arachne-digest Saturday, February 26 2000 Volume 01 : Number 1015 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 04:23:55 -0500 (EST) From: "Thomas Mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Inline Attachments and Insight > - --------------366E9BA7933FD9EA785993EA Content-Type: image/jpeg Content-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: inline; filename="C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\nsmailRS.jpeg" > Is that file name & path from the sender's computer or intended for the recipient's computer? If intended for the recipient's computer, it won't work on Mac, Linux, OS/2, DOS, BeOS, and not always on Windows. Sometimes the main Windows directory might have another name, like WINNT for an NT system? It would be interesting to see how and if Linux/Unix interprets such a file name. I believe the recipient could correct the file name with a text editor. Support the International Alliance for Compatible Technology http://pages.cthome.net/iact/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 04:23:52 -0500 (EST) From: "Thomas Mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: More screwed attachments Michael Dawley, This time you sent two text files encoded base64. You have to watch Arachne/Insight. mem.txt was encoded quoted-printable, resulting in a couple of stray =3D's. In a few of the most important cases, I go to the trouble of extracting with MPACK/MUNPACK. > - --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-- Support the International Alliance for Compatible Technology http://pages.cthome.net/iact/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 04:23:56 -0500 (EST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Arachne load error again Does NETMASK 0.0.0.0 screw Arachne? Some DOS Internet programs, such as UKA_PPP, prefer it that way. Bluegrass Net sets my NETMASK environment variable to 224.0.0.0 or 255.255.0.0, but there is a line, netmask = 0.0.0.0, in UKA_PPP's WATTCP.CFG. Thomas Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 10:28:45 +0100 (CET) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Menedetter) Subject: PC-Pine for DOS doesn't like NWCACHE Hi "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [PINE] SH> Here is my description of the problem: SH> When I attempt to compose a note to post to a newsgroup, or if I SH> should attempt to forward a post, or reply to a post, a message will SH> appear at the bottom of my screen saying "Validating Newsgroups". SH> Usually the computer is locked up at this point and I have to do a SH> cold re-boot. hmm .. this appears here also, but it vanishes very fast, and than the message is sent ... Have you tried another newsserver ?? (you can try news.wu-wien.ac.at ... for non-university IPs only some at.* newsgroups are readable ... You can try to wwrite to at.test , but I don't know whether writing is allowed ...) SH> Sometimes an error message is returned saying that no SH> smtp server has been identified for posting to newsgroups. Interesting ... SMTP has nothing to do with newsgroups ... SH> I can find nowhere in my setup file any place where a separate entry SH> for the smtp server is required for posting to newsgroups. it is not ... SH> Here is another problem: Whenever I access a newsgroup, all of the SH> old messages that I've already read are also displayed. I try to SH> exclude the old messages, but that doesn't happen. Whenever I do a SH> news run I will get all the new postings plus all the old ones. I SH> don't know what I'm doing wrong. You don't do anything wrong ... That's IMHO normal behaviour. SH> Sam Heywood CU, Ricsi - -- Richard Menedetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ICQ: 7659421] {RSA-PGP Key avail.} - -=> Did you really understand that message? <=- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 12:42:19 +0100 (MET) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:Arachne on TV - How it looked like >Hi. >I've managed to get a VGA-to-TV convertor (etleast!), and I have >connected my P350 to the TV to see how Arachne will look like. >(I know that the P350 is not a slow SurvPC machine, but I got >PC-DOS 2000 fully configured over there and it can run everything. >No windows-only device anywhere.). As I have expected, the picture was >abit blurry. The fonts were hard to see.. I tried to use the biggest >system font and HTML font scaling availble, but things still looked >abit weird. The resolution of the TV is indeed very lousy when you >get to see how direct computer graphics look on it. Infact, even in >the lowest resolution Arachne still looked abit hard to understand. >I remember that DR-WebSpyder had a direct "for TV" visual setting >option. I want to try it. If it will look more clearer, maybe Michael >can get some ideas about how to add a "TV visual setup" for Arachne. :) >Or Botton >[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, Like you know I am also abit into this VGA2TV business- but more with my arcademachine. I make use of direct RGB-input