arachne-digest Sunday, February 13 2000 Volume 01 : Number 992 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 08:15:39 -0500 From: Mark David Roth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: My inbox is fixed - -l.d. replied: - -Mark, - -Sounds like [I know, too simple] somewhere in the mailbox InSight - -whatever sequence, C: [default] didn't get replaced by F: - -Try doing a text search on the cfg [mime & arachne] files on the F: - -drive for "C:" ... see if one of them got past you when you installed to - -F: - -Who knows, it might work even ... :> > On Wed, 9 Feb 2000 09:39:43 -0500, Mark David Roth wrote: > My inbox has been showing just a blank screen for quite some time. > Because I don'ttrust my hard drives right now, I thought I'd ZIP up a > trimmed down copy of Arachne that could be installed to a ramdrive from a > floppy. To trim it down I xcopied it from drive F: to C: to work on it. > For some reason my inbox started working OK. I'm now using the trimmed down > copy on C: drive. I tried to make an exact copy of it back on F: drive > doing a Search and Replace of every reference inevery files from C: to F:. > It still wouldn't work. Figure that one out. I copied everything to F: drive again and used SREP, Search and Replace, utility on all but the binary files in F:ARACHNE and all the subdirectories. It worked this time and the inbox still works too. If anybody wants a copy of SREP let me know and I'll ZIP it to you. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 13:42:38 -000 From: Mike Millen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: (back on topic) Re: OT Re: what is .pdf Hi Bernie, B>Ok, I haven't tried this (espacilly since I haven't installed the B>program yet) but something like this would perhaps be better since B>it doesn't make Arachne start Arachne. B>file/.pdf TXT|@c:\\xpdfdos\\pdftotex.exe $1 $2 That works perfectly, too (as does Glenn's version). Mike - -- ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 17:22:17 +0100 (CET) From: Michael Polak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Urgent: Arachne Browser On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Brian Murphy wrote: > now obsolete and not updated MINUET browser, the Compuserve SYSOPS are > afraid they would be violating the Arachne copyright by making up a > ready to run copy for downloading. They don't have to modify entire package. They can just rename working ARACHNE.CFG to COMPUSRV.ACF and offer ACF file for download. Arachne users can easily reconfigure Arachne by opening ACF file in Arachne. - -- http://home.arachne.cz/ (homepage of Arachne, www browser for DOS & Linux) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 18:33:33 +0100 From: "Bernie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: 1.60 in VGA mode ! Thomas wrote: > Do DOS graphic programs get no better than VGA 640 * 480 * 16 colors in NT 4 > VDM? I have never gotten better in anything, atleast not what I can remember. 320*200*16 is also possible (I think this is what Sensible World Of Soccer uses) but that's less so there's nothing strange with that. > Does anybody know what will happen in Win 2000 regarding running > Arachne in VDM? Sorry I have no idea. Besides how many "2000" versions are there? 3 or 4? ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 11:53:21 +0000 From: "Michael L. Dawley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: PPP Up! On Fri, 11 Feb 2000 23:21:01 -0600, Jack Cotter wrote: > 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. Jack, I'm still using my Netdial 1.3 - Arachne 1.60 "roll your own" setup. I get 100% connections now, so I'm sticking with it as is. I have not tried to use epppdd with the normal arachne setup on this Compaq as yet. The normal setup works on all other machines I have, however, with the supplied epppd. I'm using a menu batch file that allows me several choices when the computer boots up, and the menu comes back up when I exit any of these: l. Arachne Online 2. Arachne Offline 3. Windows 3.1 4. Scandisk 5. Defrag 6. DOS edit Also, there is an option to go to the DOS prompt. With the menu, I can live with the loss of ALT-D and ALT-H in my Netdial 1.3 - Arachne 1.60 setup. I'm offline now, writing this email, and I'll just save it to the outbox, Alt-X, it'll return to the menu, and I'll go online to send it. As you can see, I do a lot of workarounds to get this Compaq to work with Arachne, which it does, due to the fact that Arachne boots up so fast compared to Windows programs. Thanks, Michael L. Dawley Pearl, Mississippi Using Netdial 1.3 with Arachne 1.60 -- -- Compaq Deskpro 575 -- - -- Using Netdial 1.3 with Arachne 1.60 -- - -- Arachne V1.60;b1, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 22:37:13 From: "Dale Mentzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Virus Alert! On 11 Feb 00 at 18:12, L.D. Best wrote: >>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. The antivirus option available in some BIOSs is a simple monitor that warns you when any program (virus or even FDISK, for instance) tries to write to the HD's master boot record. There are also AV TSR's that do basically the same thing. They pop up a little box that warns you what is going to happen and you can accept or decline the action. Regards, Dale Mentzer Errors have been made. Others will be blamed. 