arachne-digest Monday, January 3 2000 Volume 01 : Number 922
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Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2000 14:54:21 -0800
From: "Gregory J. Feig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Happu Y2K ;-))))
On Sun, 2 Jan 2000 11:25:22 +0100 (MET), Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Another problem I have at times is that the temperature on the motherboard
> and/or cpu is getting very hot so the BIOS complains (I thought about
> turning these checks off but thought it might be safer with them still on).
Bernie,
I think this second "problem" is the cause of the first....If
your BIOS has no "turbo" option, and you get a "lockup" when the
speed drop occurs (what you described is a form of "lockup")..
then, the chip would seem to have an internal temp sensor, and
it's saving its brains from cooking.......
gregy
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Ultimate Internet Client
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Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2000 15:10:13 -0800
From: "Gregory J. Feig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Bernie..K6-2
On Sun, 2 Jan 2000 11:51:30 +0100 (MET), Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> I'll poke it up in my OS2 and read it....if I notice anything
>> about this speed change, I'll get back to you.
Bernie,
But don't expect any feedback "real soon", 'cause I lost
my .PDF viewer and am running around the web looking for
another, (I swear..!!! I'm getting senile..!!)...The
Adobe download page only responds to JavaScript for their
download steps.....this "use jave, or else" craze is getting
my dander up....when it gets up high enough, I'll organize
us and storm the java bastille....
gregy
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Ultimate Internet Client
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Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2000 16:51:56
From: "Dale Mentzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ramblings
On 2 Jan 00 at 18:43, J. J. Young wrote:
>>Dale,
>>
>>A couple of tricks I use with FoxMail are to open the *.box files in
>>Windows Write or Winzip.
>>
>>I receive 250kB mail digests that are too big for FoxMail to display,
>>so I read them by the above methods, by moving the message to its
>>own mailbox, containing no other messages, and which is compressed
>>when a prior message has been deleted.
>>
>>With Write you get all the messages displayed consecutively, whereas
>>Winzip splits 'em into individual textfiles. The *.box file is too large
>>for Notepad.
Pegasus Mail for DOS will properly display each message in a Mime
format digest, but otherwise displays all of the individual messages
as a single file.
>>If dealing with many files I use Alt+Space+X and Alt+Space+C to maximize and
>>close the files.
>>
>>Part of my problem with the mail digest is dealing with HTML format
>>messages, which contributors ARE asked to avoid. It makes the files more
>>tiring to deal with.
I hate that HTML stuff too. I don't think a lot of folks who use
email programs with that option are even aware they are sending them.
>>Arachne's mail had the advantage of functioning links, but the page opening
>>and scrolling were much slower, and I need to cut'n'paste. I use Arachne as
>>a backup and for the odd occasion when I haven't time for Windows etc to get
>>going -- hence I also use a plain background for the Arachne dial page.
Pegasus Mail for Win3.x can be configured to start your browser when
you click on a valid link. I thought I remembered FoxMail having that
option/feature also. Am I getting the two confused? Pegasus Mail for
DOS is my main email program for reading/writing and I use Arachne
for SMTP/POP3 transport. I have also been working some with the
Barebones email system by James Chapman as well as a nice
interface program for Barebones by another Arachne list member, Ron
Clarke.
>>Happy new whatever,
Yeah, whatever. ;) Thanks for the tips, Jake. TTYL.
Regards,
Dale Mentzer
Funny, I don't remember being absent minded.
This mail written by a user of Arachne, the DOS Internet Client
WWWWW World Wide Web Without Windows
http://home.arachne.cz Arachne DOS Browser Home Page
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Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2000 18:17:05 +0000
From: "Michael L. Dawley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: load EPPPD high
On Sun, 02 Jan 2000 14:16:41 -0800, Clarence Verge wrote:
> ?? You only managed to put a total of 76,272 into upper memory ??
> What is this item: ?
> Type of Memory Total = Used + Free
> Reserved 393,216 393,216 0
> It seems you don't have much upper memory available at all.
> Perhaps you should unreserve some. (or all of it.)
> - Clarence Verge
Clarence,
I am at a loss as to what this Reserved item is. Perhaps
it is a result of something windows has set up. Don't know
what, however. Everything seems to be working ok, though.
I fixed the file manager today to set the date correctly,
and have been busy doing that on some other machines.
