On Sat, 12 Aug 2000, Dale Mentzer wrote:
> On 12 Aug 00 at 19:32, Andrew Geoghegan wrote:
>
> >>Hey Dale; there Is a digest verion of arachne... send to
> >>[EMAIL PROTECTED], blank subject and "subscribe arachne-digest" (
> >>without the quotes) as the message
>
> Yes, I need to change my subscription. The digest is not MIME format
> and Pegasus will separate each message in that format for
> reading/replying. Glenn M. has a digest separater program he wrote to
> do the same thing, but I just have not installed and figured it out.
> Not an excuse, just lazy and complacent.
>
> >>I've heard ALOT re: Pegasus... mostly that it is a Large program...
> >>almost all of My e-mail I compose "online" in PINE on my ISP's Unix
> >>machines... I Do have A TON of saved to zip disk PINE sent-mails and I
> >>have often thought pegasus might be good for speedier access to them...
> >>right now, I must upload an entire(1 month) sent-mail PINE mailbox in order
> >>to access a given message(s)
>
> Yes, it is a bit bloated (the distro package is larger than a 1.44
> floppy) so you can't run it off of a floppy ;) but it is nevertheless
> worth the HD real estate it occupies, IMO.
I doubt Pegasus will handle UNIX format mail,
Pegasus Had been *suggested to me as being able* to read/handle my
unixPINE saved e-mail so I Am now going to try it.
but there are other programs for offline
> reading of those messages, though I cannot be more specific.
I Have the URL for ReRead by Helmo Clausen from the [EMAIL PROTECTED]
list yet decided to go with Pegasus because ReRead though extensive seemed
not of much use to my unixPINE saved sent-mails... I don't know whether
pcpine would be of much help...
I am
> sure someone on the list will know and post with some more info and
> probably a link the program. Stay tuned.
offline e-mailing has been somewhat of a nightmare for me... having first
tried it with Windows eudora 1.5.2... then from the FileManager tried to
start eudora *on a zip disk* by dropping a 14M eudora mailbox as an
initial file... this promptly deleted the (huge) eudora mailbox from the
zip disk.
my copy of win3.1 was then down for almost a year and a half in trying to
recover this lost file (: I later ordered the norton utilities v8.0 for
win3.1... surprisingly to me, upon reading the manual, there may still be
a way to recover this lost mailbox from whatever, of the four zip disks I
own, it was on, despite them being opened again for writing countless
times since [ by finding the starting cluster ].
LUCKILY! DOS or Windows 3.1 back-up and make and keep multiple copies of
WIN.INI, SYSTEM.INI and CONTROL.INI!
>
> >>I'm going to stick to my perhaps primitive system configuration... as I've
> >>stated, right now I am attempting to master actually downloading a mp3
> >>file...
it is so frustrating, only adding to my difficulties in using old
hardware and software, to get to a site only to find I need to modify
[ i.e do yet another arachne re-configuration ] my end just so I may
download a file... and right now I am still not sure even if I go back
into window's netscape that I will be able to download from mp3.com (:
I see my topo as having two files: my Arachne 1.66 system and my
> >>copy of Win3.1
>
> Nothing wrong with that. Stay with what works till you have some
> confidence in the new stuff.
>
> >>I now boot to the DOS prompt and when I want to surf or offline e-mail I cd
> >>to Arachne and if I need to word-process or maybe netscape I cd to \WINDOWS
> >>and launch windows 'manually'
>
> There are several good menu programs to simplify that. I use Desktop2
> myself. Something to think about if you're interested.
once I do { if I am able } to download a mp3 file, I must re-modify my
autoexec.bat and reboot to re-enable my SB card
I had to disable everything to allow enough low memory to run Arachne
I Do have the version/URL for the correct Realplayer {v.5} to use with my
3.1 window's netscape or IE
>
> >>I am a little nervous about trying pegasus sort of afraid of inviting
> >>problems to my simple 'world'... but we'll see...
>
> Well, you could do a trial installation and download your email with
> Arachne (set up POP3 in Arachne to leave the mail on your server) and
> manually copy them to the directory that Pegasus is using for your
> mailbox. In fact you should setup Pegasus to use the same directory
> as Arachne and eliminate the manual copying of the Arachne/Pegasus
> .cnm mail files. Then you could play with the program without fear
> of loosing anything while you continue to use the Pine mail program
> for your "real" mail. Arachne and Pegasus is a "killer" combination,
> IMHO.
>
it's not so much "real" as convieniant(sp)... my ISP allows me to spend
long periods of time connected to his unix machines with a DOS-shell
connection; so typing everything online is the cheapest/fastest/easiest
way of me communicating via e-mail and even surfing the WWW via unix
lynx...
but I will try what you suggest with Pegasus ( i.e. installing it in the
Arachne directory ) there have been two recent posts to the Arachne list
on Arachne and Pegasus which I have saved and will study.
> >>thanks Dale for all your help and encouragement so far!
>
> Feel free to post to the list or off list personally at any time. I
> will be glad to help you get Pegasus configured or with your Arachne
> problems.
>
> Regards,
> Dale Mentzer
>
> I wish the buck stopped here. I could use a few.
>
>
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