arachne-digest Sunday, January 16 2000 Volume 01 : Number 950 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 18:45:25 -0800 From: Clarence Verge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Stateside goodie purchases Glenn McCorkle wrote: > > On Sat, 15 Jan 2000 11:55:06 -0800, Gregory J. Feig wrote: > > > On Sat, 15 Jan 2000 09:46:04 +0000, Michael L. Dawley wrote: > > > ----------snip--------- > >> LD, > >> I checked the egghead site out, and my Arachne surfs it ok, > >> the site is very nicely done and offers good pictures and > >> descriptions of the merchandise. The free shipping looks good. > >> Thanks. > > > Michael ........I would appreciate it if you would tell me just > > how you are doing that....and at what time of day....??? I just > > had the experience, last night between 1 am and 6 am of not being > > able to get anything down from egghead, 4 times, while in that > > period, I downloaded 11 BIG..!!! ZDnet pages in between times of > > trying to access egghead.....if you can sense my frustration...! > > ...because you are saying you can do this, while I cannot.... > > unless you are sitting at the direct end of a T1 line, try not > > to suggest that my ISP is the cause of this, and that would not > > explain my complete ability to QUICKLY download other big sites > > all night (other than the ZDnet pages) long, without any problems. > > Gregy, > > Just tried several pages. > Each one D/Led in 10 to 15 seconds. > > Do you have cookies turned on in Arachne? > > You might need them for "effective" Egghead viewing. Yes, good point Glenn - I forgot about that - my "cookies" were on. And Gregy, as you can see from Glenns' times, my connection is hardly something to gloat about. His connection always runs 4x to 5x mine. But then, he DOES have a time machine installed.... - - Clarence Verge - -- - - Help stamp out FATWARE. As a start visit: http://home.arachne.cz/ - -- ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 18:56:42 -0500 From: "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Arachne D/L times at egghead.com... (was Re: Stateside goodie purchases) On Sat, 15 Jan 2000 15:46:32 -0800, Clarence Verge wrote: > Clarence Verge wrote: >> Gregory J. Feig wrote: >> > >> > Michael ........I would appreciate it if you would tell me just >> > how you are doing that....and at what time of day....??? >> Hi Gregy; >> Send me the URL u used and I will agree to test it simultaneously with you >> at noon Pacific Time. (3PM my time) > Hi Gregy; > I didn't get your answer so I used www.egghead.com (reno.onsale) at 3:15 EST. > Hardware is 33 Mhz '486 with 8 Mb ram, VGA monochrome and 33.6 modem. > First test was with NS2.02 (javascript OFF) on Win3.11 - both running from the > Harddisk. > Second test was Arachne 1.50b2 running on a 4Mb ramdisk and using XMS for swap. > Actual connection RX rate both cases was 33600. Images *ON* both browsers. > Arachne Multitasking ON. > NS2.02 Arachne1.50b2 > Time from URL enter > to home page loaded: 25 Sec. 50 Sec. > Time form clicking on > Computer products to > page fully loaded: 41 Sec. 135 Sec. Hardware: P150, 80mb total Ram, S3Trio64v+ graphics, 33.6 modem Arachne setup: Arachne, Command.com and %TEMP% are all on a 64mb RamDisk. (no HDD access at-all) Arachne options: Images on, multitasking on, cookies on, HttpReferer on Times: - ------- (I don't have NS2.02) Arachne 1.50s.r.c. Time from URL enter to home page loaded: N/A 40 sec. Time form clicking on Computer products to page fully loaded: N/A 59 sec. Both times include all images D/Led. Page and all images fully rendered, Arachne awaiting next user action. - -- 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/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 15:59:12 +0000 From: rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Arachne under Windows hi glenn, please send a copy of "PocketArachne". thanks. later, rick ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 16:02:29 +0000 From: rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Stateside goodie purchases > But then, he DOES have a time machine installed.... this does explain a lot things <g>. