arachne-digest       Sunday, February 20 2000       Volume 01 : Number 1007




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Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 18:34:16 -0500
From: "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Trouble with TELNET

On Sat, 19 Feb 2000 06:09:37 -0500 (EST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> I tried to send a message by Arachne SMTP through Telebot, and it seemed to
> work, but the message failed to reach the destination.  UKA_PPP failed but
> showed an error message.

 To see wheather or not the message was sent.
On the "Internet settings" page in Arachne setup,
check "Create SMTP log file"

 After trying to send the message,
view smtp.log to see what actually happened.

 I tried it and this is my smtp.log file

220 telebot.net  MailSite ESMTP Receiver Version 3.4.5.0 Ready
HELO cisnet.com
250 OK
MAIL FROM: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
250 [EMAIL PROTECTED] OK
RCPT TO: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
501 This system is not configured to relay mail from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for 204.179.144.92
QUIT

- --
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/

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Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 18:50:28 -0500
From: "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: open-source

On Sat, 19 Feb 2000 15:30:35 +0100, "(null)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi Arachnoids,

> when will Arachne-Core be opensourced??

 Only when Michael has decided to abandon it.
Since _he_ is the only one in this world who seems to have the "guts"
to even attempt such a project in DOS (the supposedly "Dead OS")<g>.....

 We can only hope that he decides to continue for many, many years.


- -- 
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/

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Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 19:28:11 -0500 (EST)
From: Gregor J Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Trouble with TELNET

On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, Glenn McCorkle wrote:

[much snippage]

 | FTP to this directory and have a look at the "README" file.
 | Choose the version which suits your needs.
 | ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu:21/pine/old/PC-PINE-3.96/

Hi, Glenn (and others, of course). IIRC, on that long page about IMAP
programs that I posted the link for, there was also mention of Pegasus as
MUA for IMAP connections. Cannot Pegasus for DOS do IMAP?

PS, this message being sent from PC Pine for DOS, using WATTCP and packet
driver, connected to the Boston University IMAP server...

Regards

- -- 
Gregor J Jones                      mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Boston MA

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Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 18:36:33 +0000
From: "Michael L. Dawley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Full Screen

Hello all,
Shift * gets the full screen of a completed web page. Really nice,
compared to other browsers. I do a lot of comparisons between 
browsers, in DOS, WIN 3.1 and WIN 98. Arachne does a fine job on
pages, especially if you have a good graphics card, then full 
screen is outstanding. I'm using 800x600 here, and notice that
it works on 640x480 also on the Compudyne computer to my left.
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/

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Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 18:05:15 -0800
From: "Bob  Buckland ?:-\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Arachne With Compuserve

Hi Glenn and Roger,

<<Glenn McCorkle: Shouldn't that be  go:pppconnect      ???
  [ Response4 \u/noint/go:pppcon\r ]

Only the first six characters are used in Compuserve "GO" words
on CompuServe Classic, so either way is fine.



 [NameServer 149.174.211.5
  [ AltNameServer 149.174.213.5

 <<Arachne can _properly_ use the CS DNS.>>

 Those are the correct nameserver addresses for when you
 log into a CS dialup account and bypass the CS service
 using GO PPPCON.  There are others in the pool, but those
 are the two that they keep up :)

<<Roger Turk:

 <<Response2 CPS\r         <--Change to: CIS>>

   They're basically the same, although the CPS is often less
   used so you may get a bit better response.

  <<Response3 @?     <--Change to:   0062,2437/noint/go:pppconnect
    WaitFor4 ID:     <--Delete

   They're optional but suggest they be left in
   as is. They feed back on screen the connect speed
   and the CS Port Node address you're connecting on.
   Also, there's no need to put your UserID Or password
   literally in the dial script, the \u tells Arachne to
   use what you put on the PPPusername line

  <<Response4 \u/noint/go:pppcon\r   <--Delete
    WaitFor5 rd:            <--Rename WaitFor4 ord:
    Response5 \p\r          <--Rename Response4 \p>>

These should all be fine as is.
[tcp/ip]
 <<AltNameServer 149.174.213.5   <--I have this as:   >>

As ??? <g>  the 149.174.213.5 is one of the 'regularly supported'
ones for CS dialups.


