arachne-digest Saturday, March 4 2000 Volume 01 : Number 1024
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Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 05:31:17 +0200
From: Sergie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: BIG Troubles with military service
Roger Turk wrote:
> I have served this country (USA) in the Navy and am proud of it! I also
> think that everyone should willingly serve. Although I served four years on
> active duty, enlisting during the Korean War, and another 26 years in the
> reserve forces, I would willingly serve again if it should come to that.
I have refused to go to the Ukrainian Army. AND I AM PROUD
OF IT !
All you US, GB, NZ, EU citizens even can not impress what is
military service
in postcommunistic countries. In Russia young 18-years boys
going to kill
peoples in Chechnia. I do not know how it's in Chech rep.,
but in my country
army it's complete horror. My friend die 3 month ago from
famine. It was in
ARMY...
2 years in Ukrainian army i can compare only with 10 years
in Ukrainian jail....
...here the call in my door... ... hope thats not mil
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Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 22:36:35 -0500
From: "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Troubles with military service
On Fri, 03 Mar 2000 23:25:18 +0000, Charles Boisvert and Catherine Clinton
wrote:
> I've written to my MP (in England) and d�put� (in France) about military
> service and armies... I would like the part of the taxes that I pay to
> these countries, that is normally used for maintaining armies, to be
> dedicated to peaceful uses instead. We already have conscience objection
> from conscription; why can't we object to the use of our taxes for
> military purposes as well?
This is something you most certainly may do. See the famous essay by
Henry David Thoreau, "Civil Disobedience".
http://www.mcelhearn.com/thoreau/civdis.html
<snip>
Sam Heywood
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Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 22:36:35 -0500
From: "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Troubles with military service
On Fri, 03 Mar 2000 23:25:18 +0000, Charles Boisvert and Catherine Clinton
wrote:
> I've written to my MP (in England) and d�put� (in France) about military
> service and armies... I would like the part of the taxes that I pay to
> these countries, that is normally used for maintaining armies, to be
> dedicated to peaceful uses instead. We already have conscience objection
> from conscription; why can't we object to the use of our taxes for
> military purposes as well?
This is something you most certainly may do. See the famous essay by
Henry David Thoreau, "Civil Disobedience".
http://www.mcelhearn.com/thoreau/civdis.html
<snip>
Sam Heywood
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Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 23:11:02 -0800 (PST)
From: dirons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: OT: copying one HDD to another
I'm way behind. My EZ Flyer just crashed and need a backup device. Been
fooling around with some old full height Seagate and Maxtor Scsi drives.
330 and 1G. Gotem for $5, 10, 20 and controler cards for a buck. A local
surplus must of had a truck load. Been available over a year. Not as
handy as zipdisks but a helluva lot cheaper! and I can chain em out the
window. Transfer rate pretty good too.
On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, L.D. Best wrote:
> Uhhh ... Glenn,
>
> I'd have to get 100Mb zipdisks, even though my partitions are larger than
> that. I have 15 drives to copy, 9 of which have over 100Mb on them, so I
> would need 24 zip disks -- at 3 for $45 plus tax, that would cost $381.60
> plus 2 gallons of gas @ $1.89. for a total outlay of $385.38. The cost is
> that low because my son does have an external 100Mb ZIP drive which I could
> use. Otherwise I'd have to spend $140.93 for an internal USB 100Mb Zip
> Drive [and find the drivers for USB]. I still have 2 half-height external
> bays available so I might take the external drive outta the case and
> install internall; this tower was designed for net servers, I think. <G>
> That would be a total outlay of $526.31.
>
> However, if I went the other route for 250Mb Zip, I'd have to start from
> scratch. The Zip Drive external SCSI [same price as USB] $187.56 plus 4
> 4-packs of disks at $334.54 plus that same 2 gallons of gas -- $525.88. So
> starting from scratch it wouldn't cost as much to go 250Mb as 100Mb.
>
> But ... I think I can buy a whole "doze-ready" computer for that much, or
> less [monitor not encluded]. I think I still have my null modem cables, I
> know I still have PC hooker, so I could copy my current HDD to the HDD on
> the new computer, and set it aside giving me 2 backups, then install the
> new HDD, get set up for multi-OSes, and copy back to new HDD a partition at
> a time as needed.
>
> Hmmm ... Did you know that some mobos now have *modems* built in? V.90 56K
> right on the main board ... Get the mobo, case, power supply for $200; get
> 64Mb SDRAM DIMM $86; I already have HDD; I already have FDD; Celeron 400
> $76 or Pentium II 400 $178; heat sink & ball bearing fan $19. A new
> computer for under $400, if you don't go overboard, with a little putting
> together. SHEEESH!!!