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 19:12:19 -0500 From: "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Stateside goodie purchases On Sat, 15 Jan 2000 18:45:25 -0800, Clarence Verge wrote: > Glenn McCorkle wrote: <snip> >> Gregy, >> Just tried several pages. >> Each one D/Led in 10 to 15 seconds. >> Do you have cookies turned on in Arachne? >> You might need them for "effective" Egghead viewing. > Yes, good point Glenn - I forgot about that - my "cookies" were on. > And Gregy, as you can see from Glenns' times, my connection is hardly > something to gloat about. His connection always runs 4x to 5x mine. I forgot to say: Those 10 to 15 sec times were for the .htm file only. (images off) (see the results of the "image on" tests just a little while ago) > But then, he DOES have a time machine installed.... The darned-thing is broken though.... On Dec 25 1999, my 40th birthday still arrived.<aaaahhhh><vbg> - -- 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/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 16:18:49 +0000 From: rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: dos word processor hi all, i got Word Publisher, circa 1989 ... been trying to find current copyright/etc 2 no avail so i guess it must be free (or not). will run on floppies or ... seems to work well, lots of "setup" options ... printers/etc. can/will send to interested personae. later, rick ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 19:27:15 -0500 From: "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Arachne under Windows On Sat, 15 Jan 2000 15:59:12 +0000, rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi glenn, > please send a copy of "PocketArachne". thanks. > later, > rick Do you want the "disk image" or the "zip file"? ARA150RC IMG 1474979 8-29-99 10:41p (requires DR/OpenDos Diskcopy utility) ARA150RC ZIP 1180363 1-15-00 7:19p (requires only that the user unzip it into an "empty" HDD directory) - -- 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/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 01:56:51 +0100 (CET) From: Michael Polak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: I am uploading 1.60 beta 1 to server.... I just wanted to let you know, that I am uploading Arachne 1.60 beta 1 to server. It is unfortunately not as good as I wanted it to be, but still there are some important bug fixes in this release, and few new nice features, like PrintScreen hotkey automaticaly generating screenshots (in BMP format), export of entire page to BMP, and more. I failed to finish the stub32 stuff, and also to fix all bugs in copy&paste in editor, so I have disabled these features in this beta version. But beta 2 should follow as fast as possible. So just a moment please, I am going to put the archive online (you have mentioned the delay in listserver, so I rather posted the announce first). - -- http://home.arachne.cz/ (homepage of Arachne, www browser for DOS & Linux) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 19:55:45 -0400 From: "L.D. 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--MIME-multipart-message-boundary-947984149-- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 03:12:17 +0200 From: Sergei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Duplicated messages from me. Some got duplicated meesages from me few days ago. One got 9 times ! It was my crazy Netscape. Something was not good and it duplicate messages at hard drive. I still do not know why and how. Sorry . Sergei - -- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 13:17:21 +0200 From: Sergei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Arachne under Windows "Samuel W. Heywood" wrote: > > > copy /B 1.ps lptx can do this work better. > > type 1.ps > prn also works. > > Whatever command you want to use is just a matter of individual preference. > IMHO. > > Sam Heywood Nop. I have laserprinter HP 1100 and when after printing to file and sending them to prn with type i always got memory overload, with 1K file (printer have 8 MB ram). After copy /B all goes OK. Sergei ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 03:44:58 +0200 From: Sergei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: memory managment Clarence Verge wrote: > > Jeez, what WAS all that mess that I cut out ?? I'll try got answer from \Navigator 4.7.... > You're the lawyer. (And I notice that you are rather cavalier about some of > the fine points of law.<G>) What is my exposure to legal damage if I ship > copyrighted software in a package intended for trial use ? We all know that > some trials ?