arachne-digest       Sunday, December 29 2002       Volume 01 : Number 1998




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Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 10:27:18 -0700
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: customizing QuickPad

Glenn,

I think the editor variable would be a great idea. Every change that
expands the options would be welcomed by me.

While you are at it ... How about doing the same thing for the HOTKEYS.
If I understand correctly, they are hard-wired in CORE. It would be
valuable to be able to change them (or zero out certain keys) under some
conditions.

Bob


On Fri, 27 Dec 2002 22:22:19 -0500 "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
> The 'hard coded' file name used to be 'textarea.txt'
> 
> Thanks to Clarence suggestion...... it is now 'quickpad.txt'.
> (see changes.txt in your arachne_main_directory) <g>
> 
> But now that you mention how usefull it would be
> to make it 'user configurable'.
> 
> How about a new Arachne.cfg variable for the next version?
> 
> EditorFilename [path]file-name-of-choice
> (if not found in Arachne.cfg. quickpad.txt would still be used)
> 
> This would be just as easy a change to do as was Https2Http :)))
> 
> -- 
>  Glenn

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Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 10:27:35 -0700
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: customizing QuickPad

These kind of user suggestions should be consolidated somewhere on the
Arachne web site. They are very valuable for newbies trying to explore
the Arachne environment and modify the configuration. They also are great
for firing up the imagination and encouraging experimentation. 

I keep them in a USER folder under my Arachne directory. Easy to access
'as is', even better if hyper-linked from a HTM page.

If they were available for download, that would make it easy to obtain
old suggestions without having to sort through archives.

Bob


On Fri, 27 Dec 2002 20:51:00 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Hi list,
> 
> whenever you load the file quickpad.ah in Arachne 

<snip, snip>



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Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 18:29:25 
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: customizing QuickPad

On 28 Dec 02 at 16:19, owner-arachne-digest@arachne wrote:

>How about a new Arachne.cfg variable for the next version?
>
>EditorFilename [path]file-name-of-choice
>(if not found in Arachne.cfg. quickpad.txt would still be used)

Yes, please! That would be quite useful.

Christof Lange


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Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 22:57:18 -0300
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Fw: ook, eek and dgi. First is First (aka CGI)

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Sent: Friday, December 27, 2002 6:25 PM
Subject: Re: ook, eek and dgi


> On Fri, 27 Dec 2002 08:50:35 -0500 Roger Turk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> writes:
> > Bob,
> >
> > What do you want the database program to do?
> > It seems to be an important, even critical, part
> > of your planned use of Arachne as an HTML
> > viewer.
> >
> > Roger Turk
> > Tucson, Arizona
> >
>
>
> Hi Roger,
>
> One of these days (daze??) when things settle down (soon I hope) I'll
> give you a call. Two Arachnoids in the same town is a mighty force.
>
> This is a long, but comprehensive, answer. For those who are in the
> less-developed places and pay by the byte, maybe I can pay you back
> someday with a community project or two.
>
> - - -
>
> I do a lot of work in developing communities, trying to find ways to help
> them overcome the reasons that they're called 'developING' and not
> 'developED'. Even in that environment, information is power. Arachne
> works well as a tool to help those communities obtain, develop, and share
> information. BUT, the limitation is that (without access to cheap digital
> communication) Arachne is only a presentation model of information
> sharing. All the work of research and development is done in those
> locations without computers, because they can't afford good programs and
> are mostly computer illiterate.
>
> Database management is one tool that is essential for anyone who desires
> to investigate anything, compile the results of the investigation, and
> then manipulate the data to gain various perspectives of the environment
> or situation which was investigated. This is the power of a relational
> database.
>
> The ability to crunch data provides the equalizing power for 'little
> people' to compete against the 'big people', because information is
> power. So, a good DBMS is vital for helping people to take the initiative
> to help themselves. However, they typically start from below zero on the
> learning curve, so teaching a multitude of tools (in this case a
> multitude of programs) is counter productive. If results don't come
> quickly, the learner either loses momentum or becomes boggled by the
> details. It's hard to justify taking the time to learn to program in C
> when the fields need plowed and the cows need milked. It just doesn't
> happen.
>
> So, my goal is to find a method of interfacing HTML (which is easy to
> learn and can be self taught) with a good database, so that those who
> need information management tools are able to quickly, easily, and
> cheaply compete against the 'big boys'. The key, I think, is the use of
> hyperlinks and DGIs in Arachne to create the code that will manipulate
> the data in the (DOS) database.



