arachne-digest Thursday, February 24 2000 Volume 01 : Number 1013 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 14:09:19 -0800 From: Clarence Verge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Different strokes ? (was (OT) AOL/windows users (was screwed attachments)) Samuel W. Heywood wrote: > > On Wed, 23 Feb 2000 00:02:58 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote: > > > Sam, > > The answer to your question is simple... > > AOL users are Windows users. And Windows users are too lazy to change > > the defualt setting of "Send forwarded message as eMail attatchment". > > Hence.... the multiple attachments. (every winbloze user along the way > > just clicked "forward" and there-by created a new attachment to the > > message which alredy contained 37 attachments) > > OK, good explanation, Glenn, but why don't they have sense enough to snip > and cut out all of the other junk. Whenever I forward a message to > someone I take care to send only the pertinent information, Hi Sam, Glenn; At the risk of offending some Arachne users, I have to comment on this. Glenn is only partly right. It's not just a matter of being too lazy. In some cases it's also a matter of being too dumb. I've searched for another word to use here but can't find one. Windows user are Windows users because either they can't remember simple things like DIR or DIR | MORE or CD..\WHATEVER and if they could, they would still have no idea what to do when they got there *OR* they simply started using the operating system that came with the computer they bought because they had no idea there was another way *OR* in a very few cases they know better but have found it to be the easiest way to do the job at hand. Could I have used "uninformed" instead of "dumb" ? No, it doesn't seem to work that way with the seemingly otherwise bright people that I know who fit perfectly the description in the last paragraph. Maybe conceptually challenged is better. Sam, that also fully explains why they don't cut the crap. Mostly they don't know it is there and if they did, they wouldn't know how to remove it. And it certainly wouldn't occur to them that something their software does by default is less than ideal. - - Clarence Verge - -- - - Help stamp out FATWARE. As a start visit: http://home.arachne.cz/ - -- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 08:42:50 +1100 From: "Irena and Richard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Settings for Win95 and Arachne Greetings fellow listers!! Can someone please point me towards suggested settings for running Arachne on a machine which has Win95 on it. I have read about the multiple boot ... and have that set up okay. I am still troubled by low memory resources ... while I run Arachne. It is much better now ... because I run Arachne from a dos prompt ... sidestepping the loading of Win95. However the dos memory still shows only 68 k as I write this ... and a question mark is beside the number. For comparison, running Arachne from a dos box within win95 results in a dos memory value of below 50 k sometimes ... with red numbers and three exclamation marks!! Although the mail program seems to run smoothly ... due to memory management ... all other processes slow to a crawl. What settings of autoexec.bat and config.sys will improve the performance of arachne?? By the way the machine is a 32 meg Pentium (133 MHz). Richard Jenkins Canberra/Mossy Point Irena and Richard Jenkins Canberra/Mossy Point Australia ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 14:02:51 -0800 (PST) From: Howard Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: (OT) fax and keyboard Glenn wrote: Didn't find tcapnn.zip but I did find http://www.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/keyboard/encore.zip Dont know why you did not find tcap: tcap31.zip can be found just where I indicated at: http://www.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/sysutl/tcap31.zip ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 14:48:14 -0500 From: "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: history list growing by leaps and bounds On Wed, 23 Feb 2000 00:56:59 +-0100XYZ(nWxst), Neil Parks wrote: > My history list is getting very large--some 260 entries totalling over > 12000 bytes. I don't want to del it entirely. Is there some way to > limit its size within Arachne, or must I use a text editor? This can be done using Arachne's built-in editor. Eneter file:history.lst on the URL line. Choose to "view as text" and edit the file with F4 But...How long have you been saving this same history file???