arachne-digest Thursday, January 27 2000 Volume 01 : Number 971 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 13:51:57 -0800 From: "Gregory J. Feig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: JPEG routines in ASM challenge : Lxpic On Wed, 26 Jan 2000 13:39:47 +0000, Dev Teelucksingh wrote: > LxPic has an internal interface for use with other programming > languages or batch files. This interface allows you to place > pictures at a desired position in an already filled application > screen. You may select whether you want to gain back control > immediately after the picture has been placed on the screen, or > whether you want to pass intermediate control to LxPic and get > back control when the ESC key of LxPic is pressed. The appli- > cation may then write around or even into the picture. Multiple > pictures may be positioned or overlayed on one screen. If you > How about it Michael? Think something like this could be > incorporated into Arachne? Lxpic is copyrighted freeware, > so you would have to get his permission to include Lxpic > in Arachne. It sounds good since you don't have to convert the > JPG to BMP just call Lxpic to put the image on the screen. hey..!....Dev ....long time no chat....boy we have more sharp eyes out there picking up things like this.....this is sort of the way Michael put this whole Arachne package together, anyway....and this kind of thing is exactly the kind of things we all can use ...Michael can do what he wants with this, vis-a-vis Arachne ASM, but I'm gonna use it.....thanks for the URL... ..........gregy - -- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 16:23:33 -0500 From: "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: http://www.webbox.com is only for bloatware clients Hello Folks: Sorry to report this, but http://www.webbox.com is only for bloatware clients, as far as file uploads are concerned. I don't know about file downloads. Haven't tried it with Arachne. When I attempted to upload a file to my public webbox I read a message at the upload site that reads as follows: "To upload a file you must have a browser that supports HTML uploading (RFC 1867). Netscape 2.x or later and Internet Explorer 4.x or later support this." The site will provide Arachne users with some kind of free web-based email service. It does in fact work; however, there is a minor bug in the service in that it inserts a little bit of garbage data into the "FROM:" line. The mail does get through and it does work, despite the annoying bug. Sam Heywood - -- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 23:22:08 +0000 From: "Joerg Bartels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Hello! and asking for help (out of topic) On Wed, 26 Jan 2000 10:10:08 -0800, Gregory J. Feig wrote: > On Wed, 26 Jan 2000 15:10:25 +0000, Joerg Bartels wrote: >> Arachnelist.....I have some problems getting software for a >> old ISA framegrabercard (ATI (mach8) video-it!/videobasic). >> Did somebody know where I can find these old win31x software? > Joerg ........are you looking for general Win31 system software, > including drivers, or are you looking for specific ATI drivers...?? > ..........gregy > -- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client Hello Gregory ! Thanks for reading. Unfortunately I think these are ATI specific win31x software and drivers. It is listed on the ATI homepage but now unavailable. Joerg - -- Arachne V1.60;b1, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 17:37:23 -0800 From: Clarence Verge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: JPEG routines in ASM challenge : Lxpic Gregory J. Feig wrote: > > On Wed, 26 Jan 2000 13:39:47 +0000, Dev Teelucksingh wrote: > > > > How about it Michael? Think something like this could be > > incorporated into Arachne? Lxpic is copyrighted freeware, > > so you would have to get his permission to include Lxpic > > in Arachne. It sounds good since you don't have to convert the > > JPG to BMP just call Lxpic to put the image on the screen. > > hey..!....Dev ....long time no chat....boy we have more sharp eyes > out there picking up things like this.....this is sort of the way > Michael put this whole Arachne package together, anyway....and > this kind of thing is exactly the kind of things we all can use > ...Michael can do what he wants with this, vis-a-vis Arachne ASM, > but I'm gonna use it.....thanks for the URL... > ..........gregy Hey Gregy ! What's going on here ? You're replying to Dev before I have even received his post ! What's that URL ? - - Clarence Verge - -- - - Help stamp out FATWARE. As a start visit: http://home.arachne.cz/ - -- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 17:48:24 -0400 From: "L.D. Best" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Arachne works with http://webbox.com/ Eric, I can't understand what the problem is for you accessing the page. I took the short URL route and