arachne-digest Wednesday, January 19 2000 Volume 01 : Number 956 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 18:48:40 +0100 From: "Guenter Bietzig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: NEWBE NEEDS HELP On Mon, 17 Jan 2000 21:17:43 -0600 (CST), Herbert D. Valliant wrote: > I just download arachne. The file was ARCN15RC.EXE. Executing the file, it > went through the initilizing and then came up with an error box that said > "error insert distribution disk". Selecting either button yields a blue > screen with an exit command at the bottom. > I noticed that the arachne directory had been created and contained a file > arachne.exe. Executing this expanded the files except at the end there was > a message that CRC failed. I tried executing setup but get an immediate > error. > Any and all help greatly appreciated. > Sincerely > Herb Valliant Hello Herbert, try downloading the latest arachne version 1.60b1. The Turbo Installer from Version 1.50src was a little critically. The CRC message means that your d/l'd file was corrupt. Regards Guenter Bietzig, Essen, Germany. Arachne BUG-,CRASH-,WISH-& LOVElist at: Arachne Help Page http://home.germany.net/101/124262/gb.htm ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 21:08:29 +0200 From: "Or Botton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Pocket Arachne On Tue, 18 Jan 2000 00:14:14 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote: > On Mon, 17 Jan 2000 04:21:22 -0500 (EST), Thomas Mueller wrote: >> 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. > "Yes", to all of those points. >Snip!< > !AR150RC EXE 1134151 8-29-99 7:30p In my "pocket arachne", I emptied the examples directory, cleared the docs directory, made sure that the cache was clear, and RARed it (with SFX). Size is about 790k. The OS is DR-DOS 7.03, which does a RAM disk with a VDISK.SYS driver. I then drop to prompt in order to make sure all the current system configs are set (for example, logged into the lan if at the lab in the college) and then copy the SFX into the ram drive, open, (delete the archive later), last configs to arachne.cfg, and away we go! :) I am going to try out 1.60 with the new DHCP support.. Or Botton [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - "Truth is stranger than fiction, because fiction has to make sense." - ----------------------------- http://members.xoom.com/dsdp/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 13:09:15 -0500 From: Terri FitzSimons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: packet driver Hello. I've been using Arachne for a couple of years now. It has been working most satisfactorily with the DOSPPD packet driver. But release 1.6 beta refuses to recognize that the packet driver is loaded into memory, although the exact same batch file works quite well with Arachne 1.5 SRC. I have been unable to get the dialer included with 1.6 to connect/load the packet driver. Does anybody have any advice on this state of affairs? Terri FitzSimons ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 13:03:57 -0800 From: Clarence Verge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Arachne 1.6: Dial without asking? Klaus Hameyer wrote: > > But something new which I found annoying is that if you > click on a link in the Hotlist WITHOUT BEING ONLINE, it > automatically dials for you, and after hitting escape to > stop it, the clock starts counting for it to dial again. > And if you're slow like me to figure out what to do next, > it's dialed again before you know it. What's the purpose > of a dial page if the program doesn't wait for you to > initiate the dial sequence? Maybe it's intended as a > feature, but... Hi Klaus; Yes, that is one of the things I find annoying about Netscape/Trumpet combo. There is a keyword permitted in Arachne.cfg that may affect this Try: Autodial No Put it anywhere you find convenient and restart Arachne. - - Clarence Verge - -- - - Help stamp out FATWARE. As a start visit: http://home.arachne.cz/ - -- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 13:17:39 -0800 From: Clarence Verge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Arachne 1.6: Dial without asking? Eric S. Emerson wrote: > > Thank you Klaus, > I would also like to know how the dialing > thingy is supposed to work. The darn thing won't stop dialing! > I tried changing things in mime.cfg &/or arachne.cfg but it > insists on re-dialing to infinity it seems. It's like a mouse > going after cheese, it just won't give up! If you are talking about the re-dial, Eric, there are two things you can do. First, hitting "ESC" will stop it. Second, if you don't want it to EVER re-dial, you must edit out the re-dial function on the PPPerror page. Don't have the name or page in front of me now so I can't be clearer. Just hit F6 when it starts counting down and then F4 to edit it. Remove the line near the top - something like: HTTP EQUIVALENT Refresh blah blah ... - - Clarence Verge - -- - - Help stamp out FATWARE. As a start visit: http://home.arachne.cz/ - -- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 12:41:25 -0800 From: Clarence Verge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: We have a bug in v1.60b1.... Glenn McCorkle wrote: > > Has anyone tried viewing eMail while "off-line" ? > > Alt+H and we're back to: Cannot create index file i:\temp\$IDX$cnm.IDX > > message from "outbox" > Cannot create index file \ARACHNE\MAIL\$IDX$tbs.IDX > > message from "mail folders" \arachne\mail\links\ > Cannot create index file \ARACHNE\MAIL\LINKS\$IDX$mes.IDX > > All of these work fine when on-line. Well I'll be darned ! Those look like problems others have had ! <grin snicker snicker> - - Clarence Verge - -- - - Help stamp out FATWARE. As a start visit: http://home.arachne.cz/ - -- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 12:45:45 -0800 From: Clarence Verge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Arachne 1.6 Thomas Mueller wrote: > > I downloaded Arachne 1.6 by HTTP using Arachne 1.50b2 Ctrl-Left button, and it > appeared to be downloading, but I couldn't find where it downloaded to. I > checked ARACHNE.CFG and checked TMP, TEMP and other download directories, and it > was nowhere to be found. I even checked the cache before deleting that (over > 1000 files). Hi Thomas; Gee that sounds like the sort of complaint I might have about Windows. You never know what it's doing or where it's doing it. <g> - - Clarence Verge - -- - - Help stamp out FATWARE. As a start visit: http://home.arachne.cz/ - -- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 19:06:48 +0100 From: "Michael Polak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Fw: Re: arachne-digest V1 #953 - ----- Forwarded message begin ----- 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. - -- 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") - ------ Forwarded message end ------ - -- Michael Polak: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Arachne Labs: http://arachne.cz/ My mobile phone - up to 160 characters: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 19:07:56 +0100 From: "Michael Polak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Fw: Some comments.... - ----- Forwarded message begin ----- From: "Michael Polak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> *** Keyboard navigation *** I forgot to warn you, that Arachne's behaviour without mouse driver is undefined. I must find some workaround. I think it should be relatively easy, but I am not using low level functions, but some kind of library to access mouse driver. But I know the low level too, so it should be possible, somehow. *** Arachne's usage of DOS Memory explanation *** [+] means, that two XSWAP buffers are allocated, [?] stands for just one buffer (which makes Arachne slow). If you are online, PPPD driver consumes 65 KB of memory. If Arachne isn't able to allocate two buffers when online, memory indicator turns black (or red), and it says [?] (or [!!!]), which means, that Arachne will get too slow (or even unstable). You can compare page load times with [+] and [?]. They differ dramaticaly. Currently I am not sure how to solve this in 16bit DOS version - this problem won't be present in Linux, of course... *** New buttton design *** I was playing with font sizes for some time, and this is what I like. I found the new fonts and button sizes better than what Netscape (Windows or linux) or MSIE (Windows). It would be relatively easy to make it configurable, but I really choosed the alternative which looked best of all, believe me. BTW, even if it is proportional font, Arachne uses slightly different method to determine button width, which means, that with Arachne, you can use spaces in <INPUT TYPE=SUBMIT VALUE=" xx "> to align more buttons to the same width, while in Netscape you can't do that. *** BMP and PostScript sending by mail *** It is intended for sending the print file to you Linux (or Windows) account on your local network ;-) I don't expect anyone to send megabytes of printscreens over internet; I should probably explain this in titles of the boxes. (I would like to implement standard lpr protocol later, because eg. our Linux server in Arachne Labs has printer attached, and would be able to immediately print BMP or PostScript files send over TCP/IP connection to lp daemon; in fact, almost every Linux distribution is able to do this immediately after instalation, without much configuring. But it is just one of thousans features on my wish list, beside ICQ, copy & paste, etc... and customers want me to accelarate JavaScripts instead :-((( *** Other bug reports - eg. openbox.com *** Thanks, I am immediately adding the fixes to mime.cfg, etc. The only serious problem are the page like openbox.com or www.atlas.cz, with overlapping tables. I am not sure what causes this, I would need some very clean example: small, properly formated and human readable HTML source, with only