arachne-digest Tuesday, January 25 2000 Volume 01 : Number 967 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: (Nincs d�tum vagy a d�tum �rv�nytelen.) From: "Csaba Adam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: PPP down flood Dear Glenn, All, I apologize for the flood. It was not deliberate. :-( Regards, Csaba ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 06:08:54 -0500 (EST) From: "Thomas Mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re(-2): One more graphic browser for dos? Johnno, I remember seeing a link to Web Boy, might have been from http://www.fdisk.com/doslynx I examined it carefully, it looked like a crippled demo, and I declined the download. I believe it was from IBM Japan. Your "Johnno" reminds me of my mother calling me Tommo. http://idt.net/~kassoc/dos is rather a far cry from http://www.dozsila.com I tried www.doszilla.org and www.dozsila.org, no good. Regarding subject lines like "Re: Re2: One more graphic browser for dos ?", why not simply edit out the excess Re's? Support the International Alliance for Compatible Technology http://pages.cthome.net/iact/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 14:06:26 +0100 (CET) From: Michael Polak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: VGA bug On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, Clarence Verge wrote: > Hello Michael and All; > > I have located the focus of the problem I experienced with egghead.com going > to fullscreen mode (by itself) a few seconds after loading starts. > It can be seen even when reloading the site from cache. > > This problem occurs ONLY in standard VGA mode (640x480) and only when you > select VGA 640x480 16 colors or 640x480 grayscale in setup. > Any other 640x480 mode is OK. This must be why I also saw it in EGA. > Probably, if setup recognizes your Video adapter, you will be allright. This is strange, but I can test it myself of course. > To check into possible reasons why no one else saw this problem I borrowed a > HiRes monitor again and loaded egghead. > > This gave me a chance to examine the 800x600 and 1024x768 screens and I must > say I certainly prefer the 640x480 - without the toolbar. > I don't much like all that clutter - but, whatever turns your crank.<g> I wrote the toolbar mainly for myself, because I like mouse interface myself. > I also discovered that 640x480 has a function that is not available in other > resolutions. <G> There is NO fullscreen mode in the higher resolutions !! It is there, but it is not reachable by F5. You have to hit "*" instead. * key is even in 640x480, but the need for fullscreen mode is lower in hi resolution modes, so there is no need to include fullscreen in F5 mode cycling. BTW, I have already fixed the "no mouse driver" bug. It was really my fault, and it took me some time to find it. It will be fixed in beta 2, and beta 2 should be released this week, BTW - -- http://home.arachne.cz/ (homepage of Arachne, www browser for DOS & Linux) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 08:46:51 -0500 From: Roger Turk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: AOL's New Software (Version 5.0) I just read that AOL has just taken a lesson from Micro$oft's Internet Exploder and gone one better! If, in installing Version 5.0, you check the box to make AOL's software your default browser, it will remove all other browsers from you system and will prevent future installation of another browser. Steve Case is quoted as saying that they just want to make it simple for the user! Roger Turk Tucson, Arizona USA ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 07:07:59 -0800 From: "Gregory J. Feig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: http://webbox.com/ On Sun, 23 Jan 2000 23:14:04 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: > P.S. Has anyone noticed that Michael has inserted the following kernel of > wisdom into one of his pages in Arachne 1.60 :"Just because you're paranoid > doesn't necessarily mean that they aren't really out to get you."? ......that has been in there in since I have been using Arachne.... about 1 year now..... .........gregy - -- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 07:04:46 -0800 From: "Gregory J. Feig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Arachne works with http://webbox.com/ On Sun, 23 Jan 2000 22:37:45 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: - --------------snip---------- > Hello Glenn: > I don't understand. Do you mean to say that you somehow succeeded in > setting up an account at webbox without your having to give them > the password you normally use for accessing your ISP account and your > email servers at your ISP? Sam .........they ALL do this....it stands to reason...they must have these, or else your ISPs server is gonna tell them to take a hike.... Yahoo Mail does this also....if I want them to get my mail off my primary mailserver....Yahoo must have my name/password, otherwise my ISP's is telling them NO WAY....and I want it that way, thank you... .............gregy - -- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 15:56:18 +0100 From: "Rebel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: The bios source Hi Hope you didn't forget about me and the bios source? :-)) Rebel Programozasi segedletek, hardware-software ismertetok: http://thot.banki.hu/doksi ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 09:37:14 -0500 From: "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Are my messages getting through? On Sun, 23 Jan 2000 21:26:10 -0800 (PST), you wrote: > I think I just realized a fact perhaps well known to the rest of you. > Ever so often I send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], but I never > see my own message on the digest which I get. > There are at least 2 possibilities: [EMAIL PROTECTED] is not > just sets of messages from the arachne listserv, as normal. Arachne-digest > acts as a completely separate list. So if I want a message to get the > the readers of arachne-digest, I have to send it to the digest, not just > to arachne. Is this true? > Alternatively, I know some listservs have options which do not sent > one's own posts back to one. But I doubt that this is what is happening. Hello Howard: Saw your post on "arachne-digest" I am sending this reply to your private email and have CC'd also to "arachne" to see if you will find it there also. I should not have received your message because I no longer subscribe to the arachne-digest. There exists the possibility that by some fluke you might have become unsubscribed for "arachne". If this were the case, your messages would not have arrived there. I saw your post on arachne-digest. There was once a problem that occurred about two and a half months ago in which the "arachne" list inadvertently lost almost all of its subscribers. As a result, many of those who were "arachne" subscribers decided to subscribe to the "arachne-digest" I know that "arachne-digest" is a separate list. If you are subscribed to only to "arachne-digest", but not to "arachne", you will not receive any postings sent to "arachne" unless they were included also in "arachne-digest". Sam Heywood - -- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 08:39:15 -0800 From: "Gregory J. Feig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: OT...TCP/IP stack, where...? All....... ......I hate to ask this question on this list, BUT....I need a TCP/IP stack to work with MSDOS6.22 and WIN3.11.....and Netscape Nav/Com latest downloads..... ......Does anyone have a good URL, preferably FTP.......???? ...................gregy - -- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 18:33:24 +0100 (MET) From: Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: OT: copying one HDD to another Roger Turk wrote: >Expanding on Bernie's suggestion of using two computers, DR-DOS has a >program, FILELINK, that can be used to transfer files from one computer to >another. When I decided to transfer this computer from my office (where I >rarely used it) to my home, I copied all the files from the computer that >would remain in the office to this one. Although FILELINK documentation says >that it will *not* create directories or subdirectories, it *does*! Good and cheap idea, only problem with this is that if the drive letters are to many then the data that needs to be transfered is much as well. How fast is a printer cable? Serial is something like 115Kbps right? That makes a 10MB Ethernet LAN ca 87 times faster. I wouldn't like to transfer big ammounts of data over such a connection. In my case it would have taken aproximately 5 days! //Bernie http://hem1.passagen.se/bernie/index.htm DOS programs, Star Wars ... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 18:33:25 +0100 (MET) From: Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: BUG list Wes Harper wrote: >Ok, yeah I found something strange with the memory settings.. I can get >it to work if I increase buffers in config.sys to the point where >arachne shows less conventional memory, then it starts working. Kind of >strange but at least I can experiment with it. If nobody else is having >any problems I'll not worry about giving further details about it unless >requested. You need enough buffers to get this working (changed so it's more understandable) copy apm.htp + system\apm.db\*.htm result.htm I wonder how many that might require... With enough files I would bet everyone would have probelms. //Bernie http://hem1.passagen.se/bernie/index.htm DOS programs, Star Wars ... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 12:39:27 +0000 From: "Matt Bahls" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Hotmail.com probs Hello all, Well, I followed all the wonderful advice given and I now can use Arachne perfectly. Now I have another question. When I try to go to www.hotmail.com, it brings up a page called TopList that is in Czech. Why won't it go to hotmail.com with that URL? It does on any other browser. Well, that's my question for now. Thanks again for all the advice and thanks for the warm welcome to the list, Matt - -- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client - -- Arachne V1.60;b1, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 14:58:06 -0500 From: "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Arachne works with http://webbox.com/ On Mon, 24 Jan 2000 07:04:46 -0800, Gregory J. Feig wrote: > On Sun, 23 Jan 2000 22:37:45 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: > --------------snip---------- >> Hello Glenn: >> I don't understand. Do you mean to say that you somehow succeeded in >> setting up an account at webbox without your having to give them >> the password you normally use for accessing your ISP account and your >> email servers at your ISP? > Sam .........they ALL do this....it stands to reason...they must have > these, or else your ISPs server is gonna tell them to take a hike.... > Yahoo Mail does this also....if I want them to get my mail off my > primary mailserver....Yahoo must have my name/password, otherwise > my ISP's is telling them NO WAY....and I want it that way, thank you... > ..............gregy Of course that make sense, gregy. However, I didn't want webbox to have the capability of getting my mail off my primary mailserver. I had wanted to set up an account there in order to have an upload/download site for my own stuff. They don't need to know my password in order for me to do that. Sam Heywood - -- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 12:13:38 -0800 (PST) From: Ken Martwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: another web browser for dos? L. D. Best wrote: > Jake's correct on that. But the way PTS has Arachne bundled in his > package makes it impossible to tell what is where without first > installing the entire OS. I don't want to do that yet, do I? No. > Maybe later when I'm feeling brave. > In the docs the author of PTsDOS states that Arachne doesn't belong to > him, but I'd be interested in finding out if it is made clear anywhere > that Arachne is not free, and that an updated version might not run on > PTS. > Another one to add to my "round tuit" list ... I have been using PTS-DOS v.6.51 for about two years now. It seems generally to be quite good and very compatible with Arachne thru v.1.60B1. However, after v.6.51 was released, it is my understanding that Paragon Technology Systems split into two rival companies, each using the same name. There have since been releases of PTS-DOS with higher version numbers and lesser capabilities! What the current situation is, I don't know. Ken Martwick ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 15:10:13 -0500 From: Roger Turk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: OT: copying one HDD to another Bernie, The drive letters don't make any difference. (I am assuming that you are transferring everything from one HD to another that has nothing on it.) The only thing with FILELINK is that you can transfer only one drive at a time, although I think that I finally made up a BATch file that went thru all of the drives that I transferred. The drives *have* to be on the receiving machine as FILELINK will not transfer them. FILELINK was available for downloading on the old Caldera web site. FILELINK will transfer using either a serial cable, in which case the transfer is limited to 115 kbps, or with an EPP parallel cable, in which case the transfer is much faster. I limit the size of my logical drives to less than 125 MB to get the benefit of minimal sized clusters. I also have the logical drives set up based on useage, D: is CAD, E: is WordPerfect, F: is FoxPro, etc., so that the drive's FAT contains only data/files pertinent to that drive. There are also similar transfer programs, LAPLINK, PCANYWHERE, etc., commercially available, and also some transfer programs that emulate these on Simtel. Roger Turk Tucson, Arizona USA Bernie wrote: >>Roger Turk wrote: >Expanding on Bernie's suggestion of using two computers, DR-DOS has a >program, FILELINK, that can be used to transfer files from one computer to >another. When I decided to transfer this computer from my office (where I >rarely used it) to my home, I copied all the files from the computer that >would remain in the office to this one. Although FILELINK documentation says >that it will *not* create directories or subdirectories, it *does*! Good and cheap idea, only problem with this is that if the drive letters are to many then the data that needs to be transfered is much as well. How fast is a printer cable? Serial is something like 115Kbps right? That makes a 10MB Ethernet LAN ca 87 times faster. I wouldn't like to transfer big ammounts of data over such a connection. In my case it would have taken aproximately 5 days! //Bernie<< ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 15:17:14 -0500 From: "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Hotmail.com probs On Mon, 24 Jan 2000 12:39:27 +0000, Matt Bahls wrote: > Hello all, > Well, I followed all the wonderful advice given and I now can use > Arachne perfectly. Now I have another question. When I try to go to > www.hotmail.com, it brings up a page called TopList that is in Czech. > Why won't it go to hotmail.com with that URL? It does on any other > browser. > Well, that's my question for now. > Thanks