arachne-digest Monday, June 30 2003 Volume 01 : Number 2164
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 20:29:10 -0400 From: "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Rejecting zero address again Where on your screen does this message appear ?? I ask this because I just did a search through the Arachne SRC code for all of these. - -- while in the e:\arachne\asrc\asrc173.gpl directory ---- find /n "rejecting" *.* find /n "zero address" *.* find /n "reject" *.* ___________________________ I then searched my entire dive. - --- results of..... find /n /s "rejecting" *.* ---- - ---------- l:\arachne\mail\56844064.cnm [718]Subject: Rejecting zero address again [722]I got "Rejecting zero address" again. This time I can provide - ---------- l:\arachne\mail\05684634.tbs [8]Subject: Re: Rejecting zero address again [20]find /n "rejecting" *.* [45]> I got "Rejecting zero address" again. This time I can provide - ---------- l:\arachne\mail\56842548.cnm [23]Subject: Rejecting zero address again [33]I got "Rejecting zero address" again. This time I can provide ___________________________________________________ The result... None of those words are to be found anywhere in the SRC code nor any where in any of the Arachne files. The only place that those words *are* found is in these email massages. So my question is: Since those words are not coming from Arachne. Where *are* they coming from ??? On Sat, 28 Jun 2003 22:49:43 +0200, Michal H. Tyc wrote: > Hello Glenn, hello all, > I got "Rejecting zero address" again. This time I can provide > more details, if it helps. It happened twice at Arachne > startup: there was black screen (not filled yet) with just > the status bar at the bottom with this error message; my > initial page is set to HOME.HTM. > I got the error also once more, just after downloading mail > (after the message `Processing inbox.dgi'). > I had to Ctrl+Alt+Delete Arachne in all the cases. > Today I got another error: `BOOTP/DHCP failed' (and hang); > there was indeed some problem with the DHCP server: when I > rebooted to Winblows, WINIPCFG said `DHCP server not available'. > I admit that my system configuration is rather unusual > (two network cards with ODI drivers, one bound to IPX protocol > for Personal NetWare client and server, the other to PKT2ODI > Packet Driver emulator, PNW server and DR-DOS Mutitasker running), > but I never experienced trouble with Arachne on another machine > running the Server and Multitasker. > Anyway, I'll get fixed IP address on July 1, and I hope to get > rid of all that troubles. > Greetings, > Michal - -- Glenn http://arachne.cz/ http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/ http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/aqc/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 20:43:19 -0400 From: "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Yes, there are USB drivers for DOS On Sat, 28 Jun 2003 23:48:53 +0300 (EEST), Hristo Iliev wrote: > Hello , > This is may be interesting for some of you :) That article > http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=10215 > says there are USB drivers for DOS from Panasonic. I don't test it, > because I use mostly linux and USB already work on it :) > Check article and I'm waiting your comments if it really works and what > USB hardware work with these drivers. Maybe it'll be good to add support > for USB modems in Arachne :) There is link to Panasonic's site , but in > Japanese and I don't understand this language :) as far as i understand > it's for DVD-ROM/CD-R/RW/CD-ROM . > p.s. BTW Is Linux version of Arachne will be GPL-ed or only DOS version > ??? Or they are the same ? What about flowerpot ? Is it still in > development ? > All the best : Ik0 Thank you !!! That's a 'keeper'. So I kept it. ;-) http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/usb-dos.htm I grabbed a copy of both files and uploaded them to my site. (D/L links at the very bottom of the page) - -- Glenn http://arachne.cz/ http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/ http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/aqc/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 02:45:10 +0200 (CEST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: next of kin. From: Barrister Musu Muhammed Fax:234-1-4401041 Attn:The president, I am Barrister Musu Muhammed, a solicitor at law. I am the personal attorney to late Mr. Robert Chapman the African Area Director of SIL International, who unfortunately died in the crash of Kenya Airways Flight 431 in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, January 30 2000. You will read more stories about the crash on visiting this website,news.airwise.com/airlines/archive/2000/kenya2000.html and also in this website, where Chapman's company talked about his death in the Kenya crash. You shall as well find the pictures of Chapman and his wife there. Mr. Chapman Hailed from Hamilton, Ontario Canada. Since the death of Chapman, I as his personal attorney, have