arachne-digest Wednesday, January 12 2000 Volume 01 : Number 942
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Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 19:33:01 +0000
From: "Edenyard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: arachne-digest V1 #938
On Tue, 11 Jan 2000 05:17:14 +0100, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
> Subject: Re: arachne-digest V1 #931
>> INTERMITTENTLY wrong when cold (noise/ripple on line) so that an
>> oscilloscope would be more likely to spot the problem than the meter
>> would.
>> Hope I haven't fogged the issue more!!
> Oh, no, not at all. Would it not be less expensive for me just to
> replace the old 386sx motherboard and power supply instead of buying an
> oscilloscope?
>
Of course it would. Full marks to you for a commonsense
solution!
The trouble is that we engineers are always wanting to FIX
everything - and there's no future in that....
Please forgive this incurable tendency!
Ron.
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Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 08:07:45 -0800
From: "Gregory J. Feig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Geralds Monitor Problem
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000 09:26:27 -0500, Roger Turk wrote:
> Gregy,
> (Gerald, are you copying this?)
> Tenth anniversary edition is now *3 inches* thick and needs luggage cart to
> carry it around. Visit your Costco (Price Club) to get it at a "reasonable"
> price. However, after reading www.repairfaq.org/sam/ffmon.htm, particularly
> their comments on the 9515, and what is needed to even make a 9517 display a
> halfway decent display, albeit off center, would not make rushing down to a
> store a priority. It appears that 95xx monitors are a fixed frequency
> monitor designed to work *only* with early PS/2's and their abandoned MCGA
> display mode. In fact, there is no mention of 95xx monitors in the tenth
> anniversary edition. If the ID pin configuration doesn't work, the 9517
> probably should be placed in the recycling bin.
Roger ........usually i agree with us, and mostly I do here, also,
except:
1) Gerald already gets good display under Win95 using
SciTechDisplayDoctor. He wants to run DOS only, so
that means finding some drivers for DOS.
2) I went to that URL you gave (and I thank you very much,
because it sent me in some other good places) and I saved
that page......If your look, there is a fix for the 9517,
which if it was my monitor, I'd build it in a heartbeat.
3) Those 9515s are XGA-2, and apparently they don't modify
at all.....the 9517 has been modified successfully.
4) I am not now looking for an electronic modification solution
for Geralds problem. I saw some XGA drivers on the old
IBM PCCompany BBS, and have now pretty much tracked them
down on where those files were finally archived, when
IBM shut the BBS down, 1NOV99....
5) The optimum solution is drivers, which work, or which can
be disassembled/reassembled to work.....an electronic
modification is probably a last resort, since Gerald does
not state he is an electronics technician.....his son is
apparently something of a literate user, but I don't know
if he is a technician.....so, prime solution is software.
6) If we cannot come up with a driver solution, I will suggest
that Gerald run Arachne under Win95 (where he gets good
display using SciTechDisp.Dr.).....this is why I have also
been enquirying about those who are now successful running
Arachne under Win95.....I don't intend to suggest Gerald
toss his monitor, since he still gets good use out of it...
just not under DOS......
gregy
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Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 08:19:00 -0800
From: "Gregory J. Feig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Re2: Secure web sites
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000 15:25:57 +0100 (CET), Petri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Richard Menedetter wrote:
>> PS: There is some kind of transfer.
>> The browser has a built in list of certification authorities.
>> Thos can sign keys from servers.
>> If the browser encounters a key which is signed by a known CA, than it will
>> proceed, if not, than a window pops up, and asks you what to do.
> Well, this "transfer" is totally different and has nothing to do with the
> actual encryotion. =)
> I'm not even sure it sends the key, it might only send key IDs or
> something. Whatever. =)
petri .......yeah....but read Sergei's last-night post about cracking
and getting a couple thousand creditcard numbers, et al, because
the server had them stored in the clear.......Roger Turk would echo
me when I say, "any secure system can be blown by stupidity."
It sounds like a small replay of "The Cuckoo's Egg"//
gregy
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Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 08:34:34 -0800
From: "Gregory J. Feig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Long filenames howto ?