>
> Does anyone see anything wrong with this picture? I knew we were closing
> in on it, but I think technology and hardware prices have reached the point
> where it is cheaper to buy a new computer [with, of course, a bigger HDD]
> than to back up the HDD on the computer you already have. Advanced
> computers are now going for less than 10% of what a top-of-the-line system
> sold for in 1990 [I know, cuz I had to shop 4 two matched systems]!!!!
> I'll have to consider my options on this ... two of the computers are
> already on the floor, but I guess I could stack the new one on top of
> the 286 which resides on the desk next to mine. }:>
>
> l.d.
> ====
>
> On Sun, 23 Jan 2000 16:22:39 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote:
> <snip>
> > If this is not feasable.
> > The least expensive methode would be an external ZIP drive.
> > Copy each HDD partition to it's own ZIP disk(s).
>
> -- Arachne V1.60;b1, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
>
>
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Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 09:29:00 +0100 (MET)
From: Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LENGTH WARNING Re: Cache size
L.D wrote:
>* Every HTT file which had a "matched" file was deleted, leaving only the
> HTM or appropriate graphics file.
>* Every JPG file which had a 'matched' BMP file was deleted.
Great rules :)
>Even subtracting the 174 "abberant files" above, that leaves 384 "items"
>which were in the cache.
My dictionary didn't have the word "abberant" in it (or anything resembling
it). Please remember that not all on the list are native English speakers.
In any case, the facts are these:
1. You can obviously have more than 256 items in the cache (directory)
2. Glenn and me can not have more than 256 (and remember that everything
works well for Glenn <G>)
Now why is it like this?
I haven't changed arachne.cfg much, only the way Arachne looks (using a
"windows" scrollbar for instance).
As a side note I have never been forced to use chkdsk to clean up any files
(except after forcing Arachne to crash).
>Anyone who wants the file and feels masochistic can have it,
>but others *might* doubt your sanity. <G>
I'm begining to doubt my sanity all on my own here ;-)
>However, I think all that work did point out a weakness -- the
>inability to properly clear graphic files from cache for some reason.
Yes, this is very interesting indeed.
//Bernie
http://bernie.arachne.cz/ DOS programs, Star Wars ...
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Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 09:29:01 +0100 (MET)
From: Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: D/Ling an .HTT (was Re: Cache size)
Glenn wrote:
>> BTW2: I wonder what would happen if you download a .htt file from the
net...?
>
> I'll upload one to my page to see what happens.
Ok, your test was not exactly like I "wanted" it to be.
First off the server sent it as plain/text - to make sure that it's also
saved with a .htt extension we need to change mime.cfg. Now we also need to
match the name of this file with some other .htt file (preferly with the
name the new .htt file will have when you download this .htt from the net).
*Now* what will happen? (and who has enough time on their hands to even
bother with this weird test? <g>)
//Bernie
http://bernie.arachne.cz/ DOS programs, Star Wars ...
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Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 10:29:38 +0100 (CET)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Menedetter)
Subject: OT new test of NS v3.01 timezone stamp....
Hi
Clarence Verge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> my TZ looks like this
>> CET-1CEST-2,M3.5.0/2,M10.5.0/3
CV> I'm guessing that's for Win95 ?
No ... it's for DOS programs needing TZ.
The problem is, that TZ depends on the library these prohrams use ...
But this seems to work for all programs, where I need it.
CV> - Clarence Verge
CU, Ricsi
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Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 12:03:50 +0000
From: "Edenyard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: What does Q do??
On Fri, 3 Mar 2000 03:19:44 +0100, Bernie wrote:
> ...pressing Q to download all links on a given page....
>
Please can anyone enlighten me? This is NOT the first time
that I've seen reference to pressing Q to do this. Heeding
Glenn's advice of some time ago to study the HOTKEYS.HTM page
frequently, I did just that and I couldn't find any reference
to Q.
What's the score here? Should it work? Is there a reference to it in
any documentation?
Thanks for any clues!
Ron.