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: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 10:57:26 -0800 From: "Gregory J. Feig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Virus Alert! On Fri, 11 Feb 2000 18:12:23 -0400, L.D. Best wrote: > 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. Yes...L.D. that is where it is.... > 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 Yup...that's what it is....a bare minimum.... > 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. Nope....manual and install instructions for Boot Manager and System Commander, et al say to turn it back off while you do the install, then turn it back on...BUT...AMI Bios doesn't require that, as long as you answer "yes" (i.e. let the program continue with its instal) .......gregy - -- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 16:05:37 -0800 From: Clarence Verge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Download looping. (was Is this a bug?) Dale Mentzer wrote: > > On 10 Feb 00 at 22:21, Clarence Verge wrote: > > >>Here is where my past deeds come back to haunt me I guess. <fg> > > You must have been very bad, Clarence. ;) Hi Dale, Michael, All; Trying to find out why downloads of the new hotlsman.apm work for others and not me, I changed "ESC Back" to "ESC Ignore" because the effect I was getting was EXACTLY the same as hitting ESC after sending or downloading mail. The last action gets repeated. Now, in the case of mail, L.D has said that the re-upload cannot take place because there is nothing left to upload. But just because this makes sense is no reason to expect that's what happens. This is experimental software in a GUI. Anything might happen. The repeat mail DOWNLOAD is another matter however. It DOES try to take place and that costs me money because the ISP where I get my mail charges me a one minute minimum every time I check my mail via an outside source instead of dialling in to him. If I hit the "ESC" key trying to get out of my inbox after a download, there goes another minute. :-(( In fact, there is no way back to the previous page from mail upload or download except using a hotkey. I assume that cntrlLEFTARROW works the same as ESC in my setup but I never tried it. Why use two keys when one beautifully (deliberately) positioned key will do ? ESC ignore did NOT help the download looping but I did get some interesting results anyway: First, APM.exe is as supplied with Arachne 1.6b1 - 17972 bytes, Dec 24,1998.! Second, I have 81Megs free space on the disk. Third, on a test download of 6 APMs, one WORKED !. The ~90Kb IRC.apm installed. Hotlsman, Spkrwav, Ttf2fnt, Htmto922, and Fedit LOOPED. Fourth, Downloading NON APMs seems to work. History.txt and DOSPPPD.zip did not loop when finished downloading. With dospppd.zip I got the option to save it in \DOWNLOAD. With History.txt I got no such option and it would be nice if ALL downloads went AUTOMATICALLY to \DOWNLOAD (preferred) or we got the dialog box. - - Clarence Verge - -- - - Help stamp out FATWARE. As a start visit: http://home.arachne.cz/ - -- ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 23:55:25 +0100 From: "(null)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: link to gnupyright sources of arachne Hi Arachnids, is there any link, where you could find the newest sources of gnupyright programs like for example INSIGHT, which are part of Arachne?? Regards, Christoph - -- Arachne V1.50;s.r.c., NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://home.arachne.cz/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 16:28:16 +0000 From: "Michael L. Dawley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Boot Disk for WIN 98 Computers Hello all, I finally had to make a boot disk so I could get into DOS and Arachne on this machine with WIN 98 installed. Pressing F8 didn't always work to bypass WIN 98 and get to the WIN 98 menu were I could choose to go into my old DOS. Now, when I turn the machine on, use this boot disk, and have a menu.bat file that allows me to choose between Arachne, MS-DOS Editor, or DOS Prompt. Thanks, Michael L. Dawley Pearl, Mississippi - -- Compudyne 486DX4-100 -- DOS 6.22, WIN 98, Arachne 1.60 - -- Arachne