arachne-digest Thursday, January 6 2000 Volume 01 : Number 927 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2000 13:36:39 +0200 From: Sergei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: (OT) Re: Happu Y2K ;-)))) Glenn McCorkle wrote: > The cover? Do computers _have_ covers??? > OH yeah, that's the thing I removed from mine the day I got it. > It's around here somewhere.<vbg> > > -- > Glenn McCorkle mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes i remove it too, few months ago. And you know, wiping very sweet coffee with milk from CPUs and videocard, and replacing of Thunderbird dual celeron (250$) motherboard and Tekram Ultra160SCSI/FireWire (400$) adapter was costly and boring for me. :)) Sergei ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2000 14:08:09 +0200 From: Sergei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Hot Brain Bernie wrote: > > It's almost become bad habits for me to ask even if I know the > answer and for them to answer if I don't ask (often the answer is > that they don't know). Yeah. I love to do same. Especially about Linux and my favorite FreeBSD. Its funny to see how they try to find someone (without any result) in shop who know answers. Sergei - -- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2000 14:07:37 +0200 From: Sergei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Happu Y2K ;-)))) Bernie wrote: > > I've also got an AMIGA 12000 which is rather useless (espacially since I > can't find all the workbench disks, and haven't found any "abondonware" > (latest release of Workbench is from October IIRC) site that lets me > download them in a binary form). > Bernie, when you begin to clean your room, clean up Amiga 1200 and if it have HDD and 68040 processor card send it to me ;) If it have not HDD and 68040, send it anyway ;) My Amiga 600 was crashed few years ago. And i was too busy to purchase Amiga 4000. Sergei - -- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2000 13:36:39 +0200 From: Sergei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: (OT) Re: Happu Y2K ;-)))) Glenn McCorkle wrote: > The cover? Do computers _have_ covers??? > OH yeah, that's the thing I removed from mine the day I got it. > It's around here somewhere.<vbg> > > -- > Glenn McCorkle mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes i remove it too, few months ago. And you know, wiping very sweet coffee with milk from CPUs and videocard, and replacing of Thunderbird dual celeron (250$) motherboard and Tekram Ultra160SCSI/FireWire (400$) adapter was costly and boring for me. :)) Sergei ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2000 19:14:01 +0200 From: Sergei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Frozen PC ;) Well, i not familiar with Fahrengheit degrees, so 35F means absolutely nothing to me, but as i remember in Celcium degrees it must be 5/9*(35-32)=1.66666 C so it not very cold for chips, but at this temperature begins to be condensed moisture, and shorts circuits inside of chip and at boards and, what is worst of all, inside of hard drive. Almost all computers tend to crash at this conditions, exept industrial and military ones. Sergei "Samuel W. Heywood" wrote: > If the inside temperature goes down to about 35 degrees F, my computer will > crash. The hard drive will still be spinning. There's no way to reboot it > until inside temperatures again rise to about 65 degrees F. In the > summertime, my computer will crash if the inside temperature rises to about > 85 degrees F. > > I understand that computer crashes are very common at temperatures above > what is considered normal room temperature. I think it is highly unusual > for my computer to crash at temperatures of about 35 degrees F. Don't > most computers work OK at temperatures this cold? > > Sam Heywood ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2000 13:36:39 +0200 From: Sergei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: (OT) Re: Happu Y2K ;-)))) Glenn McCorkle wrote: > The cover? Do computers _have_ covers??? > OH yeah, that's the thing I removed from mine the day I got it. > It's around here somewhere.<vbg> > > -- > Glenn McCorkle mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes i remove it too, few months ago. And you know, wiping very sweet coffee with milk from CPUs and videocard, and replacing of Thunderbird dual celeron (250$) motherboard and Tekram Ultra160SCSI/FireWire (400$) adapter was costly and boring for me. :)) Sergei ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 03:23:41 +0200 From: Sergei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Temperature inside case For some ATX cases (IBM, Sunnygroup and Compaq, maybe other) opened cover do not allow good circulation of air. At my Sunnygroup with opened cover temperature inside going up to 80C. With closed cover - near 58C. Also small piece of sealing tape reduce temperature at 6C. But i have very overclocked CPU (300 to 710 MHz), 5 PCI, 2 ISA, 1 AGP cards installed and 2 HDD(10000rpm), 70TrueX CDROM and CDRW inside. Big copper radiator (handmade by myself) for processor reduce his temperature at almoust 8C. Also i force power and HDD fans to stop (with 5 mercury termosensors) when temperature inside of power supply and case less then optimal for non-military silicon base dchips (60C) . Sergei Bernie