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Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 06:13:36 -0500 (EST)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: DR-DOS 7.01 vs. 7.03
That minimal DR-DOS diskette I had from the DR-WebSpyder 2.0 demo was
DR-DOS 7.02, and I subsequently downloaded 7.03, so I can't speak for 7.01. But
my SyJet drive sometimes spontaneously ejects the cartridge under either of
these DR-DOS versions, which has never happened under MS-DOS, OS/2 Warp 4 or
Linux. I don't know if this is the fault of DR-DOS, since the SyJet acts rather
strange. Getting the cartridge in right is tricky and often takes many
attempts, and ejecting when I want to eject tends not to work. I don't know if
the SyJet drive is going bad. Syquest has gone bankrupt. Iomega Zip 250 drive
acts much more normally. My Arachne 1.60b1 is on one SyJet disk, and now in the
SyJet drive is a Linux cartridge waiting for installation of Slackware 7.
Thomas Mueller
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Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 06:13:35 -0500 (EST)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Cache size
I haven't been to Glenn's Web page yet, not being online since reading the
message, but my CACHE directory topped 256 files many times, topped 1000 files
once and 800 at least one other time. Not thinking any advantage in seeing how
much disk space I can waste, I went back into Arachne and typed F8 to kill the
cache. So I don't have any record on how those > 1000 files were interrelated,
whether by some strange math it was really < 256.
Thomas Mueller
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 06:37:49 -0500
From: Gloria Burd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Troubles with military service
I would recommend visiting the Web sites of the following organisations:
1. Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors
2. Winter Soldier
3. VietNam Veterans Against the War
4. Fellowship of Reconciliation (www.fornatl.org, or
www.nonviolence.org/for)
5. War Resisters League (www.nonviolence.org/wrl)
I don't know the URLs of all of the above, but a good search engine should
help you.
Thank God for programmers who don't support war!
The way of Gandhi is the only way to world peace.
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Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 06:44:49 -0500
From: Gloria Burd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Troubles with military service
The best defence is disarmament.
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Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 14:13:23 +0100 (MET)
From: Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What does Q do??
Edenyard wrote:
>> ...pressing Q to download all links on a given page....
>
> Please can anyone enlighten me? This is NOT the first time
>that I've seen reference to pressing Q to do this. Heeding
>Glenn's advice of some time ago to study the HOTKEYS.HTM page
>frequently, I did just that and I couldn't find any reference
>to Q.
>
> What's the score here? Should it work? Is there a reference to it in
>any documentation?
It should work, do you mean that it doesn't for you?
I don't know where it says that you can do it, but it's been a great
feature (IMHO) in Arachne for a few versions (starting from 1.50?)
Aha, here it is (from history.txt):
1.50 "release candidate"
(snip)
New hotkeys Q - request all links in page, V - verify links.
Also available via new customizable Toolbar.
However Arachne is not yet able to determine that a given page already has
been added to the list of pages it will load. So on pages (like the one I
downloaded - "Art of Assembly") the download time will be much higher than
required unless one changes the .asf file Arachne creates by hand. (Reduced
download time on my university from more than 1 hour (and by then only half
way through) to a total of 15 minutes.
Perhaps Michael can add info in it to the next verison of the hotkeys file?
BTW: If you want to use this in a more usefull way you should download my
acopy.apm which will (when configured correctly) save the downloaded files
with their original name in the cache directory. (Extremly usefull -
however requires that the names are in a 8.3 format to not create any
problems - unless your command.com can handle LFNs).
//Bernie
http://bernie.arachne.cz/ DOS programs, Star Wars ...
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Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 13:37:35 +0000
From: Charles Boisvert and Catherine Clinton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: abberant= aberrant
>My dictionary didn't have the word "abberant" in it (or anything resembling
>it). Please remember that not all on the list are native English speakers.
According to my Collins English dict.:
Aberrant, adj. Deviating from what is normal, expected, or usual.
The word is of latin origin - it is definitely known in French and Spanish,
and probably other languages of that family as well. But the point about
non-native speakers is a good one. Thank you.
Charles
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Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 20:16:05 +0100
From: "Michael Polak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Last notes on military service
Sorry if this is annoying to someone, but my first post about military
service was only technical note about possible problems I will have to
face in near future. Many people responded to the list, so I will do so
too.
There are some ideas which I believe can be proved to be right:
1) To call service in army, especially if it is not voluntary, a
"honor", is either very idealistic, but it can be called also naive,
and in extreme case a hipocracy It is slightly like in George Orwel:
"war is peace, freedom is slavery, truth is lie". It is something what
definitely restricts personal freedom, while the benefit for single
country is problematic, and benefit for human race as a whole is
definitely negative
2) Not all democratic countries require their citizens to serve in
army, but ALL totalitarian countries (namely Germany in both W.W., Austria
Hungary in 1st W.W., Communist Russia during it's entire history,
nationalist Serbia, Pol-Pot's Kambodza and many, many other) use
conscription to increase strength of their armies. All of such countries
call it big honour to serve in army....