ABOUT CGI (common gate interface)


**Take care, fractured english beyond this point  *grin*

BTW interfacing HTML (a general marking up language aka SGML) with any
database
system no matter which type it is (RDBMS, flat file, OODB.....multivalue,
etc.)
a CGI will be needed to parsing data from any  n-tier architecture where

n-1 would be the data
n-2 how the business rules applies to data and
n-3 how data is presented to users.

For the above we are talking of a webserver which acts as the middleware
between data
and business logic and it pulls data usually from the CGI-BIN directory
(also known in the
winworld as cgi-bin/cgi-win)


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OK., conversely we can talk about Arachne acting  as that webserver.

It remains how-to parsing data from the database to the webserver (Arachne,
IE, whatever)

Let me think about common questions for being "pagan" thinking to
"downgrade" their "winweb" to DOS related stuff.

 1. Which regular expressions will be use to filter data from the database ?

Aka (what the heck will replace Perl/ PHP/Python ?

Python would fit better as there is a DOS version of it despite it lacks the
bell and whistles of GUI interface or IDE under DOS.

A programming language is needed to work as "THE GLUE" among the system
programming and application programming (aka databases, webserver, etc.)


2.  How would be paginated the results of filtering a bunch of xbase pages

Here the scripting engine would parse the data from the database to be
showed at Arachne ?

On Unix,  Perl is the scripting language most widely used despite the hype
of PHP.


XBASE: I found z-base at Simtel as excellent resource to manipulate dbase
files.
Z-base is just to create a xbase DOS compatible files created from the
scratch . And there a lot of dev. kits to work on xbase files .

I think that it isn't a good  thing for the Programmer's Toolbok any
fundamentalistic attitude I feel nice to solve some trivial problems just
going to any win flavor.....and coming back to the raw command line with all
the necessary to continue the fun within DOS.



> DOS is critical in this scheme because it's comprehensive, universal, and
> free. Among the DOS browsers, Arachne has no competitors that meet that
> criteria. Arachne is a GREAT tool for sharing previously accumulated
> material. It's a fantastic teaching and learning device.

With a cheap
> digital camera (and the DOS-ware to download the graphics), almost anyone
> (e.g., a local school teacher) could develop their own presentation
> material - all within literally a few hours. It just doesn't interface
> with a database.


>
> I'll give an example from my experiences working in the mountains in
> Kosovo.
>
> In the valley where I worked, there was an ongoing program to test and
> clean wells that provided drinking water.
> Most were old and contaminated
with organic material, some were deliberately contaminated as an act of war,
and some were contaminated somewhere upstream in the watershed.

An  international Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) had a contract to test
> and clean all the wells in the area. It may already be obvious that there
> was no incentive to teach the local people how to do any of this work
> themselves.