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000 14:46:53 +0100 (CET), Petri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Gregory J. Feig wrote:
>> petri.........I think I miss-stated my point.....what I wanted to
>> say was....we are in DOS...we don not need to worry about LFN....
>> UNLESS we run into a situation where some site/OS/application is
>> pushing them upon us, and insisting that we acknowledge them, then
>> we only have to take them and truncate them any way we choose...
>> LFNs should not be a major hindrance to our using DOS worldwide..
> *major laugh* that's what I think, too. If we really need LFNs, we might
> as well do a DGI module, that reads the LFNs so Arachne won't need to deal
> with them. LFNs sure are annoying under DOS....=P But anyhow, it doesn't
> even need to be integrated in Arachne, DGIs can be used for that.
petri .......yes....I think you have the right of it....Ref: Ron's
just previous post about "we engineers always trying to FIX
everything." In this case, your suggestion is the simplest
(maybe - but sometimes "the devil is in the details") so that
least needs to be modified...
gregy
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Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 17:19:35 +0100 (CET)
From: Petri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Re2: Secure web sites
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Gregory J. Feig wrote:
> petri .......yeah....but read Sergei's last-night post about cracking
> and getting a couple thousand creditcard numbers, et al, because
> the server had them stored in the clear.......Roger Turk would echo
> me when I say, "any secure system can be blown by stupidity."
> It sounds like a small replay of "The Cuckoo's Egg"//
I suppose you didn't recieve my reply, when I said I believed in sysadmins
making that something that would never happen? Anyway, if a sysadmin is
clever (which Sergeis weren't, poor CC users), a) you have a hard time
breaking in b) the numbers are stored in an encrypted form b) they are
moved to some non-networked box that is used to store secrets, after some
time.
/petri
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Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 18:34:23 +0100
From: "Gerald Kucera" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Monitor Gerald
Hello all who are trying to help me.
First of all Thank you.
My monitor seems to be a hard nut to crack. The IBM Tech Spec on their
support page says: Video Controllers supported: XGA-2, Image-I Adapter/A
(requires cable P/N 49G2718). In Windows98 are a XGA-2 and a XGA driver
but I can not use them because my videocard does not fit to them. And I
don't need them because it's for Win. But I assume that my monitor does
not have the image-I cable.
I tried an UnivesaVBE 5.1. It is an elder version of DisplayDoctor. I did
not manage to get a positive influence on Arachne. It seems it should be
SciTechDisplayDoctor 6.51. But don't rely on my computer knowledge.
Does anybody know how I can contact Jorge Ortega. He reported from an
Univesa adapter that worked and did not disturb Arachne. Yahoo says his
Email adress is not known there.
Gerald
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Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 09:54:44 -0800
From: "Gregory J. Feig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Re2: Secure web sites
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000 17:19:35 +0100 (CET), Petri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Gregory J. Feig wrote:
>> petri .......yeah....but read Sergei's last-night post about cracking
>> and getting a couple thousand creditcard numbers, et al, because
>> the server had them stored in the clear.......Roger Turk would echo
>> me when I say, "any secure system can be blown by stupidity."
>> It sounds like a small replay of "The Cuckoo's Egg"//
> I suppose you didn't recieve my reply, when I said I believed in sysadmins
> making that something that would never happen? Anyway, if a sysadmin is
> clever (which Sergeis weren't, poor CC users), a) you have a hard time
> breaking in b) the numbers are stored in an encrypted form b) they are
> moved to some non-networked box that is used to store secrets, after some
> time.
petri ......you're right...I didn't see your reply until after I had
sent this.....I see this sometimes in my mail, where older messages
come in after newer messages....or something.....it isn't a big
problem, so I just ignore it...
gregy
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Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 10:16:26 -0800
From: "Gregory J. Feig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Monitor Gerald
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000 18:34:23 +0100, Gerald Kucera wrote:
> Hello all who are trying to help me.
> First of all Thank you.
> My monitor seems to be a hard nut to crack. The IBM Tech Spec on their
> support page says: Video Controllers supported: XGA-2, Image-I Adapter/A
> (requires cable P/N 49G2718). In Windows98 are a XGA-2 and a XGA driver
> but I can not use them because my videocard does not fit to them. And I
> don't need them because it's for Win. But I assume that my monitor does
> not have the image-I cable.
