arachne-digest Monday, January 10 2000 Volume 01 : Number 934
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Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2000 18:40:35 -0800
From: Clarence Verge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Secure web sites
Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
>
> I do not understand how I could encrypt my credit card number, transmit
> the encrypted number, and then have the recipient to decrypt the number
> unless the recipient had a compatible decryption engine and had
> knowledge of the original encryption key (i.e the password or pass
> phrase that I use to encrypt the data). It would seem that somehow
> this kind of thing is what would have to happen when using a "secure"
> web site. How does this kind of "magic" work?
Hi Sam;
I don't know of a site that will provide the details you are looking for,
and, the following is just my own bumble so don't take it as fact.
Surely the simplest method would require that the recipient involved sends
you the encryption key and then you send the encrypted data.
How this prevents someone eavesdropping on the transaction from decrypting
your data is unclear to me because it seems he/she can end up with all the
necessary information.
Like I said. My bumble.
- - Clarence Verge
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Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2000 18:43:40 -0800
From: Clarence Verge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Oldies but goodies [was Re: HIMEM.SYS, are there different versions?
L.D. Best wrote:
>
> Clarence,
>
> Just for you I went digging. Found original DOS installation diskettes
> for DOS 3.01. Hunted some more, found original installation diskettes
> for DOS 3.30A. Sorry, can't find DOS 3.31 for you ... :(
Thanks a lot L.D.
I'll hit the junk stores tomorrow.
- - Clarence Verge
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Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2000 18:53:54 -0500
From: "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Secure web sites
You have both hit it "right on the head".
IMHO, HTTPS is a lie.
And I don't feel that Michael should waste his time trying to implement
a "lie" into Arachne.
(just my opinion)
On Sun, 09 Jan 2000 18:40:35 -0800, Clarence Verge wrote:
> Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
>> I do not understand how I could encrypt my credit card number, transmit
>> the encrypted number, and then have the recipient to decrypt the number
>> unless the recipient had a compatible decryption engine and had
>> knowledge of the original encryption key (i.e the password or pass
>> phrase that I use to encrypt the data). It would seem that somehow
>> this kind of thing is what would have to happen when using a "secure"
>> web site. How does this kind of "magic" work?
> Hi Sam;
> I don't know of a site that will provide the details you are looking for,
> and, the following is just my own bumble so don't take it as fact.
> Surely the simplest method would require that the recipient involved sends
> you the encryption key and then you send the encrypted data.
> How this prevents someone eavesdropping on the transaction from decrypting
> your data is unclear to me because it seems he/she can end up with all the
> necessary information.
> Like I said. My bumble.
> - Clarence Verge
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> - Help stamp out FATWARE. As a start visit: http://home.arachne.cz/
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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: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 01:54:32 +0000
From: "Joerg Bartels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Arachne on TV and arcademachine (!WARNING!)
On Mon, 07 Jan 1980 17:26:02 +0000, Mel Evans, Registered Arachne User wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> A SCART plug and socket are fitted (AFAIK) only to euro tv sets to
> enable direct connection of video recorder and camera outputs into the
> tv, but NOT at RF levels. Since the connection is direct and does not
> involve conversion to/from RF (radio frequency signals) then the quality
> of picture is much higher [they say!], I don't notice tooooo much
> difference myself.
> I am not aware as to whether or not these are fitted to US tv's, but you
> would need to check with mainly Philips make, or Grundig or Sony as
> these are the principal players in this game here.
> I am aware there are a couple of ham radio people on the list here from
> the US, they may be able to confirm or otherwise if Scart is a US
> standard fitment, but all my records show it is NOT.
> It is not possible to retrofit a SCART socket again as far as I know,
> mainly because this involves connections within the high voltage area
> of the tv, and would thus invalidate guarantee and also safety standards.
> Regards
> Mel
> Arachne, the Internet Suite and Browser for DOS, supports tables,
> graphics, animations, forms, HTML 4.0 Transitional Pages and more.
> Visit Mel's UK Arachne Pages for details and FREE Download.
> Kick-start a 386/486 with Arachne, or use on a Pentium!