The contract was for WORK, not for INSTRUCTION. The tasks (of
> how to do each part of the contract) actually became a closely guarded
secret - closely guarded from the locals, to maintain the need for outside
assistance.
>
> The 'how-to' information would have been a perfect job for Arachne. A
> comprehensive CD-ROM (with text, graphics, and maybe a movie or two)
> about well-cleaning would have enabled the locals to do the job
> themselves. One of the local teachers (or the doctor) could have expanded
> the instruction to incorporate community health issues, which would have
> been even better. The contractor had no interest in that, because it
> wasn't part of the contract. The locals received a minimal product
> (valuable, but not comprehensive) and none of the money stayed in the
> local community. Most of the NGO staff wouldn't even buy a cup of tea at
> the local cafe because the water was contaminated. Many months later ...
> end of project. A lot of wells cleaned. Nothing else. The locals could
> have done that with one of the Chemistry Toolkit toys available in the
> 'educational stores' of any western city.
>
>
> However ...
>
> In addition to Arachne, I happen to have in my toolbox an excellent
> mapping program (called MicroDEM). (It runs under Win-doze, but I use it
> because it is free and absolutely incredible). It's a great watershed
> mapping tool. With a digital map (in Digital Elevation Modeling format)
> of the area AND a database of the well samples, I could have plotted all
> the work of the NGO and determined sources of contamination. I could have
> created a GIS of 'dirty zones', focused cleanup efforts in the most needy
> locations, and located areas of concern for medical workers. But, I would
> have needed a good relational DBMS - and the data.
>
> If I had a DBMS program that was easy to learn, free, comprehensive, and
> easy to expand and develop, then I could have taught a few local people
> and let them run the project. Coupled with Arachne, they could have
> started teaching people from other communities, who would teach others,
> (etc., etc.). Within months, the entire countryside would have been
> mapped for watershed contamination, problems would have been identified
> and fixed, and they would have had in their possession a tool to maintain
> the program AND to create other programs. But, that didn't happen.
>
> What DID happen was that -after one year - the UN realized that the
> results of all the water-testing-and-cleaning programs were not available
> for data crunching. They issued another contract for an NGO to accumulate
> all the results of all the programs, and to compile a national database.
> But, most of the records lacked geographic coordinates, so it was
> worthless. The comprehensive database idea was quietly dropped and all
> the records disappeared into some archive.
>
> Two years later, nobody (except the local landowner) knows which wells
> were cleaned, which are still contaminated, which watersheds have which
> pollutants, etc. Exactly like all the local community leaders predicted
> three years ago. And that was the story with every project. Three years
> later, the local people have no data, no money, and very little hope. Not
> much to build on for the future.
>
>
> And it happens all over the world. Is it any wonder that many people
> don't believe us when we say, "We're here to help you". And it's all
> because Arachne doesn't have a DBMS interface.
>
> Okay, that's stretching the truth, but it would help tremendously. And
> not just in water projects, but in every project (in every place).
>
> Data is information, information is power, and power allows for freedom
> to develop. Without the potential for the power to obtain and maintain
> freedom, then there is no counter force for suppression and oppression
> (whether it is corporate or governmental).
>
> With an Arachne-DBMS interface and a few other (free) DOS programs -
> operating within the old and abandoned computer boxes hiding in millions
> of homes - we could change the world. Well, at least, some parts of the
> world.
>



Again, the pleas has to be directed to a developer with strong  C/C++ skills
!!!!! to figure out the CGI stuff !


There is at simtel something resembling what you are talking about.....but
saddly
they are libraries for Delphi (Pascal redefined to Object Oriented **OO** in
the same
hype as C moved to C++) and the company seems was hyperact.com
does not longer exist ?

I formerly used eAUTHOR from a related deadcom  many valuable hours with no
support at all......you get what you get pay for.... :)

As you see it seems we live in a GUI, OO, win, X-windows world where DOS
seems only to be used
to retrieve arcane games :)

There aren't there no much money to pump with new "paradigms"  "libraries"
"widgets"
"modeling" "testing" etc.etc. so I wonder if we are in the right address yet
against the waves.

I saw something called XS at Simtel what seems to be a 32bit extender in the
class of now OpenWatcom.org (opensource)
I also remember legendary  32 bit extender DOS4GW.
DOS under 16 bits will be just to laugh in this times !!!


> And that is why I keep beating the Arachne HTML-DBMS drum.
>
> Does that answer your question?
>
> I didn't find the interface code in my Christmas (email) box, ...

You are waiting for snippets of something called CGI-BIN stuff .............
:)

I am thinking that the DOS oriented targeted developer (I implement models
not coding ) would have to have
a look over this compiler in the class of OpenWatcom.org

Also in Simtel
http://web.cs.pub.ro/~vycxs/xs/download.htm

Don't be scared for the windowing of
http://web.ss.pub.ro/%7Evycxs/ecdk/screenshots/scrshot13.png
it seems to be for DOS 32 bit mode also (grin)



As I told above.......sometimes Win is necessary....unless as a bridge to
allow a  retro-schema to DOS / Arachne

Peace on Earth !