page loaded fine; I then clicked on the test.zip link which produced the long asp URL ... and downloaded the file automatically. I'm wondering ... lack of environment space can cause all sorts of processing problems behind software that we seldom see ... How large an environment do you have set up on your system? Maybe it gets filled up when something needs it? l.d. ==== On Tue, 25 Jan 2000 02:50:42 -0500 (EST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric S. Emerson) wrote: > Hi Glenn, > I tried the long address you sent below and > I got the same response. See below: > "The URL you recently followed has expired. Please > return to the referring page and try the link again." > I am not using Arachne to access but the lynx browser > on detroit.freenet.org . Would that cause a problem? > Eric >> Glenn McCorkle wrote: >> 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 > -- > -- > __________ > | Ayrx |__\_ Eric S. Emerson > | :~_: ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] > `~(*)~~~~(*)~' ````````````````````````` - -- Arachne V1.60;b1, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 17:02:47 -0400 From: "L.D. Best" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Fixed font But *I* can see that gif in Arachne! Sometimes on the first download of the page, and sometimes after I right click on image to get it downloaded and then go back to the page where it then integrates itself. Is it supposed to be animated or ??? It isn't in b1 if it's supposed to be. l.d. ==== On Mon, 24 Jan 2000 23:10:58 +0100 (MET), Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 ... - -- Arachne V1.60;b1, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 16:30:21 -0400 From: "L.D. Best" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: OT: copying one HDD to another Goodness! I guess that perverse minds think alike! On the E I have my e-mail reader, on F my FAX software [plus WordStar and a few other things], on H is Hardware, with all the flash updates, doc files, etc and L is Languages. K is "keep away from me" <G> some of the kid's backup programs, DOS 6.22 archives, etc. And all my drives are kept below that 120+ line for the exact same reason. If we're not careful, people will think we're at least superficially organized. <MBG> l.d. ==== On Mon, 24 Jan 2000 22:27:34 +0100 (MET), Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 ... - -- Arachne V1.60;b1, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 17:37:49 -0400 From: "L.D. Best" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: The bios source Chipset are built with certain abilities; the BIOS is then written to the chip by the motherboard manufacturer. Award & every other BIOS mfr will tell you to go to maker of mobo to check for updates/fixes to BIOS. If you can't figure out what brand/model of mobo, you might be able to find out by using search engines on things like serial numbers, whatever. You can't run a BIOS setup for an Azus mobo on an MSI mobo chip and expect it to work. l.d. ==== On Tue, 25 Jan 2000 04:22:36 +0200, Sergie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rebel wrote: >> Hi >> Hope you didn't forget about me and the bios source? :-)) >> Rebel > Rebel, > i hope you know that there is no same bioses. > First bioes was developed by Award, and then with reverce > engeneering Ami create their own. (Maybe Ami then Award...) > So sources not same. Also what kind of bios - 386? 486? > Pentium? PII? Athlon ? They all differs. > I can dump PROM for you. If you know assembler good enough. > Sergie - -- Arachne V1.60;b1, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 19:09:20 -0400 From: "L.D. Best" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: OT: copying one HDD to another Uhhh ... Glenn, I'd have to get 100Mb zipdisks, even though my partitions are larger than that. I have 15 drives to copy, 9 of which have over 100Mb on them, so I would need 24 zip disks -- at 3 for $45 plus tax, that would cost $381.60 plus 2 gallons of gas @ $1.89. for a total outlay of $385.38. The cost is that low because my son does have an external 100Mb ZIP drive which I could use. Otherwise I'd have to spend $140.93 for an internal USB 100Mb Zip Drive [and find the drivers for USB]. I still have 2 half-height external bays available so I might take the external drive outta the case and install internall; this tower was designed for net servers, I think. <G> That would be a total outlay of $526.31. However, if I went the other route for 250Mb Zip, I'd have to start from scratch. The Zip Drive external SCSI [same price as USB] $187.56 plus 4 4-packs of disks at $334.54 plus that same 2 gallons of gas -- $525.88. So starting from scratch it wouldn't cost as much to go 250Mb as 100Mb. But ... I think I can buy a whole "doze-ready" computer for that much, or less [monitor not encluded]. I think I still have my null modem cables, I know I still have PC