arachne-digest Sunday, January 16 2000 Volume 01 : Number 951
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Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 22:38:28 -0400
From: "L.D. Best" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Stateside goodie purchases
gregy,
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.
Dunno where the problem you have originates, but I'd say it wasn't at
Egghead's server or site.
l.d.
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On Fri, 14 Jan 2000 22:51:08 -0800, Gregory J. Feig wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Jan 2000 16:33:57 -0400, L.D. Best wrote:
> -------------------snip-----------
>> So ... for those of you interested in "the newest & the best" *and*
>> surplus or factory rebuilt returns, you might want to check out a source
>> that is far more reliable, cheaper, and faster on the www than it was in
>> person.
> l.d. ........I used to buy a lot of stuff from Surplus Softward/Direct
> until egghead bought them.....now, I cannot get to their stuff, since
> egghead's pages load so sluggish, that nothing comes down before the
> script times out....(that is usually, once in a while, I get some
> doc download)
> I am cruising my Arachne from 8Mb RAMdisk, over a 33.6K line, and
> other sites are not consistently sticky like egghead's.....I think
> their pages are mal-designed, and overly "brag-ity"....I never buy
> anything from them, anymore....nor will I recommend them anymore...
> gregy
> -- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client
- -- Arachne V1.50;s.r.c., NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://home.arachne.cz/
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Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 08:22:22 +0100
From: "Lars Wigrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Got Arachne v.1.60.b1 up'n running
...without any problems. The install program did NOT crash, as it did in
the previous version.
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Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 08:36:07 +0100 (CET)
From: Petri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Stateside goodie purchases
On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, Gregory J. Feig wrote:
> petri .....maybe, but see my preceeding post...and I went back to it
> about 4 - 5 times over several hours, in between times that I was
> d/l >20-50Kb pages from other sites....the last time, I stayed to
> try to make it work, and I couldn't even get their "about" page
> (approximately 14Kb) to download.......sheeesh..! any other
> ideas will be welcomed....
Sometimes, sites can be busy for 3-5 hours. That is, when the US is awake
and surfing hte nets. =) (or the people in Asia)
And, as I live in Sweden, I have (like others on this list) learned that
backbones CAN go down. It's NOt fun to try surfing here then, sometimes
not even the FIRST steps of a connection are performed....=/
/petri
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Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 08:49:40 +0100 (CET)
From: Petri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: memory managment
On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Sergei wrote:
[SNIP]
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> X-RCPT-TO: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> X-UIDL: 1080
[snip]
How come my address is in this message? You should run scandisk, Disk
Doctor or something....
> Sergei wrote:
>
> > Clarence Verge wrote:
Because I had nothing to do with this part of the thread. =)
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Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 09:19:38 +0100 (CET)
From: Petri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Virtual filesystem
On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Sergei wrote:
> 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.
True, it's a filesystem in a filesystem. But it's SLOW. UNSAFE. Etc. I
wouldn't recommend it. A simpler virtual FS might be used for ARachne,
tho, it needn't be as complex as UMSDOS.
/petri
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Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 04:11:54 -0500 (EST)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re:New subject
Clarence,
To get a bunch of HTTP URLs noninteractively, as you want to do with graphs of
stocks' recent activity, there is HTGET (DOS) and wget (OS/2 Warp and Unix).
You could put a bunch of HTGET commands in a .BAT file:
HTGET (URL) > file-to-save-to
Thomas Mueller
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 04:11:55 -0500 (EST)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Arachne under Windows
>
Can someone, who know how to work with RAM disk do that ?
I mean bootable disk, Ram disk driver and self extracting archive
at one 1.44 floppy.
And call it , lets see...... .....pocketArachne ?
Everybody want to have it, but nobody want to do it.
( I'm bad programmer (only Perl, and thats enough),
so don't rely on me). I can fit it only on Zip100 ;)
>
Using 1.44 floppies, you might have one DOS diskette and another diskette
with Arachne zipped. COMMAND.COM could be copied to a RAMDRIVE. But with
Zip100, you have much more space. If the Zip100 is bootable (ATAPI?), you
could put DOS & Arachne on a Zip100 with plenty room to spare. You might still
want to use a RAMDRIVE because of Arachne's intense disk activity ("Give the
hard drive a hard drive").
Under the same nominal subject, because of a bug in DOS,
copy /b 1.ps prn is better than
type 1.ps > prn
type 1.ps > prn will stop if there is an ASCII 26 character in 1.ps and print
the incomplete file. TYPE is for straight-text files. COPY with /b works on
any kind of file, including plain text. I can't see why the developers of DOS
ever thought a user would want a file destined for the printer to be truncated
at an ASCII 26.