<g> I have found the perfect solution (for myself at least): Upon exiting Arachne, my batch file deletes the history file. > Part of the reason it is too large is that it unnecessarily tracks local > files. Every time I return to the local home page, an entry is created > for file:c:\arachne\home.htm . Every time I open the hot list, a new > entry is added for file:hotlist.htm . > The history list should not store these things. Only remote sites > should be included. And then how would we be able to use the "back" and "forward" functions to revisit a local file???<g> > Also, there is unnecessary duplication if I pick a previously visited > site off the list. Instead of simply repositioning the pointer to the > previously visited site, Arachne creates a new entry. So the same > remote sites will be in there several times. Correct. Because that's what we have done. (visited sites in this order) 1,2,3,4,5,2,1,6,7,8,9,10,11,3,5,7,1,12,13,14,15,7,3,6,9,etc,etc,etc.... If it worked as you propose... it would become: ....................4,2,8,10,11,5,1,12,13,14,15,7,3,6,9,etc,etc,etc (duplicates repositioned) | >From this point down, we | can no longer repeat the | same sequence in reverse.... | 1,2,3,4,5,2,1,6,7,8,9,10,11,3,5,7,1,12,13,14,15,7,3,6,9,etc,etc,etc.... - -- 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: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 17:24:39 -0500 From: "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: site down--was Re: http://sac-ftp.gratex.sk/utilprog11.html On Wed, 23 Feb 2000 15:01:59 EST, Neil Parks wrote: > On 23 Feb 00 at 4:22, arachne-digest wrote: >> From: "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> On Tue, 22 Feb 2000 01:07:52 +-0100XYZ(nWxst), Neil Parks wrote: >> > Visit the list of shareware pgms in the subject of >> > this msg and try to d/l any of the listed files. >> > All you get is a blank screen. >> The site is "down".(can't be reached by either Arachne or Traceroute) > If that's the case then IMHO Arachne should have returned a "can't > connect" msg sted a blank screen. hmmm, That's what I got. (single skull & cross-bones screen) And of coarse you saw the result of trying "traceroute". (too many bad hops and the site could not be reached) I'll try again. - ----- OK, the site is back up. Here's the problem... ever link to a file on that page has a space after the file name. This cases the link to have "%20" on the end. 1) link to the file and a blank screen appears 2) delete "%20" from the URL line and press enter 3) download of file will commence - ---- Scratch that... It _should have_ worked. But, it doesn't. External FTP _does_ work at ftp://sac-ftp.gratex.sk/ Internal FTP does not work with that server. (all I got was "230-Welcome to Gratex FTP space") The strange thing is... Internal FTP works just fine at ftp://ftp.gratex.sk/ There must be something setup diferently at the 2 servers. If you'de like to see something even stranger.... http://ftp.gratex.sk/ - -- 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: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 15:27:41 -0500 From: "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Arachne:No connection to SMTP-server(Arachne.cfg settings) On Wed, 23 Feb 2000 10:18:01 +0100 (MET), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello Glenn, > Thanks for reading- > --my settings------ > SMPTserver mail.gmx.net > POP3server pop.gmx.net > ------------------- > hope that helps - ---result of telneting to.... mail.gmx.net 25 ------ 220 GMX Mailservices ESMTP helo 250-GMX Mailservices 250-PIPELINING 250 8BITMIME help 214-GMX homepage: http://www.gmx.net 214 send comments to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - ---------------- Well, that rules-out "misconfiguration" as a posible cause.<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/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 14:56:36 -0500 From: "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: (OT) AOL/windows users (was Re: screwed attachments) On Wed, 23 Feb 2000 02:02:44 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: > On Wed, 23 Feb 2000 00:02:58 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote: >> Sam, >> The answer to your question is simple... >> AOL users are Windows users. And Windows users are too lazy to change - ------------------------------------------------------^^^^^^^^---------- <snip> > OK, good explanation, Glenn, but why don't they have sense enough to snip > and cut out all of the other junk. Whenever I forward a message to > someone I take care to send only the pertinent information, such as the Again, the answer is simple: It's the portion of my previous post which has been underscored.