On Fri, 7 Jan 2000 18:37:26 -0500 (EST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Stephen
Baxter) wrote:
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> URLs of Useful Utilities Sought
> Many thanks to Michael G and Gregy for their persistent indefatigable
> pursuit of solutions here in the Digest that has been so educational for
> non-gurus like me. Many thanks too to the responding Arachnid gurus who
> have never lost patience in areas that many would consider arcane. They
Steven......I thing so too.....all Michael Dawley and I have done is
ask questions....and ask questions...and.....
The real grunt work has been done by the likes of Sam/Glenn/Bernie/
et all....
> have set a new standard in addressing these problems and all the others
> throughout the year that makes this list, as has been already
> acknowledged, the best on the Net. All this bodes remarkably well for
> Arachne in this last year of the 20th century that will undoubtedly mark
> the milestone launching of the only effective and stable DOS/Linux-based
> WEB browser in the world. May the books be reopened next December to
> salute this as the other Michael's significant contribution to the dying
> millennium!
> About those URLs for useful utilities:
> - My PS/2 with DOS 6.2 reverted to April 1980 on Jan 1, but accepted
> and retained the new year when entered under DATE at the DOS prompt.
> My Win3.1 File Manager dates new year entries as "1/7/:0" instead of
> the expected "1/7/00" What is the URL from which I can download the
> fixing patch?
Steven...this will be the service ftp site for IBM...I disremember
their URL, but it is on their www.ibm.com homepage...they have a
whole series of ftp servers up in Boulder, Colorado...
> - I was astonished to find that my Lotus Organizer Release 1.1 gave me
> yet another year, but 2000 will be the last. Is there an upgrade
> available from the WEB that will work with Win3.1 to extend use into
> the next millennium?
...same place as the above....however, what fix, I don't know...if
seems someone mentioned this problem on this list recently, so you
might check the last two digests...
> - A good backup discipline is my main protection from viruses, but that
> "CMOS Boot Sector Write Alarm" seems a good tool to install. From
> where? Otherwise I have used McAfee ever since infected with Monkey
..this is a tough on.....since I believe you do NOT have a CMOS
BIOS that has it in there.....IBM chooses to "do their own thing"
and some of their boxes do not have a standard AMI/AWARD/PHOENIX
CMOS BIOS in them....most "clones" have one of these BIOS's in
them, and you access this at bootup....if the PCCompany BBS
was still up, I'd go on therre and have an answer for you overnight,
but it will take a couple of days to get back with you.....however,
one of the "sharpies" on this list probably has the answer on the
tip of his tongue, right now...<g> <g> <g.
> several years ago, but the more recent issues seem beyond
> installation for me. Besides that, a TSR Sentry seems to slow me
> down too much. How susceptible are Arachnids anyway to infection?
...someone recently answered my own question about this...you can
check the recent digests for more detail....but, it boils down to
----arachne is a DOS program....it doesn't sneak around in the
background running things it has just downloaded from the net
without waiting for you to tell it to....so...if you tell it to
do something stupid...it will...otherwise your probably safe...
I have quit worrying about it....I just run my virus check on the
stuff I get off the web, offline, out-of-arachne, before I run it.
(and I do have that CMOS Bios Alarm set, too.
> - Finally, a silly one. Years of correspondence files using my own
> naming convention [eg "91231a}.arc"] to keep them in chronological
> order whether incoming[{] or outgoing[}] has been thrown for a loop.
> I have adopted "o" for the year for now, but there has to be a better
> way!?
...what is wrong with "01231a.arc", anyway...? it is your system..
you are happy with it....why change now.....you're not coming down
with an acute case of "post-y2k panic"...are you...? <g g g>
> The new thread on System Optimization seems promising. I hope the
> results will be summarized in Teilnehmer's outstanding Arachne Help Page
> in due course, together with all the other recent discoveries.
gregy
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