> I tried an UnivesaVBE 5.1. It is an elder version of DisplayDoctor. I did
> not manage to get a positive influence on Arachne. It seems it should be
> SciTechDisplayDoctor 6.51. But don't rely on my computer knowledge.
> Does anybody know how I can contact Jorge Ortega. He reported from an
> Univesa adapter that worked and did not disturb Arachne. Yahoo says his
> Email adress is not known there.
Gerald .......Jorge said something about being off until March....
he didn't exactly say why.....
When you first posted this problem, you said that you had installed
the 5.1 and it was sticky...hard to uninstall....after you had
installed 6.51 over it....I suggested you clean all of both of
them off your drive, so we could start from scratch....Do you
have the SciTechDisplayDoctor 6.51..? I downloaded it, and just
looking briefly at it, it seems to be a good set of drivers, but
only applicable to Win9x....am I correct, or have I made a mistake.
gregy
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Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 18:36:49 +0100 (MET)
From: Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Arachne on TV and arcademachine (!! Warning !!)
Or wrote:
>When you mentioned europe/US you seemed to forget Middle east.
IIRC France has SECAM (and so did the USSR) can anyone confirm?
>I'm very intrested in trying to do this.. I dont know much in
>electronics.. and that plug doesnt exist in Israeli TV sets.
>(though its still PAL. We got the Antenne plug.).
>Any idea on what I should try to do? ..or should I just drop
>the idea and get one of those expensive VGA-to-TV commercial
>convertors? (which seems to work only with Windows. Thats what
>they all state on the box, anyway.)
They'll probably work anyway. It's just a question of transforming from one
thing to the other - the OS isn't involved in this at all.
>I think that I should mention again that I have what seems to be
>a cable with one of its ends is a stereo A/V plugs, and in the other
>side a SCART plug. Since my television has a stereo A/V plugs
>in addition to the PAL antenne plug, is it a good chance to add
>"SCART support" to my TV using this cable? or should I still
>try to buy a commercial thing? :)
I've got a cable set for copying between two VCRs and I think I know what
you're talking about - and if it is the same things (basically) then it's
doable otherwise it will probably not work. SCART is a very good thing
since I couldn't catch the TV signal via the normal interface on my TV-card
for saving onto the HD but when I used SCART (and therefor a VCR inbetween)
it worked. Haven't tried the card with this new machine, I'll probably be
able to capture moving images in full screen now :)
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Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 18:45:58 +0100 (CET)
From: Petri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Re2: Secure web sites
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Gregory J. Feig wrote:
> petri ......you're right...I didn't see your reply until after I had
> sent this.....I see this sometimes in my mail, where older messages
> come in after newer messages....or something.....it isn't a big
> problem, so I just ignore it...
It's the Arachne list that's slow sending out e-mails after they are sent.
/petri
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Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 18:49:52 +0100 (CET)
From: Petri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Monitor Gerald
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Gregory J. Feig wrote:
> them off your drive, so we could start from scratch....Do you
> have the SciTechDisplayDoctor 6.51..? I downloaded it, and just
> looking briefly at it, it seems to be a good set of drivers, but
> only applicable to Win9x....am I correct, or have I made a mistake.
I have used DD several times; it's quite good, works under DOS, there is
even a DOS-only install, avaliable to download from
<http://www.scitechsoft.com/down_sdd_dos.html>
/petri
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Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 18:56:43 +0100 (CET)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Menedetter)
Subject: Re: Arachne under Windows
Hi
Charles Boisvert and Catherine Clinton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
CC> First problem: is there any way to get a dos system like arachne to find
CC> the windows internet connection? In other words, arachne cant use
CC> winsock directly, but could some other system use winsock and provide
CC> arachne with the internet connection?
Arachne 1.60 will be able to use Winsock via Stub32.
(There was once an alpha version, that could be downloaded from the Arachne
site ... and Michael said that he wants to include it into Arachne 1.60, which
will come out soon)
CC> The second problem is more of a win95 problem. If I use arachne to
CC> create a postscript file, how can I then send the postscript file to a
CC> postscript printer available in win95. There seems to be no obvious way
CC> of sending a .ps file to a .ps printer in win95 (typical microsoft).