again for all the advice and thanks for the warm welcome to the > list, Hello Matt: I don't know why you were re-directed to a different web-site. However, I do know that Arachne hasn't been able to use "www.hotmail.com" ever since the site was bought out by Micro$oft about two years ago. Before Micro$oft messed things up, Hotmail used to work just fine with Arachne and even with text-browsers such as NetTamer and DOS-LYNX. Sam Heywood - -- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 16:18:21 -0800 From: Clarence Verge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: OT...TCP/IP stack, where...? Gregory J. Feig wrote: > > All....... > ......I hate to ask this question on this list, BUT....I need a > TCP/IP stack to work with MSDOS6.22 and WIN3.11.....and Netscape > Nav/Com latest downloads..... > ......Does anyone have a good URL, preferably FTP.......???? Hi Gregy; I don't have a current URL for Trumpet (which I am currently using and will send if you wish) but, anyway, Trumpet is not free. You pay dearly in terms of nag long before your trial is over, and crashes AFTER it is.}:-(( BUT, I do have this: http://www.rarf.riken.go.jp/archives/pc/winsock-l/WWW-Browsers/Mosaic/ Sorry not FTP. If you download Mosaic, change the date on your computer to April or May 1996, (I think it expires in June of that year) BEFORE trying to install it. Then, after setting up the Winsock, simply delete the browser itself and some related files, keeping the Winsock and stuff necessary for maintenance of it. There is no timelock on this part. If you get it working, let me know because I have some kind of problem. <G> There is nothing wrong with it because Michael Dawley has it running. - - Clarence Verge - -- - - Help stamp out FATWARE. As a start visit: http://home.arachne.cz/ - -- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 22:27:34 +0100 (MET) From: Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: OT: copying one HDD to another Roger Turk wrote: >The drive letters don't make any difference. They do in the case that we can then conclude that it's rather much that needs to be copied (often true, it might not be). In my case ca 6GB. However even the LAN idea was to slow using this method (and it didn't work anyway - using move instead might have worked) so I removed partitions in FDISK after xcopying everything over. >I limit the size of my logical drives to less than 125 MB to get the benefit >of minimal sized clusters. I also have the logical drives set up based on >useage, D: is CAD, E: is WordPerfect, F: is FoxPro, etc., so that the drive's >FAT contains only data/files pertinent to that drive. I've got the same set up (one drive letter for each thing), unfortunately only P(rogramming) and I(nternet) are even close to beeing like I intended. I have for instance no idea what-so-ever on what Q has for files ;) For instance I think I've got Turbo Pascal on 3 diffrent drives (diffrent installs and versions). //Bernie http://hem1.passagen.se/bernie/index.htm DOS programs, Star Wars ... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 22:03:31 +0100 From: "Guenter Bietzig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: ppp DOWN On Sun, 23 Jan 0 00:35:09 PST, Csaba Adam wrote: ... ... > By the way, the "new computer" means an IBM 6x86 processor with > a new mainboard. I use my old modem (56k external GVC). > I have no problem in terminal mode, the manual authentication > is OK, but when I turn to PPP mode, presently the connection is > cut off. > Best regards, > Csaba Hi Csaba, which ComPorts have you installed in your machine? Try to use Com1 or Com2 for your modem. Because miniterm.exe and arachne are using different address tables for ComPorts, you may get trouble using Com3 or Com4. Look for these three lines in your arachne.cfg: [dialer] ... ... Port 1 *** your ComPort Irq 4 *** your IRQ Base Default *** try 'Base 0x3f8' (Com1) Base 0x2f8 (Com2) Base 0x3e8 (Com3) Base 0x2e8 (Com4) Put in 'your' base address. or send part [dialer] and [tcp/ip] from arachne.cfg to this list. Try the link in the footer, may be it will help you ;-) Regards Guenter Bietzig, Essen, Germany. Arachne BUG-,CRASH-,WISH-& LOVElist at: Arachne Help Page http://home.germany.net/101/124262/gb.htm ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 22:13:05 +0100 From: "Guenter Bietzig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: BUG list Hi all beta tester ;-) thanks for all your replies to the subject 'BUG list'. Because 1.60b2 is not far away let's wait what's coming up ;-) Regards Guenter Bietzig, Essen, Germany. Arachne BUG-,CRASH-,WISH-& LOVElist at: Arachne Help Page http://home.germany.net/101/124262/gb.htm ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 00:46:49 +0300 From: "Vasily Zatsepin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Fixed font Hi all, On Sat, 22 Jan 2000 10:55:36 +0100 (CET), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Menedetter) wrote: > Hi > When I select fixed font in Arachne 1.60b1, than I can't see what I type. > (looks like black ink on black paper fontcolor is green) > It worked just great