In Arachne, I start out with Dos memory (KB) 83(+) which
isn't too bad.
I did move share.exe to upper memory, resulting in the
83 dos memory.
You did a wonderful job of reformatting my mem.txt.
I notice some other posts (I'm not alone) have badly
formatted files posted sometimes<g>
I am open to suggestions concerning optimizing Arachne
any way possible.
Thanks,
Michael L. Dawley
Pearl, Mississippi
- --Arachne 1.50 using Netdial for Dos 1.3--
- --Compaq Deskpro 575--
- -- Arachne V1.50;s.r.c., NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://home.arachne.cz/
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Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2000 19:18:03 -0500
From: "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Bernie..K6-2
On Sun, 02 Jan 2000 15:10:13 -0800, Gregory J. Feig wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Jan 2000 11:51:30 +0100 (MET), Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> -------------snip--------
>>> I'll poke it up in my OS2 and read it....if I notice anything
>>> about this speed change, I'll get back to you.
> Bernie,
> But don't expect any feedback "real soon", 'cause I lost
> my .PDF viewer and am running around the web looking for
> another, (I swear..!!! I'm getting senile..!!)...The
> Adobe download page only responds to JavaScript for their
> download steps.....this "use jave, or else" craze is getting
> my dander up....when it gets up high enough, I'll organize
> us and storm the java bastille....
> gregy
Here's the link to get Adobe's AcroDos.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Use subject... please send AcroDos
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Glenn McCorkle mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
North Jackson, Ohio, USA
Arachne, The Web Browser for DOS
Open the 'DOOR' to the WWW. Keep the 'windows' closed.
http://home.arachne.cz/ or http://arachne.browser.org/
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Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2000 16:28:51 -0800
From: Rick Orr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Happu Y2K ;-))))
> > Another problem I have at times is that the temperature on the motherboard
> > and/or cpu is getting very hot so the BIOS complains (I thought about
> > turning these checks off but thought it might be safer with them still on).
>
>
> I think this second "problem" is the cause of the first....If
> your BIOS has no "turbo" option, and you get a "lockup" when the
> speed drop occurs (what you described is a form of "lockup")..
> then, the chip would seem to have an internal temp sensor, and
> it's saving its brains from cooking.......
I think this is correct, make sure your CPU cooling fan is functional!
I just (wks ago) got an AMD400 K6-2 & it doesn't like my early ver. of
WINsnot95 but runs fine in DOS ... my fan is kewl <g>.
If your using WINcrap95/98 you can get a software cooling prog that
helps ... let me know if you need & I'll point you there. Any "Pentium"
class CPU NEEDS cooling with external fan on top! When I first built my
PR90AMD the fan died after a week & I experienced the probs you noticed
... new fan ... no probs.
later,
rick
01/04/80 on my PB486 <g>
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Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2000 19:43:36 -0500
From: "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: acrodos link update...
If you look long enough, you _can_ find it.<g>
http://cosmic.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/webdoc/viewer/acroread/acrodos/
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Glenn McCorkle mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
North Jackson, Ohio, USA
Arachne, The Web Browser for DOS
Open the 'DOOR' to the WWW. Keep the 'windows' closed.
http://home.arachne.cz/ or http://arachne.browser.org/
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Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2000 19:44:46 -0500
From: "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: and another link to acrodos....
http://www.open.gov.uk/howto/acrodos.htm
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Glenn McCorkle mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
North Jackson, Ohio, USA
Arachne, The Web Browser for DOS
Open the 'DOOR' to the WWW. Keep the 'windows' closed.
http://home.arachne.cz/ or http://arachne.browser.org/
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Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2000 19:47:08 -0500
From: "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: last link to acrodos...
http://www.go.dlr.de/fresh/pc/src/misc/.warix/acrodos.exe.html
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Glenn McCorkle mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
North Jackson, Ohio, USA
Arachne, The Web Browser for DOS
Open the 'DOOR' to the WWW. Keep the 'windows' closed.
http://home.arachne.cz/ or http://arachne.browser.org/
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Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2000 20:43:05 -0800
From: "Gregory J. Feig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Bernie..K6-2
On Sun, 02 Jan 2000 19:18:03 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote:
> On Sun, 02 Jan 2000 15:10:13 -0800, Gregory J. Feig wrote:
>> On Sun, 2 Jan 2000 11:51:30 +0100 (MET), Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> wrote:
>> -------------snip--------
>>>> I'll poke it up in my OS2 and read it....if I notice anything
>>>> about this speed change, I'll get back to you.
