Topic: What you can and what you want
>Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 11:38:31 +0200
>From: Or Botton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: Virtual Arachne
>
>The problem is that people who visit the site may think that
>Arachne can only do 256 color.. (most of them wouldnt check bmp
>because of the site and the bother required in unzip)
>
>I allready know several people who think that "dos can only do
>256 colors".
Dear list,
many people around me are convinced that DOS definitely ended with
the year 1999...
I am very enthusiastic about Clarence's website. It is some kind of
counterpart to Arachne's homepage. I have the impression that it
has a double message with both parts being very important:
First he introduces Arachne to the public. The website is to give a
first impression of Arachne to people coming from WINDOWS. Who have a
lot of prejudice on DOS, because they do not know it at all or left
it a long time ago. Yes, people's prejudice should certainly be
corrected: It is important to show what DOS can (leave aside whether
it is DOS or a couple of programmers bravely fighting against its
limitations). Arachne does right this. DOS can use all kind of
pictures and sounds. And if I am not wrong this is the intention of
the Homepage of Arachne in the present shape that has been criticized
by many on the list.
But Clarence is not only a member of the Arachne Fan Club. He is
also a minimalist. And this is the second message of his website: He
virtuously uses Arachne to reproduce functionality on a low level
hardware equipment. Of course Arachne can true colour, but this is
probably not what I want. He wants to have a screen that is useful pn
monochrome monitor as well as on the latest
What you can and what you want are
different things is not HiHe can
He
means it seriously (and he therefore wants Arachne's ikons look
seriously too).
He is
serious Not only the icons, but the whole man is completely serious
WINDOWS
cannot run on an XT and it does not want. MS wants people to
upgrade again and again. They very well knew
But seriously: does it make any sense to re-introduce DOS to
(probably younger) people who have grown up only with WINDOWS?
Can playing with DOS be for them anything more than preparation
for Linux? We
But the point is: It can, if the user wants to do.
>
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>Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 05:03:49 -0500
>From: "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: GRAMMAR
>
>On Thu, 02 Nov 2000 23:31:51 -700, Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
>
><snip>
>
>> The digest is lately regularly filled with a discussion about grammar.
>> English is not my first language and I must confide that I think that a lot
>> of bandwidth and time is spilled with the finesses of the "English" english
>> language (or is it "American" english? ;-)).
>> I myself am not interested in reading these messages and would suggest that
>> these emails are marked with the word GRAMMAR
>
><snip>
>
>To me this seems to be a very reasonable request. I think all of us who
>post on this subject should be considerate and comply.
>
>All the best,
>
>Sam Heywood
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>Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 06:04:19 -0500
>From: "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: dealing with spam
>
>On Thu, 2 Nov 2000 13:18:50 EST, Neil Parks wrote:
>
>> On 1 Nov 00 at 17:50, arachne-digest wrote:
>>> From: "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>> A problem with ISPs that install spam filters is that you will fail to
>>> receive even legitimate messages if they should originate from an smtp
>>> server listed on ORBS as an open spam relay. Sometimes you will fail
>>> to receive legitimate messages even if the domain name appearing in the
>>> sender's address is the same as the domain name of a known open spam
>>> relay.
>
>> In that case, the sender of the msg normally receives a "bounce"
>> explaining the situation. He can then tell his ISP to clean up its act,
>> close the open relay, and get off the blacklist. Sounds like a pretty
>> good solution to me.
>
>Yes, the sender does normally receive a "bounce" message. Some ISPs
>don't even want to clean up their act. As I said, they don't care.
>They like to harbor spammers.
>
>Regards,
>
>Sam Heywood
>
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>Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 07:01:49 -0500
>From: "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: Stop posting Re: grammar violation
>
>On Thu, 02 Nov 2000 16:37:21 -0500, L.D. Best wrote:
>
>> I still believe that such corrections are inappropriate in this forum.
>> If someone truly intended to kindly educate the person making an error,
>> to help said person gain a better control over the elusive English
>> language, wouldn't that be best done in private?
>
>> "Help" given publicly is most often an embarassment, particularly when
>> the person didn't ask for that help in the first place.
>
>> I'm not likely to change my mind on that. I was taught that a boss
>> should never publicly chastise an employee, and I agree with that. As a
>> teacher I learned that correcting a student "in front of the class" very
>> often led to withdrawal from class participation, anger, pain, or a
>> combination thereof.
>
>> To reduce the OT traffic flow here, it seems that we will simply have to
>> agree to disagree.
>
>Well said, L.D.