hooker, so I could copy my current HDD to the HDD on the new computer, and set it aside giving me 2 backups, then install the new HDD, get set up for multi-OSes, and copy back to new HDD a partition at a time as needed. Hmmm ... Did you know that some mobos now have *modems* built in? V.90 56K right on the main board ... Get the mobo, case, power supply for $200; get 64Mb SDRAM DIMM $86; I already have HDD; I already have FDD; Celeron 400 $76 or Pentium II 400 $178; heat sink & ball bearing fan $19. A new computer for under $400, if you don't go overboard, with a little putting together. SHEEESH!!! Does anyone see anything wrong with this picture? I knew we were closing in on it, but I think technology and hardware prices have reached the point where it is cheaper to buy a new computer [with, of course, a bigger HDD] than to back up the HDD on the computer you already have. Advanced computers are now going for less than 10% of what a top-of-the-line system sold for in 1990 [I know, cuz I had to shop 4 two matched systems]!!!! I'll have to consider my options on this ... two of the computers are already on the floor, but I guess I could stack the new one on top of the 286 which resides on the desk next to mine. }:> l.d. ==== On Sun, 23 Jan 2000 16:22:39 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote: <snip> > If this is not feasable. > The least expensive methode would be an external ZIP drive. > Copy each HDD partition to it's own ZIP disk(s). - -- Arachne V1.60;b1, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 15:11:57 -0400 From: "L.D. 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Best" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: OT: copying one HDD to another Bernie, I'm not certain exactly how fast parallel port is; I do know it is much faster than serial port -- being bi-directional for one reason, and without certain constraints for another. Using serial port to serial port [don't ask me why ... it was one of my "dumb" periods] it took me two days to transfer everything on a 1GB HDD to the other system HDD using PC Hooker -- which doesn't move hidden files so I had to do those "by hand." Why was I doing it? Can you say "windoze" ?? l.d. ==== On Mon, 24 Jan 2000 18:33:24 +0100 (MET), Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 ... - -- Arachne V1.60;b1, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 16:39:12 -0800 (PST) From: Ken Martwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: ASM challenge This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. Send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for more info. - --1920046479-1688917082-948933552=:20594 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Michael, I'm with you on this! In fact, I had had some previous thoughts on the subject (see attachment). Let's prove that Bill G. was right when he said "640K should be enough for anybody.". 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Santillan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: ASM challenge Those on the FreeDOS & RxDOS lists know this (hey Ken :) but I have a small but usable library for entering Flat Real Mode at <http://frm.n3.net/>. Ken has done great work on a "C" type compiler (old version at simtel under the name BFlat) and I have done some work to get x86 GCC (and DJGPP) to produce 64K COMs. All that is needed to complete my work is to write a custom malloc (needs to cooperate with Himem.sys or be used standalone and make use of the FRM environment). I have other suggestions & ideas but they are all quite a bit of work. Louis On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Ken Martwick wrote: > Michael, I'm with you on this! In fact, I had had some previous > thoughts on the subject (see attachment). Let's prove that Bill G. > was right when he said "640K should be enough for anybody.". > Of course, with the web, that can't include data files, but we > can profit by Intel's accident when they hacked the "PM" atrocity and > use "flat real mode" memory. > I made a nice living for quite a few years, several of which in- > volved assembly-language programming for various processors, including > several of Intel's. I am now involuntarily retired and would welcome > the chance to work on a web browser. It seems to me that a browser is > the supreme challenge for what I would call a "useful" program for the > average computer user. > Ken Martwick > > ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 05:30:38 +0200 From: Or Botton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Resuming with text-based FTP client I'm trying to download a very big file using the CLI FTP client that is availble as an APM for Arachne. The problem is that I need to know how to resume downloads.. There is no actuall "download resume" availble in the client itself, however I do know that it is possible using direct FTP server commands. So far I