arachne-digest Saturday, January 8 2000 Volume 01 : Number 930 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2000 00:01:30 -0500 From: Mark David Roth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: My inbox is a blank screen I'm sorry for repeating this message. I had the Arachne Fan Club mailing list turned off by accident so I wasn't able to read any relpies to it. I am using Arachne v1.50 SRC. I restored Arachne to a different drive then it was on originally. I changed the drive references in all my CFG and ACF files. When I go to Inbox I get a blank screen. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2000 01:19:05 -0400 From: "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: My inbox is a blank screen On Sat, 8 Jan 2000 00:01:30 -0500, Mark David Roth wrote: > I'm sorry for repeating this message. I had the Arachne Fan Club mailing > list turned off by accident so I wasn't able to read any relpies to it. > I am using Arachne v1.50 SRC. I restored Arachne to a different drive then > it was on originally. I changed the drive references in all my CFG and ACF > files. When I go to Inbox I get a blank screen. Hello Mark: The solution to your problem is to follow the advice found on a very old posting to the list. I quote as follows: - ----------- begin quoted posting --------- >From: "Guenter Bietzig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Organization: Arachne Fan Club >Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 09:36:28 +0100 >X-Mailer: Arachne V1.5a;alpha >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: retrieving old messages >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 >Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Precedence: bulk >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Status: Hi Anand, On Tue, 18 May 1999 22:22:12 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there a way to get old messages from this mailing list sent to me > again? Windows crashed after I recieved about fifty messages and I lost > everything from the last day or so before reading it. send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with these 2 lines in the body: get arachne-digest v01.n625 end Replace '625' with digest # you want. Regards Guenter Bietzig, Essen, Germany. Arachne BUG-,CRASH-,WISH-& LOVElist at: Arachne Help Page http://www.germany.net/teilnehmer/101,124262/gb.htm - ------------- end quoted posting ----------------------- Sam Heywood - -- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Alternative WWW Browser ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2000 11:43:11 +0300 From: "Vasily Zatsepin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Mouse slows down? On Fri, 07 Jan 2000 11:07:16 +0000, Charles Boisvert and Catherine Clinton wrote: > Hi all, > I've just installed arachne to demonstrate it at the college where I work. > Setting the preferences I found the mouse pointer reacted so slowly I could > hardly use the mouse at all. It seems to be related to longer pages > (personal preferences, which is a long scroll, was a problem, but in > pages with no scrolling at all the mouse worked perfectly). I tried > different settings for visual screens and memory but to no effect. > Any idea where it can come from and what I can do about it? The computer > is a fast laptop and I run arachne from win 95, offline (for now). Hi, 1) Smooth scrolling may cause problem in mouse work even in pure DOS. 2) There are some probs with slow mouse in Option pages (at least they were on my Leading Edge 486SLC 25 MHz with M$ 6.22). Formerly it was regarded as "jerky mouse" IMHO. 3) Arachne runs pretty well in winDOw$ 98 (if sometimes instead mouse we'll press some keys it does not spoil overall pretty picture ;-). Good luck, - -- - Vasily Zatsepin | mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Arachne WWW browser v.1.50 SRC - registered Visit http://arachne.browser.org/ - Web browser for DOS ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2000 04:18:08 -0500 (EST) From: "Thomas Mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: HIMEM.SYS, are there different versions? > 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, How do you read any disk or partition > 32 MB with DOS 3.3? I believe Compaq DOS 3.31 had that capability, but not MS-DOS or PC-DOS prior to v4. When I got my original PC, I got MS-DOS 4.01, felt relieved of the limitations of DOS 3.3. Now DR-DOS 7.03 feels like a big step forward from MS-DOS 6.22. to Sam Heywood: Is your Iomega Zip drive parallel or SCSI? Support the International Alliance for Compatible Technology http://pages.cthome.net/iact/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2000 08:07:21 -0500 (EST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Howard Eisenberger) Subject: Re: dos basic TCP/IP "Michael L. Dawley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Currently I use epppd >>with chat, but it's not that hard to use any terminal program as >>a dialer before loading epppd. > >One problem I have with using Netdial to establish a connection >and install a packet driver ahead of booting up Arachne is this: >If I hangup with ALT-H, then I have to start all over again.