>> Bernie,
>> But don't expect any feedback "real soon", 'cause I lost
>> my .PDF viewer and am running around the web looking for
>> another, (I swear..!!! I'm getting senile..!!)...The
>> Adobe download page only responds to JavaScript for their
>> download steps.....this "use jave, or else" craze is getting
>> my dander up....when it gets up high enough, I'll organize
>> us and storm the java bastille....
>> gregy
> Here's the link to get Adobe's AcroDos.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Use subject... please send AcroDos
Glenn,
I sent it, you've probably got it by now....
I never knew there even was a DOS Acrobat reader....learn
something new every day...! I'm still gonna go get
back the reader for my OS2.....it'll handle bigger files
than the DOS one (is that true..? somehow I think that
may not be the case)....but, anyway, having it on both
my preferred systems, will save me from having to switch
in and out, just to read a postscript file....
thanks a lot.........gregy
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Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2000 20:53:04 -0800
From: "Gregory J. Feig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: last link to acrodos...
On Sun, 02 Jan 2000 19:47:08 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote:
> http://www.go.dlr.de/fresh/pc/src/misc/.warix/acrodos.exe.html
> --
> Glenn McCorkle mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> North Jackson, Ohio, USA
> Arachne, The Web Browser for DOS
> Open the 'DOOR' to the WWW. Keep the 'windows' closed.
> http://home.arachne.cz/ or http://arachne.browser.org/
I sorta got hit by the deluge, here, didn't I....my
question stands.....how do you find this stuff....?
I would be lucky to come up with one link....
thanks..........gregy
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Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2000 08:15:20 +0100 (MET)
From: Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Happu Y2K ;-))))
Rick wrote:
>> I think this second "problem" is the cause of the first....If
>> your BIOS has no "turbo" option, and you get a "lockup" when the
>> speed drop occurs (what you described is a form of "lockup")..
>> then, the chip would seem to have an internal temp sensor, and
>> it's saving its brains from cooking.......
>
>I think this is correct, make sure your CPU cooling fan is functional!
>I just (wks ago) got an AMD400 K6-2 & it doesn't like my early ver. of
>WINsnot95 but runs fine in DOS ... my fan is kewl <g>.
You are aware of the fact that W95 needs a bugfix to operate correctly on a
AMD K6-2 350 or faster, if not go to http://www.amd.com/ and find it (if
you want to run Win95 that is). Suprisingly AMDs site were much better when
I downloaded this driver back then (a workaround I discovered is to first
start DOS and then run win.com to start Windows 4.x - which also lets you
run the bugfix on the computer something that AMD and M$ has left out)
>If your using WINcrap95/98 you can get a software cooling prog that
>helps ... let me know if you need & I'll point you there. Any "Pentium"
>class CPU NEEDS cooling with external fan on top! When I first built my
>PR90AMD the fan died after a week & I experienced the probs you noticed
>... new fan ... no probs.
But I've checked up on the temperature (IO 210h IIRC) and it's always
bellow these extreme temperatures that have been showing at times. And the
fan comes from the same company, so it's actualyl their problem as soon as
I get to the shop with my computer.
As a side note I actually found a fan on a 486DX266 (IIRC) that I recently
took a part. Perhaps I can use it to cool down a litle more (I have no idea
hos to actually make it stick in one position but still it might be worth a
shot, the HDs tend to get rather hot at times...)
//Bernie
http://hem1.passagen.se/bernie/index.htm DOS programs, Star Wars ...
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Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2000 09:46:46 +0100
From: "Rebel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Rebel is back
Hi
There are some problems at my collage's mail server
(Novell rulez?????) so the addres [EMAIL PROTECTED] is
out of work since 10.dec.'99, and please do repost all
importanat non-answered mails.
Thanks
Rebel
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Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2000 07:32:18 -0500 (EST)
From: Klaus Hameyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Load EPPPD (anywhere) on COMPAQ
Hello Michael Dawley:
I gather from your postings on the ARACHNE list that you have
your COMPAQ 575 working with Arachne now via Netdial from
the Bobcat package.