<vbg> - -- 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: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 18:01:21 -0500 From: Mark David Roth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: history list growing by leaps and bounds - -Neil Parks wrote: - -My history list is getting very large--some 260 entries totalling over - -12000 bytes. I don't want to del it entirely. Is there some way to - -limit its size within Arachne, or must I use a text editor? - -Part of the reason it is too large is that it unnecessarily tracks local - -files. Every time I return to the local home page, an entry is created - -for file:c:\arachne\home.htm . Every time I open the hot list, a new - -entry is added for file:hotlist.htm . - -The history list should not store these things. Only remote sites - -should be included. - - Also, there is unnecessary duplication if I pick a previously visited - -site off the list. Instead of simply repositioning the pointer to the - -previously visited site, Arachne creates a new entry. So the same - -remote sites will be in there several times. I copy HOTLIST.HTM to HOTLIST0.HTM then HOTLIST1.HTM and so on until I get a chance to edit the links into pages of different catagories. I save all the different pages I generate into other directories so I don't clutter up my program directory. Right now I think I have about a thousand differnt pages located all over my system. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 18:01:06 -0500 From: Mark David Roth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: PC-Pine for DOS doesn't like NWCACHE >On Mon, 21 Feb 2000 23:40:54 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: > Hello Folks, > As I've mentioned before, I now have installed PC-Pine, v. 3.96 for > DOS, and I have her up and running just fine to access the free IMAP > email services offered by Subdimension and Telebot. > I have only one problem with PC-Pine: She doesn't like NWCACHE. > I like to have a line like this in my AUTOEXEC.BAT: > NWCACHE 1024 512 /LEND=ON /DELAY=OFF > With the above line in my AUTOEXEC.BAT, PC-Pine will always crash > whenever I attempt to compose a message. With the line remarked out, > never a problem with PC-Pine; however, my Arachne will run very slow > without NWCACHE. I have a 386sx 33 Mhz PC, 8 MB RAM. > Comments, suggestions anyone? > As this subject may be considered off-topic, it might be a good idea > to reply by private email. > I would appreciate very much any help on this problem. > As this is _partly_ on-subject, I'll reply to the list. > Since PC-Pine doesn't like Nwcache, but Arachne _does_.... I have two programs you might be interested in. MARK and RELEASE. They're for removing TSRs. You install MARK right before the TSR. Then you use releas to remove them both from memory. Also you ought to consider loading NWCACHE high. Your AUTOEXEC.BAT would look like this: MARK LH NWCACHE 1024 512 /LEND=ON /DELAY=OFF Then when you to run PC-Pine you would first enter RELEASE. Then both MARK and NWCCHE wouild be removed from memory. Then before you start Arachne you would execute: MARK LH NWCACHE 1024 512 /LEND=ON /DELAY=OFF You could edit those two lines into ARACHNE.BAT if you wanted to or make another BAT to run before you start Arachne. You could also start PC-Pine with a BAT that had RELEASE in one of the first lines. If you want me to I can ZIP those programs to you. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 18:21:55 -0500 From: "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Settings for Win95 and Arachne On Thu, 24 Feb 2000 08:42:50 +1100, Irena and Richard wrote: <snip> > What settings of autoexec.bat and config.sys will improve the > performance of arachne?? > By the way the machine is a 32 meg Pentium (133 MHz). Try this in config.sys DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS ;(might be c:\windows\command\himem.sys) DOS=HIGH,UMB SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM C:\ /E:1024 /P - -- 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: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 18:43:31 -0500 From: "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: PC-Pine for DOS doesn't like NWCACHE On Wed, 23 Feb 2000 18:01:06 -0500, Mark David Roth wrote: > I have two programs you might be interested in. MARK and RELEASE. > They're for removing TSRs. You install MARK right before the TSR. > Then you use releas to remove them both from memory. Also you ought to > consider loading NWCACHE high. > Your AUTOEXEC.BAT would look like this: <snip> Thanks, Mark, but I already know about Mark and Release, and I do use these programs frequently. BTW, there was quite a discussion on this list a couple of years ago about these programs. I've just learned that NWCACHE may be unloaded with the "/u" switch provided it was the last program loaded in AUTOEXEC.BAT. I've changed