<g>. >With the regular Arachne setup, (no netdial), I can just ALT-D >and get back on, leaving Arachne up and running while I was >disconnected. My approach is different. I have two batch files. One to start PPP and one to stop. I use several DOS Internet programs that I run on top of the same setup. There are others I haven't tried yet. Sometimes when I go online, I use Arachne, quite often I don't. I never use Alt-H to hangup, but Alt-X to exit Arachne, so I can do something else. When I'm done, my second batch file simply runs termin.com, which unloads the packet driver and hangs up the phone. >I doubt there is an easy solution, and to be honest, I am happy >with the Netdial-Arachne combo like it is. The main thing is that you've successfully loaded the packet driver and configured Arachne (wattcp). I played around with many different "combos", until I came up with one that I was comfortable with. I learned quite a bit from my mistakes.:-) Howard Eisenberger Ottawa, Canada - -- DOS TCP/IP for NCF **** <URL:http://www.ncf.ca/~ag221/dosppp.html> ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2000 13:18:28 +0100 (CET) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Menedetter) Subject: Re: load EPPPD high Hi "Michael L. Dawley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: MD> I figured out how to get my smartdrv loaded high. Strangely, MD> I had more than one line to run smartdrv in my config.sys MD> and autoexec.bat, and the computer used the first one it MD> came to. In config.sys it is usually used to do double_buffering for SCSI drives. MD> Michael L. Dawley CU, Ricsi - -- Richard Menedetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ICQ: 7659421] {RSA-PGP Key avail.} - -=> Press to test... <Click> Release to detonate... <=- ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2000 09:08:09 -0500 From: "Sam Ewalt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: NewDeal [ was Re: Re-using old systems] On Fri, 07 Jan 2000 20:23:05 -0400, L.D. Best wrote: > I took a look, and must heartily disagree that they complement Arachne. > They would probably, if they could, stop Arachne in its tracks. They > sell their own internet "suite" complete with browser, etc ... or so > they say. Despite their talk of being an alternative to "bloated > software" they seem to produce their own brand ... things that must run > together and won't run seperately. Yes, NewDeal Office is an updated version of Geoworks 3.xx. It is ten years old for the most part with some revisions and updating. The internet stuff is recent. It is a better GUI than MS-Windows. More stable, much smaller, advanced features like long filenames and so on, running on a 286. Maybe I'll try the browser. - -- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client - -- Arachne V1.50;s.r.c., NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://home.arachne.cz/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2000 15:27:52 +0000 From: "Joerg Bartels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Arachne on TV and arcademachine On Sat, 08 Jan 2000 06:39:06 +0200, Or Botton wrote: > I've been trying to figure out an (inexpencive) way to connect > my computer to the TV screen for years! Can you please describe > how did you do it? (Besides, I always wanted to turn the 486 I have > into a "multi-functional DOS based WebTV" using Arachne and abunch > of utilities.. (I think that I can get an infra-red keyboard + > touchpad for it for rather cheap.). > The television sets in my country are using the PAL system. > Or Botton > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > - "Truth is stranger than fiction, because fiction has to make sense." > ----------------------------- > http://members.xoom.com/dsdp/ At short-notice: Take a look at http://elvis.inf.tu-dresden.de/~koehler/tv_50hz_svga/index.html for how to setup a electronic free VGA>SCART cable for a PAL-TV. Try a Google-search: vgatv or vga2tv or vgatotv or vgascart or pctojamma. speak you later - -- Arachne V1.50;s.r.c., NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://home.arachne.cz/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2000 14:35:51 +0000 From: "Edenyard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: arachne-digest V1 #926 On Thu, 6 Jan 2000 02:08:51 +0100, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: > Subject: Re: Happu Y2K ;-)))) > According to a recent post by Glenn McCorkle, a computer is supposed to > be able to operate from temperatures as low as 20 F. and as high as > 120 F. ( If my memory is serving me well, I believe those are the figures > he mentioned. ) > 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. > Although I can't recall the exact figures for temperature extremes, I'm sure that Glenn cannot be far off. I'd suspect a capacitor on the blink on the motherboard, probably in the reset circuit. It could also possibly be the "Power-Good" signal coming from the power supply, since that is used in the reset circuit on the motherboard. In either case, probably and electrolytic capacitor is succumbing to the 'extreme' cold and perhaps holding the CPU or the whole system in reset. May be worth a look on the motherboard or in the power supply before condemning the system, perhaps. Hope this helps! Ron. