arachne-digest Friday, January 14 2000 Volume 01 : Number 945 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:37:34 +0100 (MET) From: Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: memory managment Clarence wrote: >I've got an Orchid Turbo '286 with 2M ram on it on which I have run Windows. >I know you can load Vdisk on it and I'm pretty sure I can find a cache prog >which will use it. I'll try it and get back to you. Thanks. I actually have a vdisk.sys file but it complains it's the wrong DOS version. It's currently running IBM DOS 5 with a few things added from MS-DOS 5 (edit and qbasic actually) earlier it was one of the MS-DOS 3.x versions (3.1x something... (1 or 5?) IIRC but that was like 1990 or so). I did start MS-DOS 6.2 on a floppy just to be able to use "defrag" no it. Another question since the HD is 20MB I could use FAT12 on it couldn't I? Wouldn't that reduce the size of the allocated units and thereby giving me more free space? (1024 vs 2048 IIRC) //Bernie http://hem1.passagen.se/bernie/index.htm DOS programs, Star Wars ... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:46:45 +0100 (MET) From: Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: New Subject Clarence wrote: >In DOS, IF I KNEW THE NECESSARY INTERNET PROTOCOL, it would be simple to >type GETTHEM <enter> and go up the street to get a coffee and donut, >knowing I would have 25 or so .gifs waiting for me when I get back. Yes, one could do like that... >I am certain the above can not be accomplished with Netscape and Windows. >I have to be sitting there, feeding the clickity clickity color comic book >interface for the retarded with the next URL. You could, if you can program winsock... >There is some vague hope that a batch of URLs can be downloaded automatically >with Arachne - but only because we have access to the ear of the author. What a grate idea! >Michael, would it be possible sometime to allow us to create a text file of >sequential URLs and you would provide the means to download each and write >each to an individual and recognizable file ? - as a batch operation ? But unfortunately someone has already beaten you to it - it's already in Arachne <VBG> For instance take a look at this file (which presently isn't linked to): http://hem1.passagen.se/bernie/bernie.asf It contains the following: reload:http://hem1.passagen.se/bernie/default.htm reload:http://hem1.passagen.se/bernie/left.htm reload:http://hem1.passagen.se/bernie/start.htm reload:http://hem1.passagen.se/bernie/bernie.htm reload:http://hem1.passagen.se/bernie/download.htm reload:http://hem1.passagen.se/bernie/starwars.htm reload:http://hem1.passagen.se/bernie/apm.htm reload:http://hem1.passagen.se/bernie/orb.htm reload:http://hem1.passagen.se/bernie/swdrink.htm reload:http://hem1.passagen.se/bernie/sigs.htm reload:http://hem1.passagen.se/bernie/startup.htm reload:http://hem1.passagen.se/bernie/links.htm reload:http://hem1.passagen.se/bernie/ep1trail.htm reload:http://hem1.passagen.se/bernie/ep1tr1.htm Atleast in theory (I have never connect with Arachne as you know) this would download my entire webpage (not the programs) to the Arachne cache. You can try it out if you want (turn images off or it will take a long time on a few of those). Now how to set this up so it connects and isconnects as well? Add this first: "arachne:dialer" and this last: "arachne:hangup" Also see the following document in your main Arahcne directory (1.50 s.r.c paths) doc\acf_asf.htm for more info. //Bernie http://hem1.passagen.se/bernie/index.htm DOS programs, Star Wars ... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 16:53:37 -0500 From: Roger Turk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: memory managment Bernie wrote: >>Thanks. I actually have a vdisk.sys file but it complains it's the wrong DOS version. It's currently running IBM DOS 5 with a few things added from MS-DOS 5 (edit and qbasic actually) earlier it was one of the MS-DOS 3.x versions (3.1x something... (1 or 5?) IIRC but that was like 1990 or so). I did start MS-DOS 6.2 on a floppy just to be able to use "defrag" no it. Another question since the HD is 20MB I could use FAT12 on it couldn't I? Wouldn't that reduce the size of the allocated units and thereby giving me more free space? (1024 vs 2048 IIRC)<< Sorry, Bernie, it won't. FAT12 (HD partitions 16MB and smaller) uses 4K clusters. 