arachne-digest Monday, January 17 2000 Volume 01 : Number 953
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Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 20:41:52 -0500-0500 000
From: "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: External Editor APM does not work
Hello:
Having just now graduated from Arachne version 1.42 beta, I am a first
time Insight user.
As you may recall the older version used a mailer program named Mailman.
I downloaded an APM from somewhere to configure my Arachne for an
external editor.
I would like to be able to use an external editor also for my current
version. From the Arachne download page I acquired XEDIT40.APM. It
seemed to automagically install itself, but it does absolutely nothing
to help me compose and edit my messages from within Insight.
Does someone on the list know of an APM or a MIME.CFG setup that would
enable me to call up and use my favorite text editor while within
Insight?
Sam Heywood
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Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 19:45:32 +0000
From: "Michael L. Dawley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Arachne 1.60
Hello all,
I had an easy installation on this computer. On the video setup
screen, I selected VGA 640x480 in the left column, and
640 x 480 1MB Hicolor in the right column, and this combo worked.
Had several other combinations that didn't, but was able to get
right back to video setup to try again with two "enters" on the
first two setup choices.
I already had a good arachne.cfg file in my Arachne 1.50 directory,
so the installation of 1.60 picked that right up. Actually, I had
just run Arachne 1.50 prior to this installation, and made sure
my ibmps1.acf was loaded into arachne.cfg.
I use another .acf also when I use my Netdial 1.3-Arachne combination
to load the packet driver (no really necessary on this IBM)
So I saved it onto a disk prior to the installation, so It wouldn't
be lost.
So far everything seems "normal".
Thanks,
Michael L. Dawley
Pearl, Missisippi
- -- IBM PS/1 486SX-25 with 32MB RAM --
- -- Arachne V1.60;b1, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
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Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 05:14:36 +0200
From: Or Botton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem with POP3 download
L.D. Best wrote:
> Yes, your entire mail package on the ISP servers *could* be trashed if
> they still use single flatfile for messages rather than single messages
> with database access. My ISP just recently went to the new method of
> single file storage.
Eek. First time I hear about this. What are the advantages on
changing to something like this? I dont think that many mailers
support this..
Or Botton
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 18:35:04 +0000
From: "rick orr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 1.6 test
hi all,
if this goes thru i got it workin on my 686 ... kewl.
rick
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Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 20:50:02 +0000
From: "Michael L. Dawley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Video Mode
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.
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.
Will there be other choices in further betas of 1.60?
Michael L. Dawley
Pearl, Mississippi
- -- IBM PS/1 486SX-25 with 32MB RAM --
- -- Arachne V1.60;b1, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
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Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 21:56:55 -0500
From: Roger Turk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Arachne Email Inbox problem
Hans-Juergen,
In the cited example, Jan already had a ram disk set up, so it already had a
root directory, but not a temp directory. Therefore, when she set the
environmental variable, temp, by:
SET TEMP=D:\
it set "temp" to point to the root directory. Apparently Arachne likes a
directory with the name, "TEMP" or a directory other than the root directory.
Her next statement,
IF NOT DIREXIST %TEMP% MD %TEMP%
did nothing as the root directory of a drive will always exist. The only
time this statement would be active would be if the drive did not exist,
but "MD" could not create a drive. My suggestion merely created a "TEMP"
directory on the ram disk without using the "temp" environmental variable if
a "temp" directory did not exist.
I do not know how Arachne cleans out the temporary directory when it exits
the program, whether it is of the form, "del [drive:][\dir] *.*" or the form,
"del [drive]:[\dir] *.tmp" or whether it keeps track of which files it
creates for temporary use and deletes them individually or if it uses some
other technique. In any case, I think that it is good practice to have a
separate directory, "TEMP", or "TMP" for temporary files rather than put the
files in some directory that may have some important files that you would not
want deleted or overwritten.
Whatever your situation was, I am glad that my suggestion also served as a
solution for you, too.
Roger Turk
Tucson, Arizona USA
Hans-Juergen wrote:
>>Hi Roger,
you wrote on 15.01.00 to "Re: Arachne Email Inbox problem":
RT> SET TEMP=D:\ <----Change this to: SET
RT> TEMP=D:\TEMP
RT> IF NOT DIREXIST %TEMP% MD %TEMP% <----Change this to:
RT> IF NOT DIREXIST D:\TEMP MD D:\TEMP
RT> Hope this helps.
It helped with my "Inbox problem", too - thanks! ;-)
But nevertheless, it seems to be a bug with inbox.dgi, because the
other *.dgi in Insight do work with a Temp variable set to D:\
instead of D:\TEMP, and they have to create their index files, too...