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2000 14:30:38 +0000 From: "Edenyard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Acrodos On Thu, 6 Jan 2000 02:08:51 +0100, someone wrote: > Subject: Re: acrodos link update... >> > BUT: Do you know if these DOS versions of the Adobe Acrobat Reader can >> > read all the newest PDF files? I doubt it, because I experienced an >> > incompatibility (what a word!) trying to read a new *.pdf (I think it >> > was a manual for McAfee's virus scanner) with v2.0 of the Acrobat Reader >> > for 16-bit Windows. > I don't think that I'd bother any more at all with trying to use Acrodos. I went through all of this months ago and I found that most 'modern' .PDF chip data sheets, etc., simply wouldn't work with it. I ended up getting a version of Ghostscript. Now - its documentation is about as clear as mud, but after hours of fiddling, I can report that it will print out many more .PDF sheets than would Acrodos. A very handy by-product is that it will also print out postscript format to an ordinary laserjet, so we can AT LAST get decent print-outs from Arachne mail messages, web pages and so on. I use it by EXPORTING a .PS file using Alt-P in Arachne. Outside Arachne, I then call up Ghostscript to print the .PS file generated by Arachne. There is a suggestion that Arachne can invoke Ghostscript directly but this uses some sort of .DGI file, about which I know nothing - anyone else?? Ron. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2000 09:11:17 -0600 From: Peaceman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Arachne on TV and arcademachine how? - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joerg Bartels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 07, 2000 3:58 PM Subject: Arachne on TV and arcademachine > Hi, all ! > > I use Arachne on my TV-screen (but also on my arcademachine :) ) > just because it�s functional and funny. Like you know it is very easy to > interface vga or svga videosignals (without electronics ! ) to a TV or > aracdemachine with high RGB quality, it's mostly like plug in your > pc-monitor, because of some smart DOS- ! software like VGATV or ArcadeOS. > So there is no need for expensive hardware like a internetTV-box, > scannconverter or VoodooXXL with bad TV-out, 4 GB and $$$ videocard. > Thanks to Arachne, a 486-pc and old vgacard out of the dustbin will > do the job. > My question: There are other maniacs out there uesing Arachne like me ? > What�s your experience ? What should be done to optimize Arachne for > slowscann, lowresolution monitors ? > > Thanks for reading > > Joerg Bartels > > -- Arachne V1.50;s.r.c., NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://home.arachne.cz/ > ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2000 15:37:59 +0000 From: Steve - RH Linux User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: How do I find? (Re: last link to acrodos...) Gregory J. Feig wrote: > 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 I can't answer for Glenn but as for me, I use Google. Have been since they first came online as beta. I find the results to be much more relevant than Altavista, and though they don't support boolean operators in the search parameters, it doesn't really seem to need them. In this case, just go to http://www.google.com and in the search parameter window enter "acrodos download" (without quotes). I didn't go check them all out, but at least half the the links on the first page appear to actually be places where you can download it. I got an e-mail the other day asking where you could buy front surfaced mirror on the web. Go to google, enter "front surface mirror sale" (again without quotes) and bam! The first two that pop up are exactly what he was looking for. I used to use Alta Vista for everything, but since Google has been around, I don't think I've used Alta Vista more than a couple times. Google is definitely *fast* and the results are almost always better than what you get with similar search strings in other search engines. - -- Steve Ackman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, New Age Forum http://www.delphi.com/newage Glass Host, Arts & Crafts http://www.delphi.com/crafts Metamorphosis Glassworks Page http://people.delphi.com/stackman ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2000 17:02:03 +0100 (MET) From: Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Arachne 4.1.60 = 1.60 I see that the new version is going to try and come around the websites locking browsers out that have a version string of less than 4. Cool and a very good idea! Can't wait to try it out... Arachne-xChaos/4.1.60;alfa (DOS x86;WATTCP/1.05; 800x600,HiColor; www.arachne.cz) (Taken from http://browserwatch.internet.com/stats/ua-1.html) //Bernie http://hem1.passagen.se/bernie/index.htm DOS programs, Star Wars ... ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2000 17:53:07 +0100 From: Hans-Juergen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: HIMEM.SYS, are there different versions? Hi Sam, you wrote on 04.01.00 to "HIMEM.SYS, are there different versions?": SWH> Do any of you folks know if there are different versions of SWH> HIMEM.SYS? Yes! (meaning: "I know" and "there are") ;-) SWH> If there are different versions, which versions work with which SWH> versions of DOS? MS-DOS 6.22 from 05/94 (the one I use now) has a v3.10 from 09/93 (which can only be seen inside) and Windows for Workgroups 3.11 from 11/93 (used every now and then) has its own built-in v2.00... SWH> Do any of you know of a download site for HIMEM.SYS? Microsoft? ;-) Hans-Juergen - -- ## CrossPoint v3.11 ## * ZQWKPro v1.1 [unregistered] - -+- OLMS 2000 UNREG ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2000 17:52:41 +0100 From: Hans-Juergen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: TSR virus checkers Hi Gregy, you wrote on 04.01.00 to "TSR virus checkers": GJF> QUESTION - does anyone run any tsr virus protection with GJF> Arachne....if so, what....I'm going to play with it, off-and-on GJF> for the next few days, and see if there is any way to make GJF> it work.....any thoughts are WELCOME..????? I use Thunderbyte Antivirus v8.11 for DOS all the time, it's a very fine virus scanner with TSR capabilities that exceed most of the other scanner programms - too many features to mention here... The only time I experienced problems with Arachne and TBAV was during the process of updating Arachne to v1.50src, because the TSR part of TBAV would not allow to start core.exe due to its changing. That's OK with a TSR virus protection, but it even didn't allow to show any reasonable screen information, so it took a while before I understood what was going on. Never had any difficulties with this combination since then... I'm not sure if TBAV is being updated any longer, there had been rumours that it wouldn't... I surely would regret it, because I would have to change to McAfee then. http://www.norman.nl Hans-Juergen - -- ## CrossPoint v3.11 ## * ZQWKPro v1.1 [unregistered] - -+- OLMS 2000 UNREG ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2000 18:09:11 +0100 (MET) From: Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: URLs of Useful Utilities Sought Gregy wrote: >> 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? Fraser Farrell has them on his site: FM for Win 3.1 - www.dove.net.au/~fraserf/w31fman.zip FM for Win Workgroups - www.dove.net.au/~fraserf/wfwfman.zip >> - 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 > >however, >one of the "sharpies" on this list probably has the answer on the >tip of his tongue, right now...<g> <g> <g. :) If you can switch to another BIOS this can be done. Either you need to remove the BIOS chip (very easy - I've had more problem inserting ISA cards than switching BIOSes, just be carefull so you don't bend the "legs" on it) or if you're a little lucky the BIOS you have can be rewritten. I've no idea if either of these are things you can do with your computer (read:BIOS). >> 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... Precisely, there are of course risks with Arachne (as with any program) but the chances that anyone will actually do anything is extremly small. First of all you as a user must have made an active choice which wasn't very wise (and no I'll not tell anyone what they are), secondly I doubt many users (espacially those that might want to harm other people) actually can find the weak spots an exploit them. >> - 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> Use a, b, c etc. as the first "number". Then you'll be safe for 27 (or something like that) years. By then you can probably start over from 0 - or why not switch to using 0 now and backup all the files from before somewere? Then every time the year has a 0 at the end you just back them all up. (Actually I noticed the same bug in the universitys user naming system, someone who still was a student after 10 years would end up getting information ment for people who just had started. But the normal case is 3 or 4 years for each student so that probably isn't a real bug). //Bernie http://hem1.passagen.se/bernie/index.htm DOS programs, Star Wars ... ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2000 12:09:07 -0800 From: "Gregory J. Feig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Arachne.....!.!.!. ALL..... We are all waiting anxiously for the new release of 1.60...and there has been many comments/complaints about its delay...also, many comments/complaints about previous versions, even 1.50src... I want to go on record....I have NEVER had such a useful and elegant program as Arachne....I have had NO insurmountable problems, and its bugs are mildly annoying.....I am getting to LOVE it, as I use it more and more.... I run some elegant programs, and operating systems....I am not a guru...just an end-user......this Arachne delights me, and increasingly so, after 2-months of hard use...... I hope 1.60 is an IMPROVEMENT, not an "updowngrade" (ala Mzbloat stuff)... gregy - -- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2000 11:52:03 -0800 From: "Gregory J. Feig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: TSR virus checkers On Sat, 08 Jan 2000 17:52:41 +0100, Hans-Juergen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: - -----------snip-------- > I use Thunderbyte Antivirus v8.11 for DOS all the time, it's a very > fine virus scanner with TSR capabilities that exceed most of the > other scanner programms - too many features to mention here... > The only time I experienced problems with Arachne and TBAV was during > the process of updating Arachne to v1.50src, because the TSR part of TBAV > would not allow to start core.exe due to its changing. That's OK with a > TSR virus protection, but it even didn't allow to show any reasonable > screen information, so it took a while before I understood what was going > on. Never had any difficulties with this combination since then... > I'm not sure if TBAV is being updated any longer, there had been > rumours that it wouldn't... I surely would regret it, because I > would have to change to McAfee then. Hans-Juergen ...........thank you....ref. my recent reply post to this list....someone pointed out that Arachne is pretty safe, all by itself, as long as we take our stuff offline and check it before we run it.....that makes sense......I'm still going to run with my CMOS Bios virus alarm ON, but nothing more than that... gregy - -- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2000 11:59:54 -0800 From: "Gregory J. Feig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: URLs of Useful Utilities Sought On Sat, 8 Jan 2000 18:09:11 +0100 (MET), Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gregy wrote: >>> 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? > Fraser Farrell has them on his site: > FM for Win 3.1 - > www.dove.net.au/~fraserf/w31fman.zip > FM for Win Workgroups - > www.dove.net.au/~fraserf/wfwfman.zip >>> - 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 >> however, >> one of the "sharpies" on this list probably has the answer on the >> tip of his tongue, right now...<g> <g> <g. > :) > If you can switch to another BIOS this can be done. Either you need to > remove the BIOS chip (very easy - I've had more problem inserting ISA cards > than switching BIOSes, just be carefull so you don't bend the "legs" on it) > or if you're a little lucky the BIOS you have can be rewritten. I've no > idea if either of these are things you can do with your computer (read:BIOS). >>> 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... > Precisely, there are of course risks with Arachne (as with any program) but > the chances that anyone will actually do anything is extremly small. First > of all you as a user must have made an active choice which wasn't very wise > (and no I'll not tell anyone what they are), secondly I doubt many users > (espacially those that might want to harm other people) actually can find > the weak spots an exploit them. >>> - 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> > Use a, b, c etc. as the first "number". Then you'll be safe for 27 (or > something like that) years. By then you can probably start over from 0 - or > why not switch to using 0 now and backup all the files from before > somewere? Then every time the year has a 0 at the end you just back them > all up. > (Actually I noticed the same bug in the universitys user naming system, > someone who still was a student after 10 years would end up getting > information ment for people who just had started. But the normal case is 3 > or 4 years for each student so that probably isn't a real bug). > //Bernie > http://hem1.passagen.se/bernie/index.htm DOS programs, Star Wars ... Bernie.......thanks....the guy who I replied to has to come back with some more info, after he checks to see if his bios sets up from the boot screen......BUT.....I have several win3.1s (that I haven't yet turned on this year) and several customers with it....so the URLs are greatly appreciated.... gregy - -- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2000 11:44:45 -0800 From: "Gregory J. Feig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: How do I find? (Re: last link to acrodos...) On Sat, 08 Jan 2000 15:37:59 +0000, Steve - RH Linux User wrote: - --------snip-------0 > I can't answer for Glenn but as for me, I use Google. > Have been since they first came online as beta. I find > the results to be much more relevant than Altavista, and > though they don't support boolean operators in the search > parameters, it doesn't really seem to need them. > In this case, just go to http://www.google.com and in > the search parameter window enter "acrodos download" > (without quotes). I didn't go check them all out, but at > least half the the links on the first page appear to > actually be places where you can download it. - ---------snip------- Steve......thanks for THAT info, too.....I've been using Yahoo, but I'm gonna start using Google..... BTW...all those links were good....I trial checked them to see which one d/l fastest and finally used the Uni-Hamburg site gregy - -- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2000 14:37:21 -0500 From: Roger Turk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: How do I find? (Re: last link to acr My favorite web search engine is Infind (www.infind.com), however, I think that it has recently been purchased by Yahoo! (They now have a "new" Infind - --- Infind2 --- that looks a lot like Yahoo, takes a much longer time to load, and, IIRC, has *Java Script*. I have used Google a couple of times and like Infind better. MetaSearch has gone downhill in a handbasket --- another *new* version of an otherwise very good search engine. Roger Turk Tucson, Arizona Gregy wrote: >>On Sat, 08 Jan 2000 15:37:59 +0000, Steve - RH Linux User wrote: - --------snip-------0 > I can't answer for Glenn but as for me, I use Google. > Have been since they first came online as beta. I find > the results to be much more relevant than Altavista, and > though they don't support boolean operators in the search > parameters, it doesn't really seem to need them. > In this case, just go to http://www.google.com and in > the search parameter window enter "acrodos download" > (without quotes). I didn't go check them all out, but at > least half the the links on the first page appear to > actually be places where you can download it. - ---------snip------- Steve......thanks for THAT info, too.....I've been using Yahoo, but I'm gonna start using Google..... BTW...all those links were good....I trial checked them to see which one d/l fastest and finally used the Uni-Hamburg site gregy<< ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2000 14:32:03 -0800 From: Clarence Verge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Dos memory (KB) Michael L. Dawley wrote: > > Hello all, > I have 148 KB Dos Memory when I start Arachne. I find that > this goes down a bit as I visit web pages, etc., but if I > stop and check my email, it returns to 148. > <> > On this subject, I'm sure some of you have more than > the 148, and I would like to hear how to do that. One > item that comes to mind is using an older version of > DOS. I have 6.22. Hi Michael; First, you should find out what all that reserved high memory is used for. - - Clarence Verge - -- - - Help stamp out FATWARE. As a start visit: http://home.arachne.cz/ - -- ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2000 14:48:24 -0800 From: Clarence Verge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: HIMEM.SYS, are there different versions? Thomas Mueller wrote: > > > > 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, > > How do you read any disk or partition > 32 MB with DOS 3.3? I believe > Compaq DOS 3.31 had that capability, but not MS-DOS or PC-DOS prior to v4. > When I got my original PC, I got MS-DOS 4.01, felt relieved of the limitations > of DOS 3.3. Now DR-DOS 7.03 feels like a big step forward from MS-DOS 6.22. Hi Thomas; Well, that's not normally a problem for me as I normally only use DOS 3.3 on disks that were partitioned into 32Mb drives specifically for my use. I have had occasion to use stacker on a few of these drives and surprisingly had no problem getting > 50Mb reported space. My problems only appear when I wish to use my bootdisk on someone elses' computer - to make my life simpler. As you say, DOS 3.3 can't recognize the big partitions. BTW, what attracts you to the latest bloated DOS ? Ok. Does anyone know of a 3.31 version BESIDES Compaq ? I have a fear of Compaq since a relatives' Compaq motherboard croaked and we transferred his harddrive to a box obtained in a surplus store. It works, but it keeps complaining about missing hardware. - - Clarence Verge - -- - - Help stamp out FATWARE. As a start visit: http://home.arachne.cz/ - -- ------------------------------ End of arachne-digest V1 #930 *****************************