2K is the smallest cluster size you can have on a HD under DOS. To get your vdisk.sys file to stop complaining, try putting something like this in an environment variable: SET OS=IBMDOS5 This took care of a problem that I had when I used some DR-DOS functions with M$-DOS and it complained that the wrong operating system was present. BTW, after I got the DR-DOS functions to work once, I didn't need the environment variable any more. Roger Turk Tucson, Arizona USA ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 17:00:33 From: "Dale Mentzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Arachne Email Inbox problem On 12 Jan 00 at 13:59, Clarence Verge wrote: >>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) I think you are correct, Clarence. No need to manually edit the arachne.cfg (though nothing wrong wit that) as you can specify the full path in the appropriate Options menu page. Regards, Dale Mentzer I work 40 hours a week to be this poor. This mail written by a user of Arachne, the DOS Internet Client WWWWW World Wide Web Without Windows http://home.arachne.cz Arachne DOS Browser Home Page ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 17:31:02 -0800 From: Clarence Verge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: memory managment Bernie wrote: > > Clarence wrote: > >I've got an Orchid Turbo '286 with 2M ram on it on which I have run Windows. > >I know you can load Vdisk on it and I'm pretty sure I can find a cache prog > >which will use it. I'll try it and get back to you. > > Thanks. > I actually have a vdisk.sys file but it complains it's the wrong DOS version. > It's currently running IBM DOS 5 with a few things added from MS-DOS 5 > (edit and qbasic actually) earlier it was one of the MS-DOS 3.x versions > (3.1x something... (1 or 5?) IIRC but that was like 1990 or so). I did > start MS-DOS 6.2 on a floppy just to be able to use "defrag" no it. Hi Bernie; Ok, I tried PC-cache and it can load into EMS memory - but you need an EMM. I have this thing in the Orchid software "TurboEMM.sys" which works for me but it might be Orchid specific. If you don't have an EMM which will work on a '286 you can try it. Strangely, PC-cache loads but won't cache my MFM hard disk - says it doesn't recognize it. Also, the Orchid software includes a program simply called "CACHE" that DOES recognize the HD and will put the cache anywhere - DOS area, expanded (EMM) or extended (AT style above 1MB). It may also be Orchid hardware specific but you are welcome to try it. > Another question since the HD is 20MB I could use FAT12 on it couldn't I? > Wouldn't that reduce the size of the allocated units and thereby giving me > more free space? (1024 vs 2048 IIRC) No, the ALUs for FAT12 would have to be 8192. My quick calc indicates you can't allocate a 20Mb HD with 4k ALUs - you need at least 5120 bytes. With FAT16 you could get the ALUs down to 1024 and still access 64Mb. FAT14 would access 32Mb space with 2048 byte ALUs. I don't know how you change the ALU size. :-(( - - Clarence Verge - -- - - Help stamp out FATWARE. As a start visit: http://home.arachne.cz/ - -- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 16:58:54 +0000 From: "Michael L. Dawley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: memory managment On Thu, 13 Jan 2000 13:20:23 -0800, Clarence Verge wrote: > Roger Turk wrote: >> Because *all* PC's had 384 K memory starting at address A0000 whether or not >> "conventional memory" (0000 to 7FFFF) was fully populated. It is *this* >> memory that is reserved for loading video drivers, ROM, BIOS, etc., when the >> computer is booted. > Negative, Roger. > All PCs have the ADDRESS range, sure. The first PCs only had 64k installed. > - Clarence Verge - -- I get it now. This Compudyne has 384K reserved, this is what it's for. Thanks Roger and Clarence. Michael L. Dawley Pearl, Mississippi - --Arachne 1.50 on AMD 486DX4-120 16MB Ram 2GB HDD-- - -- Arachne V1.50;s.r.c., NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://home.arachne.cz/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 00:06:30 +0100 From: Jan Lentfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Wordprocessor for DOS? What's a good free Wordprocessor for DOS (runnable with 386, 4MB RAM) and where can I get it? Thanks a lot in advance, Jan - -- Jan Lentfer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://welcome.to/MountainbikeHQ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 23:59:53 +0100 From: Hans-Juergen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Secure web sites Hi Sam, you wrote on 11.01.00 to "Re: Secure web sites": SWH> What I mean to say here is that I cannot think of any method by which SWH> sender and receiver can transmit secret messages to each other over SWH> public channels of communication with any reasonable level of SWH> security unless both parties have previously agreed on an SWH> encryption/decryption key. O.K. - my original answer to this was much longer, but due to this f***ing Fido-Gateway to Babylon (meaning: to foreign countries outside of Germany), my answers to this list seem to take 2-3 days each, and so I shortened it, because you already got the correct answers to your question. I looked into the documentation of PGP 2.6.3i and found these links that may be a further information for you and anyone else who is interested in that topic (taken from the file "readme.1st"): - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I WANT TO KNOW MORE! If you want to find out more about PGP and encryption in general, there are a number of resources available, both on paper and in electronic form. Here are a few, to get you started: WWW: The International PGP Home Page http://www.ifi.uio.no/pgp/ Fran Litterio's PGP Page (from the Virtual Library) http://world.std.com/~franl/pgp/pgp.html The Official Bug List for MIT PGP 2.6.2 http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/warlord/pgp-faq.html FTP: ftp://ftp.ifi.uio.no/pub/pgp/ ftp://ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/crypto/pgp/ ftp://ftp.dsi.unimi.it/pub/security/crypt/PGP/ DOCs: http://www.ifi.uio.no/pgp/doc.shtml http://www.pegasus.esprit.ec.org/people/arne/pgp.html ftp://ftp.ifi.uio.no/pub/pgp/doc/ ftp://ftp.rhein.de/pub/peti/ FAQs: PGP 2.6.3i FAQ http://www.ifi.uio.no/pgp/FAQ.shtml PGP FAQs from alt.security.pgp http://www.prairienet.org/~jalicqui/pgpfaq.txt ftp://ftp.prairienet.org/pub/providers/pgp/pgpfaq.txt Where to Get the Latest PGP Program FAQ ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/news.answers/pgp-faq/where-is-PGP.Z Newsgroups: alt.anonymous discussion of anonymity and anon remailers alt.anonymous.messages for anonymous encrypted message transfer alt.privacy.clipper Clipper, Capstone, Skipjack, Key Escrow alt.security general security discussions alt.security.pgp discussion of PGP alt.security.ripem discussion of RIPEM alt.security.keydist key distribution via Usenet alt.society.civil-liberty general civil liberties, including privacy comp.compression discussion of compression algorithms comp.org.eff.news news reports from EFF comp.org.eff.talk discussion of EFF related issues comp.patents discussion of S/W patents, including RSA comp.risks some mention of crypto and wiretapping comp.society.privacy general privacy issues comp.security.announce announcements of security holes misc.legal.computing software patents, copyrights, computer laws sci.crypt methods of data encryption/decryption sci.math general math discussion talk.politics.crypto general talk on crypto politics Books: The Official PGP User's Guide by Philip R. Zimmermann MIT Press 1995 ISBN 0-262-74017-6 216 pp. $14.95 PGP: Pretty Good Privacy by Simson Garfinkel O'Reilly & Associates 1994 ISBN 1-56592-098-8 430 pp. $24.95 Protect Your Privacy: The PGP User's Guide by William Stallings Prentice Hall PTR 1995 ISBN 0-13-185596-4 302 pp. $19.95 Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C 2nd Edition by Bruce Schneier John Wiley & Sons 1996 ISBN 0-471-11709-9 E-Mail Security with PGP and PEM: How to Keep Your Electronic Mail Private by Bruce Schneier John Wiley & Sons 1995 ISBN 0-471-05318-X - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ZZee yah, Hans-Juergen - -- ## CrossPoint v3.11 ## * ZQWKPro v1.1 [unregistered] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 23:59:40 +0100 From: Hans-Juergen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: TSR virus checkers Hi Gregy, you wrote on 09.01.00 to "Re: TSR virus checkers": GJF> Hans-Juergen ...........thank