few tables, which would show the overlapping bug. Then it would be easy to debug it... - -- 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") - ------ Forwarded message end ------ - -- Michael Polak: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Arachne Labs: http://arachne.cz/ My mobile phone - up to 160 characters: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 06:03:27 +0000 From: "Vicki & Wayne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Arachne 1.60b1 HI ALL I have just finished installing 1.60b1 on our pentium 200 download and install went with no problems whole thing took about ten minutes and I was back on line. I also installed it on my 486 some trouble with exe download so used zip file installation went ok only struck one problem so far and that was in video selection. I have Tseng ET4000 video card witch had been running in 600x800 256 mode under 1.50src but in 1.60 there seems to be some problem (I no not what), because the plus and minus keys do not work to change video mode when Tseng 600x800 option is selected. However I reloaded my tlivesa driver back in autoexec and selected vesa 600x800 option and every thing works in that mode, only problem being I have to use extra memory to load driver 4k ish I still have enough to run ok but........ With 1.50 I had 139+ and after logon 70+ with 1.60 117+ after logon 92? On the pentium under win95 (no gui installed) I get 129+ after logon 105? with 1.50 it was 156+ and 110+. By the way the windows button works on both machines for 95 and 3.11. All in all a good package, downloads are definately quicker. ARACHNE STILL REMAINS THE BEST THING I'VE SEEN IN AGES. Wayne & Vicki ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 15:17:21 -0500-0500 000 From: "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: 1.60's mailer. On Mon, 17 Jan 2000 16:29:19 +0200, Or Botton wrote: > 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.. Today I downloaded 69 messages out of 69, all very quickly, and in one fell swoop. No problem. Sam Heywood - -- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 12:59:20 -0800 (PST) From: "Louis P. Santillan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Fw: Some comments.... On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Michael Polak wrote: > *** Keyboard navigation *** > > I forgot to warn you, that Arachne's behaviour without mouse driver is > undefined. I must find some workaround. I think it should be relatively > easy, but I am not using low level functions, but some kind of library > to access mouse driver. But I know the low level too, so it should be > possible, somehow. > What about using a joystick driver? A simple one, kinda a middle ground between a mouse and keyboard driver. // joySlack take in account for analog joysticks if( currJoyH < calibratedJoyH - joySlack ) { // move pointer left } if( currJoyH > calibratedJoyH + joySlack ) { // move pointer right } if( currJoyV < calibratedJoyV - joy ) { // move pointer up } if( currJoyV > calibratedJoyV + joy ) { // move pointer down } Louis ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 16:01:14 -0500 From: "P. Stephen Baxter, P. Eng." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Using WP5.2 for Win3.1 as Text Editor Samuel Heywood 16 Jan at 20:41 -0500 asked about using a favourite external editor with Arachne. The Arachne gurus helped me with this many months ago so, for what it is worth, here is my solution to the problem. I find it best to do all my text composing off-line in WordPerfect 5.2 for Win3.1 where I have ready access to all those familiar text handling facilities. No one here ever mentions this oddity that works for me so well! The gurus showed me how to achieve the same result whilst on-line with Arachne, but that required me to fire up WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS which was wasteful of my PS/2 20 mB HD capacity and introduced unfamiliar and limited key/mouse manipulations. Moreover, it required some APM work that, at that time, was either broken or unreliable. I have never tried APMs since having never seen an "all fixed" message re APMs on this Digest. (I'll take a look at what I am missing as soon as v160b1 settles down and I take the courage to install it). These are the elementary steps I take in the process: - - Compose in WP5.2 the text for the body of the intended message. Save it in DOS (ASCII) format to C:\TEMPFILE\TXTx. (I always use \TEMPFILE instead of \TEMP so that I can detect whenever a program creates any such sub-directory. SET TEMP[and TMP]=C:\TEMPFILE takes care of everything else) - - In Arachne when ready to compose mail, select the appropriate MAILTO address from HOTLIST or press key C (for compose mail). - - When in the message part of the screen, press F3. A dialogue box with the word "TEXTAREA" appears. - - Press Ctrl-Y to clear the contents of the dialogue box. - - Type C:\TEMPFILE\TXTx and execute. The prepared txt appears where you want it. Minor and trivial text editing can be done there in the usual manner should you wish. NOTES 1. This procedure is not limited only to e-mail messaging. I find it works superbly in contributing to such message lists as InsideTheWeb where often I enhance the text by inserting various HTML formatting commands for which I have compiled a few macros, not having an HTML editor to hand -- any freeware suggestions anyone? 