wrote: > Sergei wrote: > >If you have ATX case, you may try to add one more fan, or > >bigger copper radiator to CPU. Also try to open case and check work > >without cover. > > The cover? I haven't had it on for a long long time now... (might be a > problem since the fan is pushing hot air upwards, otherwise it would be > pushed away and up by it's own heat. > //Bernie > http://hem1.passagen.se/bernie/index.htm DOS programs, Star Wars ... - -- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 04:05:17 +0200 From: Sergei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Cascading style shhets Rebel wrote: > Hi > > Does Arachne support CSS? > Or will? > I realy need to know, because i am building a big web place > at job and i would like to make it Arachne compatible. > > Thx. > > Rebel Nop So what for you ned it , anyway ? - -- Sergei ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 14:47:23 +0000 From: Steven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: acrodos link update... Clarence Verge wrote: > > There is only ONE version of acrobat for DOS and, although > it is worth trying, and works VERY well for early .pfds, > these a***oles at Adobe keep changing the standard > So, while it won't crash your hardware, I find it useless > for viewing technical docs made available by most electronic > and semiconductor manufacturers - unless the file was created > before 1997. I suppose you know about the pdf-to-text converter at: - ------------------ [EMAIL PROTECTED] - ------------------ Simply put the URL of the PDF file in the body of your message. Cheers, Steven ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 20:31:29 +0000 From: "Michael L. Dawley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Fw: Re: A way to let DOS apps to access Winmodems and USB modem Seeing this item in this thread gives me something I can try on my Arachne installation on my Toshiba Notebook with Win 98 and Pentium II 266. I can't get past the "no packet driver found" on it, but I am beginning to realize what has happened, per this: - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ (begin quote) "Using a Windoze 95 machine, I have found that I can get a WinModem to work while in DOS mode provided I click on START > SHUT DOWN > RESTART IN MS-DOS MODE. The WinModem won't work from a "DOS-box", nor will it work if I hit F8 just before Windoze boots, and then select "Command prompt only". In any event it will not run large DOS communications apps such as Bobcat and Arachne. It seems that the Windoze drivers are hungry for the conventional DOS memory. One thing I don't understand: Why will the WinModem work if I click on "Restart in MS-DOS mode", but it will not work in a "DOS-box", nor will it work from the F8 > "Command prompt only" method of accessing DOS? Does anybody know the answer? I sure don't understand it. It would seem to me that the same Windoze drivers would be running in the background even when you are in a "DOS-box", or similarly if you resort to the F8 > "Command prompt only" method." (end quote) - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ These newer machines come fully loaded with win 98, etc. and it is assumed that DOS applications won't be run, only win 98 stuff. That makes it kinda tough on Arachne & epppd.exe to find a place to settle down<g>. - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks, Michael L. Dawley Pearl, Mississippi Compaq Deskpro 575 - Pegasus Mail for Windows ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2000 21:07:39 -0500 From: "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: (OT) Re: HIMEM.SYS, are there different versions? L.D., Are you speaking of the file size differences between the 2 versions? If so, I'm sorry to say that there's a problem in your math. File size does not determine memory requirements. A program _might_ use more memory than the file size. EPPPD.EXE 49258 9-19-97 9:39p 02F4:0000 EPPPD 11210h 70,160 Program Or it _might_ use less. DRMOUSE.COM 17559 9-03-98 12:15p FD4F:0000 DRMOUSE 1990h 6,544 Program BTW, EPPPD does not load high on my system because...... Memory Type Total Bytes ( Kbytes ) Available For Programs Conventional 655,360 ( 640K ) 566,784 ( 554K ) Upper 307,040 ( 300K ) 128,112 ( 125K ) High 65,520 ( 64K ) 3,096 ( 3K ) Extended 66,060,288 ( 64,512K ) 0 ( 0K ) Extended via XMS -------- 15,718,400 ( 15,350K ) EMS 83,017,728 ( 81,072K ) 15,728,640 ( 15,360K ) Largest executable program: 566,752 ( 553K ) � Total Free DOS memory: 694,896 ( 679K ) � (it would be nice if EPPPD could load into "upper" as a second choice) On Wed, 05 Jan 2000 16:02:53 -0400, L.D. Best wrote: > Have to admit it -- I thought this was all so much bunk, of little > consequence, etc. > Then I went and did a quick check, and was flabbergasted! I have DOS > 5.0 and 6.22, and both have HIMEM.SYS. The 5.0 version is about 11K, > while the 6.22 version is almost 30K!! That could be the difference > between being able to run Arachne and not being able to. > However, if a person has to load SETVER to run the 5.0 v of HIMEM in an > otherwise 6.x version of DOS, will there be any saving of memory? Well, > I couldn't leave that question hanging so did another check. SETVER.EXE > v. 6.22 is 12,015 bytes -- that's only 8 bytes bigger than v 5.0. Doing > a bit of math, it would seem that