the loading sequence in my AUTOEXEC.BAT so as to accomodate for the problems I have in using PC-PINE with NWCACHE. I didn't know it was possible to load NWCACHE high, and I never would have thought of trying it until now that you've mentioned it. OK, I'll try it. I'll get back to later with my report. <snip> Sam Heywood ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 17:11:50 From: "Dale Mentzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: history list growing by leaps and bounds On 23 Feb 00 at 0:56, Neil Parks wrote: >>My history list is getting very large--some 260 entries totalling over >>12000 bytes. I don't want to del it entirely. Is there some way to >>limit its size within Arachne, or must I use a text editor? >> >>Part of the reason it is too large is that it unnecessarily tracks local >>files. Every time I return to the local home page, an entry is created for >>file:c:\arachne\home.htm . Every time I open the hot list, a new entry is >>added for file:hotlist.htm . >> >>The history list should not store these things. Only remote sites >>should be included. >> >>Also, there is unnecessary duplication if I pick a previously visited >>site off the list. Instead of simply repositioning the pointer to the >>previously visited site, Arachne creates a new entry. So the same >>remote sites will be in there several times. Not the best way to run a history list. I keep my history list on my RAMdisk with the cache so trimming it back is NOT a problem. ;) Regards, Dale Mentzer I can't remember if I'm the good twin or the evil one. 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: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 10:35:38 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Inline Attachments and Insight Hi Folks, This may not be something new to experienced Arachnids, but I just worked out a "display-image" fix that may help others. Arachne's Insight does not always display images that are sent as attachments to email. I have just found out why by refusing (this time) to give up. I just got an email from a correspondent in USA with attachments of HTM (repeat of the message) and an image file with the header: - --------------366E9BA7933FD9EA785993EA Content-Type: image/jpeg Content-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: inline; filename="C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\nsmailRS.jpeg" As you can see, the image still has the sender's DISK DRIVE ADDRESS as part of the file name identification. Eventually, after considerable frustration, I reduced this address to just the image file name, and: VOILA ! (or as the French say "There ya go !") the image loaded and I was looking at a photo of my friend. Michael, Bernie, et al, can Insight be persuaded to look for this oversight in incoming email attachments and make the necessary adjustments ? My correspondent is using a Netscape species under Win 98, if that is of any significance: X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) BTW: I have never been able, probably through ignorance, to view ANY in- line ENCODED image/textfile attached to any of the postings in the Arachne Digest. Is this normal ? Regards, Ron Ron Clarke http://homepages.valylink.net.au/~ausreg/music.html - -- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client - -- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 20:38:51 -0500 From: "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: PC-Pine for DOS doesn't like NWCACHE On Wed, 23 Feb 2000 18:01:06 -0500, Mark David Roth wrote: > I have two programs you might be interested in. MARK and RELEASE. > They're for removing TSRs. You install MARK right before the TSR. > Then you use releas to remove them both from memory. Also you ought to > consider loading NWCACHE high. > Your AUTOEXEC.BAT would look like this: > MARK > LH NWCACHE 1024 512 /LEND=ON /DELAY=OFF "LH" might not work because Nwcache loads itself into upper memory by default. - --- partial out put of nwcache /? ---- /L Use conventional memory for cache /X[=address] Use extended memory [at address in KB] for cache /E Use expanded memory (EMS) for cache /ML,/MU,/MLX,/MUX Load into: /ML conventional memory /MU upper memory /MLX conventional and XMS memory using DPMS (default) /MUX upper and XMS memory using DPMS (and it goes back to simply /MU if you don't have DPMS loaded) - -------------------------------------- Mark and releas arn't needed if you load nwcache last. nwcache /u unloads it (if it was the last TSR to be loaded) - -- 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: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 21:11:42 +0000 From: "Michael L. Dawley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Arachne on Laptop Computer * This message is in MIME format. - --MIME-multipart-message-boundary-951358305 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Hello all, I'm trying to get more conventional memory on this laptop prior to upgrade to 1.60b1. The Toshiba-Phoenix card manager requires something along the lines of the attached config.sys in order for the modem to be recognized. I tried to use: DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE NOEMS HIGHSCAN without the memory address specification shown in config.sys, and the modem won't work. I also notice that some of my Load High's get ignored. When I use the above line, most all of the card manager drivers get loaded high, but it's as though I don't have a modem at all, etc. Suggestions Welcomed<g> Michael L. Dawley Pearl, Mississippi - -- Using Arachne 1.50 on Toshiba T1910CS 486SX-33 20MB Ram - -- Arachne V1.50;s.r.c., NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://home.arachne.cz/ - --MIME-multipart-message-boundary-951358305 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN ;name=mem.txt Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Modules using memory below 1 MB: Name Total =3D Conventional + Upper Memory -------- ---------------- ---------------- ---------------- SYSTEM 18,173 (18K) 18,157 (18K) 16 (0K) SETVER 592 (1K) 592 (1K) 0 (0K) HIMEM 1,168 (1K) 1,168 (1K) 0 (0K) EMM386 4,144 (4K) 4,144 (4K) 0 (0K) CNFIGNAM 448 (0K) 448 (0K) 0 (0K) PCMCS 37,504 (37K) 37,504 (37K) 0 (0K) PCMSCD 20,176 (20K) 20,176 (20K) 0 (0K) COMMAND 3,856 (4K) 3,856 (4K) 0 (0K) SMARTDRV 29,040 (28K) 12,640 (12K) 16,400 (16K) ULTRA 6,144 (6K) 6,144 (6K) 0 (0K) EPPPD 70,160 (69K) 70,160 (69K) 0 (0K) COMMAND 3,312 (3K) 3,312 (3K) 0 (0K) MOUSE 25,648 (25K) 0 (0K) 25,648 (25K) POWER 4,640 (5K) 0 (0K) 4,640 (5K) PCMSS 7,328 (7K) 0 (0K) 7,328 (7K) Free 487,056 (476K) 476,800 (466K) 10,256 (10K) Memory Summary: Type of Memory Total =3D Used + Free ---------------- ---------- ---------- ---------- Conventional 655,360 178,560 476,800 Upper 64,288 54,032 10,256 Reserved 131,072 131,072 0 Extended (XMS) 20,120,800 2,348,256 17,772,544 ---------------- ---------- ---------- ---------- Total memory 20,971,520 2,711,920 18,259,600 Total under 1 MB 719,648 232,592 487,056 Largest executable program size 476,288 (465K) Largest free upper memory block 4,416 (4K) MS-DOS is resident in the high memory area. - --MIME-multipart-message-boundary-951358305 Content-Type: application/octet-stream ;name=config.sys Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 REVWSUNFPUM6XERPU1xTRVRWRVIuRVhFDQpERVZJQ0U9QzpcRE9TXEhJTUVNLlNZUyAvVEVT VE1FTTpPRkYNCkRFVklDRT1DOlxET1NcRU1NMzg2LkVYRSBOT0VNUyBISUdIU0NBTiBYPUM4 MDAtQzhGRiBYPUQwMDAtREZGRiANCkRFVklDRT1DOlxET1NcSU5URVJMTksuRVhFIC9EUklW RVM6MiAvQVVUTyANCkZJTEVTPTc1DQpET1M9VU1CDQpMQVNURFJJVkU9RQ0KRkNCUz00LDAN CkRPUz1ISUdIDQpERVZJQ0VISUdIPUM6XERPU1xQT1dFUi5FWEUNClNUQUNLUz05LDI1Ng0K REVWSUNFPUM6XFBDTVBMVVMzXENORklHTkFNLkVYRSAvREVGQVVMVA0KREVWSUNFSElHSD1D OlxQQ01QTFVTM1xQQ01TUy5FWEUNCkRFVklDRUhJR0g9QzpcUENNUExVUzNcUENNQ1MuRVhF DQpERVZJQ0VISUdIPUM6XFBDTVBMVVMzXFBDTVJNQU4uU1lTDQpERVZJQ0VISUdIPUM6XFBD TVBMVVMzXFBDTVNDRC5FWEUNCkJVRkZFUlM9MTUsMA0KU0hFTEw9QzpcRE9TXENPTU1BTkQu Q09NIEM6XERPUyAvZToxMDI0IC9w - --MIME-multipart-message-boundary-951358305 Content-Type: application/octet-stream ;name=autoexec.bat Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 c2V0IGllcHBwPUM6XE1TSUU1MA0Kc2V0IHBjdGNwPUM6XE1TSUU1MFxwY3RjcC5zaHYNCkBF Q0hPIE9GRg0KU0VUIFBBVEg9QzpcTVNJRTUwO0M6XFdJTkRPV1M7QzpcRE9TO0M6XEJBTExQ VDtDOlxQQ01QTFVTMw0KU0VUIExNT1VTRT1DOlxNT1VTRQ0KU0VUIFRFTVA9QzpcVEVNUA0K QzpcTU9VU0VcbW91c2UuZXhlDQpDOlxET1NcU01BUlREUlYuRVhFIC9YDQpMSCBDOlxET1Nc VUxUUkEuQ09NDQpQUk9NUFQgJHQkXyRkJF8kdiRfJHAkZw0KcmVtIFRoZSBmb2xsb3dpbmcg Y2FsbCB0byBXQiRFWEVDLkJBVCB3YXMgaW5zZXJ0ZWQgYnkgV2luZG93IEJvb2sgaW5zdGFs bA0KQ0FMTCBDOlxXQlxXQiRFWEVDLkJBVA0KTUVOVQ0KUkVNIFdJTg0KIA== - --MIME-multipart-message-boundary-951358305-- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 22:33:47 -0500 From: Roger Turk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Slightly off topic from TELNET thread Barry, I also use TAPCIS for my mail program and, like you, I like the way it saves messages. I don't know if there is a Windoze version of TAPCIS that you could take with you on your trips, but, if there is one and if it would fit on a floppy, you could access Compuserve from the Windoze computer. When I go out of town, I set up, sometimes several, TAPCIS.INI with the Compuserve access number for that area. For example, if I am going to San Diego, I will copy TAPCIS.INI to SDGTAPCI.INI and change the access number to a San Diego number. When I get to San Diego I will REName my current TAPCIS.INI to TSNTAPCI.INI (for Tucson's access number), and