Hans-Juergen<<
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Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 21:38:45 +0000
From: "Michael L. Dawley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Video Mode
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.
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.
Will there be other choices in further betas of 1.60?
- ---------------------------------------------------
An update:
I went to this page:
http://lumahai.soest.hawaii.edu/gifs/usa_ir.gif
(This is a 280K GOES 8 weather image)
and Arachne said "1036x810, 128 colors" at the top when
the image was downloaded and done.
I checked the image in Netscape 4.08, and apparently
I do not have more than 256 colors on this machine, and
must not have had better color in Arachne 1.50. Checking
some images using Vueprint 4.3, I only get 256 colors.
Thanks,
Michael L. Dawley
Pearl, Mississippi
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Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 22:29:49 -0500-0500 000
From: "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Memory
Hello Folks:
While running Arachne 1.60 beta offline I discover I have 129+ KB of
free DOS memory by reading the stats displayed in the window that pops
up by depressing ALT + M. The figures are green.
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?
Does anybody else have a question mark following the figure displayed
for free DOS memory?
Sam Heywood
P.S. Despite my not really knowing how much memory I have, my experience
with this new version so far has been very good. No crashes yet!
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Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 15:08:47 +1100
From: "Ron Clarke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Arachne 1.60
Hi Folks,
I just downloaded the new EXE. It installed EASY !!!!
Have just been for a test run on the net. FAST !!!!!
For the first time, set for my server's proxy. It actually WORKS !!!!!
For the umpteenth time, tried to SEND an email to myself.
For the first time it WORKS !!!!!
And it was so quick !!!!
Then I tried to send an email to some others, including this list.
It stalled !!! :(
Bugger !
I will have to send this with Barebones and BBMail as usual.
I like the new feature - adding a mailto: into the hotlist.
Still checking out all the other new/updated bits.
It was worth the wait. Onya, Michael.
Still doesn't make the tea on request, tho'. :)
Regards,
Ron
Ron Clarke http://homepages.valylink.net.au/~ausreg/music.html
- -- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client
- -- Arachne V1.60;b1, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
- -- Arachne V1.60;b1, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
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Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 19:26:40
From: "Dale Mentzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: The TELEBOT website now works much better with Arachne
On 16 Jan 00 at 18:42, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
>>Hello Dale:
>>
>>Yes, I can both send and receive email with Arachne by using the Telebot
>>site. As I recall, the program I use for viewing faxes is a DOS program
>>named PICTVIEW. It is available as a free download from somewhere, but
>>don't know offhand the name of the URL. Any graphics viewer capable of
>>displaying images in TIF or TIFF format should work. There are several
>>different types of TIF formats, some of which might not be compatible with
>>some graphics programs.
I have PICTVIEW, but I remember trying to view this .tif file with
everything DOS that I had, and with no success. I hope I am wrong.
Regards,
Dale Mentzer
I can't remember if I'm the good twin or the evil one.
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
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Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 00:14:27 -0500-0500 000
From: "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: UNIVESA adaptor
Hello:
The message below is an "Edit and Re-send". I had inadvertently sent it
privately to Hans. I meant to send it to the list.
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On Mon, 17 Jan 2000 00:54:58 +0100, Hans-Juergen Bardenhagen wrote:
> Hi Bernie,
> Yes, I think I have been mixing up the different versions of UUEN/
> DECODE - there seems to have been a freeware version that couldn't
> use other en/decode methods than its own, but the one in Arachne must
> be able to decode "base64" attachments, because in the meantime I've
> seen some of those here on the list that were done with Arachne.
I have a program that I believe to be freeware named MIME64.EXE. I have
found it very easy to use to decode attachments to email retrieved by
other DOS email programs such as Net-Tamer and Barebones. I don't
remember where I got MIME64.EXE.
Sam Heywood
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Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 21:30:31 -0800 (PST)
From: Ken Martwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: v.1.6b1 display bug?
On certain complex web pages, it seems that Arachne downloads
all the images, but only displays some of them; www.oregonlive.com
is a good example. Arachne v.1.50src was OK on this page.
Installation was a breeze using the self-extracting file, but
I had to free up some memory on one of my two 486's by using the
"cutemouse" driver instead of the 27K Logitech monster! Arachne
has very little room left to "grow".
Congratulations, Michael, on the speed increase! Has anyone
done a comparison with Internet Exploiter?
Ken Martwick
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Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 19:35:16 -0500
From: "L.D. Best" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: It beeps but it works!
I just tried address book. First time it was, of course, empty.
So back to Inbox reading message, right click on [EMAIL PROTECTED],
click on plus sign to add to hotlist.
