS to require registration that would allow a Windows copy to run on only one computer. This was also for MS Office. Have the pirates found a way around the copy protection? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 23:34:24 -0400 (EDT) From: "Thomas Mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Down with windows from Glenn McCorkle: Yep.... that was the "run-away D/L" bug. For such pages, we can get them by using the "Cntrl+enter" feature. (this will D/L the page without attempting to display it) This also points-out another problem in v1.70;r3 After using Cntrl+enter, all of the links on the page are "dead". We must leave the page and come back to it in order to bring the links "back-to-life". :(( After doing that, we can then take the same link again and the page will be displayed. (end of quote) Where does the downloaded page or file go, and do you choose the file name to save to? Or do you have to go fishing in the CACHE directory among files with cryptic names? I remember the one that got away, where I was never able to find the download; that was some versions back. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 23:34:27 -0400 (EDT) From: "Thomas Mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: temperamental DOSLynx 386 browser on Mindspring site from Thomas Tabler: This stuff about 'secure' plug-ins for Arachne is good. I tried to use the Dos Lynx386 browser to accesse and had some success the first go round. But later I had more problems. An error page said no HTML page was returned. Those at Earthlink are freezing out us DOS users by preferring Windows browsers. However, I will try again to use Lynx from time to time. I wonder what the results will be. My version of Lynx has the OpenSSL code hard-wired into it. And this is the result of a preference, it appears, for Windows 95 with Earthlink technical support team. I have not looked into alternate "schemes" to get HTTPS access. If the secure server requires HTML, then how can plain- text DOS browsers compete? - ---(end of quote) How does Earthlink server know what OS you're using? I notice the User Agent with Lynx does not specify OS at all, just the Lynx and libwww version numbers. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 23:46:54 -0400 From: "Clarence Verge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: They are only ONE On Fri, 25 May 2001 14:52:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi list, > I am just back from a visit at the new 'Arachne users > photo gallery' and cannot hide my disappointment. > I knew before that there are not many Arachne users. But the photo > gallery recently published on Guenter's new website gave the > proved: They are only ONE. In Arachne mailing list he uses > a hundred different pseudonyms, but when you look at the real true > photographs, you will discover that they all look the same. Have a > look at the screen I shot: > www.volny.cz/lange/gallery.zbm Hi Christof; I'm afraid your zip has a non-recoverable error in it. Please upload our picture again. - - Clarence Verge - - Back to using Arachne V1.62 .... ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 23:40:41 -0500 From: "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Help the kid out! On Wed, 23 May 2001 19:55:53, Luis A. Loeff wrote: <snipped all> I received six identical copies of Luis' interesting post. Luis, do you think you might have made some kind of mistake, or do you think the problem might have occurred somewhere in some system outside your control? Please check your SENT MAIL box. Sam Heywood - -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 04:34:38 -0400 From: "Clarence Verge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Internet morons force wake-up call Hello All; Some totally amazing stuff is coming out of various points in czland but web page design isn't part of it. :(( I stumbled onto this collection of images from the International Space Station group. There are at least five real beauties here, although they are cropped versions of the originals - which I understand are about four times the size in both X and Y directions. It's hard to believe that the wacko(s) who assembled the collection are dumb enuff to think everyone has a T1 connection, but it must be true - THEY PUT TWO HUNDRED & FIFTY-SEVEN IMAGES ON THE PAGE !! If you dare to visit: http://iwebs.upol.cz/iss/galerie_sts98.htm even *WITH* a T1 connection, don't expect much from Arachne. She will happily waste your time downloading the thumbnails, and then just sit there and do NOTHING when finished. I suppose that's better than crashing. If you surf your cache and ask for an image gallery, she will have to be poked a few times to start, and then will convert only a small part of the images in cache. Arachne 1.62 will convert (on my P90) 98 out of 257, present red boxes for about 100 more (not counted) and then fill the rest of the page with the message "Too many images converted" for each of the remaining files. At this point only about 25% of my available TEMP space on Ramdisk has been used. Think I should use a later version ? I went straight to A1.70r3. I found it much more difficult to prod her into doing it, but when activated this version would only convert 47 images. Switched to A1.66. I found this version to be a little easier to bring to life, but I only got 47 images out of 257 here also. Back to A1.62 (with the .BMPs in TEMP cleared). A recheck confirmed that A1.62 would do 98 of 257, and only required a manual conversion of one file to teach her what to do. Seems A1.62 is the best in this area, but I've run into several pages lately while on Hollywood patrol with more than 98 images on them. * Here's a little comparison for you: Using Netscape 2.02 on a 33Mhz '486 (NO ramdisk) that page downloaded in 8 min 36 sec @ 31200 and the screen displayed IMMEDIATELY although NS cranked the disk for about another minute while it created all the off-screen images. Arachne on my *P90* with the same ISP and at the same baudrate took 9 min 21 sec to finish downloading the images and deciding to do no more. A later experiment with a shortened page indicates she would have taken almost two minutes more to display the page if she had been up to it. As a matter of interest, she will get the page with images OFF in only 17 seconds. I've had a little luck downloading with images off, editing the page into thirds and then selecting one image for display. Arachne will download the shortened list of images after displaying that image. - - Clarence Verge - - Back to using Arachne V1.62 .... ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 10:42:51 +0100 From: "Joerg Dietze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: FREE DOS Multi-tasking? Hi Curtis and all, I tried DOS multasking, too, but without success. It seems that DR-DOS stops any traffic at serial or ethernet ports when switching to an other task. I also tried mt.com with wget.exe and dss.exe and it doesn't work 'cuz wget run exclusive and mt was not able to start a second task. Regards Joerg On Fri, 25 May 2001 13:17:14 -0000, Curtis Matthiesen wrote: > Hi there, > Clarence, mentioned TSX for multi-tasking but it's not free, I'm wondering > if there is a freeware solution out there that'll allow me to run more than > one DOS Internet program. > I've tried Tripple DOS (TriDOS) but it wasn't compatible with my machine, > and I've downloaded DR-DOS but I'd like to use something that is compatible > with MS-DOS. > Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. > Regards > Curtis Matthiesen - -- Arachne V1.70, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 14:14:15 +0000 From: "Seek Hey - King of Padua" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Did you get the ARCHN170.ZIP ??? On Fri, 25 May 2001 13:15:25 -0700, Gregory J. Feig turned his brain on and wrote: > Seekhey, > This morning (my timezone) I sent you an email with the > ARCHN170.ZIP as an attachment. > Did you get that...??? > Please let me know, so we can tell if a 1,388,966Byte email > attachment will get through to you.. Sure, Greg! I just installed it (I had the same version on floppy, but uudecoding yours would be quicker) and then installed and used it. It is circa identical to this version.. only the fonts are bigger and there are some more bugs.. anyway, i'll move into it on the next days. THANK YOU VERY MUCH GREG!!! Byeeeeee! Fede. // //"I said I'd give my life for just one kiss.. // I live for your smile, and i'll die for your kiss!" // ---This PC is 100% Microsoft free --- // Ciaooooo, Alla prox by Federico Cc (Seek Hey) - -- Arachne V1.50;s.r.c., NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://home.arachne.cz/ ------------------------------ End of arachne-digest V1 #1534 ******************************
