arachne-digest Monday, June 23 2003 Volume 01 : Number 2159
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 15:52:34 -0400 From: "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: <CTRL-RIGHT ARROW> gives Hotlist On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 15:08:11 -0400, Roger Turk wrote: > If there are no pages to go forward to, <CTRL-RIGHT ARROW> will cause the > Hotlist to appear. (1.71UE w/upgrade) It used to just give a beep if there > were no pages to go forward to. > Is this a "feature" or a "bug?" Nope.... AFAIK, it's niether. This is the first I've heard of it and I can't duplicate it. Here's one way that I can think of that this might happen. site name position in history.lst homepage 1 go2somesite 2 someplaceElse 3 anotherPlace 4 YetAnother 5 hotlist 6 'back' to YetAnother 5 onemorenewsite 6 (hotlist is now 7) andAnother 7 (hotlist is now 8) still1more 8 (hotlist is now 9) 'back' to andAnother 7 'back' to onemorenewsite 6 'forward' to andAnother 7 'forward' to still1more 8 'forward' to hotlist 9 'forward' causes beep Does that sound logical ???? ;-) - -- Glenn http://arachne.cz/ http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/ http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/aqc/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 22:23:44 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: NNEWS.ZIP > At last.... read (no sending yet) news groups (NNTP) with > Arachne. Hi Alejandro, this weekend I have been playing a lot with UKA-PPP/YARN, including your recently posted Arachne APM. Here is my comment. Regards Christof Lange UKA-PPP/YARN - ------------ I started to like a lot YARN ver. 0.92 and set it up for use with e-mail as well as for newsgroups. Considering the international charset, MIME and the folder management Yarn cannot compete with Pmail. But as a news client it is far superior. When I finally got to work UKA-PPP it seemed to be quite reliable. Most important was the reduction of files: I actually kept only 15 of 167! I finally deleted all those scripts and menus and wrote two batch files, one for YARN and one for UKA-PPP. The latter contains menu options: Offline menu 1 Dial 2 Read mail and news 3 News options 4 Mail options 0 Exit Online menu 1 Get news 2 Get mail 3 Send mail 4 Hang up I consider UKAPPP as an alternative to Arachne on PC386 or lower. Thus it may work as mail transport agent in connection with Pmail, as all the other ones seem to be worse than Arachne's built-in mta. YARN is the appropriate way of working with newsgroups - without graphical interface, of course! To implement a 'get news' function into Arachne or at least sharing Arachne's connection while online does make sense to me. But I do not think that the Arachne mail interface (even with a line 'newsgroup: ' in the message header) can be very useful to read the incoming news articles. NNEWS.ZIP - --------- Anyway I tested your APM, customized it for my directory structure and made a few changes that I want to share with you. Here are the files: NNEWS BAT modified NNSETUP BAT modified SEPARATE EXE I renamed your modification of X_SPOOL.EXE TCPPORT EXE X_NNEWS EXE NNEWS OOK modified TEST RC instead of microssoft.rc TEST GR new MY_NNEWS TXT this file *** NNEWS.BAT *********************************** @echo off p: cd \spool md nnews p:\separate.exe n????.msg /ar move p:\spool\nnews\*.mes p:\%home%.mai rem move p:\spool\nnews\*.mes p:\nnews.nb rd nnews cd \ for %%f in (p:\%home%.mai\n*.mes) do ren %%f *.cnm rem for %%f in (p:\nnews.nb\n*.mes) do ren %%f *.cnb **************************************************** As my PC386 has only 8MB RAM and Arachne sits on a RAM drive I need to download news to the harddisk (P:). P:\%home%.mai is my Newmail directory for Pmail (and as well Arachne's main mail directory). As I like to read incoming mail with Arachne and Pmail, I have modified inbox.dgi to read .cn? extensions. I made some experiments to move the articles to a Noticeboard directory within Pmail (p:\nnews.nb). But Pmail actually is not very useful as a news reader. Above those lines are commented out. Rather than applying a separate news folder I would suggest a specific file extension (e.g. .cnb) that can be handled by a line in mime.cfg (compare our recent discussion on marking files in inbox as old). Your hardcoded directory structures caused a slight problem. I finally decided to create a temporary directory for reformatting. And I wonder whether separate.exe (a.k.a nnews.exe a.k.a. x_spool.exe is really necessary. The