arachne-digest        Friday, January 21 2000        Volume 01 : Number 960




----------------------------------------------------------------------

Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 01:19:02 -0500
From: Mark David Roth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: I couldn't get Arachne v1.60b1 to work at all

I downloaded ARCN16B1.EXE. I ran it to install ON D:\ARACHNE. I selected 0
for XMS and 0 for VGA then it took me to the Arachne Video Setup scxreen.
It had preselected VESA 800x600 so I tried it. I got the error message:
Unable to initialize videomode please run setup.bat. It returned me to the
Video Setup screen so I select ed TAMARAC (Tamarack TDVGS-3588, Cirrus,
Paradise, AST-PLUS) because I do have a Paradise VGA card. That worked
fine.
I have a question. Why does it test the processor and hard dtrive speeds?
The next screen it went to was setup-os.dgi. Slow PC or not optimized PC
was preselected. I do have a 386SX that only has a speed of 16Mhz with 16
Megs of ram, but I selected 386 class (33-40 Mhz, 2-4MBXMS). It seemed to
accept that. It took me to the next screen, cfgwiz.dgi. There it had Update
quick start command. In the text box was the caracters t op, the o had an
accent mark. I changed it to A.BAT. Then it took me to setup.htm. Where I
selected Manual Setup. Then to system\gui\tcpsetup.ah, where I selected
Internal PP support. Then to system\gui\conf_ppp.ah, where it had
preselected COM3 and IRQ4, which I had to change to COM2 and IRG3. I have a
36600 modem but I selected 115200, show terminal window and Changed the
Modem init string from ATZ to AT&F&C1&D2S95=3 which is recommended by the
Zoltrix people. Then back to system\gui\tcpsetup.ah where I selected more
options. Then to system\gui\opt_loc.ah page, where I selected never expire
static pages, cache local objects, cache path C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\, Mail path
M:\mail\, download path S:\, History file C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\HISTORY.LST,
Cache index C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\CACHE.IDX, Cooki database
D:\ARACHNE\COOKIES.LST. Then it took me to thge dial screen, where I
clicked on the connect button. MINITERM 1.40 connected at 115200
and the following message appeared: Terminal mode, Press <Alt+P> or <F7> to
exit and try PPP (SLIP). After 2 minutes I got a NO CARRIER message. The
same thing happened on all my previous installations of versions of
2Arachne. After 17 minutes I pressed <F7> and got the same message I always
do: PPP link is down driver not installed. then it took me to the error
screen system\gui\err-ppp.ah. So I did what I always did before I copied
the multiple Arachne configuration files and dialup programs I used before.
I use CALLOUT.BAT. The text is as follows:

@ECHO OFF
CLS
IF "%STATUS%"=="CONNECTED" GOTO END
if _%1==_ goto DIALER
if %1==h goto HANGUP
if %1==H goto HANGUP
goto SYNTERR
:HANGUP
ECHO                              Disconnecting
termin 0x60 >>termin.log
SET STATUS=
SET MYIP=
SET REMIP=
SET NETMASK=
SET PEERMRU=
echo                            Connection closed
goto END
:SYNTERR
CLS
echo                  Syntax error, call as CALLOUT or CALLOUT H
goto END
:DIALER
CLS
echo                  Establishing PPP connection with CompuServe
TYPE STATUS.TXT
if exist ip-up.bat del ip-up.bat
LH pppd >>pppd.log
if errorlevel 255 goto HANGUP
if errorlevel 1 goto CONNERR 
if errorlevel 0 goto OK
if not exist ip-up.bat goto CONNERR
call ip-up.bat >>ip-up.log
goto END
:CONNERR
CLS
echo                           Connection failed
GOTO END
:OK
SET STATUS=CONNECTED
:END

I use HANGUP.BAT for disconnecting. Text as follows:

@ECHO OFF
CLS
ECHO Executing HANGUP.BAT
ECHO                             Disconnecting
termin 0x60 >>termin.log
SET STATUS=
SET MYIP=
SET REMIP=
SET NETMASK=
SET PEERMRU=

I also use NUMBERS.BAT to select different phone numbers.