Thomas Mueller
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 10:22:51 +0000
From: "Bernie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Arachne 1.60b1
The long wait is finally over! I'm (finally) online with Arachne :)
Whatever complaints you may come with I will not care (hmm... I should
perhaps have chaked for viruses.... ah... what can a virus do for harm
anyway <VBG>)
Let's just hope it works if I disconnect as well and reconnect...
//Bernie
- -- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client
- -- Arachne V1.60;b1, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
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Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 21:37:49 +0000
From: "John Murray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 1.60b
Hi all,
Just downloaded and installed 1.60b, everything went smoothly except for
a memory shortage after trying to connect immediately after the initial
setup.Everything was back to normal after rebooting however.Video and
modem were detected correctly.The page load timer might come in handy
for comparing ISP's. Is it my imagination or does it load pages a little
quicker? Installed onto AMD-k6 233/32 box.
Cheers
Johnno
- -- Arachne V1.60;b1, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
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Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 12:36:40 +0100 (CET)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Menedetter)
Subject: Arachne 1.50b1
Hi
Just downloaded it.
In contrast to Clerence the installer worked.
I can also shell to DOS, and haven't noticed any other malfunction yet.
Don't have much time yet, just wanted to tell, that here everything seems OK.
1. BUG:
I can't export to BMP (ctrl-p) .. there is garbage on the screen, and the
computer hangs.
Pribtscreen works great !
CU, Ricsi
PS: ? Hotkey is not working here ... what kind of XSwap optimization were you
talking about ??
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Richard Menedetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ICQ: 7659421] {RSA-PGP Key avail.}
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Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 14:06:27 +0100
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Arachne under Windows
On 12 Jan 00 at 20:37, Glenn McCorkle wrote:
> > Have you considered booting DOS from a floppy and running
> > Arachne from ramdisk? It shouldn't be too difficult to
> Where have I heard that before???<g>
Well Glenn, maybe here:
From: "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date sent: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 21:19:36 -0400
Subject: [SurvPC] running Arachne from ramdrive......
But I'm sure your posted the details on the Arachne first, long
before the above.. Anyway...Cool :)
All the best,
Bjorn
- - who just subscribed here...
/lurke mode on/
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Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 14:18:10 +0100 (CET)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Menedetter)
Subject: Arachne 1.60 (not 1.50 :)
Hi
Just tested some.
Proxy string really works now !
@file in mails is GREAT!
? seems to print something to textmode, while Arachne is in graphics mode, so
I can't read it.
One good idea for Insight would be to have filters.
Eg mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] moved automatically to arachne folder.
CU, Ricsi
PS: Michael ... still no serious looking Arachne Logo :(((
PPS: Packetdriverwizard detects my packetdriver ... good ;)
Maybe you could default to DHCP/Bootp for manual setup.
If somebody doesn't know his IP Adress, than this will work, too.
PPPS: Wanted to test stub32 ... not implemented ;)
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Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 17:10:21 +0100 (CET)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Menedetter)
Subject: Arachne 1.60b1 again (GREAAAAAT !)
Hi
I just wanted to test the speed of the new arachne ... so here we go:
(cache empty)
TUWien Homepage was chosen, because it has 2 frames, some images, and can be
reached EXTREMELY fast from my internet connection.
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 ??)
CU, Ricsi
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Richard Menedetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ICQ: 7659421] {RSA-PGP Key avail.}
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Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 13:25:39 -0800
From: Clarence Verge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Possible fix for Video Setup
Hello Michael, All;
The problem I found with video setup is twofold:
1) As can be seen from this copy of SETUP.bat, setup calls core.exe.
This is bad news because core eventually switches to graphic mode
and does this BEFORE the graphic mode has been set.
and
2) if there are any OTHER problems with core (wait for it <g>)
the user is stuck in graphics mode with no way out.
There IS another problem with core, to be discussed after this copy,
but first I would like to suggest that the ENTIRE setup.bat be run
from DOS in text mode with a fancier batch file..
@echo off
if (%1)==(os) goto setup_os
if exist arachne.cfg goto setup_gr
copy 386pc.acf arachne.cfg
:setup
core -s
if errorlevel 32 goto end
del history.lst
:setup_os
arachne.bat reload:file:setup_os.dgi
goto end
:setup_gr
core -s
if errorlevel 32 goto end
del history.lst
arachne.bat setup.htm
:end
It would be nice to know what the errorlevel returns are for core so we
could re-write this batch file.
The other problem with core is an interface problem. It appears that
the pointy-clicky guys at Arachne Labs never tested the keyboard interface.