>
>I should like to add that the psychological effect on the person being
>publicly criticized can be either good or bad. It depends on the person
>and the attitude of his peers. It depends on the severity of the criticism,
>the person's personality, and the person's ability to respond to public
>criticism. If the person knows how to take it, then it's OK to dish it out.
>If a person doesn't know how to take public criticism, then the person
>should learn. The teaching should be given in private whenever this
>method is more helpful and positive and appropriate.
>
>All the best,
>
>Sam Heywood
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>Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 07:16:42 +0000
>From: "Neil-san" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Tnx
>
>Good Morning-
>Thanks for the tips on setting up the desktop key functions. Just did
>it and it works!
>All the best
>Neil
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>
>Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 14:48:56 +0100
>From: Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: Virtual Arachne
>
>Or wrote:
>>I allready know several people who think that "dos can only do
>>256 colors".
>
>Atleast they understand that there can be some graphic in DOS, many people
>assume that since the UI is text-based all programs *must* be text-based as
>well.
>But you are correct, this might be a small problem with Clarences site.
>//Bernie
>http://bernie.arachne.cz/ DOS programs, Star Wars ...
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 15:02:05 +0100
>From: "Florian Xaver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: Virtual Arachne
>
>Yes, many people think that DOS is only text mode or 320x200 with 16 colors
>:)) They also think that win is a OS and not a DOS program.
>They also don't know that there are 32-bit programs (protected mode
>programm),
>they played doom, but they think that this are Win, Linux features.
>The manager of Micro$oft are good!!!
>:-))))
>
>bye,
>florian
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>
>- -----Urspr^nngliche Nachricht-----
>Von: Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Datum: Samstag, 04. November 2000 14:55
>Betreff: Re: Virtual Arachne
>
>
>>Or wrote:
>>>I allready know several people who think that "dos can only do
>>>256 colors".
>>
>>Atleast they understand that there can be some graphic in DOS, many people
>>assume that since the UI is text-based all programs *must* be text-based as
>>well.
>>But you are correct, this might be a small problem with Clarences site.
>>//Bernie
>>http://bernie.arachne.cz/ DOS programs, Star Wars ...
>>
>>
>
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>
>Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 15:50:39 +0010
>From: "Joerg Dietze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: SV: Arachne & ADSL
>
>On Fri, 3 Nov 2000 16:51:16 +0100, Lars Wigrell wrote:
>
>> Is this "the" pepa driver ? http://home.t-online.de/home/hanewin/pepa-d.htm
>
>Yes.
>BTW, here is the result from mem /debug from my brother-in-law's
>computer (someone asked for the memory needed for the ADSL drivers).
>He is running the Win98 DOS.
>
>Detaillierte Angaben zum konventionellen Speicher:
>
> Segment Gesamt Name Typ
> ------- ---------------- ----------- --------
> 00000 1.024 (1K) Interrupt-Vektor
> 00040 256 (0K) ROM-#bertragungsbereich
> 00050 512 (1K) DOS-#bertragungsbereich
> 00070 1.408 (1K) EA Systemdaten
> CON SystemgerSigmatetreiber
> AUX SystemgerSigmatetreiber
> PRN SystemgerSigmatetreiber
> CLOCK$ SystemgerSigmatetreiber
> A: - E: SystemgerSigmatetreiber
> COM1 SystemgerSigmatetreiber
> LPT1 SystemgerSigmatetreiber
> LPT2 SystemgerSigmatetreiber
> LPT3 SystemgerSigmatetreiber
> CONFIG$ SystemgerSigmatetreiber
> COM2 SystemgerSigmatetreiber
> COM3 SystemgerSigmatetreiber
> COM4 SystemgerSigmatetreiber
> 000C8 5.248 (5K) MSDOS Systemdaten
> 00210 10.320 (10K) EA Systemdaten
> 1.024 (1K) Verschobene EBIOS-Daten
> 1.152 (1K) XMSXXXX0 Install. Treiber=HIMEM
> 4.016 (4K) EMMXXXX0 Install. Treiber=EMM386
> 2.960 (3K) DblBuff$ Install. Treiber=DBLBUF
>F
> 544 (1K) Sektorenpuffer
> 512 (1K) BUFFERS=11
