Dne Sun, 16 Jan 2000 22:34:29 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(arachne-digest) napsal:
> I'm surprised! Before the rewrite of the pages on Egghead, I would
> sometimes have to set Arachne to *not* download images or else Arachne
> would lock up. Now I don't have that problem at all, have no trouble
> getting pages down with 14.4bps modem, etc. I can see all the pages,
> except for the shmtl stuff they've written for shopping cart & actual
> purchase. But as long as they have an 800# I'm in fine shape.
Didn't I say that I rewrote LOT of things inside CORE.EXE this time ?
> ....without any problems. The install program did NOT crash, as it did in
> the previous version.
Yes - althought it meant, that I had to learn Vitex how to write stable
programs ;-) And I tolld him to do the install using DGI scripting, much
like user friendly Linux distributions launch Xfree86 in VGA mode or
Windows launch temselves in VGA mode.
(but the VGA setup screen is my work...)
> 1. BUG:
> I can't export to BMP (ctrl-p) .. there is garbage on the screen, and the
> computer hangs.
I haven't tested with virtual screens turned off... it exports just
virtual screens, nothing else. I should add some verification if virtual
screens are present.
> PS: ? Hotkey is not working here ... what kind of XSwap optimization were you
> talking about ??
It is just duggging info, nothing really important for end user.
> Proxy string really works now !
> @file in mails is GREAT!
Yes, these two were simple.
> ? seems to print something to textmode, while Arachne is in graphics mode, so
> I can't read it.
Don't worry. It is debugging info on memory manager, something like
QEMM dumps when it hangs ;-) Arachne should print it when "illegal
xSwap operation" occurs too....
It is documented in file XSWAP.TXT , but if you are not realy crazy,
you won't be interested in analyzing it.
> One good idea for Insight would be to have filters.
> Eg mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] moved automatically to arachne folder.
Yes - but how vvarious INBOXes shoul be reached ?
I think I wil l add different type of filtering, eg. option to create
inbox.dgi page only from e-mail with (or without) "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
in header...
> PS: Michael ... still no serious looking Arachne Logo :(((
This is BETA release !
> PPS: Packetdriverwizard detects my packetdriver ... good ;)
It is not my work - I just used good old pktchk.com utility ;-)
> Maybe you could default to DHCP/Bootp for manual setup.
Maybe, but for example on Arachne Labs LAN there is no DHCP/BOOTP
> If somebody doesn't know his IP Adress, than this will work, too.
> PPPS: Wanted to test stub32 ... not implemented ;)
Please wait for beta 2 or beta 3.... I commented it out in the
source code for this release, as well as Cut/copy/paste in editor.
They are not yet ready for beta testing.
> http://www.tuwien.ac.at
> Arachne 1.60: 4 sec.
> Arachne 1.50: 15 sec.
> Netscape 4.7: 3 sec.
> www.microsoft.com ;)
> Arachne 1.60: 5 sec.
> Arachne 1.50: 20 sec.
> Netscape 4.7: 4 sec.
> So the new WATTCP version and Michael's optimizations really helped !!
> Do the others have compareable results. (arachne 1.60 being MUCH faster than
> 1.50 ??)
Yes, but it is still not perfect. I want Arachne to be faster than
Netscape 4.7, because Mozilla (future Netscape 5.0) is reported to
be much faster, even faster than MSIE 5.0 (which is pretty fast, to be
true...)
> I didn't use the installer - once bitten, twice shy.
The new autoinstaller has nothing in common with the old one. I agree
that the Turbovision installer was confuing and very often unfunctional.
> Load time of main page 56 Sec with 1.6b1 - was 50 Sec with 1.5b2 ! Hmmmmm.
This may be caused by random differences in net speed. Have you tried to
compare page load times when loading just from disk ?
> 1)After 1.6 finshed it's adjustments, it wrote the screen at max size
> regardless of my selection with F5.
??? Did you do any adujstments before finishing and quiting the setup ?
> 3)When I then went offline, Arachne corrected the display size and showed my
> status line and small icons.
??
> the first 10 messages the discontinues the connection. The last file is a
> big one, 416,663. I've been trying it for days now. The server isn't
> deleting the messages it allready sent. So it downloads those same first 10
Sorry, the new POP3 enhacments are also not yet ready. But first thing
I am planning to add is maximum size of message to download. Such
messages will be skipped - useful eg. for portable device. There will
be also configurable maximum number of messages to download.
> Again, same here. ? does nothing that I can see.
But it should! Maybe your video card doesn't support text output in
graphics mode.
> Michael,
> Will the Xswap dump only show on our screens if an error has occured?
No, but it will. It's good idea.
>> Both of them installed "without a hitch".
>> Did the .zip install to c:\arachne\
>> And the .exe install to c:\ar160b1\
>> Jeez Glenn;
> I'm glad you finally got on with your "Everything works fine here" message.
> <VBG>
Yes, it surprising. It seems, that for Glenn, Arachne works ALWAYS, even
when it is buggy release. For you, nothing ever works ok, even when it
works for me at home. But in fact, you told that EGA works for you in
1.60 beta 1 - for me, Arachne in this mode just hangs ;-)
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