Bob  Buckland  ?:-)

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Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 21:38:14 -0800
From: Clarence Verge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: apologies (was Re: Thanks)

Glenn McCorkle wrote:
> 
> Brian,
>  I think that most (if not all), of us here apologize most humbly if we
> have offended you in any way.
>  We seem to have stepped on your toes with our "windows user" jokes.
> 
>  Please believe me when I say that we were only jokeing-around.

Jeez, I don't apologize. I wasn't joking. We should have saved him.
Now he'll never develop the leather texture to his skin required if he
wants to persist in Arachne use on a Java infested Gates planet. 

More effort next time guys.<G>

- -  Clarence Verge
- --
- -  Help stamp out FATWARE.  As a start visit: http://home.arachne.cz/
- --

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Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 21:27:21 -0800
From: Clarence Verge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: New to Arachne, and have questions

Joe Caverly wrote:
> 
> Hi Clarence;
>   Thanks for the reply. I followed your instructions, but alas, this did
> not solve the problem.
> 
>   I then thought of something, which I tried, and low and behold, I can
> now surf my local hard drive, including my EMail, when I'm offline.
> 
>   The problem appears to be 4DOS. I use 4DOS.COM, version 6.02, instead
> of COMMAND.COM.
> 
>   The solution was to start COMMAND.COM, and then ARACHNE.BAT.
> 
>   However, if 4DOS.COM is the problem, then why can I surf locally when
> connected to the Internet, but not when I'm disconnected from the
> Internet? That is, I can use 4DOS.COM, connect to the Internet, and surf
> locally with no problems.
> 
>   In order to surf locally, when disconnected from the Internet, I have
> to exit ARACHNE, type COMMAND.COM, and restart ARACHNE.
> 
>   While this is a work-around, I'd like to know why this is happening.
> Any insights?

The best insight in this area is likely to come from Richard Menedetter
who I believe had a problem with 4DOS that was fixed by modifying the 
Arachne memory requirements set out in MIME.cfg for each .dgi.

- -  Clarence Verge
- --
- -  Help stamp out FATWARE.  As a start visit: http://home.arachne.cz/
- --

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Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 22:47:32 -0500
From: "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Trouble with TELNET

On Sat, 19 Feb 2000 19:28:11 -0500 (EST), Gregor J Jones wrote:

> On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, Glenn McCorkle wrote:

> [much snippage]

> | FTP to this directory and have a look at the "README" file.
> | Choose the version which suits your needs.
> | ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu:21/pine/old/PC-PINE-3.96/

> Hi, Glenn (and others, of course). IIRC, on that long page about IMAP
> programs that I posted the link for, there was also mention of Pegasus as
> MUA for IMAP connections. Cannot Pegasus for DOS do IMAP?

 Nope.
As of Feb. 1997... IMAP was not yet supported in any version of Pmail.
http://www.pmail.usa.com/faq/futures.faq
This file states that IMAP support was planned for some future version.
(no further upgrades have been made to the DOS version)
The last version for DOS is v3.40 (Oct. 1996)

> PS, this message being sent from PC Pine for DOS, using WATTCP and packet
> driver, connected to the Boston University IMAP server...

So, it seems that PC-Pine is after-all.... "The only DOS IMAP program".

- -- 
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/

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Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 23:29:33 -0500
From: "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: New to Arachne, and have questions

On Sat, 19 Feb 2000 16:14:41 +0000, Joe Caverly wrote:

> The problem appears to be 4DOS. I use 4DOS.COM, version 6.02, instead
> of COMMAND.COM.