@ECHO OFF
CLS
ECHO Executing NUMBERS.BAT
IF "%1"=="" GOTO HELP
IF "%1"=="/?" GOTO HELP
IF "%1"=="/H" GOTO HELP
IF "%1"=="/h" GOTO HELP
FOR %%A IN (SD1 SD2 CV SD3 POWAY1 POWAY2 sd1 sd2 cv sd3 poway1 poway2) DO
IF %1==%%A GOTO %1
ECHO %1 won't work, 
:HELP
ECHO Syntax: NUMBERS [SD1, SD2, CV, SD3, POWAY1 or POWAY2]
ECHO SD1 & SD2 use 56K modems
ECHO CV & SD3 use 3.66K modems
ECHO POWAY1 & POWAY2 use 22.8K modems
ECHO I think
GOTO END
:sd1
:SD1
COPY 268-0415 CHATSCR >NUL
COPY 268-0415.ACF ARACHNE.CFG >NUL
ECHO Arachne will now be connected through the San Diego 1 number
1-858-268-0415 >STATUS.TXT
GOTO END
:sd2
:SD2
COPY 338-9222 CHATSCR >NUL
COPY 338-9222.ACF ARACHNE.CFG >NUL
ECHO Arachne will now be connected through the San Diego 2 number 338-9222
>STATUS.TXT
GOTO END
:cv
:CV
COPY 585-0309 CHATSCR >NUL
COPY 585-0309.ACF ARACHNE.CFG >NUL
ECHO Arachne will now be connected through the Chula Vista number 585-0309
>STATUS.TXT
GOTO END
:sd3
:SD3
COPY 467-9508 CHATSCR >NUL
COPY 467-9508.ACF ARACHNE.CFG >NUL
ECHO Arachne will now be connected through the San Diego 3 number
1-858-467-9508 >STATUS.TXT
GOTO END
:poway1
:POWAY1
COPY 697-0200 CHATSCR >NUL
COPY 697-0200.ACF ARACHNE.CFG >NUL
ECHO Arachne will now be connected through the Poway 1 number 697-0200
>STATUS.TXT
GOTO END
:poway2
:POWAY2
COPY 697-2024 CHATSCR >NUL
COPY 697-2024.ACF ARACHNE.CFG >NUL
ECHO Arachne will now be connected through the Poway 2 number 697-2024
>STATUS.TXT
:END
TYPE STATUS.TXT
TYPE MYPOINTS.TXT

This time things didn't work as smoothly as all the previous installations
did. It dialed up, connected, and loaded the packet driver OK. But when it
went to return to the Arachne Home page I selected (a local page,
START.HTM), on the bottom bar instead of showing BOOTP it showed
BOOTP/DHCP. It hugupp there for a while, then  took me to the error page
where it told me the PPP connection failed and would redial in 10 seconds.
It did redial wiyth the same results. So I tried changing the IP_Address
and NameServer to compuServe's nameserver1 address 149.174.213.5. I set the
AltNameServer to compuServe's nameserver2 address 147.174.211.5. I left
Gateway 0.0.0.0, AltGateway 0.0.0.0, Netmask 0.0.0.0. This time the dialup
worked and it took me to my home page. But when I clicked on anything it
would say it was looking for those addresses but wouldn't do anything. When
I clicked on them  again it took me to the error page where it said those
addresses didn't exist. I noted that another setting that was different
from my original was instead of TCPconfig PPPTCP.CFG it was set to
WATTCP.CFG. So I checked it out and it had a setting that I thought might
need reset, hostname=arachne which I changed to CISPPP. It still didn't
work. I did a search on all the files for the text DHCP it showed up in two
files CORE.EXE and CHANGES.TXT. I ended up replacing CORE.EXE with version
1.50rc. Everything worked again. Except for a few other problems I've been
having.
Blank inbox, outbox and folders screens.
Not deleting messages I've already downloaded and breaking connection
before I get them all.
  

------------------------------

Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 08:45:45 +0000
From: "Edenyard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Bugs in V1.6

   I installed Arachne 1.6 yesterday from the .ZIP option and it all
seemed to go quite well. I have found the following bugs, though and
would appreciate our resident experts' opinions. For reference, the
set-up is 486DX4, 16Mb RAM, 800x600 SVGA.