I'll bet 10bucks that they don't even know there IS a keyboard interface -
only Michael knows.
On my P~100 with DOS 6.22 I found the following - and this is NOT likely
a list of all occurrences of the problem:
As previously posted, on the video setup screen Arachne refused to accept
my "ENTER" on the "Test selected Video Mode" button, and would not TAB to
links past TSENG ET4000.
Also found on the OPTIONS page, pressing the "Preferences" button caused it
to stick down and the "Use New Settings" button does not work.
On the PREFERENCES page, NONE of the "radio buttons" on the RIGHT half of the
screen worked, and TAB would not move the cursor past the "off" box in the
"Fixed System Font" section.
Most importantly, NEITHER the "Save" OR "Cancel" buttons worked. Luckily,
"ESC" did work and I have it set to "BACK". (Screensaver Preview faulty also)
I believe this is the same problem I experienced with not being able to get
out of Video Setup.
- - Clarence Verge
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Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 12:31:48 -0800
From: Clarence Verge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Fix found for SHELL to DOS
Hello Michael, All;
The inability to use altE to shell to DOS when using DOS 3.3 is an error in
MIME.cfg. Why it works with DOS6.22 I don't know and it's irrelevant anyway.
In MIME.cfg the line:
file/dosshell.dgi |@call $e\\system\\dgi\\dosshell.bat $e
Should be:
file/dosshell.dgi |@call $esystem\\dgi\\dosshell.bat $e
A quick check in mime.cfg revealed no other errors involving $esystem.
No guarantees about other dgi calls tho.
- - Clarence Verge
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Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 13:20:39 -0800
From: Clarence Verge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: EGA video and Arachne Homepage
Hello All;
I found that the EGA video setup worked on my '386 system at home and I tried
V1.61b online. A trip to "X" which I thought was going to be the old Arachne
Home page took me instead to Arachne Labs.
My connection is 33600 and this page took about 4 minutes to load. (3:56)
Considering the long load time and the MOST unappealing content, I don't
know why anyone would ever go there twice.
I much prefer the newspaper style layout of the homepage to which we had all
become accustomed.
Just so my post isn't all negative, I tried the editor and email and they both
are much improved by the cursor focus on "textarea" and the screen response to
keyboard activity is MUCH faster. You tend to notice that on a 20Mhz '386. <g>
- - Clarence Verge
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Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 13:37:42 -0800
From: Clarence Verge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Arachne 1.60b1
Richard Menedetter wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Just downloaded it.
> In contrast to Clerence the installer worked.
> I can also shell to DOS, and haven't noticed any other malfunction yet.
Hi Richard;
I didn't use the installer - once bitten, twice shy.
Any good luck you had was due to using:
a) a mouse
b) 600x800 Res
c) DOS 6.xx
- - Clarence Verge
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Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 14:53:07 -0800
From: Clarence Verge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: More bugs in 1.6b1
Hi Michael, All;
I'm REALLY sorry about this.
Further tests with this new version finds it to be pretty much unusable for me.
I wanted to test the speed of this one v.s. 1.5b2 so I went online and went
to the OLD Arachne homepage. I DIDN'T use "X".
Load time with my 33MHz '486 @33600 was 31 sec. Not bad at all !
Since I had tested egghead.com yesterday with 1.50b2 I went there.
Load time of main page 56 Sec with 1.6b1 - was 50 Sec with 1.5b2 ! Hmmmmm.
Here's the bugs:
1)After 1.6 finshed it's adjustments, it wrote the screen at max size
regardless of my selection with F5.
2)When I tried to select "Computer Products" for a second time test as I had
done yesterday, Arachne ignored me. I couldn't select any links.
3)When I then went offline, Arachne corrected the display size and showed my
status line and small icons.
- - Clarence Verge
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Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 14:59:24 -0500
From: Mark David Roth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problem with POP3 download
I've been trying to download all my email from pop.hotpop.com. It gets
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
files, then quits, every time. Is there something in Arachne that causing
it to quit or do you think it's the server? I tried contacting them at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] I still haven't got a response from them yet.
I'm currently exploring their web site to see if there is anything I can do
from there.
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Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 15:03:14 -0800
From: Clarence Verge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem with POP3 download
Mark David Roth wrote:
>
> I've been trying to download all my email from pop.hotpop.com. It gets
> 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
> files, then quits, every time. Is there something in Arachne that causing
> it to quit or do you think it's the server? I tried contacting them at
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] I still haven't got a response from them yet.
Hi Mark;
This sort of thing has happened to me when some Windows using m*r*n tries
to send me the contents of his harddisk.
