arachne-digest Saturday, February 12 2000 Volume 01 : Number 991 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 16:54:24 -0400 From: "L.D. Best" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: search in text Being able to search for text strings within the page being edited by Arachne is something I've wanted for a long time. It took awhile for me to get used to using only F7 to do it, so at first I thought it was *me* making mistakes. Wasn't me. Using the built-in editor and the F7 search, it is impossible to search for multiple occurences of the text string UNLESS YOU DELETE EACH ONE AS YOU FIND IT. Since I don't want to delete, but simply want to locate/read/check, F7 always takes me to the same place ... even if I have scrolled all the way down to the bottom of the piece being edited and even if I've placed the cursor on the line under the last last line of text ... the search F7 key goes back to the top of the page being edited and finds only the first occurence of the string. You don't believe me, take this message into "reply," get into the text area so it's active, hit F7 and search for the string 'string' [sans apostrophes]. Search for the next occurence. Don't hold your breath. l.d. - -- Arachne V1.60;b1, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 16:22:49 From: "Dale Mentzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Is this a bug ? On 10 Feb 00 at 22:21, Clarence Verge wrote: >>Um, yeah. Another example of not getting quite what you expected. <G> >> >>Hi Dale, Glenn, Richard; >>It seems you guys have better karma. >> >>Just so I can put some finger on it, I'll assume you were all using 800x600 >>and a mouse and maybe you filled in the blanks on the download page ? Two out of three ain't so bad. I did not fill out the form as this is only required for the Arachne distributions, not the APM's or other supplemental files. >>Let's see if I got this part right: >>I initially cleared my cache and went to home.arachne.cz, selected the "go >>to the download page link", filled in the form, scrolled down the page to >>APMs and gently put the mouse thingy on "HOTLSMAN.APM" and pushed the >>button. Any difference so far ? I probably didn't clear the cache nor did I fill out the forms. >>Here is where my past deeds come back to haunt me I guess. <fg> You must have been very bad, Clarence. ;) Regards, Dale Mentzer It is easier to get older than it is to get wiser. 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 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 16:33:50 From: "Dale Mentzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: 1.60 in VGA mode ! On 11 Feb 00 at 4:14, L.D. Best wrote: >>I was curious, so went to see what was in my arachne.pck file. I had a bit >>of trouble, since when viewed as text by Arachne it was one single long >>line; trying to edit with Arachne gave the famous "long line blank screen." >>So I went to my personal editor, and found that the lines were too long for >>it also, and it didn't matter anyway cuz I couldn't find a first string that >>said VGA or VGA.something. The first thing in my arachne.pck file is the name of the driver I use (Trident). I used the viewer in Desktop2 and viewed it in HEX. You might want to try another HEX viewer/editor, L.D. >>If I remember correctly, that file is supposedly created when we set up >>Arachne. Should it have lists of html sites on the web I've visited??? >> >>I'll save what I've got to a backup, in case it changes again, and if >>you want to take a look at it Michael, I'll send it to you. >> >>Someone ... can I just eliminate arachne.pck and start over, or what?? Maybe >>all the apparent trash in there could be causing some of my problems?? Yes, if you delete or rename arachne.pck and start Arachne, it calls the setup and creates another one after you answer the prompts for memory, video, etc. I remember somebody once (might have been Boanne) saying they thought that deleting arachne.pck occasionally helped there installation run better. This was some several versions ago and I think this was when we had the Arachne "sleeping" problems. HTH. Regards, Dale Mentzer 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 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 16:40:19 From: "Dale Mentzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Cache On 11 Feb 00 at 10:04, Ji i Petra wrote: >>Is it possible to disable pages caching in Arachne Browser? I have in our >>Intranet web some dynamic pages and Arachne browser always shows pre-cached >>pages. I don't want to press the 'refresh' button at any time. Could >>somebody help me? Ji, I don't think it would work. I recently had to reinstall Arachne 1.6b1 and I set the cache to a non-existent directory and Arachne refused to load the packet driver. There is a section in one of the Options selections to expire cache pages. I am not sure how they work exactly, but you might want to try one or more of these options and see if they do what you want to do. Regards, Dale Mentzer P.S. Ji, how do you pronounce your name for an english speaking person? >> >>J. Petras >> >> >> >>I pretend to work, they pretend to pay me. 