Hit C for compose, place cursor in To: field, click on hotlist, click on
address of mailing list, brought back to mail editor and e-dress is
sitting there in To: field waiting for me.
Further experiementation will be necessary before I make a judgement on
whether hotlist manager is working the way it should now. <G>
l.d.
- -- Arachne V1.60;b1, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
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Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 07:20:57 +0000
From: "Bernie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Arachne 1.60b1
Glenn wrote:
> FANTASTIC !!!!
>
> Welcome to the world of "**on-line** Arachne".<g>
Thanks I think it's fantastic as well :)
But this wasn't good for my phonebill, now I just kept on surfing
without any goal just as I did when I first used Mosaic when that was
the hottest thing there was <g>
After usign Arachne on-line I have a few new questions... <g>
1. How do I sort my incomming mail? (external program required?)
Having an opendos list (which for once sends some mail), SURVPC, SURVPC-FAQ
(extremly dead), Arachne,
Arachne-development (also rather dead) and my normal incomming mail from
people I know (and the ones I don't know <g>) makes it real hard to read
what's what (espacially since many messages from some senders can be
sent to diffrent places (ex. Bjorn recently joined this list (if I did read the
correct mail <g>) - and we have mailed each other rather frequently lately)
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.
3. How do I convert a mime64 coded message to the actuall file?
It really sucks that when I finally get my old laptop back and get Arachne
to work at my main computer the later ends up preventing use of the
first :(
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?
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
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Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 01:39:34 -0500
From: Mark David Roth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Arachne Email Inbox problem
You replied:
>Hi Roger,
>RT> SET TEMP=D:\ <----Change this to: SET
>RT> TEMP=D:\TEMP IF NOT DIREXIST %TEMP% MD %TEMP% <----Change this to:
>RT> IF NOT DIREXIST D:\TEMP MD D:\TEMP
>RT> Hope this helps.
>It helped with my "Inbox problem", too - thanks! ;-)
>But nevertheless, it seems to be a bug with inbox.dgi, because the
>other *.dgi in Insight do work with a Temp variable set to D:\
>instead of D:\TEMP, and they have to create their index files, too...
>Hans-Juergen
I have TEMP=C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\ and ARACHNETEMP=C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\
I have Arachne installed on D:\ARACHNE
I'll try setting TEMP=D:\ and see what happens
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Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 19:21:59 +0000
From: "Edenyard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: memory management
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:03:13 +0100, Clarence Verge wrote:
> Bernie wrote:
>> On a diffrent note how do I use the EMS on a AT (80286) as a harddrive
>> cache? I've got 2MB which aren't even used and the HD isn't very fast on
>> this old machine so any pointers would be helpful.
> Hi Bernie;
> 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.
>
Wasn't Quarterdeck's old QRAM programme (the one that came in
a green box, rather than red) intended to do this sort of thing
on a 286??
According to the box: "System requirements 8088, 8086,
80286 PCs. PC DOS 2-5, MSDOS 2-5...."
Any help?
Ron.
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Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 02:55:36 -0400
From: "Dev Teelucksingh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Arachne v1.6 beta 1 - Dev's first thoughts
Well, I'm online with Arachne v1.6 beta 1. Some quick first comments :
* The installation went well. For those who haven't installed it yet:
After running the self-extracting file, it asked what directory
to install to and then proceeded to extract files and related
subdirectories. It then checked the CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT
and asked whether to add the Arachne to the path (which I entered "Y")
It made a backup of AUTOEXEC.BAT and added C:\ARACHNE to the
path in AUTOEXEC.BAT. It also created a batch file to start Arachne.
The modem and Internet setup wizard also worked well.
* Insight seems to generate the mail indexes a bit faster.
* The Pixel32 website at http://pixel32.hypermart.net/
can now be accessed normally. In Arachne v1.5 SRC,
most of the screen turned dark blue.
* Arachne v1.6 uses more memory. I only have 70K free instead of
90K free with Arachne v1.50 SRC when online
* The Batfiles page at http://bigfoot.com/~batfiles
still "loses" memory. For some reason, Arachne v1.50 SRC
"loses" free memory as you scroll down the Batfiles page, which
eventually results in the Arachne low memory screen warning
page
* Much of the documentation HTM pages refer to it as Arachne v1.5
* The Printscreen to BMP works great
The Ctrl-P works but only with virtual screens enabled
(which are used when there are graphics or for large pages)
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.
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.