> http://www.arachne4dos.freeserve.co.uk
> e-mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> or: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.bccscotland.freeserve.co.uk
> Web Pages of |British Caravanners Club, Scotland|
> http://www.euramcom.freeserve.co.uk
> Mel's Ham Radio Equivalents Pages
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Right, Right !!, and to all, good lord !! I feel I have talked
too much !!, This is nice stuff, but P.L.E.A.S.E take a look at
the basic elements and D.O. N.O.T handicrafts INSIDE a tv set.
This will K.I.L.L much more then your day !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Joerg
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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 02:21:38 +0100
From: "Guenter Bietzig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: no packet driver found
On Sun, 26 Dec 1999 12:09:25 +0000, Michael L. Dawley wrote:
> Hello all,
> I am wondering why the file ppp.log is not found on
> a computer that has a successful connection to the
> internet.
> On this computer, a Compudyne, I am using Arachne,
> but on my other computer, the COMPAQ 575, I cannot
> get past the "no packet driver found" item to connect
> to the internet, but CAN locate the file ppp.log.
> I wanted to compare the two, and perhaps modify that
> file on the COMPAQ 575 to resemble the ppp.log file
> on this Compudyne, so that the COMPAQ could read the
> IP address set to message from file PPP.LOG as per
> the check box in External Dialer setup.
Hello Michael D. and all COMPAQ's
the above question was answered by Glenn and Clarence today.
Now let's make some tests what's going on in the COMPAQ.
1. Let see what the COMPAQ does with your COM-ports.
- - Start your machine to pure DOS.
- - type 'debug' (it's in the DOS subdir)
- - type 'd0:400' CR
you get some lines with hex numbers. We only need the first line:
0000:400 F8 03 F8 02 00 00 00 00..............
----- ----- ----- -----
^ ^ ^ ^
ADDR. COM1 COM2 COM3 COM4
Please check what port-address you get in which position.
2. Let see what the COMPAQ does with software interrupt 60h
to load the packet driver.
- - Start your machine to pure DOS.
- - type 'debug' (it's in the DOS subdir)
- - type 'd0:180' CR
you get some lines with hex numbers. We only need the first line:
0000:180 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
----------- ----------- ----------- -----------
^ ^ ^ ^
ADDR. Int60h Int61h Int62h Int63h
If there are all zero in it, these interrupts are free, otherwise
they are used by the COMPAQ :-((
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The docs from packet driver:
SYNOPSIS
epppd [ COMn ] [ speed ] [ options ]
Options:
pktvec <irq number>
Specifies the vector number to be hooked by the
packet driver interface. The valid range is from
0x60-0x66, 0x68-0x6F and 0x78-0x7E. If this option
is not used, the driver searches for the first free
vector in this range (usually 0x60).
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Because Arachne unloads the packet driver with 'termin 0x60'
(see arachne.bat), I think Arachne does use that option (0x60)
and installs the packet driver at Int60h.
I've made the following experiment:
I've loaded my VGA2hercules screen copy utility to INT60h.
Then started arachne, connect to my ISP, she hooked the packet
driver to my used INT60h, and could access the www.
Then shell'd (ALT-E) to DOS, called my hercules tool and....... crash :-(
Resume:
Arachne loads the packet driver, if used by the machine or not, to INT60h.
Regards
Guenter Bietzig, Essen, Germany. Arachne BUG-,CRASH-,WISH-& LOVElist at:
Arachne Help Page http://home.germany.net/101/124262/gb.htm
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Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2000 20:24:26 -0800
From: Clarence Verge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: (OT) memory management... was, Load EPPPD on COMPAQ 590
Glenn McCorkle wrote:
>
> (Test #5)
> ---Qemm config.sys---
> rem OPENDOS 7.01
> DEVICE=C:\QEMM\QEMM386.SYS RAM SH:N ARAM=CB80-CBFF R:1 ST:M
> S=FF00-FFFF UR=1M:80M
> (QEMM386.SYS line split for eMail format)
> device=c:\qemm\dos-up.sys @c:\qemm\dos-up.dat
> DOS=HIGH,UMB
> ---------------------
>
> Memory Type Total Bytes ( Kbytes ) Available For Programs
>
> Conventional 655,360 ( 640K ) 644,032 ( 629K )
> Upper 307,040 ( 300K ) 190,272 ( 186K )
> High 65,520 ( 64K ) 16,396 ( 16K )
> Extended 66,060,288 ( 64,512K ) 0 ( 0K )
> EMS 83,017,728 ( 81,072K ) 82,313,216 ( 80,384K )
>
> Largest executable program: 644,016 ( 629K )
> Total Free DOS memory: 834,304 ( 815K )
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> You may draw your own conclusions from these tests.