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 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 19:10:47 +0000 From: "Michael L. Dawley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: PPP Up! - --Message-Boundary-21419 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body Jack Cotter, All: Here's the line in my aracdial.bat where I use the epppdd.exe from the dospppd distribution at: http://www.citilink.com/~kae/faq/connecting/dos/ppp.html - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ @lh epppdd base 0x2F8 irq 3 pktvec 0x60 57600 asyncmap 0 crtscts -d > output.txt - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (It's all one line, Pegasus E-Mail probably breaks it up) I have the file output.txt overwritten each time I connect with Netdial 1.3 - Arachne combo, and this reduces the amount of output that scrolls down the screen when epppdd is running. If I want to go look at output.txt, I can, it's in the c:\netdial directory where epppdd is. My aracdial.bat file is attached, and so far, it has worked perfectly with epppdd on this Compaq. Thanks, Michael L. Dawley Pearl, Mississippi Compaq Deskpro 575 - Pegasus Mail for Windows - --Message-Boundary-21419 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Text from file 'aracdial.bat' @echo off rem Batch file name aracdial.bat. rem A version of Bobcat's bcatdial.bat for use with Arachne. rem This copy goes in c:\netdial directory. rem Uses Netdial 1.3 - nd130.zip rem Modified to boot up Arachne after connection made. rem February 11, 2000. rem clear the screen and set screen and text color. cls setscrn rem dial up the ISP :DIAL echo. echo Dialing Intop ISP for Arachne 1.60 echo. echo OFF NETDIAL COMn 2 BASE 0x2F8 IRQ 3 57600 TRIES 4 IF ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO :BUSY IF ERRORLEVEL 200 goto :END goto :PKTDRVR :BUSY cls setscrn echo. echo Unable to reach ISP - will Dial again - Esc to quit. echo. Holdit 3 > nul if errorlevel 2 goto :END cls setscrn goto :DIAL rem starting epppdd and going to arachne :PKTDRVR echo. echo Connecting to Intop Internet Service Provider. echo. echo Arachne 1.60 will start in a moment... echo. @lh epppdd base 0x2F8 irq 3 pktvec 0x60 57600 asyncmap 0 crtscts -d > output.txt call IP-UP.bat rem set GATEWAY=%REMIP% echo my_ip=%MYIP% > path.cfg echo gateway=%remip% >> path.cfg echo netmask=%netmask% >> path.cfg echo nameserver=206.156.254.2 >> path.cfg echo nameserver=206.156.2.0 >> path.cfg echo Ip address set to %MYIP% 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 :END cls setscrn echo. echo Disconnecting from Intop Internet Service Provider. echo. Holdit 4 > nul rem remove packet driver. hang up the phone. return to menu. termin 0x60 netdial COMn 2 BASE 0x2F8 IRQ 3 hangup cls C: cd C:\ menu - --Message-Boundary-21419-- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 22:13:48 -0500 From: "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: http://home.crosswinds.net/members/homepage_util.shtml On Fri, 11 Feb 2000 17:33:06 -0400, L.D. Best wrote: > Well, I tried my darndest. Had to fight screen rewrites cuz Arachne wanted to > fly away ... > But crosswinds.net say Arachne doesn't handle 4.0 > I need, from someone who uses it, a URL for free websites that is 100% Arachne > compatible. > I need to get a website set up ASAP as a clearing place & FAQ site for a large > gathering in July. http://www.angelfire.com/ - -- 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: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 19:30:35 -0500 From: "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Cache On Fri, 11 Feb 2000 10:04:11 +0100, "=?iso-8859-2?B?Smn47SBQZXRy4bk=?=" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it possible to disable pages caching in Arachne Browser? I have in our > Intranet web some dynamic pages and Arachne browser always shows pre-cached > pages. I don't want to press the 'refresh' button at any time. > Could somebody help me? > J. Petras Press "O" , link to "Local settings" scroll toward the bottom of the page and choose your desired "expire" times for those dynamic pages. - -- 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: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 22:19:37 -0500 From: "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: PROBLEM: http://www.weckruf.de On Fri, 11 Feb 2000 00:55:11 -0500 (EST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Howard Eisenberger) wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Menedetter) schreibt: >> If I visit this site, than Arachne crashes immediately. >> (and funny colors appear :) > Same old story. Frames. I have no idea why it happens, I just > turn them off. This is what's causing the "crash" <frameset rows="0,*" I don't know enough about frames to say if this is correct or not. Edit the cached file and change it to <frameset rows="1,1" - -- 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: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 21:30:27 +0000 From: "Michael L. Dawley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: More Details - memc.dgi Hello all, Just a small item in Arachne 1.60b1 Going from Desktop --> Utilities --> Memory Info gives the mem.dgi file, and at the bottom is the "more details" button, for file://memc.dgi When that's pressed, you get memc.dgi and at the bottom of that page is another "more details" button. Pressing that gives you memc.dgi again, and so on... Just a small item that detracts from an otherwise very good Arachne 1.60b1. I find the e-mail works very well, and the only problem is blank web pages such as: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nfront.htm caused by javascript on the page that Arachne needs to ignore. Thanks, Michael L. Dawley Pearl, Mississippi - -- Compudyne 486DX4-100 -- - -- Arachne V1.60;b1, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 21:40:39 +0000 From: "Michael L. Dawley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: More Details - memc.dgi Hello all, <snip> I find the e-mail works very well, and the only problem is blank web pages such as: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nfront.htm caused by javascript on the page that Arachne needs to ignore. - ------ Wooops! That page looks fine tonight in Arachne 1.60b1. Well, yall know what I mean about the javascript and blank pages. Those sites are out there somewhere! I just can't find them tonight to make this post appear reasonable<g>. Thanks, Michael L. Dawley Pearl, Mississippi - -- Compudyne 486DX4-100 -- - -- Arachne V1.60;b1, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 22:40:42 -0500 From: "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: (back on topic) Re: OT Re: what is .pdf Here's my first Beta version of a PDF "plug-in" for Arachne. Simply add this line to mime.cfg file/.pdf |c:\\xpdfdos\\pdftotex.exe $1 $t\pdf.txt \n arachne $t\pdf.txt That's it. We _should_ be able to view PDF files as TXT with Arachne now. On Fri, 11 Feb 2000 09:52:18 -000, Mike Millen wrote: > CV>Glenn McCorkle wrote: > CV>> > CV>> ftp://ftp.foolabs.com:21/pub/xpdf/xpdf-0.90-dos.zip > CV>> might work as a PDF veiwer "plug-in" for Arachne. > CV>Hi Glenn, Mike; > CV>If I may comment here, I have downloaded the above and it is my > CV>opinion that by itself, it performs NO useful functions in DOS. > YMMV. :) > I find PDFTOTEX invaluable. With List it allows me to read pdf > documents very quickly in DOS without having to load windoze and > start Acrobat. > PDFIMAGE extracts the images from pdf files if required. > PDFTOPS would print them if only I had a PS printer. > (As an aside... does anyone know of a DOS ps-to-pcl (laser) convertor prog?) > CV>Aside from the annoying 12+ character directory name the author wants, > CV>it has been written for "X" windows and requires a LOT of support > What 12+ char. dirname? My files live in \xpdf. > All 4 utilities (pdftotex, pdfimage, pdftops & pdfinfo) run perfectly > on my msdos 6.22 486 box. > CV>Even when trying the seemingly simple pdf to text converter > CV>it wanted me to download a DPMI. > Run the standard version, not the 386+ version. > It might not be useful as an Arachne plug-in but as a utility I > think it's invaluable. > Mike > -- - -- 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: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 18:12:23 -0400 From: "L.D. Best" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Virus Alert! Rebel, Do