3) In my country, I am allowed to serve "alternative service", but
it is forbidden to have any legal income while serving both in army
and civil service, and additionaly, the civil service has to be
unqualified. It is economical nonsense, because qualified people
are force to do some job for 1.5 years, which could be easily done
by people, who can't find any job due to lack of qualification. So our
country loses not only taxes (eg. I am paying slightly higher taxes than
our average Czech citizen - but so do many other young men who succeded to
find good job or run some business) but also has extra expenses while
supporting unemployed people (unemployment got much worse during last
few years).
4) Existence of national armies in today's Europe is totaly irrational.
We are surrounded by very peacful nations, and usage of army in some
international operations is anyway restricted to professional part
of army anyway.
...
I must definitely agree with Or Botton's point of view (although I think
Israels is maybe located in more dangerous part of world than my
country, but this can change if someone more agressive wins election in
Russia :-( Of course I will try to do it like hime, the problem is that
in my case, the process has gone too far, and I will face more troubles
than this initial
Additionaly, I was suffering quite unpleasant ilness cca 3 years ago
(probably as result of my initial period of extremely-hard, day and
night work on Arachne... which I definitely gave up, now I spend most
of my time answering Arachne related e-mails ;). It is caused "syndrome
of being tired" (proably only in Czech, not in English), and some
doctors believe it is caused by certain known virus, so it is often called
"E.B.virosis". But it is not on list of "accepted ilnesses" to be
excused from military service. Luckily, this ilness is not active now,
but they would probably called me even during the period when it was
active, if I had bad luck.
...
Summmary: I believe, that only very idealistic people isolated from
reality can call compulsory service in army to be useful for anyone or
even call it a "honour". Being pragmatic and realistic, I would like to
not forget about this absurdity when I grow older, and work hard towards
worldwide abolition of these relics of slavery, as I see them from my
point of view of until-recently-completely-free-man. Additionaly,
conscription is sexist - I wonder if I shouldn't declare that I am
going to change my gender to woman ;-)
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Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 15:27:37 -000
From: Mike Millen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LENGTH WARNING Re: Cache size
>L.D wrote:
>>Even subtracting the 174 "abberant files" above, that leaves 384 "items"
>>which were in the cache.
>My dictionary didn't have the word "abberant" in it
>(or anything resembling it).
It might have helped if she'd spelt it correctly. :) (Only 1 "b")
It means "to wander off or go astray" but it's not a *very* common word
in English.
>Please remember that not all on the list are native English speakers.
An excellent reminder, Bernie.
Mike
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Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 18:32:36 +0100 (MET)
From: Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Aberrant
Mike wrote:
>It might have helped if she'd spelt it correctly. :) (Only 1 "b")
As I said I looked for words resembling it. And shorting it down with one b
was the first change I did (can't have two a's next to each other in the
begining of a word except in names, right?).
>It means "to wander off or go astray" but it's not a *very* common word
>in English.
Probably why my not-so-thick dictionary didn't have it. On all the time
I've been on the Internet I've only needed to look three words up
("bangles" and something else that was in the same meaning were the other
two). "bangles" was the only one that was actually in my dictionary.
And Charles wrote this (thanks to both of you):
>According to my Collins English dict.:
>Aberrant, adj. Deviating from what is normal, expected, or usual.
>
>The word is of latin origin - it is definitely known in French and Spanish,
> and probably other languages of that family as well. But the point about
>non-native speakers is a good one. Thank you.
Ah, it's something we'll need to live with (both us who don't know the
words and the people we ask about what they just "said"). On the other hand
I can understand what Matthias Pauls extensive DOS documentation says, and
I bet most people here don't understand it ;-) (or should that perhaps be a
":(" ?)
http://www.rhrz.uni-bonn.de/~uzs180/mpdokeng.html#M.MPDOSTIP if you don't
know what it is.
//Bernie
http://bernie.arachne.cz/ DOS programs, Star Wars ...