> I'll keep using QEMM.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
You betchur bippy. Me too !
And you get another 64k if you dump the EMS page frame.<g>
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Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2000 16:11:47
From: "Dale Mentzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Load EPPPD on COMPAQ 590
On 9 Jan 00 at 11:47, Bernie wrote:
>>This still doesn't explain why I under a normal MS-DOS 6.2 (that is only
>>using the TSRs that came with it) the free memmory was less after memmaker
>>had changed. I saw in a magazine around the same time how to fix a memmory
>>problem one user had (when playing the latest NHL version for that year).
>>They suggest he should undo all the changes memmaker had done. One doesn't
>>have to know much (actually nothing) about memmory to do a better job than
>>memmaker. The rules are quite simple (once you know them):
>>
>>Use these in config.sys:
>>
>>device=c:\dos\himem.sys /TestMem:Off
>>device=c:\dos\emm386.exe noems highscan
>>dos=high,umb
>>
>>Then just add "lh" before every line that starts a program in autoexec.bat
>>and change all "device=" to "devicehigh=" in config.sys (without quotes of
>>course).
>>
>>Done, and that's much faster then memmaker who reboots a few times.
>>Granted if you load many (or memmory hungry) TSRs you might need to remove a
>>few "lh" and/or "devicehigh" to get max memmory free, but that's not that
>>common anyway. Besides running mem/c tells you what you need to know (as
>>soon as you know the diffrence between conventional and upper memmory that
>>is).
I have had no complaints about MemMaker and I certainly have no
complaints about doing it "by hand" ;) and I would hardly consider
myself a memory guru. Of course for a typical pre-Windows DOS user it
was probably OK, but of course many, most, or all of the memory
manager programs I have used include some type of memory optimizer
program to "simplify" their installation and setup, so there
certainly is or was a demand for such programs, or I doubt the
software publishers would have spent their resources developing them.
Regards,
Dale Mentzer
It's hard to make a comeback when you haven't been anywhere
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Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2000 12:25:59
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Arachne.....!.!.!.
> From: "Gregory J. Feig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> 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
Hi Gregy,
Put me on the same record. After more than a year of using Arachne (first
off-line, and more recently also on-line) I am continually being surprised and
delighted by discovering little, and some not-so-little, features of Arachne
that really show up the "big" browsers.
As far as I'm concerned, Michael is THE MAN, and Arachne is the goods !
Regards,
Ron Clarke
Ron Clarke http://homepages.valylink.net.au/~ausreg/music.html
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Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2000 21:13:23 -0500
From: Mark David Roth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Blank screen on inbox
I'm using Arachne v1.50 SRC. I'm getting a blank screen on my inbox.
Anybody know how to fix that?
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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 03:13:02 +0000
From: Steve - RH Linux User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Secure web sites
Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
>
> Hello:
>
> Could anyone please refer me to a web site that would explain the
> theory involved in the establishment of a so-called "secure web-site"
> or a "secure link" to a web site?
http://www.naic.org/1papers/papers/technical/ENCRYPT1.htm
I found it by going to Google and entering "secure data transmission
web" (minus the quotes). There are lots more there if you want to
follow up in more detail than the above page.
- Steve
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Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2000 22:37:41 -0500 (EST)
From: "Thomas Mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DOSLYNX
>
Thomas, how does one use DOSLYNX for things like Arachne quick chat ?
Or, if I wanted to download a plot of a particular stock price v.s.time,
how do I specify what stock I'm interested in ?