The best thing to do is call them and try to talk to a human.
Ask them to delete that big file.
- - Clarence Verge
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Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 15:19:07 -0500 (EST)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric S. Emerson)
Subject: Re: Possible fix for Video Setup
Hello Clarence, Michael P., All,
Thank you Clarence, I had exactly the same problems
and was trying to figure out how to describe them in a concise
manner. You have a real nack for getting to the nitty-gritty.
As Jack Webb would say "The facts, Mam, just the facts"!
Eric
On Jan. 16, 2000 Clarence Verge wrote:
>Hello Michael, All;
>The problem I found with video setup is twofold:
>
>1) As can be seen from this copy of SETUP.bat, setup calls core.exe.
>This is bad news because core eventually switches to graphic mode
>and does this BEFORE the graphic mode has been set.
>and
>2) if there are any OTHER problems with core (wait for it <g>)
>the user is stuck in graphics mode with no way out.
>
>There IS another problem with core, to be discussed after this copy,
>but first I would like to suggest that the ENTIRE setup.bat be run
>from DOS in text mode with a fancier batch file..
>
>@echo off
>if (%1)==(os) goto setup_os
>if exist arachne.cfg goto setup_gr
>copy 386pc.acf arachne.cfg
>:setup
>core -s
>if errorlevel 32 goto end
>del history.lst
>:setup_os
>arachne.bat reload:file:setup_os.dgi
>goto end
>:setup_gr
>core -s
>if errorlevel 32 goto end
>del history.lst
>arachne.bat setup.htm
>:end
>
>It would be nice to know what the errorlevel returns are for core so we
>could re-write this batch file.
>
>The other problem with core is an interface problem. It appears that
>the pointy-clicky guys at Arachne Labs never tested the keyboard interface.
>I'll bet 10bucks that they don't even know there IS a keyboard interface -
>only Michael knows.
>
>On my P~100 with DOS 6.22 I found the following - and this is NOT likely
>a list of all occurrences of the problem:
>As previously posted, on the video setup screen Arachne refused to accept
>my "ENTER" on the "Test selected Video Mode" button, and would not TAB to
>links past TSENG ET4000.
>
>Also found on the OPTIONS page, pressing the "Preferences" button caused it
>to stick down and the "Use New Settings" button does not work.
>On the PREFERENCES page, NONE of the "radio buttons" on the RIGHT half of the
>screen worked, and TAB would not move the cursor past the "off" box in the
>"Fixed System Font" section.
>
>Most importantly, NEITHER the "Save" OR "Cancel" buttons worked. Luckily,
>"ESC" did work and I have it set to "BACK". (Screensaver Preview faulty also)
>I believe this is the same problem I experienced with not being able to get
>out of Video Setup.
>
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| Ayrx |__\_ Eric S. Emerson
| :~_: ! [EMAIL PROTECTED]
`~(*)~~~~(*)~' `````````````````````````
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Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 15:23:49 -0500
From: "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Arachne 1.60b1
On Sun, 16 Jan 2000 10:22:51 +0000, "Bernie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The long wait is finally over! I'm (finally) online with Arachne :)
> Whatever complaints you may come with I will not care (hmm... I should
> perhaps have chaked for viruses.... ah... what can a virus do for harm
> anyway <VBG>)
> Let's just hope it works if I disconnect as well and reconnect...
> //Bernie
> -- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client
> -- Arachne V1.60;b1, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
FANTASTIC !!!!
Welcome to the world of "**on-line** Arachne".<g>
- --
Glenn McCorkle mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
North Jackson, Ohio, USA
Arachne, The Web Browser for DOS
Open the 'DOOR' to the WWW. Keep the 'windows' closed.
http://home.arachne.cz/ or http://arachne.browser.org/
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Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 15:57:29 -0500
From: "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Arachne 1.60b1
On Sun, 16 Jan 2000 12:36:40 +0100 (CET), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Menedetter)
wrote:
> Hi
> Just downloaded it.
> In contrast to Clerence the installer worked.
> I can also shell to DOS, and haven't noticed any other malfunction yet.
> Don't have much time yet, just wanted to tell, that here everything seems OK.
Same here. Everything went fine.
I got the .exe version via eMail and the .zip version via http download.
Both of them installed "without a hitch".
Did the .zip install to c:\arachne\
And the .exe install to c:\ar160b1\
> 1. BUG:
> I can't export to BMP (ctrl-p) .. there is garbage on the screen, and the
> computer hangs.
> Pribtscreen works great !
"Export" also failed here. (but did not "hang")
It simply brought-up the "Save or send unviewable file" screen.