 Joe,

Here's what you need to do so that you can continue to use 4DOS/Arachne.
(without running command.com)

Load mime.cfg into a text editor.
Remove every occurrence of [nnn] in mime.cfg
;file/*.mes           >HTM|[140]$einsight.exe -i $1 -cache=$t>$2
;                          ^^^^^ ;

These are the memory tests that don't seem to work when using 4DOS.

By removing those numbers, you've removed the source of the problem.
Problem solved.<g>

- -- 
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/

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Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 22:53:43 -0500
From: "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Full Screen

On Sat, 19 Feb 2000 18:36:33 +0000, Michael L. Dawley wrote:

> Hello all,
> Shift * gets the full screen of a completed web page. Really nice,
> compared to other browsers. I do a lot of comparisons between
> browsers, in DOS, WIN 3.1 and WIN 98. Arachne does a fine job on
> pages, especially if you have a good graphics card, then full
> screen is outstanding. I'm using 800x600 here, and notice that
> it works on 640x480 also on the Compudyne computer to my left.

Another set of keys to keep in mind... + and - on the numeric keypad.
Increase one step in video mode / decrease one step.

 How many "clicks" does it take in W95/98 to do that???<g>




- -- 
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/

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Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 23:56:16 -0500
From: "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Can an IMAP server be used as a message board?

Hi Folks -

Today I downloaded and installed a DOS version of Pine, PCP_WAT.ZIP.
For a packet driver I used EPPPD and NetDial and I got it running just
fine.  I experimented with using Pine to access my messages on
pop.telebot.net and on mail.subdimension.com, both being IMAP servers.

I found that I could view messages while they were still on the server,
and I could even forward them and reply to them without even deleting
them from the server.  Upon making these observations, it occurred to me
that an IMAP server might very well lend itself for use as a message board.
It would most indeed be possible to use an IMAP server for this purpose
if the system would allow several persons using the same user name and
password to login to an account on an IMAP server and read messages
intended for all.

Can this be done?  Comments, anyone?

Sam Heywood
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Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 18:25:35 -0800
From: "Gregory J. Feig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Finally, Thanks All

On Fri, 18 Feb 2000 08:40:42 -0500, Roger Turk wrote:

> Brian Renfrow wrote:

>>> Thanks All.  I have successfully found a way to fix the problem I have.  It
> seems that when the computer boots up it was giving me an error message of
> missing operating system.  I took a system disk created from WIN98, and got
> the computer booted.  I then formatted drive C:.  When this was done the
> prompt worked and it contained an empty directory.  I then took the DOS
> upgrade disks and installed DOS.  This worked better than I could have
> possibly hoped.  It took it right away.  I then proceded to install WIN98.<<

> Now, why did you go ahead and screw up a perfectly good computer??

Roger .....why didn't you tell him to go download DRDOS, for free,
instead.....but maybe he wants to put a boot manager on there, just
so he can compare a good, clean DOS setup to a traditional bloatware
thingy......<g>

..............gregy

P.S.  Brian.....go to:
                       http://www.lineo.com/

follow their download links, and D/L the DRDOS.....it will work
so much nicer than that MzW98....<g g g>

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Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 18:20:17 -0800
From: "Gregory J. Feig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Virus Alert!

On Fri, 18 Feb 2000 07:42:53 -0500, Mark David Roth wrote:

> I have AMI BIOS 4/30/1989. I only have one page for setup. There is
> no warning screen. There is no Advanced CMOS Setup. There is no toggle
> for anti-virus. All I can do is select what drives I have installed and
> set a RAM memory option. I can also select CMOS Diagnostics at boot up
> which can perform various disk utilities can run tests on the disks,
> monitor and the COM ports.

> So far the best anti-virus program I have is McAfee's SCAN86. I just

Mark......all my CMOS Bios' are later than 1990....they all have
an Anti-virus toggle in the Setup utility....

Since you CMOS Bios does not include it....the only recourse is for
you to do what you are doing.....run some kind of loadable anti-virus
....and check every executable you download/install before you run
them.....
The CMOS Bios anti-virus only keeps a watch on my Master Boot Record
and other crucial hardware-level HDD areas....it will not detect a
virus infecting only executables, that doesn't try to mess with the
HDD structure itself....I use it as a bare minimum running-block
and I regularly run my other, loadable, AV utilities....