incoming .msg files could probably be split up with some unix-like text utility. *** NNSETUP.BAT ********************************** cls @echo off echo This batch file will load necessary files echo to allow downloading netnews (USENET) echo groups and reading them with Arachne echo. echo Arachne must be in d:\arachne directory echo. pause copy tcpport.exe p:\ copy x_nnews.exe p:\ copy separate.exe p:\ copy test.rc p:\ copy test.gr p:\ copy nnews.bat p:\ copy nnews.ook d:\arachne\oops md p:\spool **************************************************** Only nnews.ook is copied to the Arachne directory. The UKAPPP program and configuration files sit on the hard disk. Download speed is limited by modem. Using RAM disk as target does not offer any advantage. *** NNEWS.OOK **************************************** @echo off cls echo. echo Downloading USENET groups echo. d: cd \arachne if not exist IP-UP.bat goto off call IP-UP.bat rem>wattcp.cfg echo my_ip=%myip% >> wattcp.cfg echo gateway=%remip% >> wattcp.cfg echo netmask=%netmask% >> wattcp.cfg echo nameserver=212.20.96.34 >> wattcp.cfg echo nameserver=212.20.96.38 >> wattcp.cfg echo peermru=%peermru% >> wattcp.cfg echo sockdelay=60 >> wattcp.cfg echo domainslist="volny.cz" >> wattcp.cfg echo popuser="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" >> wattcp.cfg echo HELO=on >> wattcp.cfg echo TZ="-1" >> wattcp.cfg set myip=%MYIP% :off copy wattcp.cfg P:\ :NNTP cls echo NEWS p: cd p:\ tcpport.exe news.felk.cvut.cz 119 x_nnews.exe test.rc pause cls echo. echo Unpacking USENET groups echo. call nnews.bat pause d: cd \arachne ****************************************************** Only a few remarks: - - As I run Arachne on RAM disk and change to another drive, I need to return to the RAM disk in the end - - The Czech server news.felk.cvut.cz is my favourite one. - - My IPS's nameservers are 212.20.96.34 and 212.20.96.38 - - What took me the most time to find out: for the news server the popuser is NOT ("cce.zizkov"), but the complete e-mail address ("[EMAIL PROTECTED]") And finally a few words on the news configuration files: - - TEST.RC : does not need any type of header if the name of the server is listed in the command line. Instead of 50 MS articles I suggest just 5 Linux articles: alt.os.linux.slackware -5 - - TEST.GR : a dummy list should be provided in the APM package, in order to prevent the news server from sending a 2,5 MB list. e.g. a one-line-file: !new_groups:030621 125057 _______________________________________________ Christof Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Prokopova 4, 130 00 Praha 3, Czech Republic phone: (+420) 222 78 06 73 / 222 78 20 02 http://www.volny.cz/cce.zizkov ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 16:28:54 -0400 From: Roger Turk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: <CTRL-RIGHT ARROW> gives Hotlist Hi Glenn, This popped up while I was surfing the web. To check it out, I went offline, deleted all files (*.*) in the cache directory (on my RAM disk), went back online to my home page and hit <CTRL-RIGHT ARROW> and Hotlist popped up again. Other than the items cached when loading the home page, and Hotlist was not one of them, there were no other items in the Cache. Hotlist is at: [system] Hotlist I:\ARA171UE\HOTLIST.HTM I can't seem to make sense of the History.lst any more. At one time, sites visited were appended to the end of the list and when the history list was brought to the screen, it would appear in reverse order, with the most recent site visited listed first and then going back in succession. Now, it appears that the last site visited can be located anywhere in the history list, whether it is viewed as HTML or is viewed as plain text. Roger Turk Tucson, Arizona Glenn wrote: On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 15:08:11 -0400, Roger Turk wrote: > If there are no pages to go forward to, <CTRL-RIGHT ARROW> will cause the > Hotlist to appear. (1.71UE w/upgrade) It used to just give a beep if there > were no pages to go forward to. > Is this a "feature" or a "bug?" Nope.... AFAIK, it's niether. This is the first I've heard of it and I can't duplicate it. Here's one way that I can think of that this might happen. site name position in history.lst homepage 1 go2somesite 2 someplaceElse 3 anotherPlace 4 YetAnother 5 hotlist 6 'back' to YetAnother 5 onemorenewsite 6 (hotlist is now 7) andAnother 7 (hotlist is now 8) still1more 8 (hotlist is now 9) 'back' to andAnother 7 'back' to onemorenewsite 6 'forward' to andAnother 7 'forward' to still1more 8 'forward' to hotlist 9 'forward' causes beep Does that sound logical ???? ;-) - -- Glenn http://arachne.cz/ http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/ http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/aqc/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 16:28:54 -0400 From: Roger Turk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: <CTRL-RIGHT ARROW> gives Hotlist Hi Glenn, This popped up while I was surfing the web. To check it out, I went offline, deleted all files (*.