On Mon, 24 Jul 2000 15:14:05 -0400 (EDT), Karen Lewellen wrote:
> mail is not my problem,
> not sure where sam got that,
With Arachne, mail would be a problem for you
when accessing the messages in the normal
display mode which is graphical. There is
a work-around. You can access the email
messages as individulal ascii text files
after escaping to DOS shell. The message
files are identified by eight digit numbers and
a three character extension such as "CNM" or "MES"
or "SNT". Until you load the file and have it
processessed by your screen reader, you will have no
clue as to the sender and subject. Net-Tamer's mail
reader interface is not graphical. It is all
ascii and therefore much easier for you to use.
If you want to use Arachne for reading mail, then you
should use some kind of mail reader program that you
invoke from the DOS shell. Your program needs to display
the headers, "from" and "subject", and also identify the
name of the file. Then you use the arrow keys to cursor
up or down to a message selected for reading. You press
enter, and the entire message is displayed in ascii.
I am posting to the list, and including with this message,
a program that will work just fine for this purpose.
To use it you will need to change the file extensions for
your old messages and your sent messages to "TXT" and
"MSG" respectively. Arachne's message naming system
applies an extension of "MES" to old messages and "SNT"
to sent messages. "CNM" is the file extension for new
messages received by Arachne's mail program.
> however, there are sites where
> i need to visit for professional
> chat, www.delphi.com,
> and some websites that nettamer, nor
> linx can reach.
The problem with the chat websites that you can go to
on the web is that most of them provide only a graphics
display and interface. Except for BBSs, I don't know of
any chat rooms that you can get into that provide an ascii
interface.
> that is why i want to try arachne, or something esle.
> that may let me do this.
> i am told that arachne cannot reach
> secured sites, my other major need,
> but if i can solve one problem i would be happy.
> thanks,
> karen l
Please check out the program appended below. I sure hope
someome might find it helpful.
All the best,
Sam Heywood
P.S. In order to use this batch file, you will have to
get BAREBONE.COM, approximately 6K bytes, freeware, from
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jchap/tvde.htm
The file viewer is compiled into the program. I wish we
had the source for the file viewer.
----------------- begin VIEWMAIL.BAT ----------
@echo off
if "%1"=="/?" goto help
if "%1"=="/new" goto new
if "%1"=="/old" goto old
if "%1"=="/sent" goto sent
if "%1"=="" goto help
echo Unrecognized command "%1".
:help
echo You must use one of the command line parameters described below:
echo.
echo viewmail /? displays this help screen
echo viewmail /new displays new messages, i.e., "*.CNM"
echo viewmail /old displays old messages, i.e., "*.TXT"
echo viewmail /sent displays sent messages, i.e., "*.MSG"
echo.
echo Also this program requires BAREBONE.COM, available as freeware
echo from http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jchap/tvde.htm
goto thend
:new
echo. New Email messages > mail.box
@echo off
echo. >> mail.box
barebone /l >> mail.box
goto list
:old
echo. Old Email messages > mail.box
@echo off
echo. >> mail.box
barebone /lt >> mail.box
goto list
:sent
echo. Sent Email messages > mail.box
@echo off
echo. >> mail.box
barebone /lm >> mail.box
goto list
:list
barebone /vl mail.box Email Messages
del mail.box > nul
:thend
--------- end VIEWMAIL.BAT -----------------
-- This mail sent by Arachne, www graphical browser for DOS
-- Visit the Arachne DOS Browser Home Page, http://home.arachne.cz