2. If I want to quote any text from incoming messages, I (P)rint them to FILEx.TXT, or merely extract them from the HTML format of the incoming mail, or from otherwise-saved (F2) HTML pages when I forget -- Quite Easily Done (QED). 3. In v150src I cannot append attachments while running from a RAM disk -- a known bug. I work around this by running Arachne (somewhat more slowly but effectively!) from C: on the rare occasions I need to do so. Michael P and his gurus know about this. Perhaps it has been fixed in v160b1. 4. Michael P confirmed many months ago that the CC part of the MAILTO page was broken in some way in v150src. Maybe fixed in v160b1 but CC works for me if I confine it to a single addressee and send it (or save it to OUTBOX) as an original (not amended) msg. 5. This procedure used for transmission of this msg. Very interested in seeing the solutions of others in the Digest. My apologies should this msg seem too elementary for this Digest. Yours, Aye, Stephen. - -- Arachne V1.50;s.r.c., NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://home.arachne.cz/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 13:08:36 -0800 (PST) From: Ken Martwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Program speed Ricsi (Richard Menedetter) wrote (in part): > MP> I want Arachne to be faster than Netscape 4.7, because Mozilla (future > MP> Netscape 5.0) is reported to be much faster, even faster than MSIE 5.0 > MP> (which is pretty fast, to be true...) > Good luck ! > (but IMHO this will be extremely hard for you, because of the limitations of > realmode DOS, this is the reason why I would love to have an additional > Arachne/386 with DJGPP) It is hard for me to imagine a program of reasonable size that would be faster under DJGPP. A program that goes off by itself and does some- thing "computationally intense" (e.g. inverting a huge matrix) might be minutely faster because an "override byte" is required for 32-bit oper- ations in real mode. In the "real world" of interrupts and task switches, a program would be substantially slower. This doesn't even consider the monster-sized programs produced by the "gcc" compiler! Ken Martwick ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 20:53:57 +0000 From: Charles Boisvert and Catherine Clinton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Arachne 1.60b1 >... I have Tseng ET4000 video card witch had been running in 600x800 256 >mode under 1.50src but in 1.60 there seems to be some problem (I no not what), >because the plus and minus keys do not work to change video mode when Tseng >600x800 option is selected. However I reloaded my tlivesa driver back in >autoexec and selected vesa 600x800 option and every thing works in that mode, >only problem being I have to use extra memory to load driver 4k ish... tlivesa? Is there a vesa emulator for Tseng cards? Charles ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 22:19:18 +0100 (MET) From: Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Fw: Re: arachne-digest V1 #953 Michael wrote: BTW: The reason why I'm currently not in Arachne is becaus emy sister used the computer before me, and with that said... >> 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". Hmm... I can't remmeber doing anything diffrent between quoting myself and quoting other peoples mail. But perhaps I did. >> 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. I'll guess the problem then lies in the other persons mailer then. >> 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 ;-) Sure (ASAP - that is when the source is out), an easy sollution would of course be to just move the files to a subdirectory ("read" for instance). But this has a few problems (someone might be using that directory already), a .toc (Table Of Content) file might be better in some cases - but it also has drawbacks (a need to read/write to the file which isn't very fast, and what happens if a file isn't in the directory anymore? No need to keep information on wheter it should be shown or not in such a case). >> 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). > >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. Haven't seen any such problems (but with perhaps 1000 messages I will - and without my 32MB SmartDRV cache), only problem is the fact that I don't see which mails are directed to me and which are not (and when I somehow "screwed up" my replys it was even harder). Using a smaller partition only for Arachne (lets say 100MB) would reduce the ammount of space allocated that isn't used as well, so I doubt that's any big problem either. Alternative to the move would be to add it to the end of some packed file - thereby two problems would be solved but it would on the other hand be the most time consuming sollution. //Bernie http://hem1.passagen.se/bernie/index.htm DOS programs, Star Wars ... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 16:28:06 -0500 From: Mark David Roth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Probles with blank screens on inbox & outbox I tried setting TEMP=D:\ and ARACHNETEMP=D:\. It didn't do any good. I still get blank screens on my inbox and outbox pages., Any other ideas? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 22:40:54 +0100 (MET) From: Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Pocket Arachne Glenn wrote: > This can of coarse be done with _any_ version of DOS. Has anyone tried running Arachne in FreeDOS? //Bernie http://hem1.passagen.se/bernie/index.htm DOS programs, Star Wars ... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 16:46:33 -0500 From: "P. Stephen Baxter, P. Eng." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Mice and Cheese -- Off Topic Eric Emerson on 18 Jan said something about Arachne-bound mice idefatigably going after cheese. Countrified mice (field mice?) hate cheese, even the MouldySoft kind, but cannot resist Apple. Sorry, but I could not resist the connotations with your v160b1 mouse problems! Yours, Aye, Stephen. - -- Arachne V1.50;s.r.c., NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://home.arachne.cz/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 23:54:47 +0100 From: "Guenter Bietzig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: 1.60 (fixed) bugs Hello all, we have read some mails about bugs in 1.60b1. Here comes what is fixed in 1.60b2: The terrible looping bug at framed sites is gone :-)))) No problems for a newbies to install this version (with exception of using an ET4000 graphic adapter in some modes, see seperat post). Slow mouse and keyboard are gone. I've found a small bug at the DialPage: Clicking at 'Help' gives me an error, because the path is not set to /doc/ppp_how2.htm If there comes no 1.60b2 in the next days, I will update the 'Installation' section of the ArachneHelpPage and the 'Bug list'. I think a stable arachne version is not far away ;-) Regards Guenter Bietzig, Essen, Germany. Arachne BUG-,CRASH-,WISH-& LOVElist at: Arachne Help Page http://home.germany.net/101/124262/gb.htm ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 19:55:39 +0100 From: "Michael Polak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: The mail problem... It may be related to free memory, if it happens offline and not online. Some fine tuning may be needed: Is message for offline "just a monent" and for online "Would you like to have some coffee ?" if yes, than it means that with PPP loaded, Arachhne doesn't even try to stuff Insight.exe into memory and swaps out. Without PPPD, it looks like Insight would fit there, but it fails. Please send me your Dos memory values online and offline. Maybe MIME.CFG lines need some re-adjusting... try to increase the [xx] values for Insight mail indexes by 5 KB, or so... - -- Michael Polak: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Arachne Labs: http://arachne.cz/ My mobile phone - up to 160 characters: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 00:06:36 +0100 From: "Guenter Bietzig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Bug in setting up ET4000 On Mon, 17 Jan 2000 19:06:48 +0100, Michael Polak wrote: >> 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... Hello Michael P., all 1.60b1 tester and all 'normal' arachne user, excuse me, it's getting a little technical ;-) I've testet three graphic adapters in the same machine: OAK, ET4000, TSENG TV9400. In modes: 640*400*256(not for OAK) 640*480*256, 800*600*256, 800*600*16, 1024*768*256 (not for OAK) No problems with all cards and modes in 1.50src. In video setup with 1.60b1 and clicking at 'Try selected graphics mode', a short 'File not found'- DOS message comes up. In 1.60b1 the OAK and TSENG are working ok in all 3 (5) tested modes, but NOT the ET4000. I've startet my trace tool to see what the arachne setup does with INT10h (Video Interrupt), function 00 (set video mode). With the OAK and TSENG all modes are set properly. But there are some mismatches with the ET4000 modes. Here are the trace results for the ET4000: Mode Target Current Remark 640*400*256 2F 2E not ok (no support by OAK) 640*480*256 2E 2E ok 800*600*16 29 29 ok 800*600*256 30 2E not ok 1024*768*256 38 2E not ok (not supported by OAK) So I think there is something wrong in setting up the ET4000 with arachne :-( Regards and keep :-)) Guenter Bietzig, Essen, Germany. Arachne BUG-,CRASH-,WISH-& LOVElist at: Arachne Help Page http://home.germany.net/101/124262/gb.htm ------------------------------ End of arachne-digest V1 #956 *****************************