V1.60;b1, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 17:29:28 -0500 From: "Rj" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: stupid win modems Hello Arachnoids: When I finally got my new computer I found out to my dismay that I was slipped a Win modem. I am unable to run my favorite browser, Arachne. I know Win modems are junk, but it runs Internet Exploder fine. Has anyone been able to get Arachne going on a win modem with windows 98? There has to be some sort of driver that will get it working in Dos. The manufacture's web site (lucent technology) was no help. Any suggestions besides "get a real modem?" I'm kind of cash short now after my purchase! IMHO, Arachne is an amazing piece of work, especially knowing that it came from one man and not a mega bloat software company. But: considering the direction the web is evolving these days, it needs to be able to support java and encription for e-business. I've been using Arachne except in those instances where Internet Exploder works better. It's easy to complain about graphics-laden web pages, but that's the reality of things. Rj Don't run; you'll look like food ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 17:33:31 -0500 From: "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: PPP Up! On Fri, 11 Feb 2000 23:21:01 -0600, Jack Cotter wrote: > 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. <snip> Jack, Something just occurred to me. Are you loading EPPPD "high" with Connection @lh epppd.exe>>PPP.LOG If so, then you'll need to change this line IP_Address PPP Change it to IP_Address BOOTP With "IP_Address PPP", Arachne looks at PPP.LOG to see if EPPPD is loaded With "IP_Address BOOTP", PPP.LOG is not used to see if you are online. I am currently connected using Connection @lh epppd.exe>>PPP.LOG IP_Address BOOTP IP_Grab IP address set to This is my current PPP.LOG - ---begin PPP.LOG--- - ---end PPP.LOG--- That's right.... it does not exist. For some reason that I do not understand, the redirect into PPP.LOG is not working when EPPPD is loaded high. This might explain why it works OK with EPPPDD (debug version) Perhaps the redirect into PPP.LOG _is_ working when EPPPDD is loaded high. I'll get EPPPDD and test this theory. - ------------------------ That was it!!! Here's my current setup. Connection @lh epppdd.exe>PPP.LOG IP_Address PPP IP_Grab local - ---begin PPP.LOG--- sifaddr ppp0: local 204.179.144.60, remote 204.179.144.20, netmask 255.255.255.0. - ---end PPP.LOG--- As you see, I also had to change my IP_Grab line to indicate "local". (the word preceding my IP address in PPP.LOG) When using EPPPD.EXE, this doesn't seem to matter. ("IP address set to" is _not_ what my ISP sends) So, from what I can see. This problem exists only if EPPPD.EXE is loaded "high". EPPPDD.EXE _can_ be loaded high and everything works fine. - -- 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: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 17:48:23 -0800 From: Clarence Verge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: OT Re: what is .pdf Mike Millen wrote: > > 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. Hi Mike; No other version available. You are correct - I must have used the -d switch. I unzip with a batch file which dumps the result onto my ramdrive for quick disposal. The switch is in the .bat and I never think about it. <g> I have made this log of my latest test run. The whole package takes most of my 4 Meg ramdisk. If I could get it to work I would obviously keep only pdftotex - at least it's smaller than Acrodos. SCREEN.log -------------------------------------------- Volume VDISK V3.3 created 1984/12/6 12:00 4173824 bytes total disk space 0 bytes in 1 hidden files 2048 bytes in 1 directories 3887104 bytes in 13 user files 284672 bytes available on disk 720896 bytes total memory 670784 bytes free Volume in drive I is VDISK V3.3 Directory of I:\XPDF-0.90- . <DIR> 00/02/12 17:27 .. <DIR> 00/02/12 17:27 PDFTOPS EXE 976359 99/08/04 3:23 PDFINFO EXE 932655 99/08/04 10:23 PDFIMAGE EXE 937753 99/08/04 10:23 PDFTOTEX EXE 964341 99/08/04 10:23 README 12660 99/08/08 15:38 CHANGES 23780 99/08/08 15:38 COPYING 17982 99/08/08 15:38 ANNOUNCE 1517 99/08/08 15:38 PDFINFO TXT 1273 99/08/08 15:38 PDFTOPS TXT 2661 99/08/08 15:38 PDFTOTEX TXT 2354 99/08/08 15:38 README2 230 99/08/08 16:38 PDFIMAGE TXT 1779 99/08/08 15:38 15 File(s) 284672 bytes free I:\XPDF-0.90- 17:30:37>PDFTOTEX F:SUPPORT.PDF I:SUPPORT.TXT Load error: no DPMI - Get csdpmi*b.zip - -------------------------------------- Is this the version you are running ?? - - Clarence Verge - -- - - Help stamp out FATWARE. As a start visit: http://home.arachne.cz/ - -- ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 18:23:03 -0800 From: Clarence Verge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: PPP Up! Glenn McCorkle wrote: > > For some reason that I do not understand, the redirect into PPP.LOG is > not working when EPPPD is loaded high. > > This might explain why it works OK with EPPPDD (debug version) > Perhaps the redirect into PPP.LOG _is_ working when EPPPDD is loaded high. > > I'll get EPPPDD and test this theory. > ------------------------ > > That was it!!! > Here's my current setup. > > Connection @lh epppdd.exe>PPP.LOG > IP_Address PPP > IP_Grab local > > ---begin PPP.LOG--- > sifaddr ppp0: local 204.179.144.60, remote 204.179.144.20, netmask 255.255.255.0. > ---end PPP.LOG--- Hi Glenn; First, I notice that the re-direction string is different this time also. i.e. Create, not create and append. Second, this seems a lot like re-direction inconsistency problems I have found elsewhere. This does NOT bode well for Arachne which makes extensive use of re-direction. I have found that in SOME cases I must remove spaces before redirections to make the line execute and Guenter has found that HE must put them back IN !! - - Clarence Verge - -- - - Help stamp out FATWARE. As a start visit: http://home.arachne.cz/ - -- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 00:52:27 +0100 (CET) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Menedetter) Subject: (back on topic) Re: OT Re: what is .pdf Hi "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: GM> 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 GM> $t\pdf.txt GM> That's it. GM> We _should_ be able to view PDF files as TXT with Arachne now. And here 'my' PS Viewer :) file/.ps |call c:\\gs\\ps2ascii.bat $1 $t\ps.txt \n arachne $t\ps.txt Although GhostScript is rather strange ... Searchpath for the fonts is hardcoded either to . or to c:\gs\fonts If ps files are viewed with it directly the font is so small, that I can't read it ... and there's a text saying press enter which overwrites some of the rendered ps file ... Maybe somebody can help ... PS: If you don't want to install it into c:\gs you have to move everything from gs/fonts to gs. (and you have to edit ps2ascii so that it enters the gs dir, because the search path is only . or c:/gs . I did it with the 4dos commands pushd/popd) GM> Glenn McCorkle [EMAIL PROTECTED] North Jackson, Ohio, USA CU, Ricsi - -- Richard Menedetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ICQ: 7659421] {RSA-PGP Key avail.} - -=> Junk: stuff we throw away - Stuff: junk we keep <=- ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 19:13:56 -0500 From: "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: (back on topic) Re: OT Re: what is .pdf On Sat, 12 Feb 2000 08:52:34 +0100 (MET), Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > 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). Bernie, Perfect !!!! It works !!! To all other readers: Mine was "Beta".... Bernie's is "Stable". In addition to adding Bernie's line to mime.cfg.... Change "application/pdf PDF" to read as follows application/pdf >TXT|@c:\\xpdfdos\\pdftotex.exe -q $1 $2 We can now view PDF files downloaded from http sites wothout first saving them to disk. (worked great for all of these) http://calclab.math.tamu.edu/~belmonte/calclab/admin.pdf http://calclab.math.tamu.edu/~belmonte/calclab/gfwldriv.pdf http://calclab.math.tamu.edu/~belmonte/calclab/maplinfo.pdf - -- 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, 13 Feb 2000 01:25:14 +0100 (CET) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Menedetter) Subject: stupid win modems Hi "Rj" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: R> When I finally got my new computer I found out to my dismay that I R> was slipped a Win modem. I am unable to run my favorite browser, R> Arachne. I know Win modems are junk, but it runs Internet Exploder R> fine. Has anyone been able to get Arachne going on a win modem with R> windows 98? There has to be some sort of driver that will get it R> working in Dos. No there is no such driver. (and if there would be such a thing, it would be HUGE, because it had to emulate Win Graphics Device Interface GDI) But according to Michael there will be a possibility to use Arachne under Win32 in 1.60 b2 (or later :) It's stub32. R> The manufacture's web site (lucent technology) was no R> help. Any suggestions besides "get a real modem?" I'm kind of cash R> short now after my purchase! At the moment you can't use Arachne online ... sorry R> Rj CU, Ricsi - -- Richard Menedetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ICQ: 7659421] {RSA-PGP Key avail.