Dear egroup:
I have been reading for a couple of days and dare to weigh in on a
couple of the running issues:
Sympathies with Willy on registration
......I have been added to my boyfiriends list of bad jokes:
" I have this girlfried who is so gullible that she sent money to somone
called *Network & Fiction* in the Czech Republic!"
Seriously though, I did and heard nothing. I have just sent off a
generaous bank
cheque in Australian dollars to Michael Polak. See if this gets a
response!
Sympathies also to the writer who had invisible setup fields
in Arachne 1.6
I had the same problem and it took a day to work out that it was a
font problem and not a colour problem. The solution is disappointing
as I wanted to use big fonts to avoid wearing glasses at the computer/
Can I launch also into a couple of other problems:
*** Wordwrap is weird. It stops working halfway down the compose
feild. Also I get one word missing off the right hand side when
reading mail. I have 640 by 480 setup and a TSeng 4000 graphics card.
This does not seem to affect the problem, likewise fiddling with the fonts.
*** I cant get arachne to recognise any of the EGA card/screen combinations
that I have. This is a shame as I actually run Windows just for the
Hercules drivers that you can get. I dont have mains power, and a colour
screen uses more power than the 486 DX33 box I am using.
*** Path statemnets!!!! I have a Vdisk provided by DRDOS which seems fine
and the TEMP directory loads some pages instantly but mail reading
is painful. I can get around this by reading and editing the .cnn and .tbs
in a DOS editor. I have tried running the whole of Arachne on a V disk but
it wont find its mailboxes. I would have expected that absolute
addresses listed in PREFERENCES would have worked.
*** The mouseless operation is infuriatingly unreliable with no
selections alowed below about thalf the page!
I have found that "mouse highlight" is great for revealing the problem,
and that loading the mouse driver, even if there is no mouse, fixes
the problem. Good!
One great improvement I have found in the 1.6 version is that the
keymatic rate is about five times faster, so you can actually use
the arrow keys as a sort of mouse.
Enough for now!
Kali
-- Arachne V1.60;b1, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