>
Clarence,
I haven't been to Arachne quick chat except maybe briefly. I prefer DOS
Lynx386, which is ported from the real Unix Lynx, over DOSLYNX. But the install
program might offer ideas for a better Arachne installer. Once, running DOSLYNX
on one area of about.com, low memory ran short, and computer hung, requiring
reboot; this was with MS-DOS 6.22. Apparently DOSLYNX makes no use of extended
memory. To download a plot of a particular stock price vs. time, how to specify
the stock you're interested in depends on the Web site.
DR-DOS 7.03 offers much more functionality than MS-DOS 6.22, and no "Invalid
media" on my E drive. But sometimes the SyJet ejects for no apparent reason,
which has never to date happened in MS-DOS 6.22, OS/2 Warp 4, or Linux.
Support the International Alliance for Compatible Technology
http://pages.cthome.net/iact/
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Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2000 19:42:28 -0800 (PST)
From: shenen wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: how to generate oriental fnt?
Hello people in the mailing list.
I am a new arachne user. I am very impressive about arachne. But arachne
seems can only view alpphabetic basd characters.
I read FAQ and use ttf2fnt to convert windows's chinese True Type font to fnt
format. It did generate lots of .fnt files, but what's next? arachne -f seems
not work.
If this is the way to generate another characters used by arachne.
Thanks.
Shenen Wang
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Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2000 22:21:57 -0800 (PST)
From: Ken Martwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: UMB's and free memory
Hi all,
I have been reading all the messages about getting more
free memory and wondering why everyone was using EMM386. I
finally remembered that it is needed for UMB's. I am using
PTSDOS, which furnishes UMB's with their version of himem.sys.
It is also less than 6K! I have the source code, but not be-
ing a lawyer, do not know if it can be distributed. The old
"clean-room" procedure could probably be used if some people
are interested.
Still, it is not clear to me why more memory is needed;
I run Arachne on two different 486's and generally have in the
range of 540K free. I have never had any memory problems.
Ken Martwick
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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 01:39:39 +0000
From: "Michael L. Dawley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: (OT) memory management... was, Load EPPPD on COMPAQ 590
On 9 Jan 00, at 17:29, Glenn McCorkle wrote:
> (Test #5)
> ---Qemm config.sys---
> rem OPENDOS 7.01
Where do we get it, and how is it installed?
Thanks,
Michael L. Dawley
Pearl, Mississippi
Compudyne 486DX4-100
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Date: Sun, 9 Jan 00 15:25:38
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Howard Schwartz)
Subject: Cut and Paste in Arachne
Independently of what cut/paste facilities Michael builds into arachne,
you can usually, pretty easily get cut and paste ability within and between
virtually any dos applications but installing one of the several freeware
programs designed to do this, for instance:
dosclip
snipper
xpcmouse
mousebuf
See Rich Green's site for a list of them with evaluations:
For applications like arachne that use a mouse, you need a program
that does not conflict with the internal mouse program such as mousebuf
or dosclip.
Howard Schwartz
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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 01:47:12 -0400
From: "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Secure web sites
In a very recent post I had requested that someone refer me to a web site
that would provide information about the technology behind so called secure
web sites.
On Mon, 10 Jan 2000 03:13:02 +0000, Steve - RH Linux User wrote:
> http://www.naic.org/1papers/papers/technical/ENCRYPT1.htm
On Mon, 10 Jan 2000 00:13:03 +0100 (CET), Petri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Here it
> is: <http://developer.netscape.com/tech/security/ssl/protocol.html>
Information I found at both sites was very interesting. Both sites speak
of public and private keys. Here is what I don't understand:
If I should encrypt a message by using a public key, and then transmit the
message to you, then there is nothing secret about it, because the key is
publicly available. On the other hand, if I should encrypt a message
by use of a private key, and if only you and I know what our private key is,
then we can encrypt and decrypt secret messages to each other. A public key
has no security value whatsoever.
The best method of transmitting secret messages would involve only the sender
and the receiver having a copy of a unique randomly generated key. A
somewhat less secure, but fairly good method of transmitting secret messages
would involve the sender and the receiver agreeing to use a secret password,
a pass phrase, or a certain passage from a book to be used as a key for
encryption/decryption. No parties other than sender and receiver would have
knowledge as to whatever string of characters had been agreed upon for use as
a ciphering key.
