arachne-digest Monday, February 7 2000 Volume 01 : Number 983 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2000 19:24:23 +0300 (MSK) From: Sergei Kramar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: whatis .pdf On Sat, 5 Feb 2000, Van Voordturen wrote: > Hello all, > > Last week I finally found a 57k6 modem for my 486. Little problem: I don't > have a cd-rom. Of course other software works nicely with my choice of > modem (that's why it took so long), but in order to use it's additional > features like voice answering, I downloaded the manual from the > manufacturer. That's the .pdf file I'd like to open. So far I tried winzip, > arachne, midnight commander and netscape for linux on it, but apart from > calling it a "portable data file", all failed. > > Does anyone know how to handle such files? (coming from > http://www.dynalink.com) > If it requires special software, would U be willing to open them for me, > and send them back zipped? (460kB and 530kB .pdf) > > Thanks in advance, > Bart > > Hello Bart, all you need is Adobe Acrobat Reader program. You can free download it from http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html Good luck. Sergei. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2000 14:26:30 -0800 From: Clarence Verge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Cannot make $IDX$cnm.idx Ben Hood wrote: > > On Saturday, Clarence Verge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > > ] Initially, with everything possible loaded high (without the help of QEMM) > ] I could only get 630,528 bytes free which was apparantly not enough for > ] Arachne 1.60b1 because inbox.dgi would give me the "cannot make $IDX$cnm.idx" > ] message. My altM popup said I had 127 [+] DOS kb. > > I have 626,624 bytes free and I can always view mail. But then I > don't use insight to handle all my mail at once - usually only a > couple at a time; but once I did press "I" when I'd downloaded about > 40 messages, no problems. And I still do things like > file:///c:/inet/mail/araclist/*.mes and have like 300+ messages there. > > ] For those of you with a similar problem, I got more free memory by setting my > ] stacks to 0,0 in config.sys. This gave me 633,552 bytes free and Arachne then > ] was able to run Insight and make the index. I now have 130 [+] DOS kb. > > > I have 124[+] free. > > I am running MS-DOS 6.22... There would probably be benefits using > DR-DOS (which I use in other computers I own) but "If it ain't broke, > why fix it?" > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Modules using memory below 1 MB: > > Name Total = Conventional + Upper Memory > -------- ---------------- ---------------- ---------------- > MSDOS 18,877 (18K) 18,877 (18K) 0 (0K) > HIMEM 1,168 (1K) 1,168 (1K) 0 (0K) > EMM386 4,144 (4K) 4,144 (4K) 0 (0K) > COMMAND 4,272 (4K) 4,272 (4K) 0 (0K) > CTMOUSE 6,464 (6K) 0 (0K) 6,464 (6K) > ANSI 4,208 (4K) 0 (0K) 4,208 (4K) > POWER 4,640 (5K) 0 (0K) 4,640 (5K) > IFSHLP 3,936 (4K) 0 (0K) 3,936 (4K) > SMARTDRV 26,720 (26K) 0 (0K) 26,720 (26K) > SHARE 16,944 (17K) 0 (0K) 16,944 (17K) > DOSKEY 4,144 (4K) 0 (0K) 4,144 (4K) > EPPPD 70,160 (69K) 0 (0K) 70,160 (69K) > Free 680,736 (665K) 626,624 (612K) 54,112 (53K) Hi Hoody; I don't understand how you can read mail with Arachne 1.60b1 having 124 kb [+] and I needed 130 kb [+] to do the same thing - at least the FIRST time. It wasn't a lot of mail. But, I just tested again (set back to 127 kb) and had NO problem with 9 messages - surely about the same I had before. I even deleted *.idx in temp and it STILL worked ! I guess what I really mean is I don't understand why it works sometimes and not other times. I'm sure more low memory is good for Arachne so here is what I get with DOS 6.20 and stacks set to 0,0 and fcbs at 4,0: Modules using memory below 1 MB: Name Total = Conventional + Upper Memory -------- ---------------- ---------------- ---------------- MSDOS 13,773 (13K) 13,773 (13K) 0 (0K) HIMEM 1,168 (1K) 1,168 (1K) 0 (0K) EMM386 3,120 (3K) 3,120 (3K) 0 (0K) COMMAND 3,664 (4K) 3,664 (4K) 0 (0K) KEYFAKE 768 (1K) 0 (0K) 768 (1K) QUICKEYS 576 (1K) 0 (0K) 576 (1K) SKN 103,888 (101K) 0 (0K) 103,888 (101K) CED 22,080 (22K) 0 (0K) 22,080 (22K) RAMDRIVE 1,200 (1K) 0 (0K) 1,200 (1K) NANSI 3,280 (3K) 0 (0K) 3,280 (3K) SMARTDRV 29,024 (28K) 0 (0K) 29,024 (28K) Free 664,000 (648K) 633,504 (619K) 30,496 (30K) I can see that you would benefit from using Nansi instead of Ansi in 2 ways. It is obviously smaller and it has no limit on the size of any re-mapping. I wonder why your smartdrive is smaller than mine ? (Doesn't effect low mem) I normally use CHKDSK to give me a free memory report because MEM is not available in DOS 3.3. It gives a slightly different number for free memory: Volume MS-DOS_6 created 1998/09/13 14:15 104,843,264 bytes total disk space 79,872 bytes in 2 hidden files 112,640 bytes in 48 directories 23,543,808 bytes in 1,203 user files 81,106,944 bytes available on disk 2,048 bytes in each allocation unit 51,193 total allocation units