DOS gives us some additional protection from the esoteric bugs now
running in macros, email, etc...since our Arachnes will not just
blindly go ahead an do something without us first telling it to
...and, or course, I don't run many Win or even OS/2 applications
which can be infected and launched into malicious activities..

.......gregy

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Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 10:28:20 +0100 (CET)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Menedetter)
Subject: New to Arachne, and have questions

Hi

Clarence Verge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

 CV> The best insight in this area is likely to come from Richard
 CV> Menedetter who I believe had a problem with 4DOS that was fixed by
 CV> modifying the Arachne memory requirements set out in MIME.cfg for each
 CV> .dgi.
(I think the actual idea came from Mike Millen)

The only reason I did not answer was, that I didn't understand why it was
only happening when you are offline.

But it could be that the difference comes from the fact if epppd is in
memory or not.

So I think you should give it a try.

So try to delete all [xxx] settings in MIME.CFG.

 CV> -  Clarence Verge

CU, Ricsi

- -- 
Richard Menedetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ICQ: 7659421] {RSA-PGP Key avail.}
- -=> Women and elephants never forget <=-

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Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 09:53:39 -000
From: Mike Millen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: New to Arachne, and have questions

On Sat, 19 Feb 2000 16:14:41 +0000, Joe Caverly wrote:

  GM>JC> The problem appears to be 4DOS. I use 4DOS.COM, version 6.02,
  GMJC>instead of COMMAND.COM.

  GM>Remove every occurrence of [nnn] in mime.cfg
  GM> ;file/*.mes           >HTM|[140]$einsight.exe -i $1 -cache=$t>$2
  GM>;                          ^^^^^ ;

  GM>These are the memory tests that don't seem to work when using 4DOS.


Alternatively get v1.6b1.

This version works perfectly with 4dos and a standard mime.cfg.
(For me, at least :)

Mike


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Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 05:56:27 -0500 (EST)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Trouble with TELNET

>"dele" in telnet.exe is new to me. Does it work?

"dele" is not part of telnet, but part of POP3.

Thomas Mueller
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 05:56:26 -0500 (EST)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Arachne load error

Steve,

You talk about Freewwweb and Compuserve, yet I see your address
[EMAIL PROTECTED]  Is Worldspy related to Compuserve at all, and can you use
Arachne after logging in to Worldspy?

Thomas Mueller
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 05:56:28 -0500 (EST)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Trouble with TELNET

Besides Pine for DOS, which is not being updated any more, there is Emacs with
W3, which has IMAP and POP3 capabilities as far as I know.  I know there is an
Emacs for DOS, compiled with DJGPP, 32-bit, but am not absolutely sure if
Internet capabilities are included in the DOS version.  Emacs for DOS was on
Simtel FTP site, and other places that can be found by Delorie's ZIP picker,
http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/

You can also use Perl to write a script, or use an already written script, to
access e-mail by POP3 (and IMAP too?), though I am not absolutely sure if the
DOS version includes Internet capabilities.
http://www.perl.com

Or you can check the appropriate RFC for IMAP and access IMAP server by telnet.

Thomas Mueller
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 10:12:22 -0500
From: "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Virus Alert!

* This message is in MIME format.

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On Sat, 19 Feb 2000 18:20:17 -0800, Gregory J. Feig wrote:

> On Fri, 18 Feb 2000 07:42:53 -0500, Mark David Roth wrote:

>> I have AMI BIOS 4/30/1989. I only have one page for setup. There is
>> no warning screen. There is no Advanced CMOS Setup. There is no toggle
>> for anti-virus. All I can do is select what drives I have installed and
>> set a RAM memory option. I can also select CMOS Diagnostics at boot up
>> which can perform various disk utilities can run tests on the disks,
>> monitor and the COM ports.