I have been following your progress with great interest since I
have a very similar problem with my COMPAQ 590 (presumably the
same machine as yours with a 90 MHz Pentium). The kind folks on
the list have also tried to help me, to no avail.
I have been fooling with the Bobcat package and have connected
my home-cobbled no-name computer that runs Arachne ok. (I had some
problems with running the bcatdial.bat file as a whole for reasons
unknown but after I divided it into dial/pktinstall/runBobcat
sequential segments, it ran ok). Before trying to tie this to
Arachne, I thought I'd try it on the COMPAQ 590 (w. 4PORTS4U
confirmed by several diagnosis programs). It dials ok, connects
to my ISP, epppd seems like it's installing itself, bobcat runs,
but when you try to connect to a URL, Bobcat says "no paket driver".
Soooo - I wonder if you would be so kind and send me copies of
your BOBCAT setup files, and on the off chance that I might get
lucky, the ARACHNE config files that you used. Thanks so much
for your help.
| Klaus Hameyer, TRANSLATOR, German/Swedish => English
| Chemistry, Chem. Technol, Environment, Waste, Paper etc.
| Tel:802-563-2549 or 864-7648 E-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2000 18:43:20 +0100 (MET)
From: Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: load EPPPD high
Michael L. Dawley wrote:
>I rem'd out the power.exe and have about 21K free extended memory
>now, but I have given up trying to load EPPPD high, it's just too
>big. I really did not understand how this worked before your
>explanation. Now I see what is going on, and if I'm going to use
>EPPPD I'll have to leave it in conventional memory.
Still I would suggest that you use ctmouse (or ctmousep if it's a PS/2
mouse). Take a look at my mem/c>mem.txt (slightly edited)
MSDOS 11,517 (11K) 11,517 (11K) 0 (0K)
HIMEM 1,168 (1K) 1,168 (1K) 0 (0K)
EMM386 3,248 (3K) 3,248 (3K) 0 (0K)
COMMAND 4,864 (5K) 2,800 (3K) 2,064 (2K)
DOSMAX 256 (0K) 0 (0K) 256 (0K)
ANSI 4,208 (4K) 0 (0K) 4,208 (4K)
RAMDRIVE 1,264 (1K) 0 (0K) 1,264 (1K)
FILES 3,280 (3K) 0 (0K) 3,280 (3K)
FCBS 272 (0K) 0 (0K) 272 (0K)
WKBUFFER 528 (1K) 0 (0K) 528 (1K)
LASTDRIV 2,304 (2K) 0 (0K) 2,304 (2K)
STACKS 3,024 (3K) 0 (0K) 3,024 (3K)
INSTALL 144 (0K) 0 (0K) 144 (0K)
SMARTDRV 75,136 (73K) 0 (0K) 75,136 (73K)
CTMOUSE 6,384 (6K) 0 (0K) 6,384 (6K)
KEYB 6,944 (7K) 0 (0K) 6,944 (7K)
Ledigt 689,216 (673K) 636,448 (622K) 52,768 (52K)
Konventionellt 655,360 18,912 636,448
�vre 158,576 105,808 52,768
Reserverad 0 0 0
Ut�kat (XMS) 65,836,176 33,925,264 31,910,912
Totalt minne 66,650,112 34,049,984 32,600,128
Totalt under 1 M 813,936 124,720 689,216
St�rsta exekverbara programstorlek: 636,432 (622K)
St�rsta lediga �vre minnesblock: 48,928 (48K)
MS-DOS �r resident i det h�ga minnesomr�det.
Ok, I didn't actually edit as much as might be needed - I hope you know
what's on every line anyway (and those strange chars are Windows fault -
they look less atrange otherwise <g>).
And before anyone asks - the loss of XMS is due to the fact that SmartDRV
has the maximum it can have in DOS (it's halfed when I start Windows).
Many of the strange items loaded (stacks, lastdriv, wkbuffer etc.) are from
dosmax. (And before anyone says something - I've tried to get Arachne
online without dosmax loaded).
And the RAMDrive is for a minimum one that has a copy of my autoexec.bat
(to boot a little faster) and command.com (to exit programs a little faster).