If the printer is connected to a local LPT port, than you can make do it like
that:
type 1.ps >lptx (x number of the lpt port)
Or you can install ghostscript for Windows. (as in my university)
(sorry ... but I don't have the address by hand)
CC> TIA for your help,
CC> Charles
CU, Ricsi
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Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 19:14:07 +0100 (CET)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Menedetter)
Subject: Re: Re2: Secure web sites
Hi
"Gregory J. Feig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> PS: There is some kind of transfer.
>>> The browser has a built in list of certification authorities.
>>> Thos can sign keys from servers.
>>> If the browser encounters a key which is signed by a known CA, than it
>>> will proceed, if not, than a window pops up, and asks you what to do.
>> Well, this "transfer" is totally different and has nothing to do with the
>> actual encryotion. =)
>> I'm not even sure it sends the key, it might only send key IDs or
>> something. Whatever. =)
GF> petri .......yeah....but read Sergei's last-night post about cracking
GF> and getting a couple thousand creditcard numbers, et al, because
GF> the server had them stored in the clear.......Roger Turk would echo
GF> me when I say, "any secure system can be blown by stupidity."
GF> It sounds like a small replay of "The Cuckoo's Egg"//
I was only writing about the transfer.
Eg with SSL nobody is able to get the data by simply sniffing the connection.
If the admins at the other end are to silly ... than that's not a problem of
SSL transfer !
GF> gregy
CU, Ricsi
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Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 11:24:24 -0800
From: "Gregory J. Feig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Geralds Monitor Problem
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..........the attachment is snips from a document that Roger
pointed me toward (which lead to a number of other links, also).
gregy
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9517 Modification Techniques
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Monitors like the IBM 9517 are not fixed frequency but are XGA compatible.
This was an IBM abortion and not compatible with VGA/SVGA even for booting
your PC.
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What this means is that unless you have drivers installed in
your config.sys, or part of your BIOSes, you cannot see your
computer booting.....until Win9x or some other OS finally gets
loaded/booted and installs its drivers....see following:
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P.S. I see that the IBM 9517 can do 1024x768 if you can get to 85Hz
vertical interlaced, maybe starting with a 1240x768 interlaced mode and
fiddling the frequency up in a similar way that I did would work for the
original question? Of course interlaced modes are yucky unless you're
viewing images...
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The guy above did extensive tweaking and got possible results
which perhaps could be applied to the Video Card to drive the
9517.........
The guy below actually modified the internal electronic circuits
to make the 9517 work in a very good high resolution mode.
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Modifying an IBM 9517 XGA Monitor for SVGA Operation
(From Arnoud van der Wel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).)
Well, I did this to two of them about a year ago. Of course I wrote down
what I did, so I'll try to reconstruct for you what I did.
There are two modifications, one is the H-FREQ control, the other is the H
SHIFT VGA control.
To boot, you need it to display the standard 31.5 kHz VGA text mode.
Turning the H FREQ pot (on the rear edge of the PCB) will eventually give
you a display, but it is off-screen to the right. You then adjust the H
SHIFT VGA pot (on the right of the PCB) and find that this pot has
insufficient range to center the display. The H FREQ pot is 4.7K from the
factory. It is in series with an 18K SMD resistor on the solder side of
the PCB. I found that I had to turn the 4.7K pot to max resistance to move
the display to the left, so I removed the 18K resistor and the 4.7K pot,
and replaced them with a 22K resistor and a 10K pot.
I was then able to center the display for text mode. The only problem is
that the horizontal linearity in text mode is now off. The letters near
the right of the screen are narrower than elsewhere. The problem is not
serious (a casual observer does not see it) so I can live with that.
Moreover, I never use text mode anyway (except during booting and for BIOS
setup, etc.) The 320*200 mode (games) also works correctly after this
modification.
Now, we want it to sync to highter refresh rates, specifically, 1024*768.