on disk 39,603 available allocation units on disk 655,360 total bytes memory 633,552 bytes free - - Clarence Verge - -- - - Help stamp out FATWARE. As a start visit: http://home.arachne.cz/ - -- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2000 15:28:09 -0600 From: John McKloskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Connection script Hi folks, I successfully connected with my own ISP(wi.net), but ran into a problem with the ISP (newnorth.net) that covers my folks, who will be the ultimate users of the 386. This is 1.50 src. Appreciate any help, Arachnites. John In terminal mode, I enter username and password. ISP replies: mino-cas1. ISP informed me to enter "PPP default" in reply. I then get the message; "Entering PPP mode; Asynchronous interface address is unnumbered (Ethernet 0); Your IP address is 209.83.40.88;MTU is 1500 bytes;header compression will match your system"; followed by gibberish as described by the ISP; gibberish continues for approx. 4 lines; then "NO CARRIER". First message exchange follows: Hi, I am using the procedure you outlined below. Everything progresses well until the point where I'm to press the "Continue" button (Iexplore feature?) . The answer may lie in finding out exactly what pushing "Continue" does. I've tried the following 2 options: 1) Wait til the gibberish stops by itself. Results in "no carrier" after about 4 lines of gibberish. 2) Press my F7 button after one line of gibberish. The F7 button button is the one which starts PPP. This results in immediate disconnect. It flashes by so fast, but while disconnecting , some messages occur; I believe they deal with "no packet driver" and/or a problem with com2. Newnorth.net replied: What kind of dialer are you using? Is this one that came with Netscape or Internet Explorer? I can send you our CD if you'd like to install our IE v.3.02. It comes with a dialer we've had a lot of success with. ...What happens when you hit Enter after one line of gibberish runs across the screen? System Administrator wrote: > >1) Dialer included with Arachne is: "Miniterm 1.40; external dialer for > >PPP/SLIP > >drivers." > >2) The CD idea is intriguing, but I think the software(along with Windows) > >might > >be too > >bloated and slow. Arachne appears to be much faster because it doesn't > >have to > >grind away thru Windows. Will still keep this in mind... > >3) Pressing (enter) after one line of jibberish results in several additional > >lines of jibberish > >followed by (no carrier). > >Thanks > >John > > > > I'm not familiar with the dialer you're using. You may want to contact the > developers of that dialer to ask how to connect with a connect script. > Unfortunately, no one here has any experience with that dialer. > > System Administrator > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > New North Network > Tech Support 1-800-411-3586 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2000 17:16:42 -0800 From: Clarence Verge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Connection script John McKloskey wrote: > > Hi folks, > I successfully connected with my own ISP(wi.net), but ran into a problem with the > ISP (newnorth.net) that covers my folks, who will be the ultimate users of the > 386. This is 1.50 src. Appreciate any help, Arachnites. John > > (I) Press my F7 button after one line of gibberish. The F7 button button is the one > which starts PPP. This results in immediate disconnect. It flashes by so fast, > but while disconnecting , some messages occur; I believe they deal with "no packet > driver" and/or a problem with com2. Hi John; Very likely it is the famous comport problem wherein EPPPD (the PPP program) can't find a port that Miniterm (the Dialler) was just using. Although this problem is usually blamed on the computer bios, it is really a problem with EPPPD because Miniterm works just fine. There are 2 possible fixes: 1) In your Arachne.cfg file specify the actual base # instead of "default". e.g. look for: Port 4 Irq 3 Base 0x2e8 <----instead of Default for Port 4 For Port 3 use 0x3e8 and for Port 2 use 0x2f8. I think a lot of trouble could be skipped if the value "Default" never existed. 2) If the above doesn't do the job, you may have to run a program called "Comports" found at simtelnet in a file called 4ports4u.zip. This program fills holes in the bios list of available ports. Run it every time before Arachne. - - Clarence Verge - -- - - Help stamp out FATWARE. As a start visit: http://home.arachne.cz/ - -- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2000 17:38:41 -0500 From: "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Connection script On Sun, 06 Feb 2000 17:16:42 -0800, Clarence Verge wrote: > 1) In your Arachne.cfg file specify the actual base # instead of "default". > e.g. look for: > Port 4 > Irq 3 > Base 0x2e8 <----instead of Default for Port 4 > For Port 3 use 0x3e8 and for Port 2 use 0x2f8. > I think a lot of trouble could be skipped if the value "Default" never existed. > 2) If the above doesn't