copy SDGTAPCI.INI to TAPCIS.INI. Otherwise, you might look for some Windoze offline readers on Simtel or Garbo or some other site. Roger Turk Tucson, Arizona USA Barry Kaufman wrote: >>I use DOS TAPCIS on Compuserve to download my mail. It saves all mail messages, one after the other, in a long text file. Multiple messages in "majordomo" lists that I subscribe to are strung along in that file just as if each was an individual message. My style is to use a text editor to kill, copy (append) out to other files, etc. the mail messages. That is how I operate most efficiently. If I get a binary attachment in text form, I simply UUdecode it. I just activated a POPmail port to Compuserve so when I travel, I can access messages on any PC with a browser. I had intended to save messages to a text file (browser save to file command). But, I see that all messages must be accessed individually and multiple messages in a list have to be individually accessed as well by clicking an icon for each. It is a pain mousing through dozens of messages, one at a time to save each to a text file, and then joining all those files together. Question: Is there a POP/IMAP web site, or a small WIN32 POP/IMAP or TELNET or otherwise mail program that I can use to assess my Compuserve mailbox, and that will save all messages to a single text file like TAPCIS does? I will be calling from a WIN32 PC that has internet access but not direct dial-up access to Compuserve.<< ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 18:19:23 From: "Dale Mentzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: PC-Pine for DOS doesn't like NWCACHE On 23 Feb 00 at 18:43, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: >>Thanks, Mark, but I already know about Mark and Release, and I do use >>these programs frequently. BTW, there was quite a discussion on this >>list a couple of years ago about these programs. I've just learned >>that NWCACHE may be unloaded with the "/u" switch provided it was the last >>program loaded in AUTOEXEC.BAT. I've changed the loading sequence in my >>AUTOEXEC.BAT so as to accomodate for the problems I have in using PC-PINE >>with NWCACHE. I didn't know it was possible to load NWCACHE high, and I >>never would have thought of trying it until now that you've mentioned it. >>OK, I'll try it. I'll get back to later with my report. We had quite a discussion about disk caching here in '99 or '98. I tried NWCACHE myself and I found that the default delay when delayed writes are enabled is 5 seconds (IIRC). My caching software warns against any thing greater than 1 second (default is .5 seconds). This might explain why crashes sometimes cause the FAT's to not be in agreement since the cache has probably not finished writing to the drive. It might be safer to change the write delay to something similar to what mine uses as default. Regards, Dale Mentzer Is it time for your medication or mine? 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: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 20:47:05 -0800 From: "Gregory J. Feig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: history list growing by leaps and bounds On Wed, 23 Feb 2000 00:56:59 +-0100XYZ(nWxst), Neil Parks wrote: > My history list is getting very large--some 260 entries totalling over > 12000 bytes. I don't want to del it entirely. Is there some way to > limit its size within Arachne, or must I use a text editor? Neil.......others have replied as to why it needs to be the way it is so I won't rehash....but...what to do about it, and how to use it... Michael P. gave a hint in his little blurb in the "LINKS" folder.... ....and some others have hinted at it also... 1...make a little .BAT file, that saves History.lst into a chain of HIST01,. HIST02, HIST03, HISTxx, etc....then deletes History.lst 2...shell out (ALT-E) and run the .BAT every-so-often, and that will clean it out for you....Arachne will regenerate a fresh, new, empty list for you automaticaly... 3...when you have time, edit those old HISTxx files, removing duplicates and maybe even sorting them alphanumerically, and even arrange them into catagories... 4...then send the edited list to yourself....as an email... 5...when it comes back from your mailserver, store it in "LINKS" folder and you have all those "nifty" links ready to launch, instead of kicking yourself all around the room and through the yard, because you lost that link "you just gotta have"..........