Elliot


*************************************


> so now I'm making it my New Years Resolution. <grin>
> A happy and healthy New Year to all,
>
> Bob (aka Radical Robert) Dohse
>



in these days of overwhelming SQL world
here an URL to the old good days of dbase
(for novices : their roots were on DOS)

http://linux.techass.com/projects/xdb/

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Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 20:07:29 +00
From: "Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: now, DOS is JAVA

We had a discussion on the List, some time ago, and if I recall
correctly JAVA is totaly different to java-script.

Java-script is bad... not handled by Arachne

Yes, it was mentioned that JAVA is running in every operating system...
is it an operating system itself?

Who knows some more about JAVA?

CU, Bastiaan


On Fri, 27 Dec 2002 21:01:30 +0000, Ariel Lachter wrote:

> (sorry my bad english)
> Yesterday "the bad" are frames.
> Now "the bad" is java.
> I see in freebyte that make programs that run in any
> operating system with virtual java machine.
> Maybe is time to change, d.o.s ==> java.
> Who take the bull by the horn's?

> -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/

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Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 20:41:38 +00
From: "Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Two or more OS's

Welcome Carol,

Of course there must be a separated partition for each operating system
or two or more harddisks...
but my problem is in booting I suppose.
On HD #2 = d:\ there is a DOS 5.1 and on C:\ there is Win95 with DOS
build into it.
Booting can be done to C:\ only and than the DOS in Win95 is booted.
This DOS-version causes some bugs in Arachne so I would rather like to
boot from D:\. But how?

Futhermore newer Win versions like XP do not support DOS so double
booting with DOS GUI is not possible because there is no DOS in WinXP.
So... how would anyone with a factory installed WinXP or something like
that run Arachne?

Anyone...?

CU, Bastiaan



On Fri, 27 Dec 2002 15:52:07 -0500, Sam Ewalt wrote:

> On Fri, 27 Dec 2002 11:10:31 +0000, Carol Moon wrote:

>> Bastiaan asked if it is possible to have two or more operating systems
>> on one computer.  Yes, with System Commander or Partition Magic or there
>> is hardware which allows you to switch between hard drives.  I have a
>> device called "NickLock" and two hardrives in my PII.  W98 on one HD,
>> DR-DOS and Linux on the other.  There is also one called "Trios" with
>> which you can select one of three hard drives.

> Welcome to the list, Carol.

> I wonder if there is a cheap (free would be excellent) way to do
> this.

> Sam Ewalt
> Croswell, Michigan, USA
> -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/

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Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 21:22:59 -0000
From: "John Sparks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Two or more OS's

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From: "Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, December 27, 2002 8:41 PM
Subject: Re: Two or more OS's
<snip>
> Futhermore newer Win versions like XP do not support DOS so double
> booting with DOS GUI is not possible because there is no DOS in WinXP.
> So... how would anyone with a factory installed WinXP or something like
> that run Arachne?
>

When a disk is partitioned e.g. with fdisk, a Master Boot Record (MBR) is
written to the disk. The MBR contains a pointer to tell the BIOS where to
find an operating system to boot. What a Boot Manager program does is to
change this to point to a bit of code which asks the user to chose which
partition/disk to boot from.

I have used Ranish (which is a free Partition Manager which comes with a
couple of Boot Manager program options) to allow booting of either DOS,
Win98 or WinNT on a single disk. I guess it could be made to work for WinXP
but suggest you take advice before trying.
One of the Ranish Boot Managers is small, the code fits within the MBR. The
other option which I haven't used needs an additional small partition to
hold the code

BTW Ranish Partition Manager can be used to copy whole partitions or whole
disks. I do this for disk to disk backup.

John


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Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 21:27:19 +00
From: "Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: now, DOS is JAVA

A few days ago the judge ordered M$ to include JAVA (again?).