*) in the cache directory (on my RAM disk), went back online to my home page and hit <CTRL-RIGHT ARROW> and Hotlist popped up again. Other than the items cached when loading the home page, and Hotlist was not one of them, there were no other items in the Cache. Hotlist is at: [system] Hotlist I:\ARA171UE\HOTLIST.HTM I can't seem to make sense of the History.lst any more. At one time, sites visited were appended to the end of the list and when the history list was brought to the screen, it would appear in reverse order, with the most recent site visited listed first and then going back in succession. Now, it appears that the last site visited can be located anywhere in the history list, whether it is viewed as HTML or is viewed as plain text. Roger Turk Tucson, Arizona Glenn wrote: On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 15:08:11 -0400, Roger Turk wrote: > If there are no pages to go forward to, <CTRL-RIGHT ARROW> will cause the > Hotlist to appear. (1.71UE w/upgrade) It used to just give a beep if there > were no pages to go forward to. > Is this a "feature" or a "bug?" Nope.... AFAIK, it's niether. This is the first I've heard of it and I can't duplicate it. Here's one way that I can think of that this might happen. site name position in history.lst homepage 1 go2somesite 2 someplaceElse 3 anotherPlace 4 YetAnother 5 hotlist 6 'back' to YetAnother 5 onemorenewsite 6 (hotlist is now 7) andAnother 7 (hotlist is now 8) still1more 8 (hotlist is now 9) 'back' to andAnother 7 'back' to onemorenewsite 6 'forward' to andAnother 7 'forward' to still1more 8 'forward' to hotlist 9 'forward' causes beep Does that sound logical ???? ;-) - -- Glenn http://arachne.cz/ http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/ http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/aqc/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 18:57:04 -0400 (EDT) From: "Thomas Mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: NEW MONEY from Glenn McCorkle: >> No messages will get through to me and none can be sent by me >> if they contain a dollar sign ($) in the subject. >> Those several messages with suject: M$lookout did >> not get through to my inbox. > There is *no* user configurability. > I am STUCK. > Untill I change ISPs ;-) You can look for a free email account, you might try http://www.gmx.net if you're willing to face instructions in German. I have an account faucetno33 at gmx.net (don't want to make it too easy for spammers). There are also other free email services, including some that have been discussed on this list. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 20:35:54 -0400 From: "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Bug report - Arachne does not download full web page On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 01:24:38 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Udo Kuhnt) wrote: > On Fri, 06 Jun 2003 21:52:11 -0400, Glenn McCorkle wrote: >> On Sat, 07 Jun 2003 00:40:53 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Udo Kuhnt) >> wrote: >>> I just wanted to know if the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] is still valid for >>> sending Arachne-related bug reports. Having sent several mails to >>> arachne.cz in the last few years without getting an answer, I sometimes >>> wonder if the mail server just forwards them all to NUL. Well, at least >>> majordomus is still responding. ;-) >> Yes, >> That address is still valid. >> However, >> Michael has not had the time read very many of those >> messages in over 2 years. >> Therefore, >> This is a better address to use for reporting any bugs. >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Well, I had hoped that you would say this. So I take my chances and send > you a report of what I think is a bug in Arachne. :-) > Recently, I ran a CGI script on my web site to dump the contents of the > connections database and was surprised that Arachne did not show the > full list. I thought it was a bug