Another interesting thing is this litle item in your memmory:
EMM386 4,144 (4K) 4,144 (4K) 0 (0K)
while mine is:
EMM386 3,248 (3K) 3,248 (3K) 0 (0K)
Probably due to that you use EMS:
> Total Expanded (EMS) 24,444,928 (23,872K
> Free Expanded (EMS)* 21,643,264 (21,136K
>
> * EMM386 is using XMS memory to simulate EMS memory as needed.
> Free EMS memory may change as free XMS memory changes.
Why are you using EMS instead of XMS?
Do you have like this in config.sys?
DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS /TESTMEM:OFF
DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE noems highscan
dos=high,umb
Otherwise change to this, it should give you more free memmory (and XMS
instead of EMS).
And you also wrote:
>I really did not understand how this worked before your explanation.
Perhaps this is an issue we (more experienced users) should be more aware
of? (A small how-to perhaps - or a start of the SURVPC FAQ? Of course what
I wrote is far from anything that might be usefull for someone who doesn't
understand anything. Ah well just a thought).
And why do you run share.exe ? The only time I run this is when I have the
Novell Metwork started... (If you know that you need it let it be,
otherwise "rem it out" and when you find that a program doesn't work
anymore just un-rem the share line and try the program again.)
Also setver.exe is only if you want to fake another DOS version (might be
needed to run ex. xcopy.exe)
Also it's better to put as much as possible in the upper memmory IMO. So if
I could run Arachne I would put EPPPD in the upper memmory by moving
keyb.com down (the keyboard driver for you who don't know) removing dosmax
and moving ctmouse down.
I still think it would be a very good thing if ctmouse and ctmousep could
be added to the Arachne distribution package. How many people even know
that a mouse requires a driver? It wouldn't add much to the total size of
Arachne anyway.
That addition will probably be removed by adding apm.exe and unarj.exe
together - I've saved ca 14K on it sofar (but since it isn't working
properly who cares <g> (I lost the source code and needed to start all over
again, and strangely enough nothing worked directly this time - not even
compiling it as it was).
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Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2000 10:55:02 -0800
From: "Gregory J. Feig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Hot Brain
On Mon, 3 Jan 2000 08:15:20 +0100 (MET), Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> But I've checked up on the temperature (IO 210h IIRC) and it's always
> bellow these extreme temperatures that have been showing at times. And the
> fan comes from the same company, so it's actualyl their problem as soon as
> I get to the shop with my computer.
Bernie,.....if your chip temp is not exceeding specs, but is still
doing the speed backoff (and you have pretty well determined that
this is a "bug" not a "feature") and it is still the company's
responsibility, then I think you are right to take it back...the
chip seems to be "out of tolerance"....sometimes we struggle
and fiddle with something, just because we don't want to admit
defeat, but we really should just give it back to the people
who mal-manufactured it...
gregy
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Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2000 11:15:01 -0800
From: "Gregory J. Feig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SciTechDisplayDoctor
On Fri, 04 Jan 1980 16:18:46 +0100, Gerald Kucera wrote:
> Hello Gregory, I hope you are the gregy who answered my question in the
> quick chat on Dec 28.
Yes...Gerald, that was me....
> I asked why Arachne could not establish a ppp link to my provider after
> I had installed the DisplayDoctor. This DisplayDoctor is a very
> effective tool for VESA drivers, you can select nearly everything to
> influence your display. Therefore I was able (with full help of my son!)
Those kids are sharp, aren't they <g>
> to get a perfect image of Arachne and of Win98 on my 9517IBM monitor. We
> did not manage to make the DOS screen visible (it is always 4fold one
> layer on top of the other). I like this monitor- beside it was cheap- it
> has a very fine grained and sharp image and does not flicker.
> I followed your advice and deinstalled everything I could find
> containing SciTech, UNIVESA, UNIVBE. Win complained afterwards that it
> could not find the folder Recycled which contained a hidden INF file
> reproducing all the SciTech Vesa files I deleted. But now Win is visible
> with the Miro driver for my Miro card and Arachne has back its extremely
> flickering and distorted image AND works with my provider.
The picture is not good, now, but we are back to a bare setup, without
other things loaded on top.....you actually have two problems that
are showing:
(1) your monitor does not seem to have the proper drivers
for your video card, and system display drivers.
(2) when you get a good picture, using DisplayDoctor, the
display drivers block you from connecting with your
ISP..
If this is correct....please reply back to this list, reference
this thread you have started.....also, give us more information
about your box...type, speed, etc, and your OS....