|-)) last forever. > > - Clarence Verge I'm not that kind of lawyer, which you know :) I work now for one big German corporation. My specialisation is taxes in my country. And i do know nothing about copyrights, cos it's ABSOLUTELY uselles here. Once i court i saw cracked versions of Windows and Office at all of near 25 computers. Justice for all ? Yeah... Sergei - -- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 03:53:29 +0200 From: Sergei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Long filenames howto ? Glenn McCorkle wrote: In the case of accessing a long file name on your HDD, it's MSDOS 7 that is sending the short_name to Arachne instead of the long_name. Web servers send the long_name and Arachne receives them just fine. As you see, MSDOS 7 showed the short_names I then "fired-up" Arachne in an MSDOS window from within W95. Attached is the directory listing of c:\progra~1\*.* which MSDOS 7 sent to Arachne. Also find attached, the directory listing sent to Arachne by an Apache web server. As you can see, Apache sends the long_name. (and Arachne can access the links to those long_names) I hope this information has been helpful. OK. Now I understand what i need. Just HTTPD for Windows for viewing local files. Searching begins........ Sergei ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 21:20:35 -0500 From: Zachary Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Arachne under Windows Hello, Maybe some one can help me. I am having trouble with Arachne. When the program is initializing for installation, it hangs. I don't know whats wrong... Zach Campbell ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 03:01:31 +0100 From: "Michael Polak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: List of changes in 1.60 beta 1.... * This message is in MIME format. - --MIME-multipart-message-boundary-947923292 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit - -- Michael Polak, xChaos software mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (mobile phone - up to 160 characters) http://home.arachne.cz/ (WWW browser for DOS) http://webspace.n.cz/ (web hosting "www.firma.cz"/"firma.n.cz") - --MIME-multipart-message-boundary-947923292 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN ;name=changes.txt Content-Description: File "changes.txt" (type TEXT/PLAIN, size 7 KB) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Changes since release 1.50 - -------------------------- Complete history can be found at http://home.arachne.cz/download/history.txt 1.60 beta 1 - "millenium pre-release" - ---- Release date: 16th January 2000 Notes: 1.50 stable release was skipped due to release of new version of WATTCP library. Bug fixes: Installation utility was completely rewritten once again and it should be more stable and usable now. Many types of table rendering bugs were fixed - including nested tables, multicolumn cells and table alignent. (see new examples\tables.htm file). Insight was upgraded to version 3.5, which fixes certain bugs with attaching files and "Cannot create index file" bug. (It was caused by TEMP variable finished by "\", which is illegal. Both INSIGHT.EXE and CORE.EXE can handle this now, but there is still some garbage screen output from ARACHNE.BAT) Some of "infinite cycling" problems should be solved now (two of them - one was "cycling in frames" bug, second was caused by strange behaviour of some mouse drivers after initialization). Table rendering should be faster (after removal of certain unnecsary loops I found in my code) and more stable (after finding that one global variable should be rather strictly local in every function ;-). Target for <META HTTP-EQUIV=3D"Refresh" ...> tag is "_parent", not "_top" (this not realy bug-fix, but rather "Netscapism" ;) <META HTTP-EQUIV=3D"Refresh" ...> now works even in fullscreen mode, as well as screensaver timer. Another Netscapism: underscore ('_') mustn't be converted to hexa code in CGI query strings (why ???) Mouse shouldn't be jerky any more, even on huge pages with frames and table... at least if download was already finished. There was error when accessing http servers on other port than 80 via proxy - it is fixed now. Little bug in INSIGHT.EXE quoted-printable encoding was fixed: ASCII codes <32 are no longer converted to "_". If you leave "Organization" field in Personal Settings empty, it will be completely omitted from outgoing e-mails (no more "Organization: (null)" lines ;-). "NoProxy4all" and "NoFTPProxy4all" ARACHNE.CFG variables (substrings of host names for which proxy shouldn't be used, eg. ".myprovider.com") were finaly enabled. Bug in Tab/Shift+Tab navigation in frames was fixed. Security was improved - Arachne's extensions to <INPUT> tag (see AEXTHTML.TXT) are now allowed only in local documents. Arachne now generates PPPDRC.CFG file for EPPPD.EXE in format which allows spaces in