in the script, but a try with Lynx did > result in the whole html document being downloaded, so the script was > sending the full content. Arachne seems to stop the download shortly > after 26000 bytes have been received from the server - without an > apparent reason. The version of Arachne I am currently using is > 1.71UE01. > If you want to have a look at this yourself, I have set up a test CGI > script at http://www.drdosprojects.de/cgi-bin/aratest.cgi . What you experienced is a 'side effect' of my "Quick-N-Dirty fix" of the 'Runaway download counter bug'. On very large http pages where thre server is not telling us the file size. The RDLC bug fix will terminate the download when 24000 unsuccessful attempts have been made to get new data from the connection. This is the bit of code I used to prevent the RDLC bug from causing the unstoppable loop we were having in versions 1.69 and 1.70 - --- in html.c of the src code --- //!!glennmcc: begin Feb 24, 2002 (Quick-n-dirty Fix for RDLC bug) bflenold=bflen; //!!glennmcc: end bflen=readHTML(cache,p->html_source); if(bflen<=0 || p->memory_overflow) //end of page, or out of memory goto exitloop; else i=0; } //!!glennmcc: begin Feb 24, 2002 (Quick-n-dirty Fix for RDLC bug) if (cache->knowsize)goto knowsize; if (bflenold==bflen) { retry++; } else { retry=0; } if(retry>24000) { retry=0; goto exitloop; } knowsize: //!!glennmcc: end _________________________________ - -- Glenn http://arachne.cz/ http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/ http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/aqc/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 21:10:51 -0400 From: "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Bug report - Arachne does not download full web page I forgot to describe the 'work-around'. When the 'side effect' kicks in..... While still viewing the partially downloaded page. Hit DEL to remove it from the cache. Go back in history to the page containing the link. Hold the Ctrl key this time while taking the link. (background download) Stay on this page until the download has completed. (leaving this page will terminate the D/L) After the D/L is complete... go forward in history to the complete page. I just used this metod to get aratest.cgi Is this the corrct filesize ? (the BIG one) ;-) Volume in drive L is MS-RAMDRIVE Directory of L:\ARACHNE\CACHE . <DIR> 6-22-03 8:04p .. <DIR> 6-22-03 8:04p HEADERS <DIR> 6-22-03 8:04p 56329968 HTM 6220 6-22-03 8:58p $IDX$CNM IDX 0 6-22-03 9:04p $SRT$CNM IDX 0 6-22-03 9:04p 56329980 HTM 3001 6-22-03 8:59p 56330279 HTM 6661 6-22-03 9:04p 56330322 HTM 415763 6-22-03 9:05p 56330474 HTM 3059 6-22-03 9:07p 56330575 HTM 6875 6-22-03 9:08p 11 File(s) 59305984 bytes free And is this the correct last line of the file ? (split for emailing) 91.72.255.62 => 1047148488,Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; ntlworld v2.0) On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 20:35:54 -0400, Glenn McCorkle wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 01:24:38 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Udo Kuhnt) > wrote: >> On Fri, 06 Jun 2003 21:52:11 -0400, Glenn McCorkle wrote: >>> On Sat, 07 Jun 2003 00:40:53 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Udo Kuhnt) >>> wrote: >>>> I just wanted to know if the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] is still valid for >>>> sending Arachne-related bug reports. Having sent several mails to >>>> arachne.cz in the last few years without getting an answer, I sometimes >>>> wonder if the mail server just forwards them all to NUL. Well, at least >>>> majordomus is still responding. ;-) >>> Yes, >>> That address is still valid. >>> However, >>> Michael has not had the time read very many of those >>> messages in over 2 years. >>> Therefore, >>> This is a better address to use for reporting any bugs. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Well, I had hoped that you would say this. So I take my chances and send >> you a report of what I think is a bug in Arachne. :-) >> Recently, I ran a CGI script on my web site to dump the contents of the >> connections database and was surprised that Arachne did not show the >> full list. I thought it was a bug in the script, but a try with Lynx did >> result in the whole html document being downloaded, so the script was >> sending the full content. Arachne seems to stop the download shortly >> after 26000 bytes have been received from the server - without an >> apparent reason. The version of Arachne I am currently using is >> 1.71UE01. >> If you want to have a look at this yourself, I have set up a test CGI >> script at http://www.drdosprojects.de/cgi-bin/aratest.cgi . > What you experienced is a 'side effect' of my "Quick-N-Dirty fix" of the > 'Runaway download counter bug'. > On very large http pages where thre server is not telling us the > file size. The RDLC bug fix will terminate the download when > 24000 unsuccessful attempts have been made to get new data from the > connection. > This is the bit of code I used to prevent the RDLC bug from causing > the unstoppable loop we were having in versions 1.69 and 1.70 > --- in html.c of the src code --- > //!!glennmcc: begin Feb 24, 2002 (Quick-n-dirty Fix for RDLC bug) > bflenold=bflen; > //!!glennmcc: end > bflen=readHTML(cache,p->html_source); > if(bflen<=0 || p->memory_overflow) //end of page, or out of memory > goto exitloop; > else > i=0; > } > //!!glennmcc: begin Feb 24, 2002 (Quick-n-dirty Fix for RDLC bug) > if (cache->knowsize)goto knowsize; > if (bflenold==bflen) > { > retry++; > } > else > { > retry=0; > } > if(retry>24000) > { > retry=0; > goto exitloop; > } > knowsize: > //!!glennmcc: end > _________________________________ - -- Glenn http://arachne.cz/ http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/ http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/aqc/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 13:00:23 +0930 From: "Greg Mayman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: message sorting order Hi List! Is there any way of telling Arachne _not_ to sort the outbox by date of last ammendment, and to leave the messages in the order they were originally written? I like to write all my replies and other outgoing messages offline, then later check them over to see whether they need any alterations. But I find it disconcerting that when I rewrite (say) message 3 of 10 and save it back to the outbox, it is now message 10 and the old numbers 4 to 10 have become 3 to 9. Considering the way the Outbox appears to work, I guess it may not be possible to change this, but here's hoping! BTW, I love the way things that I and other people toss in get discussed and often solved by the group, although Glenn deserves most of the credit for the solutions. OTOH he seems to enjoy the discussions as well as I do! Cheers from Greg - -- Arachne V1.71;UE01, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 13:05:40 +0930 From: "Greg Mayman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: AT HDD upgrade (: On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 02:27:54 +00, Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ wrote: > How to install a second HD: in M$ DOS use FDISK. Jumpers on the 2nd HD > set for slave. The new HD must be formated before you can write to it. No, you do NOT use FDISK. You just set the jumper on the second hard disk to S(lave) and attach the second connector of the IDE cable to it. Then switch on and set the Setup to the number of cylinders etc which (if you're lucky) is printed on the label of the HDD. You only need FDISK if you have to partition the disk. I recommend removing the present hard disk and running all the setup stuff from a floppy disk. With MSDOS622 that I use, it requires making a boot floppy and copying DEBUG.EXE, FDISK.EXE and FORMAT.COM to this boot disk. I strongly recommend doing a low level format on any secondhand hard disk. With most computers, the MSDOS 6.22 commands that work will be 1) DEBUG to load DEBUG 2) G=C800:5 once DEUBG is loaded, to start the low level format 3) Q to quit debug. This process is slow, but it will rewrite all the track and sector markers that FORMAT can't get at, and it will also totally remove any hidden viruses and other nasties that may be lurking on the disk. Then you need to do an FDISK to set up the disk as a single partition, or as multiple partitions if the HDD is larger than the computer and DOS can handle. In my case with MSDOS622 on a 486, that limit is 512meg. Then each partition needs to be formatted. If this is to be the main hard disk eventually, then the first partition must be formatted as a boot disk, using the command "FORMAT C: /S" > To avoid problems with Fat16 or FAT32 systems (I suppose you now use > FAT16) do not install a HD larger than 2Gb. My 486 running MS-DOS 6.22 can't handle anything larger than 512m. However, I'm told I can install *any* size disk and partition it with FDISK to whatever number of partitions as long as none of them is larger than the max size my system can handle, in my case 512meg. OTOH that is outside my present experience so I don't know whether it's correct. > If you just have room for one HD things become complicated, but can be > solved :-) As above to set up the disk. Then with the computer switched off, set the jumper on the new disk to [S]lave and reconnect the old HDD to the cable -- if there isn't room inside the case, one of them will have to hang outside for the present. As you start up, you'll have to redo the setup for the two drives. The new HDD (or the first partition on it) will be the D: drive and the old HDD the C: drive. You can now execute "XCOPY C:\*.