> The Vesa driver that comes with Arachne does not work with my monitor. I
> should be able to set the refresh rate to 75 or 72Hz, horizontal and
> vertical syncronisation to "-" and use 16Bit colourdepth. Do you know
> how I could manage?
No....Gerald...I don't know....but there is somebody(s) on this list
who DOES know....
> Do you know what this SciTech does? Does it occupy an IRQ that Arachne
> needs? Do you know a tool that goes with Arachne?
I don't know that, either, off hand....I ponder it......I'm just a
fount of noninformation right now......BUT....this list has more
knowedgeable and helpfull people on it than you can shake a stick
at, and, while I'm pondering....you send that additional info, ...
..and watch the help pore in...
I'll bet you get two replies from others, before you get this one
from me...
gregy
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Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2000 19:56:03 +0100 (MET)
From: Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Load EPPPD (anywhere) on COMPAQ
Klaus Hameyer wrote:
>Hello Michael Dawley:
>
>Soooo - I wonder if you would be so kind and send me copies of
>your BOBCAT setup files, and on the off chance that I might get
>lucky, the ARACHNE config files that you used. Thanks so much
>for your help.
Please Michael Dawley, could you send those files to me as well?
"If you don't succeed the first time try, try and try again" - Diamonds are
Forever
//Bernie
http://hem1.passagen.se/bernie/index.htm DOS programs, Star Wars ...
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Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2000 20:02:07 +0100 (MET)
From: Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Happu Y2K ;-))))
I wrote:
>You are aware of the fact that W95 needs a bugfix to operate correctly on a
>AMD K6-2 350 or faster, if not go to http://www.amd.com/ and find it (if
>you want to run Win95 that is). Suprisingly AMDs site were much better when
>I downloaded this driver back then (a workaround I discovered is to first
>start DOS and then run win.com to start Windows 4.x - which also lets you
>run the bugfix on the computer something that AMD and M$ has left out)
Actually I just got a response back from AMD stating:
"This has been fixed. Sorry."
So now the site will work in NS 3.x (I just tried it, but it was a lot
slower now - guess you never can be completly satisfied).
//Bernie
http://hem1.passagen.se/bernie/index.htm DOS programs, Star Wars ...
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Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2000 11:58:14 -0800
From: "Gregory J. Feig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: System Optimization
On Mon, 3 Jan 2000 18:43:20 +0100 (MET), Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Still I would suggest that you use ctmouse (or ctmousep if it's a PS/2
> mouse). Take a look at my mem/c>mem.txt (slightly edited)
> MSDOS 11,517 (11K) 11,517 (11K) 0 (0K)
> HIMEM 1,168 (1K) 1,168 (1K) 0 (0K)
> EMM386 3,248 (3K) 3,248 (3K) 0 (0K)
> COMMAND 4,864 (5K) 2,800 (3K) 2,064 (2K)
> DOSMAX 256 (0K) 0 (0K) 256 (0K)
> ANSI 4,208 (4K) 0 (0K) 4,208 (4K)
> RAMDRIVE 1,264 (1K) 0 (0K) 1,264 (1K)
> FILES 3,280 (3K) 0 (0K) 3,280 (3K)
> FCBS 272 (0K) 0 (0K) 272 (0K)
> WKBUFFER 528 (1K) 0 (0K) 528 (1K)
> LASTDRIV 2,304 (2K) 0 (0K) 2,304 (2K)
> STACKS 3,024 (3K) 0 (0K) 3,024 (3K)
> INSTALL 144 (0K) 0 (0K) 144 (0K)
> SMARTDRV 75,136 (73K) 0 (0K) 75,136 (73K)
> CTMOUSE 6,384 (6K) 0 (0K) 6,384 (6K)
> KEYB 6,944 (7K) 0 (0K) 6,944 (7K)
> Ledigt 689,216 (673K) 636,448 (622K) 52,768 (52K)
> Konventionellt 655,360 18,912 636,448
> �vre 158,576 105,808 52,768
> Reserverad 0 0 0
> Ut�kat (XMS) 65,836,176 33,925,264 31,910,912
> Totalt minne 66,650,112 34,049,984 32,600,128
> Totalt under 1 M 813,936 124,720 689,216
> St�rsta exekverbara programstorlek: 636,432 (622K)
> St�rsta lediga �vre minnesblock: 48,928 (48K)
> MS-DOS �r resident i det h�ga minnesomr�det.