do the job, you may have to run a program called > "Comports" found at simtelnet in a file called 4ports4u.zip. > This program fills holes in the bios list of available ports. Run it every > time before Arachne. Nope, not at simtelnet. Try this link.... http://www.zoomtel.com/techsprt/jumpers/4ports4u.zip <1,052 bytes> - -- Glenn McCorkle [EMAIL PROTECTED] North Jackson, Ohio, USA DOS prog. for QV cameras http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/qvplay.html Other stuff http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ Arachne, The Web Browser for DOS Open the 'DOOR' to the WWW. Keep the 'windows' closed. http://arachne.browser.org/ http://arachne.cz/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2000 17:08:51 -0500 From: "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: OT Re: "My Computer" bug On Sun, 6 Feb 2000 04:35:38 -0500 (EST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I remember seeing some enquires some time back about the my computer > button freezing up systems. > I didn,t have this problem on my 486 running dos 5 but upgrading to a 6x86 and > running windows 95 no gui and non standard config. > The problem has surfaced I am assuming its got something to do with 95. > My question is did anbody find cure for this problem. If so could you > please post the cure again please. > "My Computer" button belongs to Windows, not DOS, so the 486 running DOS 5 would > be unaffected. I thought "My Computer" button only existed in the GUI, and > would not affect a computer running windows 95 or 98 without GUI. How is it posible to run a GUI "without GUI" ???<g> After-all, W95 and W98 _are_ Graphical User Interfaces. - -- Glenn McCorkle [EMAIL PROTECTED] North Jackson, Ohio, USA DOS prog. for QV cameras http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/qvplay.html Other stuff http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ Arachne, The Web Browser for DOS Open the 'DOOR' to the WWW. Keep the 'windows' closed. http://arachne.browser.org/ http://arachne.cz/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2000 17:18:48 -0500 From: "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: whatis .pdf On Sat, 05 Feb 2000 16:59:31, Van Voordturen wrote: > Hello all, > Last week I finally found a 57k6 modem for my 486. Little problem: I don't > have a cd-rom. Of course other software works nicely with my choice of > modem (that's why it took so long), but in order to use it's additional > features like voice answering, I downloaded the manual from the > manufacturer. That's the .pdf file I'd like to open. So far I tried winzip, > arachne, midnight commander and netscape for linux on it, but apart from > calling it a "portable data file", all failed. > Does anyone know how to handle such files? (coming from > http://www.dynalink.com) > If it requires special software, would U be willing to open them for me, > and send them back zipped? (460kB and 530kB .pdf) > Thanks in advance, > Bart Send that .PDF file as an eMail attachment to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If that one "goes down", try this one... [EMAIL PROTECTED] You will receive a plain text file via return eMail. - -- Glenn McCorkle [EMAIL PROTECTED] North Jackson, Ohio, USA DOS prog. for QV cameras http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/qvplay.html Other stuff http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ Arachne, The Web Browser for DOS Open the 'DOOR' to the WWW. Keep the 'windows' closed. http://arachne.browser.org/ http://arachne.cz/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2000 18:10:50 -0600 From: "Jack Cotter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: PPP link is down This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - ------=_NextPart_000_0042_01BF70CD.80CD2D80 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Michael, No breakthroughs yet! Attached is the memory setup on the machine at this moment. I've disabled the mouse and smartdrv for maximum memory. Also attached is a screenshot of a typical transaction. I have a PAUSE in after %MYIP% echo line to see if an IP address is shown. I'm using your aracdial.bat from 2-6-00. Jack - ----- Original Message ----- From: Michael L. Dawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2000 12:26 AM Subject: Re: PPP link is down > > >From: "Jack Cotter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >Hi, > >This is an update to the situation. > > > >Last week I was using Arachne ver 1.5 since then I have updated to ver > >1.6. > > > >Michael I have used your Netdial/Arachne1.6 combo.