you....ref. my recent reply post to GJF> this list....someone pointed out that Arachne is pretty safe, all GJF> by itself, as long as we take our stuff offline and check it before GJF> we run it.....that makes sense......I'm still going to run with GJF> my CMOS Bios virus alarm ON, but nothing more than that... That's true, but Arachne isn't the only application I run on my computer... ;-) I change files with other people a lot, either via modem or floppy disk, so I feel more comfortable with a resident virus checker in the background that I really can rely on. And the method you described works well - as long as you don't forget to "check it before we run it"... ZZee yah, Hans-Juergen - -- ## CrossPoint v3.11 ## * ZQWKPro v1.1 [unregistered] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 23:59:23 +0100 From: Hans-Juergen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: My inbox is a blank screen Hi Sam, you wrote on 08.01.00 to "Re: My inbox is a blank screen": SWH> 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. SWH> The solution to your problem is to follow the advice found on a very SWH> old posting to the list. I quote as follows: [..] > > 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. SWH> send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with these 2 lines in the body: SWH> get arachne-digest v01.n625 SWH> end I doubt that Mark wants to receive elder messages from this mailing list, I'd rather think he gets the same error message from InSight that I do saying: "Cannot create index file c:\arach150\mail\$idx$cnm.idx" when he wants to take a look at his downloaded mails from the server. I wrote a mail to Michael Polak some weeks ago, but due to his efforts to get Arachne v.1.60 to work he did not answer (I suppose...). So for you mailing listerers ;-) I will forward my mail to him, perhaps someone knows the answer already: - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Empfaenger : /QWK/CCSBASE/E-MAILS (Michael Polak) Absender : Hans-Juergen Bardenhagen@CCSBASE Betreff : Inbox.dgi Datum : Fr 03.12.99, 15:30 Groesse : 1994 Bytes - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Polak) Hi Michael, I think there is a problem with your "inbox.dgi" in Arachne v1.50 s.r.c. I always get the error message "cannot create index file $idx$cnm.idx", when I try to look at my received mails using the "Inbox"-button. I tried to solve this problem in every way that seemed logical (and even unlogical ones, too) for me, but wouldn't succeed. I know I can look at my mails, if I use the "all files" option in Arachne desktop and just click on the *.cnm in the mail directory. Another possibility is to rename them to *.mes and move them in any subdirectory of \mail and open the refering folder. But this is not very convenient and not the way it should be, is it? ;-) What puzzles me is that the "sentmail.dgi" and the "outbox.dgi" work as they should - they *can* create their index files in the mail directory and show all *.snt and *.tbs files correctly. I read a message in the Arachne mailing list a while ago, where someone wrote he had this problem fixed by copying "welcome.htm" to the mail directory, but this doesn't work for me (and is somehow rather unlogical to me, because I would rather expect "welcome.cnm" to be the missing file...). So I elaborated on the files in the mail directory a bit: emptied it completely, left only the *.snt files in it, put "welcome.cnm" in it again - nothing worked. I read about the path settings in the mailing list, so I made sure that I filled in the full path statements in my local and personal settings of the config file - didn't help, either. My path to the mail directory is "c:\arach150\mail\" - is this the problem, because "inbox.dgi" only knows "c:\arachne\mail\", perhaps? Is the last slash too much, or what? %-) Last idea: I let Arachne write her temporary files to my ramdisk D:, so maybe "inbox.dgi" can't handle this and wants to create its index file on C: instead of D:? Hans-Juergen - -- ## CrossPoint v3.11 ## * ZQWKPro v1.1 [unregistered] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 23:37:27 +0000 From: "Geoff Barnard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: problem www page - Sazuma Hello all, I don't know if this one has been mentioned before, but