<g g g> ...........gregy - -- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 22:09:36 -0800 From: "Gregory J. Feig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: site down--was Re: http://sac-ftp.gratex.sk/utilprog11.html On Wed, 23 Feb 2000 17:24:39 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote: - -------------snip---------- > Here's the problem... ever link to a file on that page has a space after > the file name. This cases the link to have "%20" on the end. > 1) link to the file and a blank screen appears > 2) delete "%20" from the URL line and press enter > 3) download of file will commence > ---- > Scratch that... It _should have_ worked. But, it doesn't. > External FTP _does_ work at ftp://sac-ftp.gratex.sk/ > Internal FTP does not work with that server. > (all I got was "230-Welcome to Gratex FTP space") > The strange thing is... > Internal FTP works just fine at ftp://ftp.gratex.sk/ Glenn.......this happens at other sites.....and I haven't had any luck with the "delete %20" move, either.....I don't remember where I've run into it, but I just figured it was a site I could not d/l from, and went to the external FTP, which worked fine..... You remember when I first came on this list, back in November, and was crying plaintively for the FTP external client...??? that was why....so I do not know the reason/cure, but the immediate workaround is to punt-out to the external FTP and do it that way..... .........gregy - -- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 00:14:27 -0500 (EST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Howard Eisenberger) Subject: Re: Arachne:No connection to SMPT-server (please help) [EMAIL PROTECTED] schreibt: > > Hello all, > Like I posted some times before I can not connect to the SMPT-server > of GMX via Arachne. POP3-download works fine and a few weeks before > upload also works -know it is dead-. I use an internet by call connection > (Talkline) here in germany. Can anybody help me please ? What are > your thougts, is this a problem with Arachne, GMX or the provider? > With Foxmail, Win3.1 and Trumpet Winsock I also can not connect to > the SMPT-server of GMX (btw. I know about first POP then SMPT). > I tried Barebone but get no working dialing-script PPP with PAP. I don't use Arachne for e-mail but I just tried sending a test message (after POP) using "mail.gmx.net" and UKA_PPP and it didn't work either. However, it did work using YAN (KA9Q). I can't explain it, but it seems to depend on the smtp program. I guess you'll just have to experiment. Doesn't Talkline provide an SMTP-server that you can use? Howard Eisenberger Ottawa, Canada - -- ... DOS TCP/IP * <URL:http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/~ag221/dosppp.html> ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 22:22:23 -0800 From: "Steve Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: re: Arachne load error again Thanks Sergei, Using the long-distance access number, Arachne works great, even though NETMASK environment variable is also set to 0.0.0.0. I tried setting NETMASK the way you indicated. It didn't make any difference. Arachne still can't find URLs and produces the load error when dialing up on a local access number. Yet, on exit the enviornment variable read NETMASK 255.255.255.0 per your setup. I am still hoping to get a Proxy address for local access to Freewwweb. Did you see the tracer data that I posted? Do you know if it is possible to identify a proxy address this way? How about a gateway? This is all greek to me. Steve - ----- Original Message ----- | Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 05:31:00 +0300 | From: "Sergei Kramar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Subject: Arachne load error again | | Steve, are you still there? | Well, I've read your emails once again and found a detail that hasn't | attract the attention anybody of us. You wrote: | > | >Compuserve and Freewweb are assigning a new IP. On exit from Arachne, the | >Arachne system variables all show values (MYIP, REMIP, NETMASK, PEERMRU -- | >though Freewwweb assigns 0.0.0.0 to NETMASK). | | I beleive NETMASK=0.0.0.0 could be the original reason all of your | following problems. Any negotiations between PPP interfaces with this | NETMASK should be disabled. I don't now exactly how PPP protocol is | working but probably I'm not so far of the truth. I've heared, some ISPs | use the Microsoft's software on their servers (in my region it is right | certainly) and our "big friend" Bill Gates gave instructions for his | programmers to include in authenticating protocols some features | NON-DOCUMENTED anywhere in open papers. When you dial up from any | Windows dialer you have no problems but it may be not right for other | platforms. | OK, to set correct NETMASK you can try | Connection @epppd.exe netmask 255.255.255.0>>PPP.LOG instead of | Connection @epppd.exe >>PPP.LOG | | Regards, | Sergei. ------------------------------ End of arachne-digest V1 #1013 ******************************