> Ok, I didn't actually edit as much as might be needed - I hope you know
> what's on every line anyway (and those strange chars are Windows fault -
> they look less atrange otherwise <g>).
Gee..Bernie.....that looks neat.....please post your config.sys and
autoexec.bat....I wanna get my box to look like that.....<g>,(but
serious, so send them)...
> And before anyone asks - the loss of XMS is due to the fact that SmartDRV
> has the maximum it can have in DOS (it's halfed when I start Windows).
> Many of the strange items loaded (stacks, lastdriv, wkbuffer etc.) are from
> dosmax. (And before anyone says something - I've tried to get Arachne
> online without dosmax loaded).
> And the RAMDrive is for a minimum one that has a copy of my autoexec.bat
> (to boot a little faster) and command.com (to exit programs a little faster).
> Another interesting thing is this litle item in your memmory:
> EMM386 4,144 (4K) 4,144 (4K) 0 (0K)
> while mine is:
> EMM386 3,248 (3K) 3,248 (3K) 0 (0K)
> Probably due to that you use EMS:
>> Total Expanded (EMS) 24,444,928 (23,872K
>> Free Expanded (EMS)* 21,643,264 (21,136K
>> * EMM386 is using XMS memory to simulate EMS memory as needed.
>> Free EMS memory may change as free XMS memory changes.
> Why are you using EMS instead of XMS?
> Do you have like this in config.sys?
> DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS /TESTMEM:OFF
> DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE noems highscan
> dos=high,umb
> Otherwise change to this, it should give you more free memmory (and XMS
> instead of EMS).
> And you also wrote:
>> I really did not understand how this worked before your explanation.
> Perhaps this is an issue we (more experienced users) should be more aware
> of? (A small how-to perhaps - or a start of the SURVPC FAQ? Of course what
> I wrote is far from anything that might be usefull for someone who doesn't
> understand anything. Ah well just a thought).
YES..!! let us start a thread...you call it anything you want....I've
just temporarily called it "system optimization".....first topic
is optimize conventional memory.....then we can collect the thread and
post it as an archive, and keep adding topics to it....then we don't
have to be asking ( and answering) the same questions again and again.
> And why do you run share.exe ? The only time I run this is when I have the
> Novell Metwork started... (If you know that you need it let it be,
> otherwise "rem it out" and when you find that a program doesn't work
> anymore just un-rem the share line and try the program again.)
> Also setver.exe is only if you want to fake another DOS version (might be
> needed to run ex. xcopy.exe)
> Also it's better to put as much as possible in the upper memmory IMO. So if
> I could run Arachne I would put EPPPD in the upper memmory by moving
> keyb.com down (the keyboard driver for you who don't know) removing dosmax
> and moving ctmouse down.
> I still think it would be a very good thing if ctmouse and ctmousep could
> be added to the Arachne distribution package. How many people even know
> that a mouse requires a driver? It wouldn't add much to the total size of
> Arachne anyway.
But, some or us don't run mouseys....I run alpsey and need my
amouse.com.
> That addition will probably be removed by adding apm.exe and unarj.exe
> together - I've saved ca 14K on it sofar (but since it isn't working
> properly who cares <g> (I lost the source code and needed to start all over
> again, and strangely enough nothing worked directly this time - not even
> compiling it as it was).
Anyway....if we don't start this thread....I still want your config
and autoexec.....I'm gonna tweak my own boxes.....
ADDED thought....there has gotta be a way to load EPPD..high...I
mean, way up....above 1M....it's a driver, right?...so, there
must be some way to get it running up there...
gregy
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Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2000 11:37:08 -0800 (PST)
From: "Jorge Alex Ortega O." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: happy new year and Y2K!!!
well, well ,well....
Many thanx for everyone that reply my last mail...
now i know many interestings words in english and
another good ideas to aplies to my 16-bit arsenal....
Actually i don have much time to read all the mail,
because in this time we get in 'vacations time'(?) so
i don't have a real good connection between january
and march of 2000... reasons???Many.. but i think that
it will be bored to share this with all of you,
arachnemaniacs :)
So no mas...
(that's all folks in my dialect :)
J.
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