Arachne has severe problems with the web page http://www.sazuma.com - it produces a blank blue screen (overwriting the base of the screen) and does not show correctly at all. That's the same with v. 1.43 and now 1.50. jgb ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 18:23:44 -0800 From: Clarence Verge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Wordprocessor for DOS? Jan Lentfer wrote: > > What's a good free Wordprocessor for DOS (runnable with 386, 4MB RAM) > and where can I get it? What do you require of a word processor ? There are lots available. Some are ridiculous overkill and a torment to use. Others may more properly be called text editors but this catagory fills my requirements most of the time. When my text editor can't handle the file size I grit my teeth and cut it up with Wordstar. Anything I might use (including Wordstar) will run on an 8088 and need less than 64K ram. - - Clarence Verge - -- - - Help stamp out FATWARE. As a start visit: http://home.arachne.cz/ - -- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 18:20:20 +0000 From: "Michael L. Dawley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: try this... * This message is in MIME format. - --MIME-multipart-message-boundary-947805621 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit On Thu, 13 Jan 2000 18:50:55 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote: > Hi Michael, > On that Compaq that loads epppd.exe "high" but still won't place the > IP adress into ppp.log...... > in arachne.cfg change > [tcp/ip] > IP_Address PPP > to > [tcp/ip] > IP_Address BOOTP - ----------------------- Glenn, It sure does work. I had the problem on three computers, I've fixed it on this IBM PS/1. Here by attachment, is my mem.txt. I have about as much conventional memory for Arachne now as I usually do on any of my setups using DOS 6.22<g>. > the time-online does not show. Instead it just says "TCP/IP" I'll get used to it. Thanks, Michael L. Dawley Pearl, Mississippi - --Arachne 1.50 on IBM PS/1 486SX 25 Mhz 32MB Ram 130MB HDD-- - -- Arachne V1.50;s.r.c., NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://home.arachne.cz/ - --MIME-multipart-message-boundary-947805621 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN ;name=mem.txt Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Modules using memory below 1 MB: Name Total =3D Conventional + Upper Memory -------- ---------------- ---------------- ---------------- SYSTEM 16,637 (16K) 16,621 (16K) 16 (0K) HIMEM 1,120 (1K) 1,120 (1K) 0 (0K) EMM386 4,144 (4K) 4,144 (4K) 0 (0K) COMMAND 3,776 (4K) 3,776 (4K) 0 (0K) COMMAND 3,200 (3K) 3,200 (3K) 0 (0K) COMMAND 3,184 (3K) 3,184 (3K) 0 (0K) SETVER 704 (1K) 0 (0K) 704 (1K) SMARTDRV 27,488 (27K) 0 (0K) 27,488 (27K) DMOUSE 17,120 (17K) 0 (0K) 17,120 (17K) EPPPD 70,160 (69K) 0 (0K) 70,160 (69K) Free 633,392 (619K) 623,072 (608K) 10,320 (10K) Memory Summary: Type of Memory Total =3D Used + Free ---------------- ---------- ---------- ---------- Conventional 655,360 32,288 623,072 Upper 125,808 115,488 10,320 Reserved 393,216 393,216 0 Extended (XMS) 32,380,048 1,324,176 31,055,872 ---------------- ---------- ---------- ---------- Total memory 33,554,432 1,865,168 31,689,264 Total under 1 MB 781,168 147,776 633,392 Largest executable program size 622,976 (608K) Largest free upper memory block 10,016 (10K) MS-DOS is resident in the high memory area. - --MIME-multipart-message-boundary-947805621-- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 18:35:47 -0600 From: John McKloskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Initialising Arachne Hi folks, I've been watching for a few days before jumping in to see if my subject came up, but it has not. This oughta be a slam-dunk for you: Upon initial installation of Arachne, it says " Initialising" and a little spinner appears. But I've never gotten beyond that point; the spinner can go all night and nothing happens. I heard there might be a conflict between Win 3.1 and Arachne, so I backed up and then deleted Windows. Still no help. I've consulted every help page I can find, and this problem seems to never be mentioned. Machine is a 386 w/4MB memory. Any help appreciated...... John McKloskey, Racine Wisconsin USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 18:53:33 +0000 From: "Michael