> 00495 80 (0K) MSDOS Systemprogramm
> 0049A 80 (0K) MSDOS -- Frei --
> 0049F 15.488 (15K) IMOUSE Programm
> 00867 76.560 (75K) PEPA Programm
> 01B18 288 (0K) MEM Umgebung
> 01B2A 6.272 (6K) MSDOS -- Frei --
> 01CB2 24.608 (24K) PEPA Daten
> 022B4 90.464 (88K) MEM Programm
> 038CA 422.736 (413K) MSDOS -- Frei --
>
>Detaillierte Angaben zum oberen Speicher:
>
> Segment Bereich Gesamt Name Typ
> ------- ------ ---------------- ----------- --------
> 0C96E 1 12.032 (12K) EA Systemdaten
> 2.848 (3K) IFS$HLP$ Install. Treiber=IFSHLP
> 752 (1K) BlockgerSigmatetabellen
> 2.672 (3K) FILES=50
> 256 (0K) FCBS=4
> 2.288 (2K) LASTDRIVE=Z
> 3.104 (3K) STACKS=9,256
> 0CC5E 1 5.728 (6K) COMMAND Programm
> 0CDC4 1 1.440 (1K) COMMAND Umgebung
> 0CE1E 1 240 (0K) MSDOS -- Frei --
> 0CE2D 1 4.688 (5K) DOSKEY Programm
> 0CF52 1 288 (0K) MSDOS -- Frei --
> 0CF64 1 32 (0K) MSDOS -- Frei --
> 0CF66 1 6.944 (7K) KEYB Programm
> 0D118 1 32.192 (31K) SMARTDRV Programm
> 0D8F4 1 4.672 (5K) PNPPD Programm
> 0DA18 1 24.192 (24K) MSDOS -- Frei --
>
>Speicherbelegung im #berblick:
>
> Speichertyp Gesamt = Belegt + Frei
> ---------------- ----------- ----------- -----------
> Konventionell 655.360 135.808 519.552
> Oberer 92.464 67.712 24.752
> Reserviert 393.216 393.216 0
> XMS* 99.522.256 4.806.352 94.715.904
> ---------------- ----------- ----------- -----------
> Speicher gesamt 100.663.296 5.403.088 95.260.208
>
> Ges. unter 1 MB 747.824 203.520 544.304
>
> Nummer EMS-Name Gr÷#e
> ------- -------- ------
> 0 060000
>
> EMS-Speicher gesamt 33.947.648 (32M)
> Freier EMS-Speicher* 33.554.432 (32M)
>
> * EMM386 emuliert je nach Bedarf EMS-Speicher mit XMS-Speicher.
> Die Gr÷#e des EMS-Speichers kann je nach freiem XMS-Speicher
> variieren.
>
> #ber Int 15h erreichbarer Speicher 0 (0K)
> Max. Gr÷#e f^nr ausf^nhrbares Programm 513.184 (501K)
> Gr÷#ter freier oberer Speicherblock 24.192 (24K)
> MS-DOS ist resident im hohen Speicherbereich (HMA).
>
> XMS-Version 3.00; Treiberversion 3.95
> EMS-Version 4.00
>
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>Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 17:13:18 -0500
>From: "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: text/plain text/html headers
>
>On Fri, 03 Nov 2000 18:14:22 -0500, L.D. Best wrote:
>
>> Some of us have, from time to time, run across pages which were html but
>> were on the home server as text/plain.
>
>> That designation is shown in the headers we are now given the option of
>> keeping as part of cache.
>
>> Query: If we hit a page that should be text/html but is shown as
>> text/plain, can *we* modify the header for that page Arachne has stored
>> and have Arachne "suddenly recognize" the page as the text/html we've
>> changed the headers to show?
>
>> [And if that is possible, shouldn't it be possible for Arachne to have a
>> built-in feature where we hit a hotkey and the header is changed from
>> text/plain to text/html?]
>
>> dumb question? maybe ... but at least I thought to ask it. <G>
>
> No, it's not a dumb question.
>In your example (html sent as text/plain), here's how to do it.
>
>After the page has completed downloading
>1) Alt+E to a Dos prompt
>2) change this line in mime.cfg
>old......
>text/plain TXT
>
>new......
>text/plain HTM
>
>3) exit the Dos prompt back into Arachne.
>
>The page will now be viewed as HTM
>
> You may test the above procedure by visiting this page
>http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/test.txt
>(test.txt is actually an .HTM file which I've renamed to .TXT so that it
>will be sent as "text/plain" instead of "text/html")
>
> You will see that it is actually this message converted to HTML format
>by Insight.exe <g>
>
>Speaking of which....
>I really *should* get in gear and recompile Insight.
>It's no longer called "Mailman".<vbg>
>
>- --
> Glenn
>(your friendly neighborhood compu-nerd)
> http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/
>
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>
>Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 20:23:53 -0500
>From: "L.D. Best" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: text/plain text/html headers
>
>That's a temporary work-around ...