* Arachne v1.6 shell to DOS has also been improved :-)
(wasn't mentioned in CHANGES.TXT) : You can shell to DOS
and regardless of what directory or drive you are in, when
you type exit, you will return to Arachne without any problems
In earlier versions of Arachne, you had to make sure you
were in the Arachne directory first before typing exit.
* When I press "?", I do see some stuff, but I have no idea
how to interpret it.
(my machine specs : P166MMX, 32MB RAM, Tseng ET6000 video card
running PCDOS 7.0 with a 8MB RAMDRIVE and
TEMP variable pointing to it)
Dev Teelucksingh
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Interesting DOS programs page at http://www.opus.co.tt/dave
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Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 02:18:29 -0500
From: "Clarence Verge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Duplicate messages
Hello All;
I think I may have found the source of at least some of the duplicate
messages we get once in a while.
I don't use Arachne for email very often but tonite I had the need.
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) :-(
- - Clarence
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Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 02:28:44 -0500 (EST)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric S. Emerson)
Subject: Re: Damn. I forgot to mention
On Sun. 01/16/00 Clarence Verge wrote:
><big snip>
>But, you also said you started with Arachne.bat and since I started with
>Setup.bat I thought it best to try your method too.
>
>So, now I have one computer showing the video selection screen just like before
>and I still can't get it to accept any input. What did you do, EXACTLY, to get
>past this screen ?
>
Hi Clarence,
I had the same problem and IIRC correctly I hit escape
and then started Arachne. Then I set the video from inside Arachne
by calling the video setup procedure.
Eric
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Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 09:49:39 +0100
From: "Rebel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Strane bug in 1.50src
Hi
Check at www.brendata.hu/index.htm
(this page was designed by me :-)
It kills Arachne 1.50src: Error loading fontfile
c:\arache\system\propnn1.fnt
free memory left = 6832
Memory allocation error
Cannot load COMMAND.COM system halted
Arachne was installed into c:\arache
The file c:\arache\system\propnn1.fnt is valid size6056 date 4-28-98 7:45p
Rebel
Programozasi segedletek, hardware-software ismertetok:
http://thot.banki.hu/doksi
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Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 01:52:45 -0800
From: "Gregory J. Feig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Duplicated messages from me.
On Sun, 16 Jan 2000 03:12:17 +0200, Sergei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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 ....no.! no.!..unforgiveable sin....so, for the whole next
week it is "jump on Sergei week"....(just turn your computer off,
and you can refuse to listen to us)...<g>
besides, everyone will be too busy "jumping on Michael" who had
stuck his neck in the noose, by releasing the 1.60b1...<g>
.......gregy
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Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 04:21:22 -0500 (EST)
From: "Thomas Mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Pocket Arachne
to Glenn McCorkle:
Is Pocket Arachne simply a matter of zipping a ready-to-run Arachne
installation? Would it include DOS bootability and necessary programs like
UNZIP, RAMDRIVE or VDISK, etc? Then users could make their own, customizing as
appropriate for the system it would run on.
Support the International Alliance for Compatible Technology
http://pages.cthome.net/iact/
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Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 11:15:00 +0100
From: "Rebel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: The Y1k problem
The Y1K problem: http://www.extra.hu/arachne/y1k.gif (23Kb)
Rebel
Programozasi segedletek, hardware-software ismertetok:
http://thot.banki.hu/doksi
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Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 02:32:21 -0800
From: "Gregory J. Feig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Damn. I forgot to mention
On Sun, 16 Jan 2000 15:51:46 -0800, Clarence Verge wrote:
> Hello again;
- ---------------snip----------
> I think I will stop now. I don't want you to burn my mail before reading.
Clarence .....no.! no.!....don't stop....please don't stop....if you
don't do it someone else will just have to fight thru the problems...
I just downloaded it tonight, and, "press of business (whew!" make
it impossible for me to immediately install......I can see that
"business" is going to keep me occupied until more of the bugs are
located and worked around.....<g g g>
..............gregy
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Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 16:29:19 +0200
From: "Or Botton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 1.60's mailer.
Something is definetly wrong with 1.60's mailer. Twice when I tried
to download (today and yesturday) with it it aborted during transfer.
Out of 153 messages, only 57 were downloaded before it stopped.
Seems like its always this number..
Or Botton
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 09:09:27 -0500
From: Tim Crook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: Long filenames howto ?