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Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 11:15:08 -0500
From: "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Improper HTML rendering of high ascii characters
�Hola! Saludos � todos:
If I wanted to use my Arachne to compose and send a note in the Spanish
language to another list member, then I would need to use the following
special non-English characters:
�, �, �, �, �, �, �, �
If you are looking at the text .CNM file, the above characters are properly
viewed as� (thus):
ascii 160 = �
ascii 130 = �
ascii 161 = �
ascii 162 = �
ascii 163 = �
ascii 164 = �
ascii 168 = �
ascii 173 = �
In order to get the aforementioned characters to be rendered correctly by
HTML, I have to use the ALT + NUM characters listed below:
225 �
233 �
237 �
243 �
250 �
241 �
191 �
161 �
Now I have a question:
Why is HTML programmed in such a way so as to not perform a one-for-one
rendering of high ascii characters? IMHO, it would seem a good idea if
all HTML viewers and text-to-HTML converters were to adhere to the
international ascii standard. This would eliminate many problems in
attempting to correspond with someone in a language that is other than one's
own.
�F�jense como el sistema es muy chiflado!
Look at how the system is so fouled up!
I would appreciate any comments and ideas concerning my question.
Muchas gracias,
Sam Heywood
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Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 20:14:08 +0100 (MET)
From: Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Improper HTML rendering of high ascii characters
Sam Heywood wrote:
>�Hola! Saludos � todos:
�Hola amigo! (and there my spanish knowledge more or less ended)
>Why is HTML programmed in such a way so as to not perform a one-for-one
>rendering of high ascii characters? IMHO, it would seem a good idea if
>all HTML viewers and text-to-HTML converters were to adhere to the
>international ascii standard. This would eliminate many problems in
>attempting to correspond with someone in a language that is other than one's
>own.
I think that the Internet as a whole uses the ASCII standard very well,
however what you miss is the fact that ASCII is 7-bits (0 to 127). The
extra bit is used difrently around the world. I would even assume that when
the first Internet applications came 7-bits "was enough for anyone" ;)
Why HTML isn't using for instance the US ASCII table is probably since it
wasn't made by someone in the US. The diffrences are small between most
western european and the NA - but they do exist. I can only assume that
there are more diffrences with the rest of the world.
//Bernie
http://bernie.arachne.cz/ DOS programs, Star Wars ...
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Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 14:08:00 -0500
From: Clarence Verge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Improper HTML rendering of high ascii characters
Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
>
>
> Why is HTML programmed in such a way so as to not perform a one-for-one
> rendering of high ascii characters? IMHO, it would seem a good idea if
> all HTML viewers and text-to-HTML converters were to adhere to the
> international ascii standard. This would eliminate many problems in
> attempting to correspond with someone in a language that is other than one's
> own.
Hi Sam;
That's probably because there is no REAL single standard for the high ASCII
characters.
ASCII is fully represented by a 7 bit code and the use of the other half of
the available byte depends on who is using it. Printer manufacturers have
had their own ideas, software written for languages and character sets other
than English frequently makes use of this space (but not in a standardized
manner) and obviously IBM chose to use it for some special characters and
graphics.
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Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 13:54:30 -0500
From: Clarence Verge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Aberrant
Bernie wrote:
>
> Ah, it's something we'll need to live with (both us who don't know the
> words and the people we ask about what they just "said"). On the other hand
> I can understand what Matthias Pauls extensive DOS documentation says, and
> I bet most people here don't understand it ;-) (or should that perhaps be a
> ":(" ?)
Yes; that should be ":(" ! It's in German !!
> http://www.rhrz.uni-bonn.de/~uzs180/mpdokeng.html#M.MPDOSTIP
Not that there is anything wrong with German except my understanding of
it is very poor.
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Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 13:38:51 -0500
From: Clarence Verge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: OT new test of NS v3.01 timezone stamp....
Richard Menedetter wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Clarence Verge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >> my TZ looks like this
> >> CET-1CEST-2,M3.5.0/2,M10.5.0/3
>
> CV> I'm guessing that's for Win95 ?
> No ... it's for DOS programs needing TZ.
> The problem is, that TZ depends on the library these prohrams use ...
> But this seems to work for all programs, where I need it.
Hi again Richard;
I hate to drag this out any longer, but WHERE did you get the information
on syntax necessary to create that complex (to me) TZ spec. ?
I'm sure there is some massive collection of tricky bits I and other casual
users are not privy to and I was looking for pointers on how to access it.<g>
- - Clarence Verge
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Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 20:51:37 -000
From: Mike Millen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Aberrant
>Mike wrote:
>>It might have helped if she'd spelt it correctly. :) (Only 1 "b")
>As I said I looked for words resembling it. And shorting it down with one b
>was the first change I did (can't have two a's next to each other in the
>begining of a word except in names, right?).