That is the mode I adjusted it for. All the 1024*768 parameters are
separately adjustable from the ones for the other modes, except the H
FREQ. The pots that govern this mode are all labeled "4,5", meaning, I
presume, that they govern the operation of what the monitor manufacturer
calls mode 4 and mode 5. I found these to coincide with H frequencies of
over approximately 50 kHz.
I found that by tweaking the H freq, I could get the text mode to be all
right, *or* the 1024 mode, but not both at the same time. (BTW, I run 1024
with a pixel clock of 77 MHz, H freq. of 57.63, and V freq. of 68.13 Hz. I
don't know what the specs for this monitor are, so I thought it was
prudent to stay on the low side.)
So I needed two instead of one H FREQ pots. I also found that there is a
relay click if you throw something over 50 kHz at this monitor. Hence, I
tapped the relay coil to give me the 0/12 volt signal to tell me what mode
the monitor is displaying. This signal I take to a little PCB that holds
my two H FREQ pots, an inverter, and two NPN transistors that switch in
one or the other pot instead of the original one.
The schematic is shown in ASCII below. Or, see the Gif version provided
by: Puiu Chiselita ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
TO H-FREQ
o
|
+12 VDC +------+-----+
o | |
| / /
| \ 680 680 \
| / /
100K 1N4148 |/ E | |
RELAY o---+--/\/\--|\ 2.5K
| 100K \ / /
| / | |
| | |/ C C \| 1N4148 100K
| +----| NPN NPN |---+--|
Transistors can be any general purpose type:
* Typical NPN: 2N2222, 2N3904, BC547.
* Typical PNP: 2N2907, 2N3906, BC557.
I added the diodes to make sure we have a real OR circuit here, not a bit of
AND left in it, since that would (albeit momentarily) drive the H FREQ up way
too high and send the monitor into its OV protection.
Now I can tweak the H FREQ pot for both modes separately. To sum up, my 9517
now displays VGA text modes, 320*200, and 1024*768 in approx 70 Hz. When it
is warm, I can also get it to display 640*480. I could probably do a fix for
that too, but haven't bothered since I don't need that mode. Moreover, I
don'thave schematics, so I'm a bit hesitant to continue modifying it, when it
already works adequately for my use right now. The H linearity in the 320 and
1024 modes, by the way, exhibits no problems.
This solved monitor number one, and oddly enough, when I did monitor number
two. I was able to get it working after installing only mod number one. A
little help from the VGA card (Diamond Speedstar if I remember correctly) did
the rest. So maybe you are in luck and need only one mod. A flexible VGA card
definitely helps. (Or good setup-software for the VGA card.)
When you are turning all the little presets, be careful not to short the wipers
to the chassis... use a plastic tool! The wipers are not insulated from the
screwdriver slots. You can easily destroy some of the SMD transistors by doing
that. That's what I did, and I had some VERY lucky guesswork in unsoldering
them and replacing them by normal transistors (that is what I tend to do when
I find a dead SMD transistor...)
These are beautiful monitors and well worth modifying. Fortunately, not a lot
of people are able to do this, and this means that they are available rather
cheaply. :)
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D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
These are my comments from here to the end.....
These snips were taken from a much longer document which Roger gave
me the URL to.....now....they indicate possible good results, in DOS,
by using both the Software and the Hardware modification routes....
..in addition, it is possible that I will be able to track down those
drivers for the 9517 XGA...(if they were not just a figment of my
imagination).........
gregy
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Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 11:37:22 -0800
From: "Gregory J. Feig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Monitor Gerald
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000 18:49:52 +0100 (CET), Petri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Gregory J. Feig wrote:
>> them off your drive, so we could start from scratch....Do you
>> have the SciTechDisplayDoctor 6.51..? I downloaded it, and just
>> looking briefly at it, it seems to be a good set of drivers, but
>> only applicable to Win9x....am I correct, or have I made a mistake.
> I have used DD several times; it's quite good, works under DOS, there is
> even a DOS-only install, avaliable to download from
> <http://www.scitechsoft.com/down_sdd_dos.html>
petri ..........thanks, I;ll go their again and get this one.....the
one I got before was for Win9x......(I think....maybe it's my
senility showing) <g>
gregy
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Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 07:41:21 +0000
From: Steven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Arachne under Windows
Charles Boisvert and Catherine Clinton wrote:
>
> I've got 2 questions about using Arachne in a win95 computer.