made several enquiries to locate his only surviving relation, without any success. I came across your name and contact on the course of my personal searching for Chapman's relations, so I decided to contact you for this project. I am contacting you to assist in repatriating and securing the wealth left behind in a fixed deposit account by Robert, before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by AfriBank where my client operates an account worth $USD7.5 Million Dollars. The board of AfriBank has issued me a notice that after 2 months from now and no next of kin shown up for the claiming of the said funds, the funds will be confiscated and declared unserviceable. Since I and my team have been unsuccessful in locating Robert's relatives for sometime now,it on this note that I seek your consent to present you as the Next of Kin of the deceased since you are a foreigner, so that the proceed of this deposit valued at $USD7.5 Million Dollars can be released to you for our disbursments. I and my team have agreed to offer you 25% of the total sum,opon sucessful remittance of funds into your bank account,5% has been set aside to cover all expeses incurred both local and international, during the course of this transfer.,while 70% will be for me and my team.All requires is your honest cooperation to enable us see this business successful. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement which will protect you from any breach of the law. Robert was a very good man and it is not wise for me to allow his hard earned wealth to be stolen by the greedy directors of AfriBank.Further details awaits your response by email. PLEASE, TREAT THIS PROPOSAL AS TOP SECRET. Do not hesitate to include your private phone and fax number,when replying this proposal,you can also email me on this alternative email address:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Yours faithfully, Barrister Musu Muhammed(Esq) - -- Ziskejte kvalitu, kterou si zasluhujete. Za minimalni mesicni poplatek vam nabizime Antivir, Antispam nebo dalsi kapacitu pro vas Mailbox. Vice na: http://sluzby.volny.cz/product/postpaid/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 04:32:31 -0400 (EDT) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric S. Emerson) Subject: Re: Rejecting zero address again Hi Michal, Glenn McC., et al, Could this be related to xswap errors? Maybe the bios are intercepting the error before Arachne can toss out its' xswap error message. One reason I suggest this is that the only thing that seems to lock up my machine anymore is A's xswap bug and I've never been able to predict what will cause it. The xswap errors occur infrequently and randomly but they always nibble away at my RAM and eventually cause a lock-up. Eric >Hello Glenn, hello all, > >I got "Rejecting zero address" again. This time I can provide >more details, if it helps. It happened twice at Arachne >snip< > >Greetings, > >Michal - -- __________ | Aaryx |__\_ Eric S. Emerson | E-mail:~_: ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] `~(*)~~~~(*)~' ````````````````````````` ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 14:20:21 +0200 From: "Michal H. Tyc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Rejecting zero address again On Sat, 28 Jun 2003 20:29:10 -0400, Glenn McCorkle wrote: > Where on your screen does this message appear ?? In the status line (bottom left corner of the screen). > I then searched my entire dive. > The result... > None of those words are to be found anywhere in the SRC code > nor any where in any of the Arachne files. Strange, really. My CORE.EXE (1.71;UE01, 10 Oct 2002) has this message at offset 0x32AC2, among other DHCP-related ones. But DOS FIND doesn't work well with binary files. > So my question is: > Since those words are not coming from Arachne. > Where *are* they coming from ??? They seem to come from CORE.EXE. But why are they there, if you can't locate them in source code? Michal ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 14:33:42 +0200 From: "Michal H. Tyc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Rejecting zero address again On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 04:32:31 -0400 (EDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric S. Emerson) wrote: > Hi Michal, Glenn McC., et al, > Could this be related > to xswap errors? Maybe the bios are intercepting the > error before Arachne can toss out its' xswap error > message. No, I don't think it's related to memory management problems. Michal ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 14:35:45 +0200 From: "Michal H. Tyc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Rejecting zero address again I wrote: > Strange, really. My CORE.EXE (1.71;UE01, 10 Oct 2002) has this Should be "10 Dec 2002", of course. Michal ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 00:44:06 +00 From: "Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: format and fdisk :-((( On Sat, 28 Jun 2003 22:23:37 +0200, Michal H. Tyc