(aka The Big Hammer). > >It works fine on the machines that work. No good on the Compaq 590! The > >dial-up and connect to my ISP works fine. I get the PPP session start > >from the ISP. I get to the PAKTDRVR routine(i.e. ... Going to Arachne > >1.6) and nothing happens. The path.cfg shows no results for my-ip, > >gateway, or netmask (the nameservers echo works). > > > >I switched to the diagnostic version of epppd (epppdd). I get no errors > >from either version. If I redirect the output to a file the file is > >written, but nothing is in it. > > > >I tried loading epppd in low memory (I'm only using 23k on the 590 > >installation). No good. > > > >I think this is the same problem as when using the Arachne dial-up. > >Looks like epppd will just not work on this machine! > > > >Jack Cotter > Jack, > Post your mem.txt file to the list. I wonder if you have enough > conventional memory to run arachne and also the 70K epppd.exe > To do that, at the DOS prompt type mem/c > mem.txt > Also, you can step through the entire batch file one line at a time > with this: > -------------------------- > COMMAND /Y /C web.bat > -------------------------- > That uses the web.bat file in my Netdial-Arachne combo > given again here: > ------------------------- > @Echo Off > C: > cd C:\netdial > aracdial.bat %1 %2 %3 %4 > ------------------------- > Stepping though slowly might make it work, or at least let you > see what's going on in a different light... > ---------------------------------------------- > Back to the mem.txt file: > I have one machine that has a CDROM drive, and the two drivers > for that I placed in upper memory. Together they were 46K, so that > crowded out my epppd that I had placed in upper memory with "LH". > So, I had to put epppd in conventional memory, but there was only > 28K used for MSDOS, SETVER, HIMEM, EMM386 and COMMAND, leaving 613K > for Arachne, and epppd. With epppd, then, about 70K more is used, > leaving 543K for Arachne. That's enough. Not having to use > Netdial-Arachne on that machine. > Even though the numbers add up to _enough_ for Arachne and epppd, > I sometimes have to use the Netdial-Arachne combo on other machines, > and after exaustive tests (me, not the machine) on my Compaq, I still > find _some_ failures at the point in the aracdial.bat script where > epppd is supposed to work. > I've rewritten aracdial.bat once more, to try and jump over the > epppd hurdle, and get Arachne running. Here's the critical part: > ------------------------------ > Holdit 4 > nul > if errorlevel 0 goto :ARACHNE > if errorlevel 200 goto :END > > rem packet driver loaded, so ready to start Arachne > > :ARACHNE > @Echo Off > C: > cd C:\ARACHNE > arachne.bat %1 %2 %3 %4 > -------------------------------- > The _latest_ aracdial.bat is attached. > ------------------------------------- > The Compaq 590 has been a problem, others with 590's have tried the > Netdial-Arachne combo and given up. I'd like to get ahold of > a 590 and battle it out myself. There may be too many drivers in > conventional memory for Arachne and epppd to work on those machines, > that's why I have requested the mem.txt file be posted to the list. > Also, I need some input on the aracdial.bat file from those on the list > that are experienced in writing .bat files. > Although I have some epppd failures on my Compaq 575, the Netdial- > Arachne combo usually works, and enough so I consider it about 80% > reliable. > Hope this helps, > Michael L. 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Users of the publishing tools have, I believe, the option of publishing in HTML format, but few bother to do so. The reader is Adobe Acrobat, available from adobe.com -- there are still versions for Win3.1x and DOS, though the latter is considered not worth bothering with. Windows versions are probably 5MB at least. On the mailing list a month or so ago there was the tip of mailing the URL of the PDF in the message body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've tried this with a small document, and would be interested to hear how you get on with much bigger ones. You'll just get the bare bones text of the document. I've not tried it with a PDF with graphics. Jake ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2000 18:44:25 -0800 From: "Gregory J. Feig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Linux arachne - opinion On Sun, 06 Feb 2000 09:38:40 +0200, Or Botton wrote: > I know that we all (well, most of us) want to see a Linux version of > Arachne, in this way or another, but personally I think that it > should wait until the DOS version is more stable, and with less > problems: the reason being that the Linux version will be based > on the DOS version, and because, as Michael have stated, both will > be in almost the same development level (except for several improvments > that i'm sure he will put in that are possible in Linux enviroments > and not in DOS, and several changes that will probebly have to be done > in order to allow it to run on native Linux enviroment efficently.) > Thats what I think. How about everyone else? Or ........I have said this same thing before, and I would say it again.....except YOU have stated things ssoooooo clearly...right on...!! .........gregy - -- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2000 16:13:14 -0400 From: "L.D. Best" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Those missing graphics ... The red