BUG 1:   Try this web page:

   http://www.open.gov.uk/lcd/civil/procrules_fin/cprocfr.htm

There should be a blue banner in one frame across the top and another
frame below with the rest of the page, which is several screenfuls long.
Download one of the .PDF files, click on the 'save to' box. Now - when
you return to the downloaded page, do you see TWO blue banner frames at
the top? I do! If I then download another file and come back, I get
THREE!! And so on. Why??

BUG 2:   If I want to re-edit a message in OUTBOX, I find that the 'save
to outbox' and 'cancel' buttons have disappeared off the bottom of the
screen - presumably because of the 'Warning: You are resending...' line
appearing below the message heading lines. This seems a major
inconvenience!

BUG 3:   After surfing for a while, I went to see if there were any new
messages. There weren't, so I clicked on the 'back' arrow to go back to
the page that I had downloaded. That's when I got the "Mail floppy in
A:" loop, which I could only get out of by Control+C, which dumped me
unceremoniously back at the C:\> prompt. Is this something that I can
disable in ARACHNE.CFG or somewhere?

BUG 4:   I hate to say it, but I fear that the memory problems haven't
gone away.... When I start Arachne, I get 104+ on the DOS kB line. If I
write a few messages, read same or look at the Options page once or
twice and then come back to where I started from, then I've only got
90kB. Look at a few more messages or pages from cache, perhaps and
it's now at 77kB. Edit a message and it may go up slightly. It never
recovers to the 104kB that I had when I started. (This is
all without going on-line, by the way.)  Should it be doing this?

BUG 5:   (calling this a bug may be unfair!) The Page-up and Page-down
keys still work as always on pages, but the up and down arrows no
longer seem to move the page a line at at time. This is annoying when
I want to read to the end of a sentence and the last line is just off
the bottom of the screen! Does this bother anyone else?

   Aside from these, I think that V1.6 was worth waiting for! Will
there be an add-on for 1.6 to work with an external text editor for
messages??

   Thanks, Michael et al!

      Ron.

------------------------------

Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 10:11:28 -000
From: Mike Millen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Bugs in V1.6

1.6b1 has solved quite a few problems from 1.5src, but a few
new ones have crept in to take their place.   :(

One particularly annoying one is that 1.6 no longer "remembers
its place" on a long page.

I always surf with images off. When I want to see an image I
right-click on the image which is d/l'd and then displayed on
a separate screen. When I click Back (or right-click in clear
space) to return to the original page I am put back at the
*top* of the page instead of where I left from. On a long page
this is especially annoying.

Does anyone know a simple fix or do I wait for 1.6b2?

Mike


- --

------------------------------

Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 06:27:45 -0500 (EST)
From: "Thomas Mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Arachne 1.6

>
Getting it by email probably would be faster as the file now resides
on your ISP's server and the only factor is your connection speed and
how busy your ISP's server is when you download the mail message.
>
Dale,

Why should downloading by email be faster than HTTP if the email size is 4/3 the
HTTP size?  But I suppose sometimes one might engage the hTTP server at a busy
time and get a slow download.  Last night I downloaded Arachne 1.60b1 by HTTP,
using DOS Lynx386, and speed ran about 2450 bytes/sec with 56 K modem.

Did you get that test message I sent by Telebot SMTP?  It seemed to go through
with Arachne 1.50b2 but not with UKA_PPP.

Support the International Alliance for Compatible Technology
http://pages.cthome.net/iact/

------------------------------

Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 06:27:44 -0500 (EST)
From: "Thomas Mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Probles with blank screens on inbox & outbox

to Mark David Roth:

Quoted from your AUTOEXEC.BAT:

LH D:\TEAC\CORELCDX.COM /D:TEAC-CDA /M:15 /CACHE=2,2,2 /XMSSIZE=-1
LH D:\TEAC\CORELCDX.COM /D:TEAC-CDA /M:15 /CACHE=2,2,2 /XMSSIZE=-1

Did you mean to have this same line twice?