L. Dawley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: try this... On Thu, 13 Jan 2000 18:50:55 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote: > Hi Michael, > On that Compaq that loads epppd.exe "high" but still won't place the > IP adress into ppp.log...... > in arachne.cfg change > [tcp/ip] > IP_Address PPP > to > [tcp/ip] > IP_Address BOOTP > I tried it last evening and it works. The only "problem" was that > the time-online does not show. Instead it just says "TCP/IP" Glenn, Woops, I spoke too soon, As soon as I pressed the "empty trash" button (not on yours<g>, other posts I didn't keep), my TCP/IP went OFFLINE right then and there. I had to switch to my other .acf to get back on. Apparently I don't have enough extra memory above 640 k with EPPPD loaded high, (about 10K), so there is some sort of conflict there. I probably need to move dmouse.com back down to conventional memory. I'll try some combinations to see what is causing it. I have been using Netdial 1.3's epppd ahead of Arachne, and I am now with this .acf, and it works fine to have epppd loaded high. But in this arachne-only .acf with the changes you recommended, I have trouble. Maybe the trouble is with BOOTP, I'm just not sure. Thanks, Michael L. Dawley Pearl, Mississippi - --Arachne 1.50 on IBM PS/1 486SX 25 Mhz 32MB Ram 130MB HDD-- - -- Arachne V1.50;s.r.c., NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://home.arachne.cz/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 01:55:14 +0100 From: Jan Lentfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Wordprocessor for DOS? Clarence Verge wrote: > What do you require of a word processor ? > > There are lots available. Some are ridiculous overkill and a torment to use. > Others may more properly be called text editors but this catagory fills my > requirements most of the time. > > When my text editor can't handle the file size I grit my teeth and cut it up > with Wordstar. > > Anything I might use (including Wordstar) will run on an 8088 and need less > than 64K ram. Basically a an ASCII text Editor. I remember using Wordstar 2000 on my Dad's old 8088 about 12 years ago. Good program, is there any place where you can get it for free? I also remember there was a DOS version of Wordperfect that looked almost like the Win 3.1 version (WP 5.x or 6.x ??). What I need this program for is writing essays on my old 386, VGA monochrome display, 4MB Toshiba notebook (which I got for free from the company I worked for, coz the wanted to trash it :-)))), and then exporting them to Win - based Word to add the graphics and final layout. I already checked the Simtel page and other download pages but was a little overwhelmed by the vast amount of software available. So I decided to ask for your experiences. thanks a lot, Jan - -- Jan Lentfer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://welcome.to/MountainbikeHQ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 19:03:16 +0000 From: "Michael L. Dawley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Initialising Arachne On Thu, 13 Jan 2000 18:35:47 -0600, John McKloskey wrote: > Hi folks, > I've been watching for a few days before jumping in to see if my subject > came up, but it has not. This oughta be a slam-dunk for you: > Upon initial installation of Arachne, it says " Initialising" and a > little spinner appears. But I've never gotten beyond that point; the > spinner can go all night and nothing happens. I heard there might be a > conflict between Win 3.1 and Arachne, so I backed up and then deleted > Windows. Still no help. I've consulted every help page I can find, and > this problem seems to never be mentioned. > Machine is a 386 w/4MB memory. > Any help appreciated...... > John McKloskey, Racine Wisconsin USA > [EMAIL PROTECTED] John, I have several win 3.1 machines that also have Arachne on them, and all work well. I have MSIE 5.0 and Netscape 4.08 on most of them, Eudora, Pegasus, and all have Arachne 1.50. I had that happen once, but cannot recall what I did to get going. I just wanted to confirm that Win 3.1 will work ok with Arachne 1.50. Thanks, Michael L. Dawley Pearl, Mississippi - --Arachne 1.50 on IBM PS/1 486SX 25 Mhz 32MB Ram 130MB HDD-- - -- Arachne