Thanks abundantly all for your quick replies.
Roger,
It was version 1.48b that I first tested, and I have been trying updates
ever since hoping to discover it working one day. I will try your
suggestions.
Sergei,
I will also try your suggestions (if I can). I keep thinking it must be
something obvious and simple in my setup. As I mentioned, other users of
the Freewwweb and Compuserve ISPs in my local area are connecting and
surfing via Arachne quite successfully with only the Primary and Secondary
DNS, no proxy server address. But you may be right. I will try to get
Freewwweb techs to work with me. One interesting note: Yesterday,
Freewwweb SMTP server refused to deliver my email addressed to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] so I had
to use a Compuserve connection to mail this. I am assuming that they have
arachne.cz domain blocked as a supposed spam relay address.
Clarence,
As you will see (MEM.log below) my reading of the free DOS conventional was
a bit hasty. Largest executible program size is actually 598k -- isn't that
enough for Arachne? You can also see that I have several handy-dandy
utilities loaded high. Surely, I must have tried testing Arachne originally
with a pure DOS configuration, but I really can't remember. I will try
again, just in case one of those utilities is simply conflicting with
Arachne's use of memory. Do you know if Arachne uses any of the high memory
area?
Modules using memory below 1 MB:
Name Total = Conventional + Upper Memory
-------- ---------------- ---------------- ----------------
MSDOS 34,189 (33K) 34,189 (33K) 0 (0K)
HIMEM 1,168 (1K) 1,168 (1K) 0 (0K)
EMM386 3,120 (3K) 3,120 (3K) 0 (0K)
COMMAND 4,208 (4K) 4,208 (4K) 0 (0K)
SETVER 528 (1K) 0 (0K) 528 (1K)
ANSI 4,240 (4K) 0 (0K) 4,240 (4K)
CAPSLOCK 544 (1K) 0 (0K) 544 (1K)
DOSCLIP 10,272 (10K) 0 (0K) 10,272 (10K)
PRTSCFF 512 (1K) 0 (0K) 512 (1K)
ENCORE 1,328 (1K) 0 (0K) 1,328 (1K)
DRVSPACE 39,440 (39K) 0 (0K) 39,440 (39K)
Free 697,808 (681K) 612,496 (598K) 85,312 (83K)
Memory Summary:
Type of Memory Total = Used + Free
---------------- ---------- ---------- ----------
Conventional 655,360 42,864 612,496
Upper 142,176 56,864 85,312
Reserved 393,216 393,216 0
Extended (XMS) 7,197,856 226,464 6,971,392
---------------- ---------- ---------- ----------
Total memory 8,388,608 719,408 7,669,200
Total under 1 MB 797,536 99,728 697,808
Largest executable program size 612,400 (598K)
Largest free upper memory block 75,248 (73K)
MS-DOS is resident in the high memory area.
----- Original Messages -----
Sent: Monday, February 14, 2000 5:02 PM
Subject: arachne-digest V1 #996
| arachne-digest Tuesday, February 15 2000 Volume 01 : Number
996
| From: Roger Turk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| Subject: Arachne load error
|
| I have Arachne loaded on two computers, one is a 586/133 MHz with 8 MB ram
| (originally a 486/33 MHz) and the second is a P75 with 40 MB ram. The
best
| that I can do on the 586/133 is Arachne 1.48. 1.49 (with dynamic images)
| won't load or crashes, I don't remember which. On the P75, I have 1.60b1
| loaded and it works great!
|
| Suggestions: Turn the animated X-I logo off. (In ARACHNE.CFG look for
| "Logo" and change it to read, "Logo 0".)
|
| In ARACHNE.CFG, do you have the home page set to "home.arachne.cz"? At
some
| point Michael P. changed his URL to this, but I can't remember when.
| From: "Sergei Kramar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| Subject: Re: Arachne load error
| I beleive the problem you described is caused by the kind of your Internet
| access not by hard- or soft- ware on your local computer. I see two
| possible reasons: i)wrong DNS server setting in your arachne.cfg,
| ii)disable or wrong Proxy.server setting in your arachne.cfg.
|
| To localize i) problem you can point as URL pure IP address (not the
| hostname) of your provider host. In this case DNS-server will be not
| involved in the connection process and you get your provider home page
| certainly. Then you can try to connect to another internet server by the
| same manner i.e. type in the URL field pure IPaddress not the hostname.
| If this does work for your provider server only and doesn't for outer
| net, therefore, your traffic passes through the proxy.provider server and
| you should set UseProxy to Yes and set correct address of HTTPproxy in
| arachne.cfg. If you don't know IP address of your provider servers
| you can call him and ask or you may learn them with the help of any of
your
| friends who has Internet access via Unix or WinNT compatible machine by
| NSLOOKUP utility.
| From: Clarence Verge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| Subject: Re: Arachne load error
| How much conventional memory do you really have free ?
| Type MEM /C >MEM.log and post a copy of MEM.log.
|
| If you have 697k free I need to know how you did it. <G>