there is a savings in memory even if > you have to use SETVER. > 29K - 11K = ~18K possible savings in memory using v 5.0 HIMEM > - 12K if you have to use SETVER to use " " " " " " > ----- > Leaving ~6K net savings in memory by using older version HIMEM > I knew there were a couple of good reasons I persist in running DOS 5.0 > when I could move "upward"; this discovery today verifies I am > apparently doing the right thing. > l.d. > ==== > On Tue, 4 Jan 2000 21:54:53 +0100 (MET), Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> Sam Heywood wrote: >>> Do any of you folks know if there are different versions of >>> HIMEM.SYS? >> Sure, for instance the switch "/TestMem:Off" isn't available on all >> (MS-DOS, dunno about the others) >>> If there are different versions, which versions work with which >>> versions of DOS? >> I think any will work. I haven't heard of a .sys file that required any >> certain version (but if so it could be fixed with "setver"). >>> Do any of you know of a download site for HIMEM.SYS? >> Nope, try to find complete downloads of DOS if you want it. >> Why do you ask? Perhaps someone use less memmory then the other? The hunt >> for the almighty free byte in low memmory continues... >> //Bernie >> http://hem1.passagen.se/bernie/index.htm DOS programs, Star Wars ... > -- Arachne V1.50;s.r.c., NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://home.arachne.cz/ - -- 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/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2000 22:16:11 -0500 From: "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Funny sites * This message is in MIME format. - --MIME-multipart-message-boundary-947128572 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Oh, that's easy.<g> Edit reply.htp and add these lines (as many as you'de like), just before the current "attach" lines. Be sure to use the full path to where the file is located. (with drive letter if it's on another drive) <!--begin new section--> <INPUT TYPE=TEXT SIZE=15 NAME="$ATTACH" VALUE="examples\arachne.gif"> <!--begin original section--> <INPUT TYPE=TEXT SIZE=15 NAME="$ATTACH"> That's it. Arachne.gif will now get attached to every reply. (you can make the same changes to sendmail.ah and sendfile.ah) I'll use my edited reply.htp to automatically attach the Arachne logo which is already in our arachne_main\examples directory.<g> On Wed, 05 Jan 2000 16:28:02 -0400, L.D. Best wrote: > OK, I went there and collected some GIF files. > Now I need a genius to tell me how to write a signature *script* of some > sort which will always attach those GIFs in the signature portion of my > messages. <G> I'd try embedding them, but from what some MS users have > told me in the past, they can't view embedded stuff in their mail. > Waiting with worm on tongue ... > l.d. > ==== > On Tue, 4 Jan 2000 22:53:19 +0100 (MET), Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> http://www.ihatewindows98.com/ >> http://www.ihatebillgates.com/ >> What would you do if you met Bill Gates? >> http://www.ihatewindows98.com/cgi-bin/www.ihatewindows98.com/poll9.pl >> //Bernie >> http://hem1.passagen.se/bernie/index.htm DOS programs, Star Wars ... > -- Arachne V1.50;s.r.c., NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://home.arachne.cz/ - -- Glenn McCorkle mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] North Jackson, Ohio, USA Arachne, The Web Browser for DOS Open the 'DOOR' to the WWW. 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F. (I turn the thermostat down to 60 at night and this rear room where the computer was located is colder than that in the winter.) I could hear the hard drive running, I could hear the head moving across the disk, I could hear the head move back and start over again. It was a MFM 20 MB HD, so I ran Spinrite's low level formating on it and bad cluster after bad cluster came up. After 13 years, the HD finally gave out! This might be the situation with your ACER --- that the HD is getting ready to go. If you don't have it backed up, you probably should do that as soon as possible and not have the situation of a power outage shutting off your computer for you. Roger Turk Tucson, Arizona USA Samuel W. Heywood wrote: >>My computer is an Acer 386sx., ca. 1990. It has no CPU fan, but it does have a fan to blow hot air out of the case and to suck cooler air back inside the case. If running, it will crash if the ambient temperature falls to around 35 F. If turned off, it cannot be made to boot again unless the ambient temperature is approx. in the range of > 65 F. and < 85 F. If left running, it will continue to operate even if ambient temperatures should rise to the 90's. Also, if turned off for a long period, it won't boot for at least 15 minutes after being turned on. The hard drive always spins up immediately. I think it is about time to replace the motherboard. My computer didn't used to suffer from any temperature-related quirks a couple of years ago.<< ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 01:11:14 -0500 (EST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Howard Eisenberger) Subject: Re: dos basic TCP/IP "Michael L. Dawley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Here's an interesting quote from the web page referenced in this >thread:(http://www.ncf.ca/~ag221/dosppp.html) >"I have learned from experience that it is probably better to start >with smaller applications such as ping and finger to test the packet >driver setup before trying the browsers, all of which use up most of >conventional memory, so that what might appear to be a >connection problem is more likely to be a memory problem." That's me. :-) I wrote this two or three years ago when a few of us at the National Capital FreeNet were struggling with Bobcat and early Arachne using etherppp or Klos packet driver on 286's and low-end 386's. Since we had already been using terminal programs for dialup shell access for a long time, modem (dialer) issues had been resolved, which left the packet driver and actual application to deal with. When things went wrong (as they so often did), it seemed helpful to me to be able to test the loading of the packet driver before attempting to run any large program that might crash or hang, as some of these early versions seemed prone to do. More recently, it seems to me that the modem part of the equation may be causing more problems for new users. Currently I use epppd with chat, but it's not that hard to use any terminal program as a dialer before loading epppd. Howard Eisenberger Ottawa, Canada - -- DOS TCP/IP for NCF **** <URL:http://www.ncf.ca/~ag221/dosppp.html> ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 01:21:30 -0400 From: "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: HIMEM.SYS, are there different versions? On Wed, 05 Jan 2000 16:02:53 -0400, L.D. Best wrote: > Have to admit it -- I thought this was all so much bunk, of little > consequence, etc. > Then I went and did a quick check, and was flabbergasted! I have DOS > 5.0 and 6.22, and both have HIMEM.SYS. The 5.0 version is about 11K, > while the 6.22 version is almost 30K!! That could be the difference > between being able to run Arachne and not being able to. <snip> Hello again L.D.: It seems that you, more than anyone else on this list, have truly understood why I had posted my questions about HIMEM.SYS. Good thinking, L.D.! Sam Heywood - -- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Alternative WWW Browser ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 01:11:02 -0400 From: "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Funny sites On Wed, 05 Jan 2000 16:28:02 -0400, L.D. Best wrote: > OK, I went there and collected some GIF files. > Now I need a genius to tell me how to write a signature *script* of some > sort which will always attach those GIFs in the signature portion of my > messages. <G> I'd try embedding them, but from what some MS users have > told me in the past, they can't view embedded stuff in their mail. Hello L.D., They probably *can* read embedded GIFs in their mail, but their bosses don't *allow* them to open any embedded file. Out of fear of letting a virus escape into the system, many corporations have a policy of not allowing their employees to open embedded attachments. There is a clever work-around. Just don't send the GIFs as embedded attachments to email. Send them simply as ascii text by use of UUENCODE. The recipient can then UUDECODE the ascii text files and then view the GIF's with his browser or some other graphics file viewer. This way the recipient can remain in compliance with management policies that prohibit the opening of embedded attachments. UUENCODE will convert almost any binary file to ascii text. UUDECODE will convert the UUENCODED ascii text file to binary. To stay out of trouble we should endeavor to observe rules, regulations, and policies. Simply working around the rules is not the same as violating them. Every smart-alec lawyer who knows how to win a case would agree with me on that point <g>. Sam Heywood - -- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Alternative WWW Browser ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 02:49:55 -0500 (EST) From: "Thomas Mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Viewing Cyrillic characters I believe Emacs and Xemacs have module(s) for international characters including Cyrillic. As far as I know, Emacs, but not Xemacs, has been ported to DOS and OS/2 Warp. But I believe Linux does better than DOS or OS/2 for language versatility. Support the International Alliance for Compatible Technology http://pages.cthome.net/iact/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 02:53:59 -0400 From: "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Happu Y2K ;-)))) On Wed, 5 Jan 2000 22:45:28 -0500, Roger Turk wrote: > Sam, <snip> > This might be the situation with your ACER --- that the HD is getting ready > to go. If you don't have it backed up, you probably should do that as soon > as possible and not have the situation of a power outage shutting off your > computer for you. I don't think the problem is with the hard drive, as that component is relatively very new. being only about a year and a half old. I installed it myself. Sam Heywood - -- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Alternative WWW Browser ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 09:22:48 +0100 From: "Rebel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Cascading style shhets From: "Sergei" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Rebel wrote: > > > Hi > > > > Does Arachne support CSS? > > Or will? > > I realy need to know, because i am building a big web place > > at job and i would like to make it Arachne compatible. > > > > Thx. > > > > Rebel > > Nop > So what for you ned it , anyway ? > -- > Sergei I'm just curious. Rebel Programozasi segedletek, hardware-software ismertetok: www.extra.hu/doksi ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 11:50:44 +0100 (MET) From: Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Happu Y2K ;-)))) Sergei wrote: >Bernie, when you begin to clean your room, clean up Amiga >1200 and if it have HDD and 68040 processor card send it >to me ;) I would have done so, but is a 680E20 IIRC. (It's a cheap 68020) So I guess you aren't interested? //Bernie http://hem1.passagen.se/bernie/index.htm DOS programs, Star Wars ... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 10:10:53 -0800 From: "Gregory J. Feig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: acrodos link update... On Thu, 06 Jan 2000 14:47:23 +0000, Steven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: - ---------snip------- > I suppose you know about the pdf-to-text converter at: > ------------------ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ------------------ > Simply put the URL of the PDF file in the body of your > message. > Cheers, > Steven Yaay.! Steven.....this is the sort of thing I was going looking for....in fact, it is EXactly what i want..... ....now if anyone knew where some smart utility writer had parked a little jewel that would convert Ms excel .XLS files to TXT, then I would be in fat city.......Thank you all much... gregy - -- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 09:26:20 -0800 From: "Gregory J. Feig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Thumb Screws On Wed, 5 Jan 2000 17:02:18 -0600 (CST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have my case in place but no screws installed. Cuts down on the drive/fan > noise. You can buy thumb type case screws that do not require a tool to > install/remove if you want the convenience of easy access and still be able > to install your cover. Dale....Where..? Jameco.? JDR.?...DigiKey.?...I've never seen any. gregy - -- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 13:23:01 -0500 From: Roger Turk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Thumb Screws Gregy, Just about any computer store that sells Curtis products. They are nylon and called "Speed Screws" and I have had them on my computers for years. You can also go to Ace Hardware and get steel thumb screws (butterfly screws), but they cost more than the Curtis "Speed Screws." The size is 6-32, IIRC. (Take one of your case screws with you if you go to Ace Hardware to make sure you get the right size and thread.) Roger Turk Tucson, Arizona USA Gregy wrote: >>Dale....Where..? Jameco.? JDR.?...DigiKey.?...I've never seen any. gregy<< ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 13:26:27 -0800 From: Clarence Verge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: HIMEM.SYS, are there different versions? L.D. Best wrote: > > Have to admit it -- I thought this was all so much bunk, of little > consequence, etc. > > Then I went and did a quick check, and was flabbergasted! I have DOS > 5.0 and 6.22, and both have HIMEM.SYS. The 5.0 version is about 11K, > while the 6.22 version is almost 30K!! That could be the difference > between being able to run Arachne and not being able to. Hi L.D.; Well, it looks like one more person may understand why I use DOS 3.3 instead of the latest FAT #%*@. I DO wish I could find an upgrade to 3.31 tho. - - Clarence Verge - -- - - Help stamp out FATWARE. As a start visit: http://home.arachne.cz/ - -- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 21:43:18 +0100 From: "Gerald Kucera" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: UNIVESA adaptor To: Jorge Alex Ortega, I try to send my mail I wrote to you to the list because yahoo says you don't have an adress there at : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello J. Ortega, you wrote to the Arachne list that you have tested Arachne on many computers. One of them was a Compaq Contura 4000. It has a special display and you had to install an universal UNIVESA software adapter. I have a similar problem because I use an old IBM 9517 semi fixfrequency monitor. Arachne is only visible in a very flickering and distorted image. I looked for UNIVESA and found the SciTechDisplayDoctor. With this Doctor I got a very good Arachne image. But Arachne could not establish a PPP link any more. Miniterm dials and gets a connection to my provider and then the screen says: "leaving miniterm trying SLIP/PPP" and after a time "no PPP link". Then I cleared out the DisplayDoctor and Arachne is able to connect like before. Did you have a similar experience? If yes, how did you solve the problem? Which adaptor did you use? Please, give me the exact name so I can try it. I would appreciate any help. I am a beginner with computers so, please, be very detailed with informations. You probably have noticed my bad English but it is not my mother language. Looking forward to your answere Gerald P.S.: I do not understand what happend to the same text I sent as an attachment to the List on 5. Jan. ------------------------------ End of arachne-digest V1 #927 *****************************