via software so colors and stuff maybe abit better for me- but that means runing into trouble with interlace-flickering (for arcademachines a real non-interlaced mode like a tweaked modex for example 512x512 would be great). However, it is funny to see Arachne on a real great screen and I like the look&feel of Arachne on my arcademachine. Such a "TV visual setup" for Arachne would be a real nice feature and I think a challenge for programmers. Things to look at are the Sega Dreamcast- browser Dream Key 1.0 or settop-boxes TV-browser. It is also interessting to search the net and looking for what made TV-graphics-programming so special (and sometimes a nightmare). It was new to me what you say about DR-WebSpyder- is there a place for a stand alone download so I can test it? regards, J�rg - -- Sent through GMX Free Mail - https://www.gmx.net ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 07:55:47 +0100 From: "Michael Polak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Fw: Re: arachne-digest V1 #1014 Dne Fri, 25 Feb 2000 10:27:27 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (arachne-digest) napsal: > .... Michael P. has set a limit on 256 items in the cache and when it reaches > that limit, Arachne just stops! No, Arachne recycles the oldest items - and the expiration rules can be set differently for statical and dynamical (eg. CGI scripts, .shtml pages...) objects. > Clearing the cache (and CACHE.IDX) with the > F8 key will usually get Arachne zipping along again. On one of my computers > I have Cache and CACHE.IDX on a resizeable RAM drive that clears every time I > leave Arachne; on another computer, I hit F8 after I hang up. The "sleep" > problem has not really been a problem with 1.6b1. I also hope so. Well, someone has reported frozen downloads, but it is always hard to determine when the sleeping is caused by line and when by Arachne itself. In Windows DOS box, the problem may be in operating system deliberately taking CPU time from supposedly "inactive" processes :-( > When did Arachne start having a limit of 256 items in the cache? I have > exceeded 1000 and could tell, from the DOS prompt, by typing 'dir cache' when in > the Arachne directory. For a long time, there was bug in Arachne cache management module, which generated new random filename in cache without deleting the old file. Few releases ago, I took more detailed look at this, and Arachne now deletes (almost) all temporary files after removing track about them from CACHE.IDX database. But you can still get "lost" cache items if Arachne crashes without saving CACHE.IDX > No windows-only device anywhere.). As I have expected, the picture was > abit blurry. The fonts were hard to see.. I tried to use the biggest > system font and HTML font scaling availble, but things still looked > abit weird. The resolution of the TV is indeed very lousy when you > get to see how direct computer graphics look on it. Infact, even in > the lowest resolution Arachne still looked abit hard to understand. For TV screen, you need 640x480 and special font optimization (anti-aliasing). Arachne will need different font routines, optimized for TV screen. > I remember that DR-WebSpyder had a direct "for TV" visual setting > option. I want to try it. If it will look more clearer, maybe Michael > can get some ideas about how to add a "TV visual setup" for Arachne. :) I think they were using anti-aliased fonts... ..... > Ever hear of "magnus-internal/parsed-html"? I didn't either, till > I attempted to view the page that is the subject of this msg. > Arachne was able to display it after I added the following line to > MIME.CFG: > magnus-internal/parsed-html HTM This is really nasty :-( It is not MIME type at all. MIME types should start with text/ , image/, audio/, video/ or application/. That's rule! Parsed HTML still gives "text/html" MIME type. Someone should tell them their engine is comletely stupid and not RFC compliant :-( Unfortunately, some browsers (and Arachne will probably have to do it too) determine MIME type (for unknown stream types only, of course) by analyzing start of the stream for "magical strings" likek "GIF89a", "JFIF" or "<HTML>" ... .... > My stock broker. Jeez. When he sends me jokes, he also sends me his entire > client list. :-/ :( My associate. A G**damn PROFESSOR of Engineering Physics. He uses Windows > because he says: "I need it to run the latest software". He didn't use the > OLDER software. "You never know when I might need it", he says. "And anyway, > I need it to get the University email or download something new." Latest software definitely runs mainly on Linux - show freshmeat.net to anyone who would doubt. I think that all Arachne advocates need Linux version to be able to really efficiently argue with Windows users ... I would currently recommend Windows only for audio processing and other multimedia operations - well, BeOS may be cool, but for Windows there is IMHO more software. Macs are traditionaly prefered by artists, but as far as I had chance to