Oh yes there is an Advanced CMOS Setup, but you will need a special
utility to get into it.  Get AMIS2990.ZIP, shareware, c. 1992-1995 by
Robert Muchsel.  The shareware version is fully functional.  A nominal
registration fee will provide you with an explanation of even far more
advanced setup options than you ever wanted to know about.  The first
time you run this program you will be presented with a query asking you
if you want the German or the English Version, and the appropriate help
texts and pull-down menus will be automagically installed.  I forgot where
I downloaded it, but here is some information on how to contact the author,
as quoted from his documentation:

   How to Contact the Author
      �������������������������

      Please address all correspondence to:

        Robert Muchsel
        Hegaublick 2
        D-78465 Konstanz
        Germany

        Fax: +49-7533-3151

        Electronic Mail (this is a lifetime address):
          Internet:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
          CompuServe: >INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Thumbs up, and a five star rating for Herr Muchsel!

Sam Heywood
P.S. BTW, the attached file, FILE_ID.DIZ is an ascii text file which
describes the program in Herr Muchsel's own words.

<snip>

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Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 11:20:00 
From: "Dale Mentzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Trouble with TELNET

On 19 Feb 00 at 19:28, Gregor J Jones wrote:

>>Hi, Glenn (and others, of course). IIRC, on that long page about IMAP
>>programs that I posted the link for, there was also mention of Pegasus as
>>MUA for IMAP connections. Cannot Pegasus for DOS do IMAP?

AFAIK, (and I use Pegasus for DOS), Pegasus is only and offline 
mail client. I includes a dated POP/SMTP transport program to get and 
send mail.

Regards,
Dale Mentzer

Advertising (n): the science of arresting the human
intelligence for long enough to get money from it.
    -- Stephen Leacock.


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Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 11:38:34 
From: "Dale Mentzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Virus Alert!

On 19 Feb 00 at 18:20, Gregory J. Feig wrote:

>>Mark......all my CMOS Bios' are later than 1990....they all have
>>an Anti-virus toggle in the Setup utility....
>>
>>Since you CMOS Bios does not include it....the only recourse is for
>>you to do what you are doing.....run some kind of loadable anti-virus
>>.....and check every executable you download/install before you run
>>them.....
>>The CMOS Bios anti-virus only keeps a watch on my Master Boot Record
>>and other crucial hardware-level HDD areas....it will not detect a
>>virus infecting only executables, that doesn't try to mess with the
>>HDD structure itself....I use it as a bare minimum running-block
>>and I regularly run my other, loadable, AV utilities....
>>
>>DOS gives us some additional protection from the esoteric bugs now
>>running in macros, email, etc...since our Arachnes will not just
>>blindly go ahead an do something without us first telling it to
>>....and, or course, I don't run many Win or even OS/2 applications
>>which can be infected and launched into malicious activities.

I would like to recommend an anti-virus program I found recently, 
UKVV. In addition to running from the command line, it runs 
interactively and has a AV TSR (killerm.exe) that monitors your 
system for irregular activity. For instance, I use a shareware delete 
utility that modifies itself each time it is run to keep track of 
it's trial period and when killerm.exe is loaded it pops up a warning 
box that this program is being changed and offers a choice to allow 
or stop this activity. Also, when Arachne attempts to load the packet 
driver, it pops up another warning that a program is attempting to 
become a TSR and offers a choice to allow or not allow this. I have 
not tried it with a program that writes to the MBR so I cannot 
testify that it detects this also. The TSR is about 4k and it will 
load high and can be unloaded (depending of course whether anything 
has been loaded high afterward) from the command line. The package is 
a bit dated (Oct 1998), but I have been in email contact with the 
author and he has promised to send a virus update for it, though I 
have not received it yet. You can find the program by doing a search 
for UKVV on any of the search engines as it is widely available on 
all of the SIMTEL mirror sites. BTW, the whole program will fit on a 
360K floppy so it is a good choice for older XT machines without 
higher capacity drives.