usernames and passwords. Quality of truecolor bitmap (BMP, "Fast JPEGs") rendering in 256 color and 16 color modes (SVGA, VGA, EGA) was improved. Output fields (INPUT TYPE=3D"OUTPUT"> are no longer editable. When HTML page contains "<OPTION>blah blah\n<OPTION>blah2..." bug, the end of line is no longer converted to extra space. Changes: Default target frame for mailto: HREFs is now always "_top". Font for <INPUT TYPE=3D"SUBMIT"|"RESET"|"BUTTON"|"OUTPUT"> was changed to get more Netscape-like look'n'feel. System font (fixed width) is now used only for text input boxes. Some design changes, and quite radical changes in HTML rendering. EMBED tag was restricted to local files (will be reimplemented later). ASCII printing was made more usable - maximum number of characters on one line is now strictly accepted. Extra XSWAP optimization was enabled (see '?' hotkey). Internal editor is now able to load virtualy any HTML file, because long lines are wrapped at position of first space which is found over 2/3 of maximum line length, which is 1024 characters. It means that HTML code of edited page should be always compatible, because in HTML, line break is treated the same way as standard space character. Small Hotlist manager modification. Improvements: Arachne 1.60 beta is based on WATTCP release "9911" which should be faster, more stable, and it which supports DHCP. <TD VALIGN=3D"TOP"|"MIDDLE" (or "CENTER")|"BOTTOM"> was implemented; default vertical alignment is now "MIDDLE". Better frame implementation - <FRAME SCROLLING=3D"No"> and <FRAME BORDER=3D"false" | FRAMEBORDER=3D"0"> is now valid. Optimization of overlays (improves performance if Arachne is used without any disk caching). F3 key (URL input prompt) can be used even in fullscreen mode. When mail download or upload is invoked when user is offline, simple floppy-mail exchange is possible (small MIME.CFG patch). Form Feed (ASCII 12) character is appended to exported ASCII. Insight 3.5 sorts folders in alphabetical order and it remembers last used folder. Mail message can be displayed either in Desktop page style (often unreadable, because of background image) or as Default HTML page style (readable - usualt black on gray) ARACHNE.CFG variable is "MailIsDesktop Yes|No". New extension to <INPUT TYPE=3DTEXT> and <TEXATAREA> tags: <TEXTAREA ..ACTIVE> and <INPUT .. ACTIVE> will cause the atom to get keyboard focus when page is loaded (useful for mail composer, internal editor, Quick notepad...) Optional PrintScreen handler is capable of saving screenshot to BMP file. Works only in 256 colors and Hicolor modes. Arachne is also able to print page to BMP (Ctrl+P hotkey) and print-file dialogues were improved. New screensaver-related surprises were added ;-) Local file listings now use variable number of columns (up to 8 columns in 1024*768 - use Reload button to synchronize when you return back to 800x600 or 640x???) New hotkey '?' dumps XSWAP debug information to screen (ugly, but useful when complaining about speed, etc. - see file xswap.txt). This is related to better XSWAP crash diagnostics: please report full text of enhanced XSWAP crash message to me ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Speed improvement: button animation is not complete - Arachne doesn't wait for user to release mouse to start operation, eg. submit HTML form. <INPUT TYPE=3D"RESET"> was finaly implemented - the page is reloaded from disk, which resets all forms. Number of HTML tables Arachne can handle is no longer fixed, tables are now allocated dynamicaly and you can have as many tables as you can stack in XSWAP memory manager (up to several hundereds tables). - --MIME-multipart-message-boundary-947923292-- � ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 04:10:58 +0200 From: Sergei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: memory managment Sergei wrote: > Clarence Verge wrote: > > > > > Jeez, what WAS all that mess that I cut out ?? > > I'll try got answer from \Navigator 4.7.... > > > You're the lawyer. (And I notice that you are rather cavalier about some of > > the fine points of law.<G>) What is my exposure to legal damage if I ship > > copyrighted software in a package intended for trial use ? We all know that > > some trials ?|-)) last forever. > > > > - Clarence Verge > > I'm not that kind of lawyer, which you know :) Reply to myself..... 