On Sun, 02 Apr 2000 12:57:48 -700, Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
> Having just installed mICQ on my Windows free computer I have gotten a UIN
> and seem to be able to use the program. Have still no idea how to use it
> but I will surely find out.
> In the documents I found several times Arachne mentioned as not to be able
> the mICQ in a multiline mode. This should mean that I could use mICQ in a
> normal mode with Arachne. Can somebody give me details as how to use it
> with Arachne?
I use MICQ in a multiline mode in my Windows free computer. I do not use
it as an Arachne add-on application and I am not even familiar with the way
MICQ is installed as an Arachne add-on, but I believe I could figure out
some easy way of doing it. I cannot imagine why it should matter at all
whether MICQ is running as a stand-alone or as an Arachne add-on, or as an
add-on to any other DOS browser. It should behave the same way regardless.
It might be possible that in the documentation the term "multiline mode"
is being confused with the concept of "full-duplex mode". MICQ will not
work in "full-duplex mode", as it does with its Windows counterpart version.
MICQ will work in "half-duplex mode" only. ICQ will work in "full-duplex"
mode. Half-duplex mode is analogous to a "push-to-talk" mode that is
used in CB radios and walkie-talkies. One party may talk while the other
party listens. Full-duplex mode works like a normal telephone. Both
parties may be talking and listening to each other at the same time.
The "multiline mode" which one may enable in MICQ is an operational mode
whereby one can compose several lines of text and hit the enter key after
each line, and without the message being sent until all lines are composed,
and the user then enters the appropriate command to send it. If the
multiline mode feature is not enabled, then the user must compose the
several lines of text in some kind of pseudo word-wrap mode that fails to
break the lines properly.
Sam Heywood
-- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client