One way to handle this problem is to do what Windows 95 did - use the
comment field of filename to store the extended filename. In early versions
of CP/M (and MS-DOS), doing a DIR command or (PIP>DIR on CP/M) would display
the filename, as well as a comment the user might have supplied with the
filename. Creating 8.3 MS-DOS style file names is not really difficult from
long file names - chop off everything but the first six characters of the
filename (except if spaces, in which case read the next character). Append
~1 to the name and append the first three characters of the extension. If
this filename already exists, change the ~1 to ~2 (or ~3, ~4, etcetera)
until you have a filename which doesn't exist. This involves going a little
bit beyond normal C calls like fopen - you have to use low level I/O calls
to access the comment field. I don't think you have to go as low as sector
reads of the file allocation table, but I may be mistaken - it has been a
long time since I worked with real mode MS-DOS int 0x21 calls.
- -----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2000 4:30 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Long filenames howto ?
Hi Sergei,
> Petri wrote:
>
> > Anyway, what did Sergei (I *think* it was him) need LFNs for? It's much
> > easier for me to explain something when I can give an example...
>
> I needed them when running under Windows, and can't have
> access to some files with very long filenames (more than
> 64, 15-16 symbols from beginning same).
>
> I think that exist some way to force Arachne, launched under
> windows, understand windows's names.
> Now i can see than i'm only one here who need it.
No, you are not the only one who would find this useful. I can give
another example.
I am a consulting industrial chemist, specialising in chemical safety
and
regulation compliance. As part of my work, I am compiling a data base
(=collection) of HTML files of chemical data, downloaded from the web sites
of
a large number of chemical suppliers. On these sites, the HTML files are
stored with long file names. Unfortunately my system (DOS 6.2 & Win 3.1)
cannot handle long file names, and I find the downloads of consecutive file
names end up with only the last one, because each one has over-written the
previous one if the first six characters are the same. i.e. nnnnnn~1.htm.
THIS CAN BE IRRITATING !!!!!!
It would be nice to use a browser that could keep these consecutive file
names separate.
Regards,
Ron
Ron Clarke http://homepages.valylink.net.au/~ausreg/music.html
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Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 10:27:02 +0100 (CET)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Menedetter)
Subject: Re: Arachne Email Inbox problem
Hi
Hans-Juergen Bardenhagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
HB> But nevertheless, it seems to be a bug with inbox.dgi,
Not really ... there is not supposed to be a backslach at the end.
New Arachne 1.60 forgives you this mistake ;)
PS: Don't set temp to the root of a drive. The number of files, which can be
stored there is small. (set it to a subdirectory)
HB> Hans-Juergen
CU, Ricsi
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Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 07:10:08 -0800 (PST)
From: "Jorge Alex Ortega O." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: just for test... Don't read this!!!
Are you blind???? :P
Test for messages in this...
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Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 08:40:51 -0800 (PST)
From: "Jorge Alex Ortega O." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: I'm back (but not for much time :()
Hi All...
Today i 've downloaded the beta 1.60 of arachne and
i've found many (annoying) surprises...
- - When i tried to put it into a system based on
pc-nfs (ip-frag more exactly) in a non-disk-drive
based system the Turbo Vision based version refuses
to install the software.. so i downloaded the zip
version... and this little report is baed on it...
- - The zip version works relatively good here, but:
- The screen fills of TRASH when the program tries
to change between(?) the VGA menu of monitors
and the well-known arachne interface...i
believe that there's some problem when arachne
tries to change the colors and resolution of screen.
All problems disapears when i exit DOS and restart
arcahne (using ALT-E option) and the screens comes
back to normal look (tested on a trident svga carrd
and a avance logic card, which is VESA compatible)
- - Sometimes when i use the keyboard to go into the
diferents options oof the programs i get a 'runtime
error' and exits... but more complicated is the fact
that a good part of the software dissapears (core.exe
included...)
- - There's remain some error in the layout of HTML
display (graphic display). you don't believe me???
Visit mail.yahoo.com and (if you don't have an
account) and create an aaccount, and you'll notice
that some grahics are not displyed correctly (apears
in positions that are strange and the win-based
programs and archne 1.50 displys it normally)
- - What is setup_os.dgi??? when i installed arachne
first time (zip version) the progrms tries to find
it... but no results... i 've to call setup.htm to
continue the installation...
- - What happens with [EMAIL PROTECTED]? i've tried
to get the list again (i've trouble with the e-mail
so i've unsuscribe the list by a time and today i
tried to subscribe again... with no results...
HELP!!!!!!!!! (if there are some problem please mail
me at [EMAIL PROTECTED])
Anyway the new features that i look here and the
optimization of the performance of arachne appears
very impressive (i actually use a 386sx 33MHZ) and i
notice the speed-up of this!!! GREAT WORK MICHAEL!!!
The only question is... When i can stop of see the
'you mus enable javascript' message on the yahoo mail
script??? :-)
Cheers
J.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
vamos a la playa OH OH OH OH OH!! :)
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