What I mean to say here is that I cannot think of any method by which sender
and receiver can transmit secret messages to each other over public channels
of communication with any reasonable level of security unless both parties
have previously agreed on an encryption/decryption key.
Sam Heywood
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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 10:11:40 +0100
From: "Rebel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Long filenames howto ?
From: "Bernie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> There's a small diffrence. FAT16 doesn't have LFN - it's a work around
that
> M$ has invented.
Hi
Do you mean that FAT16 doesnt allow longfilenames?
It's not true: even under FAT12 ( 3,5" floppy) you can have longfilenames.
Rebel
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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 01:40:05 -0800
From: "Gregory J. Feig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Arachne.....!.!.!.
On Sun, 09 Jan 2000 12:25:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> From: "Gregory J. Feig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> 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
> Hi Gregy,
> Put me on the same record. After more than a year of using Arachne (first
> off-line, and more recently also on-line) I am continually being surprised and
> delighted by discovering little, and some not-so-little, features of Arachne
> that really show up the "big" browsers.
> As far as I'm concerned, Michael is THE MAN, and Arachne is the goods !
> Regards,
> Ron Clarke
Ron......I love you, man.....of course...you agree with me <g> <g> <g>
...BUT...as I pointed out to Sam, or Clarence,(or someone.??) I'm
not gonna worship Michael....yes, he did/does a good job with
Arachne.....but as he, also, points out, he was "just building upon
the work of others"....and, AAMOF, Bernie has a big hand in what
happens under the hood of this nifty little spyder we all have come
to appreciate so much....
gregy
P.S. Bernie....don't give me any comeback of the IMHO type, either
..
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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 02:21:54 -0800
From: "Gregory J. Feig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Arachne on TV and arcademachine (please read)
On Mon, 07 Jan 1980 17:26:02 +0000, Mel Evans, Registered Arachne User wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> A SCART plug and socket are fitted (AFAIK) only to euro tv sets to
> enable direct connection of video recorder and camera outputs into the
> tv, but NOT at RF levels. Since the connection is direct and does not
> involve conversion to/from RF (radio frequency signals) then the quality
> of picture is much higher [they say!], I don't notice tooooo much
> difference myself.
> I am not aware as to whether or not these are fitted to US tv's, but you
> would need to check with mainly Philips make, or Grundig or Sony as
> these are the principal players in this game here.
> I am aware there are a couple of ham radio people on the list here from
> the US, they may be able to confirm or otherwise if Scart is a US
> standard fitment, but all my records show it is NOT.
> It is not possible to retrofit a SCART socket again as far as I know,
> mainly because this involves connections within the high voltage area
> of the tv, and would thus invalidate guarantee and also safety standards.
Mel ......re: my other reply on this matter.....I confirm that this
interface is NOT present on US sets, and from your description, it
would be very cumbersome to install it....BUT....I should be able
to accomplish the same thing (or similar) using our "video" type
input/output interface.....the important thing isn't the way it
is implemented, but that we dink around with the Video Card settings
drive to make it output a nonstandard (vert/horiz scan frequencies)
which match whatever TV standard we are using....then shove this
thru a standard VGA cable, then thru an adapter plug, and into the
Video Input of our VCR or TV......as usual, "the devil is in the
details"....but they souldn't be insurmountable
gregy
BTW......I've been there.....nice.....got there thru Jake's links
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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 01:59:18 -0800
From: "Gregory J. Feig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Long filenames howto ?
On Sun, 09 Jan 2000 13:36:04 -0800, Clarence Verge wrote:
> Sergei wrote:
>> Clarence Verge wrote:
>> > Sergei wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Maybe Arachne should understood long filenames when launched
>> > > under Windows 95, same as FAR do ?
>> > > Michael ? In future v. 1.70 ?
>> >
>> > Maybe longfilenames should go away ? <My wish>
>> >
>> > - Clarence Verge
>> > --
>> Then any UNIX, Amiga, BeOS, other with long filenames should go away
>> with their long filenames ? And how about CDROM's filesystems ? Go away
>> too ?
>> Thats not a solution.
> Still my wish.