4.08 AM.... I really need to sleep two hours.... I want to say that i love electronics much more than all this trash with papers. And i have some developments for now, for ex. hardware mp3/cd player. But investitions..... > I work now for one big German corporation. > My specialisation is taxes in my country. > And i do know nothing about copyrights, > cos it's ABSOLUTELY uselles here. > Once i court i saw cracked versions of Windows > and Office at all of near 25 computers. > Justice for all ? Yeah... > > Sergei > -- - -- ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 20:25:53 -0400 From: "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Arachne under Windows On Sat, 15 Jan 2000 19:27:15 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote: > On Sat, 15 Jan 2000 15:59:12 +0000, rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> hi glenn, >> please send a copy of "PocketArachne". thanks. >> later, >> rick > Do you want the "disk image" or the "zip file"? > ARA150RC IMG 1474979 8-29-99 10:41p > (requires DR/OpenDos Diskcopy utility) > ARA150RC ZIP 1180363 1-15-00 7:19p > (requires only that the user unzip it into an "empty" HDD directory) Hello Glenn: I too would like a copy of "Pocket Arachne", the zip file version, ARA15ORC.ZIP. You might receive many requests for this. It might be a good idea to make it available for download at an ftp site or at a web-page somewhere. I think we all will appreciate your work on this project. Sam Heywood P.S. After just now seeing Michael's recent post announcing that he is now uploading version 1.60 beta, I decided to return to this message and edit it by adding this postscript. Please hold off on my request for Pocket Arachne at this time. It is about time I should upgrade to 1.60 beta. When you have a Pocket Arachne for the new 1.60 beta, please let us know. Addendum to P.S. I just now successfully downloaded 1.60 beta and have returned to this message to add additional comments. The new version of Arachne is available either as a ZIP archive or you may receive it by email. Quoting from the download page I find "Send an empty email to address [EMAIL PROTECTED] You will receive UUENCODED Arachne by email. Warning: it will be quite a big email. Some systems will refuse message which is longer than 1 MB. You can also download Arachne as a zip archive, but installation is less intuitive and user friendly" I should like to hear from those who elect to receive the new version by email. Did they find their installation exceptionally easy? Are they having fewer problems than those who install from the zip archive? We'll find out. I'll go about installing the new version right away. - -- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Alternative WWW Browser ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 03:16:23 +0100 (CET) From: Michael Polak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: 1.60 beta 1 is finaly online. I am announcing it only on Arachne web page and in arachne, arachne-digest and arachne-development. Sorry, still no Javascript and still no Linux version. I wanted to fix HTML rendering bugs first... I will wait for your opinions on this release before announcing it in arachne-announce. Don't try to use EGA or CGA support - it is probably broken. Use just VGA and XMS initial options. If there is anyone who is good at using ODIPKT, please let me know. I would like to improve the wizard, because it is only way to get "drivers for Arachne" - "Arachne packet wizard" an theoreticaly read what is called "Novell drivers for DOS" from installation flopies of various network cards, and create or update startnet.bat and net.cfg automaticaly. But I need to know more about how to do it :-( - -- http://home.arachne.cz/ (homepage of Arachne, www browser for DOS & Linux) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 04:25:05 +0200 From: Sergei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Virtual filesystem Someone ever tryed to unstall Linux to DOS partition ? I tryed Slackware, and long filenames structure there very simple, just two hidden files in each catalog with translation of filenames. Sergei - -- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 13:11:01 +1100 From: John Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Wordprocessor for DOS? On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, you wrote: > 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 Have you had a look at Envision Publisher? This is a DOS wysiwyg DTP prog. that has a variety of scalable fonts, superscript, subscript etc and a reasonable range of printer drivers. I often use it as a word processor and it produces good looking printed docs. The only problem with it is