in 1.50src. <skip> It's not a bug but a feature due to Michael's decision to use only 8x14.FNT as system font (may be due to some memory problem ?). But the decision exclude using AltSysFont option in languges others than English. So I can say that 1.60 beta 1 is just unusable (for me at least). Don't panic - a line below is in Russian: ������ 1.60 ���� 1 ���������� ��� ������ � ���������� - ����������� ����������� :(. BTW, how about old "red boxes" bug? Can anybody help me and test http://www.glasnet.ru/~zwb/support1.htm for the bug? I can't see old "New Arachne logo" with Arachne (1.50 & 1.60). The picture is visible only with M$IE (haven't test it with Netcsape stuff). Regards, - -- - Vasily Zatsepin | mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Arachne WWW browser v.1.50 SRC - registered Visit http://arachne.browser.org/ - Web browser for DOS ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 23:01:57 +0100 (MET) From: Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Arachne Email Inbox problem Hans-Juergen wrote: >OK, but why do all the other *.dgi like "sentmail.dgi" work in InSight? >They have to create their temporary index files, too, and seem not to >have this problem that the TEMP variable has a backslash at the end. They don't need to use the TEMP variables (no .dgi will - but insight.exe requires depending on what the command line looks like). Rather pointless discussion IMO since it's fixed now anyway. //Bernie http://hem1.passagen.se/bernie/index.htm DOS programs, Star Wars ... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 17:02:17 -0500 From: "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Is it possible to set up a DOS machine as an FTP server? Dear Folks: I know that Windoze machines may be set up to act as an FTP server. Though I have never done this myself, I know this is possible because I have read articles on the subject. Do any of you know if it is possible to set up a DOS machine to act as an FTP server? If such is at all possible, I suppose it would involve setting up your DOS operating system with multi-tasking abilities. Does anyone know about this? Sam Heywood - -- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 23:10:58 +0100 (MET) From: Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Fixed font Vasily Zatsepin wrote: >BTW, how about old "red boxes" bug? Can anybody help me and test >http://www.glasnet.ru/~zwb/support1.htm for the bug? I can't see old >"New Arachne logo" with Arachne (1.50 & 1.60). The picture is visible only >with M$IE (haven't test it with Netcsape stuff). This is an old known bug (but very small) that has resurfaced, the file is the same as welcome.gif that is/was shipped with Arachne and when the GIF algorithms were changed (for animation *or* - not both at the same time - resizing) this image didn't show up anymore in Arachne (it shows up in all other programs I've tried so it's probably not any fault with the file itself). //Bernie http://hem1.passagen.se/bernie/index.htm DOS programs, Star Wars ... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 15:53:15 -0800 From: "Gregory J. Feig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: xx_xx_xx.ah files All.....just to show you my ignorance....I just had a guy over on the chat post his ".ah pages, so I could look at them....well, of course, when I pulled them up on my box....they looked beautiful and all filled in with my own information/preferences......what I need to get are his files that fill those .ah pages in....so, what files to I need to have him post......???? ..........dumb gregy - -- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 22:56:13 +0000 From: Charles Boisvert and Catherine Clinton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Arachne for a newbie? Hello all, sorry about my posting about this list being like a cult. I meant it as a joke, but my jokes often get OT :-) I've installed arachne on a refurbished computer to put my in-laws on e-mail. They are in their 70s and they've hardly ever used a computer before. Last week my father-in-law tried to ask for any Arachne manual/self-help tutorial in a bookshop... Now I've got some news for you: there aren't any Arachne for dummies for sale in bookshops ;) Question is, has any of you got some basic howtos for Arachne that I could print and pass on? Also, my in-laws wouldn't like to receive all the e-mails on this list but how would you react if they sent a question to it, hoping for help on their address? Thanks, Charles ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 23:25:00 +0100 (CET) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Menedetter) Subject: Re: OT...TCP/IP stack, where...? Hi "Gregory J. Feig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: GF> ......I hate to ask this question on this list, BUT....I need a GF> TCP/IP stack to work with MSDOS6.22 and WIN3.11..... DOS Programs have the TCP/IP Stack usually built into the executable. (eg WATTCP) For Win 3.X I would recommand trumpet winsock. GF> ......Does anyone have a good URL, preferably FTP.......???? I have forgotten it ... search for trumpet winsock. IMHO it's trumpetsoft or something similar. GF> ...................gregy Hey ... you make even more dots than I do ;) CU, Ricsi - -- Richard Menedetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ICQ: 7659421] {RSA-PGP Key avail.