Bastiaan



On Sat, 28 Dec 2002 12:59:45 +0200 (EET), Cristian Burneci wrote:

> Java is meant for client-server applications where the clients are casual and
> heterogenous.
> It can't take advantage of many of  the host operating system features
> It eats up a lot of resources even for trivial tasks
> It is painfully slow
> Native OS applications are more reliable and can take advantage of the hardware
> architecture for increased performance.  I don't belive that Java can perform
> low level tasks like diagnosis and configuration of the host machine.
> Java needs lots of stuff that DOS can't implement.
> Furthermore there are different implementations of Java.

> BTW there's a trial between Microsoft and Sun on Java issues. As a result,
> Microsoft Java Virtual Machine is not available anymore for downloading as an
> update for Windows or IE..
> JVM is not included  in the Internet Explorer install kit either, so those who
> need Java for IE should go to Sun Microsystems and download their virtual
> machine. Cool!

> On 27-Dec-2002 Ariel Lachter wrote:
>> (sorry my bad english)
>> Yesterday "the bad" are frames.
>> Now "the bad" is java.
>> I see in freebyte that make programs that run in any
>> operating system with virtual java machine.
>> Maybe is time to change, d.o.s ==> java.
>> Who take the bull by the horn's?

>> -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/

> --
> Cristian Burneci

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Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 21:35:49 +00
From: "Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: customizing QuickPad

On Sat, 28 Dec 2002 10:27:18 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Glenn,

> I think the editor variable would be a great idea. Every change that
> expands the options would be welcomed by me.

> While you are at it ... How about doing the same thing for the HOTKEYS.
> If I understand correctly, they are hard-wired in CORE. It would be
> valuable to be able to change them (or zero out certain keys) under some
> conditions.

YES, PLEASE !! Bastiaan


> Bob

> On Fri, 27 Dec 2002 22:22:19 -0500 "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> writes:
>> The 'hard coded' file name used to be 'textarea.txt'

>> Thanks to Clarence suggestion...... it is now 'quickpad.txt'.
>> (see changes.txt in your arachne_main_directory) <g>

>> But now that you mention how usefull it would be
>> to make it 'user configurable'.

>> How about a new Arachne.cfg variable for the next version?

>> EditorFilename [path]file-name-of-choice
>> (if not found in Arachne.cfg. quickpad.txt would still be used)

>> This would be just as easy a change to do as was Https2Http :)))

>> --
>>  Glenn

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Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 23:28:57 +0000
From: "Thomas Tabler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: problem with resend.dgi in Arachne 1.69

Dear Glenn or List:


     Does anyone have a clue how come my resend.dgi won't
work in Arachne 1.69 with Insight 3.69?  Maybe there's an
update to Insight or not, but it's got me baffled.  This is
with no ramdrive {arachnetemp set to c:\temp} loaded and
only one hard drive present after the Redhat install.  
I have 54kb upper dos memory with 132 total.  Free Xswap
is 1582.



yours,


Thomas


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Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 12:36:56 +0200
From: Or Botton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: General unsubscribing

Hiya people. As you probebly noticed, i'm barely sending here anymore. I'm still using 
Arachne & DOS heavily, but the volume of mail I get from the list is simply huge and I 
cant handle it, especialy since i'm not as intrested in most of the topics 
discussed... i'd like to drop, or etleast switch to digest.

Tried to search the help section, but there's no "digest" function listed? If there 
is, how do I turn it on?

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Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 12:08:55 +0100
From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg=20Dietze?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Two or more OS's

Hi Bastiaan and all,

PTSDOS can boot DOSlike  OS from any drive. You need to install PTSDOS over your Win95 
installation. It will ask if you want to save the "old DOS". If you do so, you can 
later boot PTSDOS (BTW, more than one coniguration is supported via menu in 
config.pts), the  "old DOS" (aka Win95) or an other system from an other drive. To do 
this, you must rip the boot sector from this drive an save it to a file on your C 
drive and add an entry to config.pts.