it's non standard file format--you can't save as txt or rtf. I think I got it from Simtel. Cheers Johnno ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 19:17:12 +0000 From: rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Arachne under Windows .zip please, thanks. rick G wrote: > > Do you want the "disk image" or the "zip file"? > ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 04:48:31 +0100 (CET) From: Michael Polak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: new screeshots oh yes, and new screenshots are available too.... - -- http://home.arachne.cz/ (homepage of Arachne, www browser for DOS & Linux) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 23:39:43 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time) From: Helmut Usbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: arachne 1.6 Well...downloaded the 1.6exe file and it seemed to make and install into its own directory. When it branched out to run I received: file not found .exe error Tried downloading it again, same result. I have plenty of memory, 596K plus extended memory and also have a set temp. How's everybody else doing? Regards, Helm. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 23:39:00 -0800 From: Clarence Verge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Arachne 1.61 - First bugs - Video problems Hello Michael, All; I haven't checked the list to see what others' luck has been yet but really, Michael, you should do a private pre-announce test with the known bitchers before you stick your neck out. <G> Just trying to be funny ! Ok, download time of the .zip version from the 20Mbps site at Prague took me almost exactly 10 minutes. Unzipping to the ramdisk took about 30 seconds. First trial: I copied my old 1.50b2 Arachne.cfg and key to ramdisk and typed setup. Text screen asks to select swapping method - selected XMS. Text screen asks to select video - selected VGA. Text screen says it doesn't recognize my video and goes back to select xswap. No way out of this loop. Esc does nothing. CntrlC does nothing. No matter what video I select, it doesn't recognize it and loops. Well, really, I forgot to switch to VGA but what the heck, it used to say it didn't recognize my video and give me an option to quit. (So I could change it.) Anyway, this is fun. Hit the RESET. Go back to square one and unzip to ramdisk again and this time switched my card to VGA before starting setup. Ok, this time when I select VGA it DOESN'T go back to select xswap it goes to some HiRes video mode that is not supported by my monitor !! So, I loaded up a floppy and took it over to my new system (P75 blown to 100) with a Trident VGA card and a color monitor. (Hey, it was free) Transferred it to harddrive (C:\ARACHNE) and went to setup. XMS ok. VGA OK. Now I have a color screen with some horsehockey about selecting video mode. It has identified my card as TRIDENT and I can light up any buttons I want but again THERE IS NO WAY OUT. Enter on the "TRY GRAPHICS MODE" button does nothing. "ESC" does nothing. Point (with the keyboard) at ANYTHING and hit enter and it does nothing. The instructions say: "Use TAB/shiftTAB and ENTER to select graphics mode. TAB won't even goto any links below Tseng ET4000 and ENTER and ESC and cntrlC do nothing. THERE IS NO WAY OFF THIS SCREEN. Except CntrlAltDelete. No matter. I restart and transfer my Arachne.PCK from version 1.50b2 and then run Arachne. It works ! I get VGA 640x480 and the Dialler screen. But something looks wrong. Michaels' copyright message is now so long it pushes the page load time display into my clock and the bar that used to be split into registered name and TCP/IP time is longer and not split. Ah well, a small point. Back to my preferred hardware with my old Arachne.PCK and it works too ! I get my 640x480 VGA monochrome the way I like it but there's these darn .gifs that I love to erase in the background. So just altE and I'll kill them. WHAT ? So just altE and I'll kill them !! HEY ! It won't let me shell to DOS !! - Just pops off and right back again. Bummer. I REALLY REALLY need THAT one. Tried it with the P~100. It works. But the OS on that system is 6.22. Conclusions: Major screwup on the video select function and it no longer works properly with DOS3.3. Going home to try it on my '386 with EGA. Ha Ha. Not much hope. Back tomorrow. <g> - - Clarence Verge - -- - - Help stamp out FATWARE. As a start visit: http://home.arachne.cz/ - -- ------------------------------ End of arachne-digest V1 #950 *****************************
