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From: "Michael Polak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Dne Mon, 17 Jan 2000 17:41:25 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(arachne-digest) napsal:
> Hello all,
> In installing Arachne 1.60 I picked VGA 640x480 16 colors in
> the left column, and found that either of these would work in
> the right column:
> 1. 640x480 1MB Hicolor
> 2. 640x480 512 K 256 color.
This rather means "right column is ignored for generic VGA mode" ;-)
> Now my problem is I'm not getting the color quality on web
> pages, images, ads, etc. that I had before with Arachne 1.50.
> When I pick VESA in the left column, none of the right column
> choices work.
There was no change in graphics library. The same graphics modes which
were reachable in old versions are usable now. Did you use VESA as your
selected card in older versions of Arachne ? Than it should work even
with 1.60. The graphics library is the same, I changed just the setup.
I thought it will be easier to read...
> While online I see that I have 105 (?) KB. The figures are black.
> Why is there a question mark? Does my Arachne not really know how much
> free memory it has?
There is not enough memory to allocate 2 XSWAP buffers in low memory,
which makes Arachne slower.
> I like the new feature - adding a mailto: into the hotlist.
It is not the new feature - it is just new icon for old feature ;-)))
> 2. More of a statment perhaps, but why are the TO: line in most mail to
> the inocrrect places? This mail had Glenns adress, but my own had
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] when I replied.
You have to select if you want to reply to "Reply to" or to "From".
> 3. How do I convert a mime64 coded message to the actuall file?
It is done automaticaly. The icon in mail message links to decoded file,
never mind if it was MIME or UUENCODE.
> 4. How do I see if I have read a message or not?
> Now I have no way of knowing if I have read a specific message. Using Eudora I
> always followed certain threads first before starting reading new ones, is
this
> possible?
You are supposed to press "Move" or "Trash" button after reading
message. As Insight.exe is open source software, and you are C
programmer, you are welcome to improve it, if you wish ;-)
> Anyway, I'll probably move from the world of Windows with Netscape and
> Eudora in a few days time (need to get everything set up first in Arachne).
> //Bernie
I suggest you tu subscrine to "arachne-digest@" instead of "arachne@"
mailing list first. It is sad, but Arachne as a mail reader is not able
to handle traffic in it's own mailing list (unless you don't have
anything else to do ;-). But arachne-digest mode seems to be usable
alternative.
> * Insight seems to generate the mail indexes a bit faster.
I haven't changed anything ;-) But it won't crash when TEMP path is
incorrect.
> * Arachne v1.6 uses more memory. I only have 70K free instead of
> 90K free with Arachne v1.50 SRC when online
Yes, it is unfortunately true. I can choose either more overlays, which
slows Arachne down, or more statical modules, which unfortunately
requires more memory.
The 32bit version would be really a big improvement....
> * Much of the documentation HTM pages refer to it as Arachne v1.5
;) I fixed that today, but you have to wait for 1.60 beta 2 ....
> Essentially the entire web page (and only the webpage)
> is captured as a BMP file (_4prt.bmp). As Glenn mentioned,
> the exportbmp.dgi line in MIME.CFG is missing (which renames
> the BMP to a filename you enter) but his suggested entry
> for exportbmp.dgi works.
This is fixed now. It should also check for disk space, or report error
if there write has failed...
> If the page is large, this could result in a HUGE attachment
> On http://www.ttcsweb.org, the resulting BMP was 5.4MB
> which results in a email message over 7MB which overwhelmed
> my 8MB ramdrive.
> I guess the proper thing to do would be to after pressing Ctrl-P,
> export it to a BMP file first, then convert the BMP to a JPG or
> GIF and send the smaller file.
As I already wrote:
I forgot to explain the send BMP function. It is intended for local
networks only. You are supposed to e-mail the BMP to file to your local
Linux account, where you can process it - print, edit in GIMP, etc. ;-)
> I found that if you hit the back function (I use "ESC") immediately
> after sending a message, Arachne seems to send it again. (1.5b2) :-(
But the message was already deleted/renamed by that time, so nothing is
sent.
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