Support the International Alliance for Compatible Technology
http://pages.cthome.net/iact/

------------------------------

Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 12:17:25 +0800
From: J J Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I couldn't get Arachne v1.60b1 to work at all

Old PC so slow UART chip?  (I'm assuming you have an external modem.)
First one, and then two more ISPs I use will allow a dial-in and then sit there
or drop the connection if I haven't dropped the baud rate to 19200.  I suppose
their server software is saying "Too many many requsts for packets to be re-sent,
I'm not talking to an old PC so p*ss off!".

The COM-port detector doesn't work for me, either. 

                       ---- on 20 January 00 Mark David Roth wrote: ----
<snip>
> I do have a 386SX that only has a speed of 16Mhz with 16 Megs of ram
</snip>

<snip>
> Then to system\gui\conf_ppp.ah, where it had preselected COM3 and IRQ4,
> which I had to change to COM2 and IRG3. I have a 36600 modem but I selected 115200
</snip>

------------------------------

Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 07:16:33 -0500 (EST)
From: Klaus Hameyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: AutoLogin Vs. AutoDial

Thank you Michael P. !!

AutoLogin and AutoDial are two separate entities the latter of
which does not exist in Arachne 15b2. A fact which I failed to 
note. Careless of me. Sorry.

| Klaus Hameyer, TRANSLATOR, German/Swedish => English    
| Chemistry, Chem. Technol, Environment, Waste, Paper etc. 
| Tel:802-563-2549 or 864-7648  E-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 

------------------------------

Date: (No, or invalid, date.)
From: Csaba Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PPP down

Dear listmembers,

I have boght a new (at least new for ME ;-) computer and
I can't establish PPP connection with the _epppd_.
I think it's an epppd-specific question because I have
no problem with other dialers (WebSpider, Trumpet Winsock,
M$-dialer...etc.). 
Please, help me.

Thx,
Csaba

P.S: Hi, Ricsi! ;-)

------------------------------

Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 09:08:19 -0500
From: Roger Turk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: I couldn't get Arachne v1.60b1 to work a

Mark,

When I installed 1.60b1, I used the manual configuration in SETUP.BAT with a 
printout of my ARACHNE.CFG from 1.48 as a guide.  I accepted most of the 
defaults except those that I *knew* had to be changed.  I started 1.60 and 
got the fatal error, "PPP not found."  I went back into ARACHNE.CFG and made 
a slight change to my login script and then changed "IP_Address PPP" in the 
[tcp/ip] section to "IP_Address %MYIP%" and Arachne started working like a 
charm.  No real problems since then.

Hope this helps.

Roger Turk
Tucson, Arizona

Mark David Roth wrote:

>> ... Then it took me to thge dial screen, where I clicked on the connect 
button. MINITERM 1.40 connected at 115200 and the following message appeared:
Terminal mode, Press <Alt+P> or <F7> to exit and try PPP (SLIP). After 2
minutes I got a NO CARRIER message. The same thing happened on all my previous
installations of versions of 2Arachne. After 17 minutes I pressed <F7> and got
the same message I always do: PPP link is down driver not installed. then it
took me to the error screen system\gui\err-ppp.ah.  ...<<

------------------------------

Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 15:48:45 +0100
From: "Rebel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: arachne login script

Hi

Could someone send me a working login script for dialup?
I tried to create it myself, nut i faild.

Rebel

Programozasi segedletek, hardware-software ismertetok:
        http://thot.banki.hu/doksi

------------------------------

Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 17:23:04 +0100 (CET)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Menedetter)
Subject: Re: PPP down

Hi

Csaba Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

 CA> I have boght a new (at least new for ME ;-) computer and
 CA> I can't establish PPP connection with the _epppd_.
 CA> I think it's an epppd-specific question because I have
 CA> no problem with other dialers (WebSpider, Trumpet Winsock,
 CA> M$-dialer...etc.).
What is the problem ??
PS: EPPPD is not a dialer. It uses chat.exe to dial !
(There was a problem, when you had a COM-Port Gap ... somebody from the list
found a solution for it ... but I have forgotten who it was ... maybe glenn ?)