understood that I need to do: REST <current size of partialy downloaded file> RETR <partialy downloaded file> Is this enough to work, or is there anything additional that I need to do? (someone mentioned to me that I should use the PORT command as well.) Or Botton [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - "Truth is stranger than fiction, because fiction has to make sense." - ----------------------------- http://members.xoom.com/dsdp/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 19:32:32 +0000 From: rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: dos word processor Hi Jake, Sorry been late gettin back 2u ... Prog will fit on a 1.44 FD, if you need to run from a 2 FDD sys (no HDD) you need to switch FD. I have run from an 8088/640k/a:&b:/no HDD ... works fine. There is a setup prog in the main menu to allow you to put stuff where you want. I don't have orig disks but have run what I got on several puters ... works fine. There are a bunch of fonts you can do without & prob other stuf also ... haven't used it for a lonnnggg time but just checked it out & it still be functionalating :-). Will send where you want, if/when you want. later, rick J ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 22:31:41 -0500 From: Roger Turk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: OT: copying one HDD to another L.D. With FILELINK, there are switches to copy files with system or hidden attributes, copy files in subdirectories, and not to overwrite "newer" files on the destination machine. >From Scott Mueller's "Upgrading and Repairing PCs," the transfer speeds of parallel ports are: Unidirectional (4-bit) 40-60Kb/sec Bidirectional (8-bit) 80-300Kb/sec Enhanced Parallel Port (EPP) 1-2Mb/sec IEEE 1284 (includes ECP) 100Mb/sec "Perhaps one of the most common uses for bidirectional parallel ports is to transfer data between your system and another ... . If both systems use an EPP/ECP port, you can actually communicate at rates of up to 2M/sec, which rivals the speed of some hard disk drives." Roger Turk Tucson, Arizona USA L.D. wrote: >>I'm not certain exactly how fast parallel port is; I do know it is much faster than serial port -- being bi-directional for one reason, and without certain constraints for another. Using serial port to serial port [don't ask me why ... it was one of my "dumb" periods] it took me two days to transfer everything on a 1GB HDD to the other system HDD using PC Hooker -- which doesn't move hidden files so I had to do those "by hand." Why was I doing it? Can you say "windoze" ??<< ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 19:48:37 +0000 From: rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: OT: copying one HDD to another hey Rog, There is "no fool like an old fool" ... hee, hee. I can relate to that. later, rick > to the other system HDD using PC Hooker -- which doesn't move hidden > files so I had to do those "by hand." Why was I doing it? Can you say > "windoze" ??<< ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 23:35:50 From: "Neil Parks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: shell game I have 1.60 beta 1 running on my home computer and one at work. The home computer uses MS-DOS 6.20 and QEMM 7.5 patch 3. The one at work uses MS-DOS 6.20's own memory management. Both are using the same MIME.CFG and the same ARACHNE.CFG. Both have the same new DOSSHELL.BAT in the "system\dgi" subdirectory. Both have the COMSPEC environment variable equal to C:\DOS\COMMAND.COM . In many cases, when Arachne on the home computer (the one with QEMM) shells out to DOS to run an external process, it displays the msg "Bad command or file name", but then it runs the pgm anyway. I noticed it at first when I pressed Alt-E to shell to dos. I thought maybe something DOSSHELL.BAT was looking for was missing, so used "echo on" and "pause" to find out what that might be. Turns out to be nothing. The "bad command or file name" msg actually appears before the first line of DOSSHELL.BAT runs. Then it happened on a page with JPG graphics. The msg appears before Arachne calls the external pgm that prepares those graphics (djpeg.exe?), but then the pgm runs and the graphics are properly displayed. The hot list mgr does it also. This is true whether called from the Utilities page or from the hotlist itself. (One calls "hotlistmgr.dgi" and the other calls "edithotlist.dgi". In mime.cfg they seem to be exactly the same thing.) The "bad command or file name msg" appears, and then the hot list mgr runs normally. This odd behavior did not happen with previous versions of Arachne, and it still does not happen on the computer that uses only HIMEM/EMM386 for memory management. - -- ...This msg brought to you by NEIL PARKS Beachwood, Ohio mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.en.com/users/neparks/ ------------------------------ End of arachne-digest V1 #971 *****************************