} - -=> Beer! It's not just for breakfast anymore... <=- ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 19:54:23 -0500 From: "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: My HOTLIST has vanished to never-never land! Hello fellow Arachnids: My hotlist has completely disappeared! I can't find it anywhere on my hard drive. Not even the undelete function in DRDOS will list it. I know that some other folks on the list have been having some kind of problem with the hotlist manager, and I have seen some posts concerning the matter. Up until just now I haven't been having any problems managing my hotlist. For that reason I did not study their stories of the problems. I haven't been using the hotlist manager. I just add links from time to time, and haven't had any problems yet. I think I had only about 60 links in mine. Would somebody please state the details concerning the problem? What do you think I might have done wrong? Fortunately, I still had a backup list from my old version, 1.42 beta. I copied my old hotlist into the directory where I have my new current version. BTW, does anyone have a link for the page having the old abandoneware compilers? I used to have this one bookmarked, but alas, my hotlist has vanished! Sam Heywood - -- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 20:14:35 -0500 From: "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: OT Re: what is .pdf On Sat, 12 Feb 2000 08:38:08 -000, Mike Millen wrote: > 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? Yes, that happened to me as well. (had to use pkunzip without the -d option) > 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. At http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/download.html This is the second link under the heading "Precompiled Binaries" ftp://ftp.foolabs.com/pub/xpdf/xpdf-0.90-dos.zip > 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 > -- - -- 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: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 20:33:43 -0500 From: "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: link to gnupyright sources of arachne On Sat, 12 Feb 2000 23:55:25 +0100, "(null)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Arachnids, > is there any link, where you could find the newest sources of > gnupyright programs like for example INSIGHT, which are part of Arachne?? The latest SRC code is available here: http://home.arachne.cz/apm/usrc150b.apm 06-Jun-1999 01:29 68kb - -- 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: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 20:42:35 -0500 From: "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: stupid win modems _Your_ choice of subject for this thread is perfect. "Win-modems" are called that because they _require_ windoze. AFAIK, there is no way around this. So..... "Get a real modem"<vbg> As for those "graphics-laden web pages". The answer is simple........ "LoadImages No" On Sat, 12 Feb 2000 17:29:28 -0500, "Rj" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Arachnoids: > When I finally got my new computer I found out to my dismay that I was > slipped a Win modem. I am unable to run my favorite browser, Arachne. I > know Win modems are junk, but it runs Internet Exploder fine. Has anyone > been able to get Arachne going on a win modem with windows 98? There has to > be some sort of driver that will get it working in Dos. The manufacture's > web site (lucent technology) was no help. Any suggestions besides "get a > real modem?" I'm kind of cash short now after my purchase! > IMHO, Arachne is an amazing piece of work, especially knowing that > it came from one man and not a mega bloat software company. But: considering > the direction the web is evolving these days, it needs to be able to support > java and encription for e-business. I've been using Arachne except in those > instances where Internet Exploder works better. It's easy to complain about > graphics-laden web pages, but that's the reality of things. > Rj > Don't run; you'll look like food - -- 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: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 21:22:24 -0500 From: "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: stupid win modems * This message is in MIME format. - --MIME-multipart-message-boundary-950408544 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit On Sun, 13 Feb 2000 01:25:14 +0100 (CET), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Menedetter) wrote: > At the moment you can't use Arachne online ... sorry Running Arachne in a "DOS box" doesn't work very well. But, it does work. Here's how.... Unzip the attached file. (ARCN-W95.ZIP) Place ARACHNE.PIF on your W95/98 desktop. Place SPID.ICO in your arachne_main directory. Edit the properties of the new "Arachne shortcut" to point to your arachne_main directory. (if it's not already in c:\arachne) That's it. Double click the Arachne icon and browse the web. - -- 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. 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