V1.50;s.r.c., NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://home.arachne.cz/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 23:53:25 -0400 From: "L.D. Best" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: New search engine. Sergi, I don't KNOW!! I didn't look to see! Maybe someone else can check, and if not there then it can be added with META stuff that Michael wants? l.d. ==== On Tue, 11 Jan 2000 20:20:45 +0200, Sergei Kolodka wrote: > "L.D. Best" wrote: >> Sergei, >> Thanks much for the "heads up!" I went, took a look, gave it a try, >> placed it on my hotlist, and spent toooooooo much time seeing where it >> led. <G> >> Yah done good! >> l.d. >> ==== > I do not check yet, is Arachne website exist in list ? > Sergei - -- Arachne V1.50;s.r.c., NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://home.arachne.cz/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 18:57:40 -0400 From: "L.D. Best" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Re2: Secure web sites Petri, Maybe you feel it is slow compared to your local network. You've got to remember that this is the *worldwide* internet and how things get routed to/from list server depends upon traffic *worldwide* <G> And this is e-mail and not some type of quick chat or chat channel. To be able to have only a two hour lapse between send and receive for written correspondence worldwide is pretty damn good! It beats the heck out of snailmail and is a lot cheaper than a conference call on the phone and a lot simpler than a shortwave radio conference [which would require relays to get around the world anyway]. l.d. ==== On Thu, 13 Jan 2000 12:22:11 +0100 (CET), Petri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Bernie wrote: >> >It's the Arachne list that's slow sending out e-mails after they are sent. >> IMHO it's very fast. Espacially compared to how it has been at times. My > Actually, it can take two hours for messages to propagate here (1), it > seems....and this isn't exactly the most high-traffic list I've ever been > on - lists usually have better performance. =) > (1) luckily, it doesn't usually take this long for messages to > spread....but sometimes.....anyway, my point is that I think it's slow. =) > /petri - -- Arachne V1.50;s.r.c., NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://home.arachne.cz/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 20:05:10 +0000 From: "Michael L. Dawley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re:try this * This message is in MIME format. - --MIME-multipart-message-boundary-947811910 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Glenn, I am trying BOOTP and loading epppd high on this computer now, and do not have any problems so far. I have a copy of my mem.txt attached. Thanks, Michael L. Dawley Pearl, Mississippi - --Arachne 1.50 on AMD 486DX4-120 16MB Ram 2GB HDD-- - -- Arachne V1.50;s.r.c., NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://home.arachne.cz/ - --MIME-multipart-message-boundary-947811910 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN ;name=mem.txt Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Modules using memory below 1 MB: Name Total =3D Conventional + Upper Memory -------- ---------------- ---------------- ---------------- MSDOS 17,645 (17K) 17,645 (17K) 0 (0K) HIMEM 1,168 (1K) 1,168 (1K) 0 (0K) EMM386 3,120 (3K) 3,120 (3K) 0 (0K) COMMAND 3,024 (3K) 3,024 (3K) 0 (0K) COMMAND 3,152 (3K) 3,152 (3K) 0 (0K) IO 80 (0K) 80 (0K) 0 (0K) SETVER 624 (1K) 0 (0K) 624 (1K) ONTRACK 5,312 (5K) 0 (0K) 5,312 (5K) DMOUSE 17,088 (17K) 0 (0K) 17,088 (17K) SMARTDRV 29,024 (28K) 0 (0K) 29,024 (28K) EPPPD 70,160 (69K) 0 (0K) 70,160 (69K) Free 696,096 (680K) 626,960 (612K) 69,136 (68K) Memory Summary: Type of Memory Total =3D Used + Free ---------------- ---------- ---------- ---------- Conventional 655,360 28,400 626,960 Upper 191,344 122,208 69,136 Reserved 393,216 393,216 0 Extended (XMS) 15,537,296 2,335,888 13,201,408 ---------------- ---------- ---------- ---------- Total memory 16,777,216 2,879,712 13,897,504 Total under 1 MB 846,704 150,608 696,096 Largest executable program size 626,864 (612K) Largest free upper memory block 68,864 (67K) MS-DOS is resident in the high memory area. - --MIME-multipart-message-boundary-947811910-- ------------------------------ End of arachne-digest V1 #945 *****************************
