On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, arachne-digest wrote:
> If I klick on "All files" (from desktop) and then the directory "Examples",
> and then klick on the "Image gallery" botton, I see the two gif's, but the
> jpg is not showing. I get the line: "bio.jpg (converted, original size
> 11801 bytes) and just below a box with the word "IMAGE".
Yes. It is bug. JPEG (or other embeded object) serach is not performed
when Arachne restarts after executing DGI. This is bug.
> If in a directory with one or more jpg's, I have to select one of them to
> view, and this works. (Picture converted and shown on a new page). _Now_
> when returning to the gallery, Arachne shows _this_ picture and converts
> and show the rest of the pictures. If I don't do it this way, I only have
> the gif's shown.
>
> I get this result in all the versions of Arachne, I have tried, and on all
> my machines - except 150src. In 150src the "bio.jpg" is converted and shown
> imediate.
Yes - but many users reported also "freezing" (in other words, endless
looping) of Arachne. Well - these two bugs are related.
> I only have this bug from the "Image gallery". There are no errors when
> looking at a WEB-page (online or offline) with jpg's! They are converted
> and shown as they should be.
I must analyze what's wrong with image gallery. I think it is the fact,
that it is DGI script itself. I added some kind of hack for mail messages;
I will have to do the same hack for gallery..
> The 150src is the only version I have been sucessfully connected to my ISP.
> ...and no, I didn't give 160b1 a try online, when I saw this fault had
> returned.
??? There is little difference in 1.50 and 1.60 dialing configuration...
and also same binaries are used (MINITERM.EXE, EPPPD.EXE).
>
> The only file that normally varies (except arachne.pck which is binary) is
> Arachne.cfg. You can, of course, modify the .ah pages (arachne hazard ?) to
> customize your local interface.
.ah = Arachne HTML
> That's the beauty of Arachne. Almost unlimited customizability.
Really unlimited ? Compare it to world of open source software ! ;)
> > 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).
I haven't tested AltSysFont... maybe it is corrupted. I have to check it.
> By the way, is there a list somewhere of popular sites that will not
> work with Arachne?
What about rather building list of popular sites, which *work* with
Arachne ?!!! :-(
> So with 1.5src on my main puter (400AMD / 128mb ) I could run from a DOS
> window no prob (under WINcrap95).
> So with (new "upgrade" to WINbloat98) if I try to run ARACHNE from a DOS
> box I get an "out of memory" message" & she won't load. If I boot F8 &
> chose "DOS prompt" ... run ARACHNE ... she runs GREAT.
Yes. CORE.EXE can either save memory or run quickly, but it is hard to
optimize for both :-(
> interested in. When they get comfortable with that, then introduce them to
> e-mail. I put it in this order so that they won't try e-mail first and
> inadvertently end up on the web at some XXXX-rated sex site <G>.
But many people will end at XXXX rated sites anyway ;-)