This one is easy to fix. Just add this line to mime.cfg
file/exportbmp.dgi |COPY _4prt.bmp $s>NUL
> CU, Ricsi
> PS: ? Hotkey is not working here ... what kind of XSwap optimization were you
> talking about ??
Again, same here. ? does nothing that I can see.
Michael,
Will the Xswap dump only show on our screens if an error has occured?
If that's it... then I will _never_ see it.<vbg>
BTW
Richard, I changed the subject line of this reply.
(this is v1.60b1 not 1.50b1)<g>
Yes, I know.
After 6 months of typing 1.50s.r.c...... the index finger automatically
moves to the 5 key after hitting the dot.<vbg>
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Glenn McCorkle mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
North Jackson, Ohio, USA
Arachne, The Web Browser for DOS
Open the 'DOOR' to the WWW. Keep the 'windows' closed.
http://home.arachne.cz/ or http://arachne.browser.org/
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Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 15:51:46 -0800
From: Clarence Verge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Damn. I forgot to mention
Hello again;
I must be pissing you off. <G>
I forgot to mention these other bugs:
Using my P~100 and DOS 6.22 with 640x480 VGA (there are 7 monitors here on 6
computers - 2 of which are Pentiums and one uses Win95 - NONE support hires.)
I find that the following functions produce unexpected results:
On the Dialler Page if I select ACF profiles and then select one of the defaults,
Arachne rewrites my .cfg file and goes to: No Network Interface Available.
One skull. There should be some warning. I just wanted to VIEW it.
Also, if I attempt to select an .acf at the bottom of the list it doesn't work.
On the Dialler Page if I select ASF scripts and then select asf_help.asf, I
get the document but I can't get off the page. The "back" function doesn't
work and "ESC" doesn't work. It has erased the history list !
I CAN go forward. i.e. I can go to "Desktop" via F10 or anywhere else a hotkey
will take me.
On the Dialler Page the buttons "PPP setup" and "PPP wizard" don't work.
"EXIT now", on the same line, does work.
In email, buttons "Address Book" and "Make Mailing List" produce no action.
I think I will stop now. I don't want you to burn my mail before reading.
- - Clarence Verge
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Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 16:06:01 -0800
From: Clarence Verge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Arachne 1.60b1
Glenn McCorkle wrote:
>
> I got the .exe version via eMail and the .zip version via http download.
> 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>
- - Clarence Verge
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Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 00:29:36 +0200
From: Or Botton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem with POP3 download
Clarence Verge wrote:
> to send me the contents of his harddisk.
> The best thing to do is call them and try to talk to a human.
> Ask them to delete that big file.
If they refuse to delete it or charge pay (as my ISP do), you can
do it manualy rather easily. You will need a Telnet application for
this. Connect to your POP3 mailserver on port 110
(in your case, pop.hotpop.com:110 ) and login with the following
procedure (replace the word username and password with your username
and password when following this.):
user username
pass password
list
dele nn
quit
Thats the end of the procedure. "list" will list all the messages
you have. The format should be: <message number> <filesize>
For example:
1 1432
2 3224
3 946
replace the "nn" in "dele" with the number of the message you want
to delete. For example, if its message number 3, then: dele 3
Be advised that the message will only be deleted after you quit.
If just you disconnect the telnet instead of using the quit command,
the message will _not_ be deleted. (its a safety thing against
having the message deleted by accident while getting your mail).
Also, unless you'll have "local echo" enabled, you would not see
what you type.. not really important, anyway. But still should know
that. :)
Other usefull commands if you want to know: "retr nn" read message,
"noop" No Operator - let you about a minute or so of no keyboard
input before disconnecting you instead of 20 seconds as usuall..
Have fun.
Or Botton
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Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 22:34:13 +0000
From: "Bernie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Damn. I forgot to mention
Clarence wrote:
> On the Dialler Page if I select ASF scripts and then select asf_help.asf, I
> get the document but I can't get off the page. The "back" function doesn't
> work and "ESC" doesn't work. It has erased the history list !
This was the same for me in 1.50 as well, and it still behaves this
way. So IMHO it's not a new "bug". And the history list isn't erased is
it? I think you can't just go backwards. This should be fixed, but hey
for apparent reasons I don't complain at anything now ;)
> In email, buttons "Address Book" and "Make Mailing List" produce no action.
They do for me...
I think something must have gone wrong with your installation - what did
you do to get it like this? I unziped the .zip file and then ran arachne.bat and
voila I was on the Net (after a few easy questions which I knew the answers to after
all my earlier attempts.
I suppose the .exe file would have worked fine as well, but who knows?
//Bernie
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