HTH Joerg

[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am 28.12.02 21:02:35:
> Welcome Carol,
> 
> Of course there must be a separated partition for each operating system
> or two or more harddisks...
> but my problem is in booting I suppose.
> On HD #2 = d:\ there is a DOS 5.1 and on C:\ there is Win95 with DOS
> build into it.
> Booting can be done to C:\ only and than the DOS in Win95 is booted.
> This DOS-version causes some bugs in Arachne so I would rather like to
> boot from D:\. But how?
> 
> Futhermore newer Win versions like XP do not support DOS so double
> booting with DOS GUI is not possible because there is no DOS in WinXP.
> So... how would anyone with a factory installed WinXP or something like
> that run Arachne?
> 
> Anyone...?
> 
> CU, Bastiaan
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, 27 Dec 2002 15:52:07 -0500, Sam Ewalt wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 27 Dec 2002 11:10:31 +0000, Carol Moon wrote:
> 
> >> Bastiaan asked if it is possible to have two or more operating systems
> >> on one computer.  Yes, with System Commander or Partition Magic or there
> >> is hardware which allows you to switch between hard drives.  I have a
> >> device called "NickLock" and two hardrives in my PII.  W98 on one HD,
> >> DR-DOS and Linux on the other.  There is also one called "Trios" with
> >> which you can select one of three hard drives.
> 
> > Welcome to the list, Carol.
> 
> > I wonder if there is a cheap (free would be excellent) way to do
> > this.
> 
> > Sam Ewalt
> > Croswell, Michigan, USA
> > -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
> 


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Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 11:34:10 +0010
From: "Kali" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: a bit off topic

Dear List:
After lots of hair tearing over PPP configuration between DOSPPPD and
Monkeylinux and Redhat there is still patchy success. grrrrrr
DOSPPPD to DOSPPPD works fine over a serial cable. After enormous
fiddling and compiling the Mlinux PPP seems to run. Symbolic links from
gcc to cc was one of the steps. Other renamings were needed to get
ppp-2.3.5 working.

The question - network cards !!!!!?
I have discovered that I cannot run Mlinux in graphical mode when the
ethernet card is functioning. It is on IRQ 10 and all seems healthy - it
just crashes violently if you type "startx".
Also a network card seems responsible for trashing the file structure of
our OS/2 machine. How can this happen?

Did anyone hear from Clarence Verge? Happy New Year to him if still on
the list.
Regards
Kali

 

http://www.nimnet.asn.au/~kali

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Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 14:24:52 +00
From: "Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: wanted java script (HTML)

Hi List,
        not a necessary java item but a wanted HTML tag.

I am encountering the ENCTYPE wich is not handeled correctly by Arachne.
This summer the webmaster of amsat.org changed the enctype to an ACTION
type on the amsat website to comfort Arachne users... but we cann't
expect that much kindness from most webmasters.

Abstract from "RFC1867"
***********************

2.  HTML forms with file submission

   The current HTML specification defines eight possible values for the
   attribute TYPE of an INPUT element: CHECKBOX, HIDDEN, IMAGE,
   PASSWORD, RADIO, RESET, SUBMIT, TEXT.

   In addition, it defines the default ENCTYPE attribute of the FORM
   element using the POST METHOD to have the default value
   "application/x-www-form-urlencoded".

********************** Arachne does not handle ENCTYPE attribute :*(

Regards, Bastiaan

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Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 08:44:00 -0800
From: "Ray Andrews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Gdisk

Hi Glenn,

> Gdisk.exe can then hide/unhide/change active partitions

> Heres how I do it on my 1st HDD

> - --- !w95.bat is located in the root dir of partition 1 ---
> ('hides' all of the Dos partitions from W95, 'unhides' the W95 partition
> and makes that W95 partition active)

This sounds like a must have utility, but why do you hide your DOS partitions
from windows?  If you actvate partitions in a different order, would drive
letters be assigned in *that* order, or are they always assigned by
hardware order?  (My method of mirroring windows systems relies on being
able to convince any of two or three partitions that they are "C:" when
they are active, so being able to play around with activation order could
be really useful).

> gdisk 1 /-hide /p:1
> gdisk 1 /act /p:1

Why do you hide and then activate the same partition?

Ray Andrews,
Vancouver, Canada



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