 CA> Thx,
 CA> Csaba

 CA> P.S: Hi, Ricsi! ;-)
Hi ;) (Ha �szinte legyek mar nem emlekszem rad ... bocs ;)

CU, Ricsi

- -- 
Richard Menedetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ICQ: 7659421] {RSA-PGP Key avail.}
- -=> I'm out of bed and dressed. What more do you want? <=-

------------------------------

Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 18:37:28 +0100 (MET)
From: Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I couldn't get Arachne v1.60b1 to work at all

Mark David Roth wrote:
>I have a question. Why does it test the processor and hard dtrive speeds?

So that people that doesn't know much about their computer will be able to
set Arachne up. (And you can perhaps blaim me for it since I suggested it
to Michael way way back).
//Bernie
http://hem1.passagen.se/bernie/index.htm DOS programs, Star Wars ...

------------------------------

Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 21:45:28 +0200
From: "Or Botton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: One more graphic browser for dos ?

On Wed, 19 Jan 2000 19:57:6 +0800, J J Young wrote:


>> Bernie told me few days ago about PTS DOS.
>> Nothing interesting as for me, but package have
>> graphic web-browser, e-mail-client, ftp-client, telnet,
>> dial-up, as they say at website.
>> Requirements: i286 CPU or better, 512kb RAM or more

> The browser is stated to be Arachne. Don't know
> which version.  PTS DOS is apparently used by
> Russian military and space programs.

Just read the system requirments and software features.
Its definetly Arachne, or just sounds very much like it.
(it cant be WebSpyder - Caldera removed the FTP from it.)

                                       Or Botton
                                       [EMAIL PROTECTED]

- - "Truth is stranger than fiction, because fiction has to make sense."
- -----------------------------
http://members.xoom.com/dsdp/

------------------------------

Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 21:50:01 +0200
From: "Or Botton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Re2: One more graphic browser for dos ?

On Wed, 19 Jan 2000 09:53:21 -0800 (PST), Jorge Alex Ortega O. wrote:

> the only web browser for dos, apart of arachne, is
> DOZSILA which is under development...
> Just imagine: a mozila dozsila.... i must have to see
> it when is ready...
> www.dozsila.com

Isnt that DOSZilla, by any chance? the project have never even began
development, it just stopped. The main project coordinator have
also disappeared without a trace. I tried to contact the only programmer
enlisted in the doszilla page (which is not www.dozsila.com) who have
said that he havent heard anything from that guy for over a year.


                                       Or Botton
                                       [EMAIL PROTECTED]

- - "Truth is stranger than fiction, because fiction has to make sense."
- -----------------------------
http://members.xoom.com/dsdp/

------------------------------

Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 11:34:55 -0800
From: "Gregory J. Feig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PocketArachne

On Wed, 19 Jan 2000 14:34:38 -0800, Clarence Verge wrote:

> Gregory J. Feig wrote:
>> Clarence and Glenn and Sergei.......yes, very good idea....I'm sure
- ---------snip---------
> But, the real challenge is to get EVERYTHING you really need on one floppy.

Yes, but your following comments make it apparent that it is a technique
and practice which almost must be personalized......

> And I must say, even after seeing Glenn's system, this is NOT a simple job.

> To make ONE diskmaker for ALL users is a real challenge. I would never make
> assumptions about the user's operating system or configuration or even their
> path, for instance.  How do we create config.sys and autoexec.bat that takes
> into account the users' choices for memory managers and caching software ?

> I'll probably be still thinking about it after the interest has disappeared.<G>

Clarence .....true....that is why we were interested in it to start with
...we can handcraft solutions for our individual customers, and all the
discussion helps us kind of form a generic procedure for doing this...
That is why I spend so much time with DOS....we can do it here, much
easier than in any other operating system

..............gregy

> --
> -  Help stamp out FATWARE.  As a start visit: http://home.arachne.cz/
> --

- -- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client

------------------------------

Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 19:59:48 +0000
From: "Mel Evans, Registered Arachne User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 1.6b

Well,

Got it loaded eventually by importing the various .acf files from
1.50b2/3. Seems to work ok on e-mail. 

Don't know if I like the surfing with it though. Page loads ok if I keep
moving the mouse? and is definitely faster doing this, BUT some of my
own pages which ARE HTML 4.0 certified now do NOT load but stop in the
middle, shell out from arachne to WIN95 and ask me some question about
(I think) CWEDISP and whether or not I want to make a shortcut to it!