Clarence and Sergei......my wish, too....this was a stupid idea? or
it was a brilliant idea?....and, while I wish they de-existed, that
isn't going to happen....but, we can accept their inevitable presence
with some restraint and sensibleness.......ala Bernie's answering post
to this message......
Right on.! Bernie.....and I recant all the horrible things I and
my Norwegian relatives have always said about Swedes <V vbg>
gregy
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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 03:02:10 -0800
From: "Gregory J. Feig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Secure web sites
On Sun, 09 Jan 2000 18:40:35 -0800, Clarence Verge wrote:
> Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
>> I do not understand how I could encrypt my credit card number, transmit
>> the encrypted number, and then have the recipient to decrypt the number
>> unless the recipient had a compatible decryption engine and had
>> knowledge of the original encryption key (i.e the password or pass
>> phrase that I use to encrypt the data). It would seem that somehow
>> this kind of thing is what would have to happen when using a "secure"
>> web site. How does this kind of "magic" work?
> Hi Sam;
> I don't know of a site that will provide the details you are looking for,
> and, the following is just my own bumble so don't take it as fact.
> Surely the simplest method would require that the recipient involved sends
> you the encryption key and then you send the encrypted data.
> How this prevents someone eavesdropping on the transaction from decrypting
> your data is unclear to me because it seems he/she can end up with all the
> necessary information.
> Like I said. My bumble.
Guys.....go to Dr.DobbsJournal at http://www.ddj.com/ of buy their
CDROM....they have had oodles of articles on this "public key
encryption" over the recent years....
gregy
..BUT...don't ask me to explain here....I can understand the articles
but I couldn't do the concept justice....
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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 01:52:03 -0800
From: "Gregory J. Feig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: monitor Gerald
On Sun, 09 Jan 2000 13:32:31 +0100, Gerald Kucera wrote:
> Hello,
> I shall use this subject name because Gregory has baptised it this way.
> Arachne + Win NO; NO; NO. Windows is only on this computer because it
> came with it and I use it (must) when I want to look into the AOL driver
> archive. This all together with Office97 needs incredible 500MB.
> My son was here for Xmas holidays and set up this computer so I can
> choose Win, Arachne or pure DOS. Arachne has its cache on a RAM disk.
> After klick on the cross or alt+x it asks me if I want to keep the saved
> cache from last time on my harddisk. It writes the content of the cache
> of the actual Arachne-session on the HDD.
> The SciTechDisplayDoctor 651 influences at the same time Win and Dos
> images. I need only the Dos solution to see Arachne and can read the Dos
> text.
> If it helps, the computer is a Pentium133 with 32Mb RAM and 1GB HDD.
Gerald......yes...that additional info is needed...my concern was that
by giving you full functionality on your box/monitor in DOS, I would
be breaking your functionality on the Win95....as long as I know this
I can concentrate upon DOS/Arachne functionality...
> PS: How can I print only say 20 lines out of the digest? With
> page-toolbar print-command it prints all the 30Kb.
Some other Arachne Sharpie can probably correct me, but, as far as
I know, the best way to do this is to "print to file" then load the
file up into a full-fledged workprocessor, (such as XEDIT, which
is available as a download APM from the Arachne Download page), then
clip what you want to print to another smaller file, and print that..
gregy
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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 03:32:11 -0800
From: "Gregory J. Feig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Arachne on TV and arcademachine (!WARNING!)
On Mon, 10 Jan 2000 01:54:32 +0000, Joerg Bartels wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Jan 1980 17:26:02 +0000, Mel Evans, Registered Arachne User wrote:
>> Hi Greg,
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> Right, Right !!, and to all, good lord !! I feel I have talked
> too much !!, This is nice stuff, but P.L.E.A.S.E take a look at
> the basic elements and D.O. N.O.T handicrafts INSIDE a tv set.
> This will K.I.L.L much more then your day !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Joerg ....... right on, everybody........but, having said that,
you probably sensed that I was an old technician type who has
lots of time spent rumaging around in HV power supplies, etc...
which is why I immediately (see my other post on this) went from
yours and Mels posts to what IS possible/feasible, which is to
adapt the idea to our US VideoInput type interface....
gregy
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