you really think I am *that* dumb? BIOS updates are rare things, not common things. To find a BIOS update available more than 6 months after the motherboard was released is unusual. If the motherboard has been replaced by the mfr by a new, improved, bigger better model, there will be NO further updates of any kind for the old motherboard. Besides, I don't believe the virus crap sits in the BIOS per se; it is most likely in the chip set. Chip sets are *not* updated by original mfr or by motherboard mfr. The virus stuff you can use CMOS setup to activate can't be much more than a simplistic set of flags that will set of a warning under certain circumstances. Simple programs can raise hell with complex new software; I can imagine what fun it could be to have that CMOS virus program activated while attempting to install BootMagic or System Commander. I'll be your worst nightmare would be pleasant in comparison. l.d. === On Fri, 11 Feb 2000 11:55:28 +0100, "Rebel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: "L.D. Best" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To answer your question, gregy .. >> NO! I would never rely on something which can't be updated, .... > Try a bios update. > Rebel > Programozasi segedletek, hardware-software ismertetok: > http://thot.banki.hu/doksi >> On Thu, 10 Feb 2000 02:55:39 -0800, Gregory J. Feig wrote: >> > .......but....of course, we all have our CMOS virus detector functions >> > enabled, don't we...????? >> > ........gregy - -- Arachne V1.60;b1, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 23:21:01 -0600 From: "Jack Cotter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: PPP Up! Michael Dawley, This is a continuation - ran out of gas last night! I don't think the use of EPPPDD is a solution to the problem . I suspect that there is a timing problem using EPPPD on these machines. Maybe the "DD" version will serve as a work around until a real solution can be found. I ran it with the normal Arachne setup last evening and the packet driver stayed resident for the first time on that machine using Arachne. However the redirected output to ppp.log caused Arachne to kack, but the driver was resident. I'm in a catch 22 right now with Arachne. The packet driver WILL NOT stay resident using EPPPD so I can't see what's wrong. It WILL stay resident with the diagnostic version, but then there is nothing wrong! Probably have to do a quick learn on DOS standard error. - ----- Original Message ----- From: Jack Cotter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2000 12:25 AM Subject: Re: PPP Up! > Michael Dawley, > > Just add a -d as the last entry on the line where you call the > daemon. I redirected the output so that I could see what is going on. > > Jack > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Michael L. Dawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2000 1:04 PM > Subject: Re: PPP Up! > > > > Jack Cotter, > > How do you turn on the debug feature in epppdd.exe? > > Not that I need it, because it's working perfectly. > > Also, I have loaded epppdd high, and notice that it is > > 74K. I have plenty of room there, since I have no > > CDROM drivers, etc. on this Compaq, and have 35K left > > over when connected with epppdd. My conventional free > > memory for arachne is 615K which is the same as before, > > and not changed. > > Thanks, > > Michael L. Dawley > > Pearl, Mississippi > > -- Compaq Deskpro 575 -- > > -- Using Netdial 1.3 with Arachne 1.60 -- > > -- Arachne V1.60;b1, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 08:34:49 +0100 (MET) From: Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Why are there tmp files in my main Arachne directory? L.D wrote: >OK, it's the place they are always stored. I want to know *why* any >temporary file is ever stored in the main directory if a site other than >said directory has been designated for temporary files. textarea.tmp for instance need to be there since if Arachne crashes (and you have the temp directory cleared when booting or on a RAMDrive) you would loose the things you have written. I can only assume that's the same with the other files. >A log is a different matter; logs are for debugging, and need to be >permanent so you *can* see what happened when. I should probably remove the creation of apm.log since the installation of APMs can't go wrong anymore. (Ok, one thing can go wrong (running out of space) but I'll get around to that before I remove the log). >The Klu Klux Klan always wears robes; that doesn't make it appropriate >behavior ... at least not around me! It certainly isn't here either. Except at the 13th december when several women/girls and boys (and a few men) celebrate "Lucia". I take it it's a rather strange celebration (for you others) since some Nobel prize winners have been terrified that it's the KKK that has come to get them. //Bernie http://bernie.arachne.cz/ DOS programs, Star Wars ... ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 08:52:34 +0100 (MET) From: Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: (back on topic) Re: OT Re: what is .pdf Glenn wrote: > Here's my first Beta version of a PDF "plug-in" for Arachne. > >Simply add this line to mime.cfg > >file/.pdf |c:\\xpdfdos\\pdftotex.exe $1 $t\pdf.txt \n arachne $t\pdf.txt > > That's it. >We _should_ be able to view PDF files as TXT with Arachne now. First of all the "$t\" should be "$t" - otherwise it will not work with older DOS versions. (BTW: I just noticed that Lineo has several old kernels for download at http://www.lineo.com/support/archive/drdos/drdos.html) Ok, I haven't tried this (espacilly since I haven't installed the program yet) but something like this would perhaps be better since it doesn't make Arachne start Arachne. file/.pdf TXT|@c:\\xpdfdos\\pdftotex.exe $1 $2 And if this (or any other idea - including Glenns <g>) works perhaps it can be a part in upcomming Arachne versions? (the program is under the GPL so it's doable). http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/ in case anyone missed it. //Bernie http://bernie.arachne.cz/ DOS programs, Star Wars ... ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 08:58:31 +0100 (MET) From: Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Cache J. Petras wrote: >Is it possible to disable pages caching in Arachne Browser? I have in our >Intranet web some dynamic pages and Arachne browser always shows pre-cached >pages. I don't want to press the 'refresh' button at any time. >Could somebody help me? If you can change these pages yourself (or rather the script that makes them) you can add this little line to them: <ARACHNE NOCACHE> BTW: Did other people get something about a confirmation when they read (actually closed) the original message. I'm using Eudora and wondering if other mailers have this troublesome "feature" as well. (The two times I've got them the mail has originated from M$ Outlook). //Bernie http://bernie.arachne.cz/ DOS programs, Star Wars ... ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 08:38:12 -000 From: Mike Millen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: (back on topic) Re: OT Re: what is .pdf Hi Glenn, Here's my first Beta version of a PDF "plug-in" for Arachne. GM>Simply add this line to mime.cfg GM>file/.pdf |c:\\xpdfdos\\pdftotex.exe $1 $t\pdf.txt \n arachne $t\pdf GM>.txt Excellent! Thanks, Glenn... it works a treat! Mike - -- ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 08:38:08 -000 From: Mike Millen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: OT Re: what is .pdf CV>MM> What 12+ char. dirname? My files live in \xpdf. CV>Pkunzip complained that it couldn't create the directory XPDF-0.90-DOS Ah... you used -d maybe? CV>> CV>Even when trying the seemingly simple pdf to text converter CV>> CV>it wanted me to download a DPMI. CV>> CV>MM> Run the standard version, not the 386+ version. CV>I tried to run the version the above linked to. :-(( I don't know where Glenn got that from. CV>I will go to foolabs.com and see if I can find another version. It's easy to find... goto Downloads. CV> It must exist if it works for you. <G> It sounds great ! :) It works beautifully here. Mike - -- ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 09:42:54 +0000 From: Charles Boisvert and Catherine Clinton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: mail confirmation >BTW: Did other people get something about a confirmation when they read >(actually closed) the original message. I'm using Eudora and wondering if >other mailers have this troublesome "feature" as well. (The two times I've >got them the mail has originated from M$ Outlook). >//Bernie >http://bernie.arachne.cz/ DOS programs, Star Wars ... > I found the same thing (in Eudora too). A confirmation system has existed for a long time and it is compatible between mail systems (otherwise Eudora wouldn't have complied to a request for a receipt from outlook). You can request for confirmations that the mail has arrived, that it's been read, or deleted. Eudora's help index shows me that you can change some settings