} - -=> The problem with the genepool is there's no lifeguard <=- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 18:04:19 EST From: "Neil Parks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: smartdrv.exe On 22 Jan 00 at 22:45, arachne-digest wrote: > From: "Michael L. Dawley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On some computers I have smartdrv.exe loaded, and I am > wondering if it really does any good. It's one more item > that I have to either place in conventional memory or > load it high. > l. Does Arachne benefit from smartdrv? Yes. Any program that does a lot of writing to the disk benfits. > 2. Is it only for windows programs like Netscape, > Eudora, etc? No. > 3. On machines with only 8 MB ram, is it of more > value, than say, on a box with 32 MB ram? Probably equally valuable on both. > I've attached a mem.txt to this email that shows > the current setup on this machine. > Modules using memory below 1 MB: > > Name Total =3D Conventional + Upper Memory > -------- ---------------- ---------------- ---------------- > MSDOS 17,645 (17K) 17,645 (17K) 0 (0K) > HIMEM 1,168 (1K) 1,168 (1K) 0 (0K) > EMM386 3,120 (3K) 3,120 (3K) 0 (0K) > COMMAND 3,024 (3K) 3,024 (3K) 0 (0K) > COMMAND 3,088 (3K) 3,088 (3K) 0 (0K) > IO 80 (0K) 80 (0K) 0 (0K) > SETVER 624 (1K) 0 (0K) 624 (1K) > ONTRACK 5,312 (5K) 0 (0K) 5,312 (5K) > DMOUSE 17,088 (17K) 0 (0K) 17,088 (17K) > SMARTDRV 29,024 (28K) 0 (0K) 29,024 (28K) > EPPPD 70,160 (69K) 0 (0K) 70,160 (69K) > Free 696,240 (680K) 627,104 (612K) 69,136 (68K) Don't know why COMMAND appears twice unless you happened to be shelled out from Arachne or some other app at the time. This list shows that everything that should be loaded in UMB is so loaded. You are making good use of memory. - -- ...This msg brought to you by NEIL PARKS Beachwood, Ohio mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.en.com/users/neparks/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 19:09:06 -0500 From: "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Arachne for a newbie? On Mon, 24 Jan 2000 22:56:13 +0000, Charles Boisvert and Catherine Clinton wrote: <snip> > Question is, has any of you got some basic howtos for Arachne that I could > print and pass on? Also, my in-laws wouldn't like to receive all the > e-mails on this list but how would you react if they sent a question to it, > hoping for help on their address? > Thanks, Charles Hello Charles: The primary reason why Michael established this list was to establish a help forum for newbies. I suppose I could understand why your in-laws might lack the patience to sift through all the messages that appear on the list so as to find what is relevant and pertinent to the questions they may have posted. Your in-laws would not receive so many messages if they were to request us to reply privately. Anyone replying privately should also CC to the list so as let the rest of us respond with a second opinion concerning the advice being given to them. Even those of us who are generally renowned as experts are sometimes wrong. Usually all problems concerning the running of Arachne are posted publicly to the list for the benefit of all. We do sometimes reply privately in special situations in which some kind of one-on-one attention is needed. All the best, Sam Heywood - -- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 19:20:06 -0500 From: "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Arachne works with http://webbox.com/ On Sun, 23 Jan 2000 22:37:45 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: > Hello Glenn: > I don't understand. Do you mean to say that you somehow succeeded in > setting up an account at webbox without your having to give them > the password you normally use for accessing your ISP account and your > email servers at your ISP? What I was able to do is to setup an email account with webbox. I still feel it's too great a security risk to give them my password to the account at cisnet. (so I did not do that) - -- 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/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 19:30:07 -0500 From: "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Arachne works with http://webbox.com/ On Mon, 24 Jan 2000 01:44:29 -0500 (EST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric S. Emerson) wrote: > Hi Glenn, > I tried to download Testfile at Webbox and was not > successful. I got "bad URL" page instead. You'll need to link to this page... http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ And then link to testfile.zip on that page. This is the "full URL" which will result: http://public.webbox.com/streamer.asp?ts=b267270287274282268280290293314&p=251110&fi=396717&fn=Testfile.zip - -- 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/ ------------------------------ End of arachne-digest V1 #967 *****************************