These [pages] loaded fine with 1.50b2/3.

This is a trial e-mail out.

Regards

Mel

Sent approx 20.00 hrs Thursday 

------------------------------

Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 19:59:35 +0000
From: "Mel Evans, Registered Arachne User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 1.6b

Well,

Got it loaded eventually by importing the various .acf files from
1.50b2/3. Seems to work ok on e-mail. 

Don't know if I like the surfing with it though. Page loads ok if I keep
moving the mouse? and is definitely faster doing this, BUT some of my
own pages which ARE HTML 4.0 certified now do NOT load but stop in the
middle, shell out from arachne to WIN95 and ask me some question about
(I think) CWEDISP and whether or not I want to make a shortcut to it!

These [pages] loaded fine with 1.50b2/3.

This is a trial e-mail out.

Regards

Mel

Sent approx 20.00 hrs Thursday 

------------------------------

Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 13:30:56 -0800
From: Clarence Verge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Bugs in V1.6

Edenyard wrote:
> 

> BUG 5:   (calling this a bug may be unfair!) The Page-up and Page-down
> keys still work as always on pages, but the up and down arrows no
> longer seem to move the page a line at at time. This is annoying when
> I want to read to the end of a sentence and the last line is just off
> the bottom of the screen! Does this bother anyone else?

Hi Ron;

There have been a couple of posts instructing how to stop that "Drive A:"
business by editing mime.cfg.

Bug 5 interests me because I would like to have some way to scroll small amounts
but that function has never existed as far as I know. Unless it is virtual screen
mode - I don't use that because it slows things down too much. 

Maybe you were using the "Netscape Compatibility Mode".   Check the hotkey map.
This mode requires virtual screens - and you may have turned this off.
 
Anyway, I use have been using the up/down arrows to move the cursor.  

- -  Clarence Verge
- --
- -  Help stamp out FATWARE.  As a start visit: http://home.arachne.cz/
- --

------------------------------

Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 22:03:26 +0100
From: "Guenter Bietzig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Bugs in V1.6

On Thu, 20 Jan 2000 13:30:56 -0800, Clarence Verge wrote:

...
...

> Bug 5 interests me because I would like to have some way to scroll small 
amounts
> but that function has never existed as far as I know. Unless it is virtual
> screen
> mode - I don't use that because it slows things down too much.

> Maybe you were using the "Netscape Compatibility Mode".   Check the hotkey 
map.
> This mode requires virtual screens - and you may have turned this off.

> Anyway, I use have been using the up/down arrows to move the cursor.

> -  Clarence Verge

Hi Ron, Clarence and all,

for me the 'small scrolling' with up/down arrows works fine in 1.60
without virtual screens and "Netscape Compatibility Mode" enabled.

Regards

Guenter Bietzig, Essen, Germany.  Arachne BUG-,CRASH-,WISH-& LOVElist at:
Arachne Help Page http://home.germany.net/101/124262/gb.htm

------------------------------

Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 16:36:37 
From: "Dale Mentzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Arachne 1.6

On 20 Jan 00 at 6:27, Thomas Mueller wrote:

>>Getting it by email probably would be faster as the file now resides
>>on your ISP's server and the only factor is your connection speed and
>>how busy your ISP's server is when you download the mail message.
>>>
>>Dale,
>>
>>Why should downloading by email be faster than HTTP if the email size is 4/3
>>the HTTP size?  But I suppose sometimes one might engage the hTTP server at
>>a busy time and get a slow download.  Last night I downloaded Arachne 1.60b1
>>by HTTP, using DOS Lynx386, and speed ran about 2450 bytes/sec with 56 K
>>modem.

That is what happened when I started downloading 1.6b1, so I aborted 
the download and requested it by email.

>>Did you get that test message I sent by Telebot SMTP?  It seemed to go
>>through with Arachne 1.50b2 but not with UKA_PPP.

Sorry, Thomas, nothing personal from you today via Telebot. I need to 
test that myself. I will keep an eye out for any mail from you there 
and reply to anything I receive so you will know that I got it.

Regards,
Dale Mentzer

Some days you're the dog, some days you're the hydrant.


    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        

------------------------------

End of arachne-digest V1 #960
*****************************

Reply via email to