to require receipts when you send mail, and what to do when you have a receipt request. You have to change Eudora's .ini file to find those settings, so few people care. The only difference about MS outlook is that you can set this receipt behaviour in the preferences, so anybody can do it. Maybe it requests for read confirmation by default (stupid - but then, Outlook opens attachments by default). The receipt system is a useful feature when used wisely :-) It used to be VERY useful when mail systems were dubious, and you had to check your mail would arrive at its destination by using traceroute and ping and so on. I use receipts at work, where MS Exchange is the standard :-( and I have to chase reluctant students by e-mail - I can wave the receipt in front of their nose and ask them what they are doing about it. Charles ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 06:29:41 -0500 (EST) From: "Thomas Mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Virus Alert! >Instead I make a point of checking every executable file before I run >it, even when it comes from trusted former sysop friends. I received a message, apparently from [EMAIL PROTECTED], dated Feb 7, 2000, routed through Mexico, bilingual Spanish/English, with a base64 attachment Fix2001.exe, supposed to fix a Win 95/98 Y2K problem, either with the OS or the Internet software, I couldn't tell which. It was supposed to be run before year 2000, but then why was it not sent until Feb 7, 2000, and why was it Fix2001.exe and not Fix2000.exe? I queried, got "User unknown" for [EMAIL PROTECTED], which really made it look suspicious. So I queried techsupport, that went through, and I got the response that it was not from Bluegrass Net, that I should not install Fix2001.exe. Who knows, maybe a prank to format my hard drive: shows where automatically executing an email attachment can be hazardous, even from what pretends to be a trusted source. Somebody could fake the identity of your trusted former sysop friends! Support the International Alliance for Compatible Technology http://pages.cthome.net/iact/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 06:29:42 -0500 (EST) From: "Thomas Mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Cache I too have the problem of old versions of Web pages coming up, especially weather reports linked from http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/iwin/textversion/main.html To avoid having to press the R(efresh) key every time, only way I have seen so far is F8 to kill the cache, which I sooner or later have to do anyway when I get a huge pile of garbage in CACHE directory. But I would like to be able to Get New, which would download from the http or ftp server, ignoring the cache. Arachne is not smart enough to know weather reports become outdated several times a day. DOS Lynx386 does not have a CACHE directory comparable to Arachne, but writes TCP/IP debug info to a file which can become huge, unless I direct to NUL. Support the International Alliance for Compatible Technology http://pages.cthome.net/iact/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 06:29:43 -0500 (EST) From: "Thomas Mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: 1.60 in VGA mode ! Bernie, Do DOS graphic programs get no better than VGA 640 * 480 * 16 colors in NT 4 VDM? OS/2 Warp 4 VDM allows Arachne to run 800 * 600 * 65536 colors just as in straight DOS. Does anybody know what will happen in Win 2000 regarding running Arachne in VDM? Or is MS trying to squeeze out legacy OSes, figuring anybody with any sanity runs the latest MSIE? Support the International Alliance for Compatible Technology http://pages.cthome.net/iact/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 08:15:50 -0500 From: Mark David Roth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Virus Alert! - -l.d. replied: - -To answer your question, gregy .. - -NO! I would never rely on something which can't be updated, and can't - -know all the perfectly good but not "usual" software that is out there - -and which I may want to use. - -Instead I make a point of checking every executable file before I run - -it, even when it comes from trusted former sysop friends. > On Thu, 10 Feb 2000 02:55:39 -0800, Gregory J. Feig wrote: > .......but....of course, we all have our CMOS virus detector functions > enabled, don't we...????? > ........gregy What programs are available to check and clean viruses from CMOS? ------------------------------ End of arachne-digest V1 #991 *****************************