see, their main advantage against Windows is that they are much more expensive as you can't get cheap "noname" Mac. I would choose Mac probably only for digital video editing... There is now really no need to use Windows or Mac for statical graphics editing and creation, 3D rendering, word processing, spreadsheet calculations, of course networking of all kind, and surprisingly also gaming - number of serious commercial game titles ported to Linux is increasing rapidly. I am not mentioning software development, which is main reason why people choose Linux rather then anyhing else. We had to use Windows eg. for realtime video screening during gig of my band "Skrehule": the cool AVS plugin for WinAMP was not yet ported to Linux/XMMS, and being X11 application, XMMS plugins can run only in Window, it would be quite complicated to go fullscreen (but maybe Englightment window manager can later come with some hack to set lower resolution and swith any X application to full screen ;-) - -- Michael Polak: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Arachne Labs: http://arachne.cz/ My mobile phone - up to 160 characters: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 18:08:49 +0300 From: "Sergei Kramar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Arachne load error again On Wed, 23 Feb 2000 22:22:23 -0800, Steve Evans wrote: > > 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. Steve, NETMASK is used by routing server to separate net-name and machine-name parts of four byte IP address. E.g. 255.255.255.0 means that first three bytes of current IP address is the net address and the last fourth byte is the machine address in that net. 0.0.0.0 netmask means there is the single greatest net consisting of more then 4 billion machines. I've never met the using of such netmask but if your local provider uses this netmask for PPP connections and all is working OK then we have nothing to do besides to go on our investigatoin. > > 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. Yes I did. As I understand, you traced home.freewwweb.com (and others) from Win95 remote access program/dialer via your home phone but Arachne can't work properly on the same phone. Is it correct? I don't know the punctual answers on your questions about proxy/gateway but we can try to know them together. Do you have TELNET installed with your Arachne? TELNET will help us to feel network without HTTP using. One more important question is: can your Win95 TRACEROUTE program handle with different ports of destination host? I don't use Win95, 98, etc. and don't know how this program works. In UNIX compatible systems the key -p is used for this purpose, e.g. traceroute -p [nn] home.freewwweb.com, where nn is the port number. Try to read the HELP about TRACEROUTE on this subject or may be somebody in our list knows the answer. The default port number in TRACEROUTE is 33434, but we need 80 that is used for HTTP. Sergei. - -- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client - -- Arachne V1.50;s.r.c., NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://home.arachne.cz/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 03:31:41 -0400 From: "L.D. Best" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: (OT) AOL/windows users (was Re: screwed attachments) Sam and All, I have the true answer, but there are millions who would deny it. The reason why Sam, Glenn, I, and many others on the list trim and snip and clean up is because *we* are computer users. Not only are we computer users now, we were computer users when "the net" meant Itelec or I'Net or U'NI ... and when you didn't dial an ISP, you dialed a BBS [or if you were very rich you dialed Compu$serve] and modems went 300bps until the raging speed of 2400bps showed up. And if you wrote a message longer than 40 lines [if the BBS editor would let you even do it], the Sysop would warn you once, and a repeat would get you kicked .... or a group moderator would kick you out for quoting more than three lines in a response. We *know* what bandwidth is. We had computers that were "top of the line" with a 20Mbyte RLL HDD. Windoze users are not computer users [with the possible exception of my first born who is using dozeware only until he learns Linux & gets a decent system set up]. To them bandwidth is something companies sell to other companies that are listed on NASDAC. The idea of being kicked out of anywhere because of over quoting is laughable to them. And they are what keep Bill Gates alive. It sickens me that I have a computer which is literally 200 times faster than my first computer, but at times runs slower because of the sludge and kludge BillyGate$ has filled telephonic interconnectivity with. Intel Gives -- Micro$oft Takes. That's my story, and I'm stickin' to it! l.d. ==== 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 - -- Arachne V1.60;b1, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/ ------------------------------ End of arachne-digest V1 #1015 ******************************