* D: /S". The "/S" causes XCOPY to recurse all the subdirectories and it makes a full copy of the C: drive on the D: drive. Then switch off, remove the old HDD, and change the jumper on the new one to [M]aster, switch on and redo the Setup. You should now see the new hard disk as the C: drive, and any extra partitions on it as D:, E:, etc... from Greg Mayman, in Adelaide, South Australia Home of the Bay to Birwood Vintage and Classic motor runs http://www.baytobirdwood.com.au Visit me at http://homepages.picknowl.com.au/greg_mayman/default.htm - -- Arachne V1.71;UE01, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 22:45:02 From: Alejandro Lieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: NNEWS.ZIP On 22 Jun 03 at 22:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > At last.... read (no sending yet) news groups (NNTP) with > > Arachne. > > Hi Alejandro, > > this weekend I have been playing a lot with UKA-PPP/YARN, > including your recently posted Arachne APM. Here is my comment. > > Regards > Christof Lange > > UKA-PPP/YARN > ------------ > > I started to like a lot YARN ver. 0.92 and set it up for use > with e-mail as well as for newsgroups. Considering the international > charset, MIME and the folder management Yarn cannot compete with > Pmail. But as a news client it is far superior. > > When I finally got to work UKA-PPP it seemed to be quite reliable. > Most important was the reduction of files: I actually kept only 15 > of 167! I finally deleted all those scripts and menus and wrote two > batch files, one for YARN and one for UKA-PPP. The latter contains I did the same. > I consider UKAPPP as an alternative to Arachne on PC386 or lower. I used it in a 80286 with 1 MBy with hercules. > *** NNEWS.OOK **************************************** > > @echo off > cls > echo. > echo Downloading USENET groups > echo. > d: > cd \arachne > if not exist IP-UP.bat goto off > call IP-UP.bat > rem>wattcp.cfg > echo my_ip=%myip% >> wattcp.cfg > echo gateway=%remip% >> wattcp.cfg > echo netmask=%netmask% >> wattcp.cfg > echo nameserver=212.20.96.34 >> wattcp.cfg > echo nameserver=212.20.96.38 >> wattcp.cfg > echo peermru=%peermru% >> wattcp.cfg > echo sockdelay=60 >> wattcp.cfg > echo domainslist="volny.cz" >> wattcp.cfg I also have ===>>> echo host=citynet.net.ar >> wattcp.cfg > echo popuser="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" >> wattcp.cfg > echo HELO=on >> wattcp.cfg > echo TZ="-1" >> wattcp.cfg > set myip=%MYIP% > :off > copy wattcp.cfg P:\ > :NNTP > cls > echo NEWS > p: > cd p:\ > tcpport.exe news.felk.cvut.cz 119 x_nnews.exe test.rc > pause > cls > echo. I unpack USENET groups offline, after hanging my phone. > echo Unpacking USENET groups > echo. > call nnews.bat > pause > d: > cd \arachne > > ****************************************************** > Only a few remarks: > > - What took me the most time to find out: for the news server > the popuser is NOT ("cce.zizkov"), but the complete e-mail > address ("[EMAIL PROTECTED]") Probably because you don't have: echo host=citynet.net.ar >> wattcp.cfg > - TEST.GR : a dummy list should be provided in the APM package, > in order to prevent the news server from sending a 2,5 MB list. > e.g. a one-line-file: > > !new_groups:030621 125057 I think that "$list: 0" in test.rc does the same. Sometimes, I download mail with x_popn.exe, I run the following lines: ren c:\yarn\uka_ppp\spool\*.msg *.cnm move c:\yarn\uka_ppp\spool\*.cnm c:\pmail\mail\ and read them with Pegasus mail for DOS or Windows. Free good Sans Serif fonts for MS-DOS at: http://www.limasa.com.ar/novafont.zip Configurable dialing menu for several DOS internet programs at: http://www.limasa.com.ar/dial_ip.zip - ---------------------- Ing. Alejandro Lieber Rosario Argentina lima[at]citynet.net.ar - ---------------------- ------------------------------ End of arachne-digest V1 #2159 ******************************