wrote: > Hello Kali, hello Glenn, > On Sat, 28 Jun 2003 11:24:59 +0900, Kali Mclaughlin wrote: >> I am completely confused about formatting and fdisking. There is a "low >> level format" thing as well that my Pentium wont do, but the good old >> 386 will. > Low-level formatting means putting track and sector address marks > on the magnetic surface of the disk. This is needed only for floppies > and old non-IDE (i.e., without integrated controller) hard disks > that were used in XT machines; please do not confuse true HD controller > cards with their own BIOS and dedicated cables with the ISA, VLB or PCI > host adapters (unfortunately, often also called `controllers') with > just a standard 40-pin IDE connector(s). > Low-level formatting of an IDE hard disk is done by its manufacturer > and normally shouldn't be performed by the user. It's very unlikely > that it can do anything good and may be even harmful (IDE disks have > their internal bad sector maps and other tables, which are not visible > at DOS or BIOS level, and you can destroy them by low-level format; > at least I have a book that says so). I did a low level format on a HD and it is unusable ever since :-((((( CU, Bastiaan <SNIP> ************************* Technische Redactie CQ-PA Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ ************************* Attentie: e-mail adres bij Wanadoo niet meer gebruiken! [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.hetnet.nl/~ba8tian/index.html - -- Virusvrij e-mailen? => Arachne browser/mailer - -- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 20:04:48 +0300 From: Juha Sahakangas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: format and fdisk :-((( Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ wrote: > I did a low level format on a HD and it is unusable ever since :-((((( You might want to try and run another "low level format" on it - using utility software you can download probably from HD manufacturer. As Michal stated and you noticed the hard way, "old fashioned" low level format isn't good for your poor IDE drives health... ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 14:47:39 -0400 From: Roger Turk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: format and fdisk :-((( IIRC, the necessity of low level formating was because of the positioning motor on the HD's reading arm. With MFM and RLL drives, after a while the arm would not align with the cylinders and a low level format had to be done to realign the cylinders with the read head. With the advent of stepper(?) motors, the alignment problems went away and low level formating wasn't necessary, and as Bastaain demonstrated, even dangerous. I have done low level formatting on my MFM drives (with a program from Gibson Research <www.grc.com> called, "SpinRite"), but never have done it, nor will I try to do it, on an IDE drive unless the drive has become completely useless, the information is on another drive, and I just want to experiment. I see that there is now a "SpinRite 5.0," but don't know if it will do low level formating of IDE drives. Roger Turk Tucson, Arizona Juha Sahakangas wrote: . > Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ wrote: . > > I did a low level format on a HD and it is unusable ever since :-((((( . > You might want to try and run another "low level format" on it - using . > utility software you can download probably from HD manufacturer. . > As Michal stated and you noticed the hard way, "old fashioned" low level . > format isn't good for your poor IDE drives health... ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 15:40:52 -0400 From: "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Rejecting zero address again On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 14:20:21 +0200, Michal H. Tyc wrote: > On Sat, 28 Jun 2003 20:29:10 -0400, Glenn McCorkle wrote: >> Where on your screen does this message appear ?? > In the status line (bottom left corner of the screen). >> I then searched my entire dive. >> The result... >> None of those words are to be found anywhere in the SRC code >> nor any where in any of the Arachne files. > Strange, really. My CORE.EXE (1.71;UE01, 10 Oct 2002) has this > message at offset 0x32AC2, among other DHCP-related ones. > But DOS FIND doesn't work well with binary files. >> So my question is: >> Since those words are not coming from Arachne. >> Where *are* they coming from ??? > They seem to come from CORE.EXE. But why are they there, > if you can't locate them in source code? OK, I used Norton Utilities to do the search this time instead of the OpenDos 'find utility' Ry entire dive. Now I found it... in wattcp.lib As you most likely suspected.... It seems to be related to BOOTP/DHCP Now I wonder if it has something to do with your particular setup with the mutitasker. Or is it a bug that's going to be showing up all over the place? Is there any way for you to run some tests without the multitasker running ? - -- Glenn http://arachne.cz/ http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/ http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/aqc/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 22:02:50 +0200 From: "Michal H. Tyc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Rejecting zero address again On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 15:40:52 -0400, Glenn McCorkle wrote: > Now I wonder if it has something to do with your particular setup > with the mutitasker. > Or is it a bug that's going to be showing up all over the place? > Is there any way for you to run some tests without > the multitasker running ? I'll try without the Multitasker, PNW Server and ODI drivers at all, with RTL8029 Packet Driver only. But sometimes it takes hours to observe the error, so possible absence of problems won't mean that they were related to my setup... Michal ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 16:52:59 -0400 From: "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Rejecting zero address again On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 22:02:50 +0200, Michal H. Tyc wrote: > On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 15:40:52 -0400, Glenn McCorkle wrote: >> Now I wonder if it has something to do with your particular setup >> with the mutitasker. >> Or is it a bug that's going to be showing up all over the place? >> Is there any way for you to run some tests without >> the multitasker running ? > I'll try without the Multitasker, PNW Server and ODI drivers at all, > with RTL8029 Packet Driver only. But sometimes it takes hours to > observe the error, so possible absence of problems won't mean that > they were related to my setup... I was afraid you were going to say that. :( I was hoping that this was a easy error to duplicate. But since it sometimes takes hours for the error to show up. Who knows how long it might take to intentionally cause it to happen??? Please refresh my memory on how your system is setup. (OS version, memory manager settings, disk cache settings, packet driver, ODI driver, multitasker, etc... etc...) I will *try* to duplicate it as closely as possible on my machine. With both of us trying to duplicate the error. We might be able to find the cause. Remember how long it took before I could duplicate that 'lockup' that *you* fixed in wwwman.exe ??? Lest anyone forget.... Michal fixed that lockup problem. :) All I did was to assemble *his* ASM code into the finished wwwman.exe - -- Glenn http://arachne.cz/ http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/ http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/aqc/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 23:56:36 +0200 From: "Michal H. Tyc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Rejecting zero address again On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 16:52:59 -0400, Glenn McCorkle wrote: > I was hoping that this was a easy error to duplicate. > But since it sometimes takes hours for the error to show up. > Who knows how long it might take to intentionally cause it to happen??? > Please refresh my memory on how your system is setup. > (OS version, memory manager settings, disk cache settings, > packet driver, ODI driver, multitasker, etc... etc...) > I will *try* to duplicate it as closely as possible on my machine. I send my config files via private mail. (It's quite a long message, I'm not sure if the others are interested. Anyone?) > Lest anyone forget.... Michal fixed that lockup problem. :) > All I did was to assemble *his* ASM code into the finished wwwman.exe I'm afraid this problem is much harder to solve :( Michal ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 19:45:27 -0400 (EDT) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric S. Emerson) Subject: Re: Problem URL... I cannot unsubscribe Sam Heywood wrote: > ><snip> When those girlies get your email address they will >continue to write to you to advertise their very fine services and >merchandise, even after you have long ago told them you are through >with them. > >Sam Heywood Hi Sam H., et al, I surmise the problem centers around "emotional inolvement"! Those girlies are just too emotionally involved to let your address go. Eric - -- __________ | Aaryx |__\_ Eric S. Emerson | E-mail:~_: ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] `~(*)~~~~(*)~' ````````````````````````` ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 19:32:16 -0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Rejecting zero address again On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 "Michal H. Tyc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ... <snip> > But sometimes it takes hours to observe the error, > so possible absence of problems won't mean that > they were related to my setup... As someone once said ... "Absence of evidence ... ... is not ... ... evidence of absence". Bob ~ - - ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! ------------------------------ End of arachne-digest V1 #2164 ******************************