> Maybe it sounds like a silly thing to do, but I'm trying to
> show it to students, and the equipment at my college is
> entirely Micro$oft.
Have you considered booting DOS from a floppy and running
Arachne from ramdisk? It shouldn't be too difficult to
fit everything onto one floppy and automatically unzip
and run Arachne from the autoexec.bat.
Cheers,
Steven
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Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 13:59:44 -0800
From: Clarence Verge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Arachne Email Inbox problem
Jan Lentfer wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> I am new to this list and to Arachne. I really like the software and
> hope you guys can help me with the following problem:
>
> I use Arachne mainly as an email client. Dial up and downloading of
> emails works great. But when I trie to open the "INBOX" I encounter the
> following message:
>
> "Cannot create index file MAIL\$IDX$cnm.IDX, aborting".
Hello Jan;
You may have to edit the file Arachne.cfg to FULLY specify the path to
your mail subdirectory.
e.g. The default is:
MailPath MAIL\
Change to:
MailPath G:\ARACHNE\MAIL\ (or whatever)
- - Clarence Verge
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Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 13:53:55 -0800
From: Clarence Verge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: memory managment
C. Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
>
> Thanks for all the informative info about above subject by several list
> members.
> As owner of an 8088 machine I wonder whether I can also use the UMB for some
> of my programs or is that only possible on 286 and higher machines?
I think you will find that you don't have any UMBs to use. Most of the 8088s
I had came with only 256k or 512k and no easy way to increase it. One DID
have 1meg and came with a driver that allowed using the upper memory for
a little ramdisk (384k). Memory managers that map different areas require
a 386 or higher. I never tried any of the later versions of DOS on an 8088
to see it they could load high. They wouldn't be able to use the HMA tho
because I think you need an A20 switch for that.
>
> Computers are like air conditioners, they are useless when you open
> Windows.
I love that !
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Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 22:07:34 +0300
From: "Vasily Zatsepin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Arachne Email Inbox problem
Hi Jan,
I've the same some months ago. The problem was vanished with next
Arachne release. So just wait some days ;-).
But if treat the case seriously, you can make the following:
1) Check the presence of TEMP variable in DOS environment. It'll be better if
Arachne can use it for temporarily data.
2) Reinstall Arachne with default options (so you'll get it in
C:\ARACHNE).
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000 07:30:57 +0100, Jan Lentfer wrote:
> Hi there,
> I am new to this list and to Arachne. I really like the software and
> hope you guys can help me with the following problem:
> I use Arachne mainly as an email client. Dial up and downloading of
> emails works great. But when I trie to open the "INBOX" I encounter the
> following message:
> "Cannot create index file MAIL\$IDX$cnm.IDX, aborting".
> I can't read my new messages :-(. The funny thing is the emails have
> been donwloaded correctly. If I move the *.CNM messages to another
> folder in MAIL and rename the extension to *.MES I can read them. I can
> also read them using pmail.
> Can you help me with that INBOX problem?
> Thanks in advance,
> Jan
> PS.:
> My Setup:
> Toshiba T2200SX, 4MB RAM, 60MB HD, VGA
> DR DOS 7.03 (latest I think)
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> Jan Lentfer
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://welcome.to/MountainbikeHQ
Good luck,
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Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 11:33:52 -0800 (PST)
From: Howard Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cut and Paste in Arachne
Howard Wrote:
>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:
Then tmueller Asked:
>
>Now where is Rich Green's site? You failed to give URL.
>Could any of these programs be used to edit a link in a Web page?
Sorry about that, Rich's site is located at:
http://geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/1401/softlib1.htm
I think the answer to your second question is ``yes'' if you mean:
Can you copy a URL from somewhere else, say an email, and then bring
up arachne's editor for a web page, delete a URL and paste the new
URL in its place. Yes, you can certainly do that. You can grab some
text from within any DOS program or the dos command line or the screen,
and then paste the text in any dos program that permits you to enter
keystrokes. The paste works by putting the text in the keystroke type
ahead buffer. So pasting text is identical to typing them with your
keyboard.
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