Well...
There *are* a few words, but none you're likely to come across
every day. :)
There's a type of lava in Hawaii and a few Afrikaan words that
start that way, but otherwise, you're right... Aaron it is. :)
Mike
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Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 17:02:04 -0400
From: "L.D. Best" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: My former InSight problem
Just wanted everyone to know that, despite suspicions that a redirect
">NUL" might have caused the problems I had with getting FILES set
correctly, the redirect was not the problem.
The problem was totally typical for me. I've gotten so used to using
certain special files that I've forgotten they are special files and not
part of the Command.com structure. Such was my problem with getting
FILES up to the 59 I requested & couldn't seem to acquire.
Now that I've rewritten the line in autoexec to show full path [yeah, I
know I should practice what I preach] that I had honestly *forgotten*
was necessary, I get the number of files I need no matter where I put
the path statement.
Can you say "DURrrrrrrrrr, George!" ??
With moderately red face, I remain
l.d.
P.S. Trouble Shooting Tip of The Day: In any batch file, where things
would normally write to the screen, or where error messages can appear,
or where a >NUL statement resides, place redirects to a log file instead
to help in debugging. i.e. Wherever you have >NUL replace ">NUL" with
>>c:\batch.log and things like loading the mouse that usually would
write to the screen should also be redirected. Remember to use the
"append" double >> so that the file isn't overwritten by each new
response. Beats the heck outta removing @echo off and trying to hit
the pause button to see what is being 'said' by the system.
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Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 23:18:38 +0100 (CET)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Menedetter)
Subject: OT new test of NS v3.01 timezone stamp....
Hi
Clarence Verge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >> my TZ looks like this
>> >> CET-1CEST-2,M3.5.0/2,M10.5.0/3
>> CV> I'm guessing that's for Win95 ?
>> No ... it's for DOS programs needing TZ.
>> The problem is, that TZ depends on the library these prohrams use
>> ... But this seems to work for all programs, where I need it.
CV> I hate to drag this out any longer, but WHERE did you get the
CV> information on syntax necessary to create that complex (to me) TZ
CV> spec. ?
I'm sorry ... I got it by the author of my Mail Editor :)))
So I can't point you to some extended information.
I can only say that it works GREAT here ... but it is not of much help to
you, because you 1) don't live in middle europe and 2) I don't know the
exact meaning.
CV> I'm sure there is some massive collection of tricky bits I and other
CV> casual users are not privy to and I was looking for pointers on how
CV> to access it.<g>
Hmmm I haven't understood your sentence fully :)
The problem is, that there is more than one way to set tz.
And it depends on the program whether it is interpreted correctly.
(as I already said tz=+0100 or whatever should work nearly everywhere, BUT
you have to manually correct it when DST begins/ends)
Sorry, that I couldn't provide you with additional help ... maybe someone
else here knows more about that topic ...
CV> - Clarence Verge
CU, Ricsi
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Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 09:12:14 -0500
From: "Sam Ewalt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Troubles with military service
On Fri, 3 Mar 2000 19:36:32 +0100 (CET), Cliff Albert wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Feb 2000 some message from Michael Polak appeared before me saying,
>> I think that compulsory military service should be outlawed in all
>> countries worldwide. I am absolutely _not interested_ in serving in any
>> army of any country in the world, but Czech laws give me very little choice,
>> and "alternative service" is kind of punishment for people who refuse
>> to go to the army anyway.
> I'm glad the netherlands already dumped military service ;)
The United States did away with compulsory military service sometime
in the late 1970's. It was thought that an all volunteer force would
be more effective than reluctant draftees, especially when asked to
fight an unpopular war like in Vietnam.
Many American men like myself were faced with the dilemma of being
conscripted to fight a war that we thought was misguided, immoral
and useless. I was not a conscientious objector to war in general,
but I was firmly convinced that the war I was being asked to fight
was wrong.
My brother felt the same way, but when he was drafted he chose to
serve rather than resist. He bitterly regrets that decison now.
He served with distinction, had a top level security clearance and
as a teletype operator was privy to the uncensored field reports.
His view, based on his service in Vietnam, is that the war was an
unecessary tragedy for America and for Vietnam, and accomplished
nothing.
My brother's opinion now is that if your government demands that you
do something that you believe in good conscience to be wrong that you
should refuse to serve and willingly pay the consequences. He says
that he would tell them to go to hell with their war and would volunteer
to go to jail. I would proudly go with him.
Sam Ewalt
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