Regards,
Dale Mentzer

Chaos, panic and disorder...my work here is done.


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Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 11:42:05 
From: "Dale Mentzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Trouble with TELNET

On 19 Feb 00 at 22:47, Glenn McCorkle wrote:

>> Nope.
>>As of Feb. 1997... IMAP was not yet supported in any version of Pmail.
>>http://www.pmail.usa.com/faq/futures.faq
>>This file states that IMAP support was planned for some future version. (no
>>further upgrades have been made to the DOS version) The last version for DOS
>>is v3.40 (Oct. 1996)

Glenn, the most current version of Pmail for DOS is 3.50 (mostly some 
small fixes with no additional features, IIRC).

Regards,
Dale Mentzer

I work 40 hours a week to be this poor.


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Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 13:51:36 -0500
From: Roger Turk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Virus Alert!

Sam Heywood,

Here is how your "attached file, FILE_ID.DIZ is an ascii text file" came thru:

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

P.S. BTW, the attached file, FILE_ID.DIZ is an ascii text file which
describes the program in Herr Muchsel's own words.

<snip>

- --MIME-multipart-message-boundary-951059545
Content-Type: application/octet-stream ;name=FILE_ID.DIZ
Content-ID: arachne-namespace/C:\AMISETUP\FILE_ID.DIZ
Content-Description: File "FILE_ID.DIZ" (type application/octet-stream, size 0
KB)
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
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==
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The question is, why did an ASCII text file get encoded into a "base64" 
encoded format?

Roger Turk
Tucson, Arizona

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Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 15:51:56 -0400
From: "L.D. Best" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Trouble with TELNET

Sam,

I don't know IMAP from UCHART.  But if you want to see headers &
manipulate your mail without having to d/l from server, you can do that
at mailstart.com and probably a half dozen othe web sites.  Check it out
and see if it will work for you; it even allows you to select more than
one piece of jun^H^H^He-mail to delete at the same time.

l.d.
====

On Fri, 18 Feb 2000 21:20:21 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:

> I remember several weeks ago reading a message someone posted in which
> he stated that IMAP is an internet protocol.  It did not immediately
> become clear to me at the time that this protocol is very different from
> the POP3 protocol.  I now understand the difference, and would like to
> actually use all the features that IMAP has to offer.
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Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 15:30:08 -0400
From: "L.D. Best" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: OT: "Any Browser"

I subscribe to a couple of weekly type news/views le-tters and recently
noticed a change.  It perhaps has to do with AOL 5.0 or ???

Instead of putting links in in the "normal" way, they have been changed
to something like this:

<A Http://fillinthe.spaces.com "This is a link" /A><Click Here>

Since I'm trying to get a website up, which will consist primarily of
links, does anyone know if the blasted "<Click Here>" format is now
required by AOL software?  The site I set up has to be usable by *any*
browser, including Mac & Apples On Landing.

Anyone have a definitive answer?

Thanks

l.d.
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. C. Fields
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Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 15:49:46 -0500
From: "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Virus Alert!

On Sun, 20 Feb 2000 10:12:22 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:

<snip>

> Oh yes there is an Advanced CMOS Setup, but you will need a special
> utility to get into it.  Get AMIS2990.ZIP, shareware, c. 1992-1995 by
> Robert Muchsel.  The shareware version is fully functional.  A nominal
> registration fee will provide you with an explanation of even far more
> advanced setup options than you ever wanted to know about.  The first
> time you run this program you will be presented with a query asking you
> if you want the German or the English Version, and the appropriate help
> texts and pull-down menus will be automagically installed.  I forgot where
> I downloaded it, but here is some information on how to contact the author,
> as quoted from his documentation:

<snip>

 Found it...

ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/simtelnet/msdos/sysutl/amis2990.zip
ftp://ftp.simtelnet.com/pub/simtelnet/msdos/sysutl/amis2990.zip
(file size 431kb, Oct. 1995)

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