boxes are back -- Not on the page I downloaded [except for one ad I didn't bother to try to load], but on the page I attached to e-mail to forward it. Mind you, *one* of the graphics did get picked up and put into the page ... but the majority of them didn't, including numerous small "buttons" and "titles" So What GIVES? It worked so nicely for me a couple of times. Does it have to do with my "Dos memory (KB)" being black at the time? I haven't had "black" memory since version 1.4something ... And never before had black memory with question marks. I think someone found something about xSwap that needed to be changed to get rid of the black with question marks ... anyone remember what that was? l.d. - -- Arachne V1.60;b1, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2000 15:58:57 -0400 From: "L.D. Best" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Flag hooked to TEMP?? [was Re: V1.6 - Changing mail buttons.... I know I'm way behind in the mail, but Ron asked a very good question: On Tue, 01 Feb 2000 08:09:49 +0000, "Edenyard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Question is: why should the lack of SET TEMP= cause the mail > programme to offer a new set of buttons? I think I have a part of the answer now, even though I was totally lost when someone else reported that they had lost the regular mail buttons on one of their installations. Apparently InSight has a decision tree in it that looks for certain things at certain levels when it comes to handling attachments to mail in the inbox. It's the attachments which always have the fewer buttons and the "back to original message" choice. And attachments are always split off the original and processed separately in the TEMP directory. So, somehow or other, when the TEMP directory isn't available the message itself [rather than an attachment] is at the bottom of "the totem pole" and thus it is treated as if it were, instead of main message, an attachment. How could that be? Don't ask me! I just calls them like I sees them and I don't have the source code even if I felt competent to dig through it. l.d. - -- Arachne V1.60;b1, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2000 08:51:03 +0000 From: "Edenyard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: V1.6 - a SOLUTION!!! On Sat, 5 Feb 2000 15:22:40 +0100, Clarence Verge wrote: > Finally, someone else has seen the problem I had with mail ! > That's the screen I got when I selected mail from the Inbox - > BUT I had SET TEMP=C:\ARACHNE\TEMP. > I can't recall if I ever tried it with a trailing "\" and I can't test it > anymore because, since downloading new mail, I now get the "Cannot create > ARACHNE\TEMP\$IDX$cnm.IDX" message with 127 [+] kb available offline. > I tried removing the [130] for inbox.dgi but that didn't help. > I felt sure that I'd seen that message before, so I've just been away to try a few things. Bingo! But I'd better explain the set-up first: I have a RAM disk as H: and AUTOEXEC makedirs H:\TEMP and also does SET TEMP=H:\TEMP. Offline I get 113 [+] kB and mail's fine. Noe the interesting bit. I just went and did this: Came out of Arachne to DOS. DELETED the TEMP directory from H:\ (it had $IDX$CNM.IDX etc.) Ran Arachne again. Selected INBOX by pressing I. *** Got "Cannot create H:\TEMP\$IDX$cnm.IDX" on grey background. So then I did this: Came out of Arachne to DOS. Switched to H: and MD TEMP to put it back. Ran Arachne again. Selected I. *** STILL GOT ERROR MESSAGE. Rebooted and repeated previous 5 steps. *** STILL GOT ERROR MESSAGE. SO: When I got the error message, pressed DEL to remove it from CACHE. NOW: Press I and BINGO!!! There's the message index, just like before. Diagnosis: Arachne erroneously remembers an error message from cache, even when the error condition has gone away. Hope it works for you, Clarence. All the best, Ron. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2000 20:43:24 +0000 From: "Vicki & Wayne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: OT Re: "My Computer" bug > How is it posible to run a GUI "without GUI" ???<g> > After-all, W95 and W98 _are_ Graphical User Interfaces. I don't no about 98 but in 95 you run without gui by editing this line in ms-dos.sys in your root directory. Bootgui=1 to Bootgui=0 and add this line. Logo=0 First you have to remove the hidden, system and readonly attributes from ms-dos.sys. attrib c:\ms-dos.sys -r -s -h should do it. Make the changes and then change the attributes back.( +r +s +h). Modify config.sys and autoexec.bat to suite your own setup. re: Your Computer Button (sorry my mistake) Where exactly do I find "file:@:*.*" And what exactly do I do with it when I find it. Only file I could find with that statement was 487????.htm in arachne directory. This file works when run manually. Wayne - -- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client - -- Arachne V1.60;b1, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/ ------------------------------ End of arachne-digest V1 #983 *****************************