>
>On Sat, 04 Nov 2000 17:13:18 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote:
>
>>> Query: If we hit a page that should be text/html but is shown as
>>> text/plain, can *we* modify the header for that page Arachne has stored
>>> and have Arachne "suddenly recognize" the page as the text/html we've
>>> changed the headers to show?
>
>> No, it's not a dumb question.
>> In your example (html sent as text/plain), here's how to do it.
>
>How about a fix that isn't going to interfere with other things. For
>example, I keep archives as txt files, and a lot of ftp sites use text
>files ... I shouldn't have to change mime.cfg & then change it back.
>[I'm a persistent cuss, if nothing else... ]
>
>l.d.
>
>
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>
>Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 22:20:13 -0400
>From: "Dev Anand Teelucksingh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Dfilter v3.0 - Arachne Email filtering program
>
>I've just uploaded Dfilter v3.0 on my Interesting DOS programs page
>at http://www.opus.co.tt/dave.
>
>Dfilter is a an email filtering program. It searches your messages
>for a specified text string and moves any found messages to a
>specified subdirectory (under the mail directory).
>
>The filters are stored in a text file and you can select from a
>web page (in Arachne of course) which filter to run on one mailbox.
>You can also choose to run all filters on one type of
>mailbox (inbox, outbox, read and sent)
>
>Comments, suggestions are welcome.
>
>Dev Teelucksingh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Interesting DOS programs at http://www.opus.co.tt/dave
>Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society at http://www.ttcsweb.org
>
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>
>Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 20:56:39 -0500
>From: Clarence Verge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: Virtual Arachne
>
>Bernie wrote:
>>
>> Or wrote:
>> >I allready know several people who think that "dos can only do
>> >256 colors".
>>
>> Atleast they understand that there can be some graphic in DOS, many people
>> assume that since the UI is text-based all programs *must* be text-based as
>> well.
>> But you are correct, this might be a small problem with Clarences site.
>
>OK OK. All I want is monochrome so 256 colors is a riot to me. ;-)
>
>I WILL put a statement in there to indicate the actual color capabilty of
>Arachne, but I won't lead visitors by the hand to it.
>
>I never use Hicolor in Arachne for esthetic reasons, but I use 24bitTruecolor
>with NS3.04 on the same box. Very little material I come across requires this
>capability. I usually refuse to spend a lot of time downloading images with
>color resolution exceeding their spatial resolution unless they happen to be
>very special anatomy examples.<g>
>
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>
>Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 22:02:14 -0500
>From: Clarence Verge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: text/plain text/html headers
>
>Glenn McCorkle wrote:
>>
>> > [And if that is possible, shouldn't it be possible for Arachne to have a
>> > built-in feature where we hit a hotkey and the header is changed from
>> > text/plain to text/html?]
>>
>> > dumb question? maybe ... but at least I thought to ask it. <G>
>>
>> No, it's not a dumb question.
>> In your example (html sent as text/plain), here's how to do it.
>>
>> After the page has completed downloading
>> 1) Alt+E to a Dos prompt
>> 2) change this line in mime.cfg
>> old......
>> text/plain TXT
>>
>> new......
>> text/plain HTM
>
>Why not have TWO versions of mime.cfg ?
>One could have the standard mime mappings and the other could have
>alternatives for MANY mime types. <g>
>
>Then shiftF10 (say) could be programmed to swap them by:
>shiftF10 file:mimeswap.ook
>
>MIMESWAP.ook:
>@ECHO off
>if exist mime.tmp del mime.tmp
>ren mime.cfg mime.tmp
>ren mime.new mime.cfg
>ren mime.tmp mime.new
>
>The above is circular.
>It can be initialized on entry to Arachne with the following
>lines added to your initial batch file:
>copy mime.sav mime.cfg
>copy mime.try mime.new
>
>I tried the above with only the following two lines changed in mime.cfg:
>;-----------------ALTERNATE--------------------------------------
>text/html TXT
>
>I then viewed mime.cfg source on the screen and hit shiftF10.
>And again.
>Beauty. <g>
>
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>
>Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 14:11:32 +0000
>From: "Ron Clarke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: Edit Arachne's Hotlist
>
>Hi Folks, Christof,
>
>Christof wrote:
>> Now what to do, if the hotlist manager in its present form does not
>> meet my needs? Instead of programmes I will propose some work-
>> arounds, until "anybody" writes the utility. But first I would like
>> to explain again why somebody (even besides me) may probably not
>> want to have all bookmarks in one file:
>>
>> - - loading time: is not a quantitTheta negligeable, Ron.
>
> Yes, I accept that. :)
>
>> It depends
>> on processor speed and the type of monitor. As I want to use
>> hotlist also for offline browsing, it should be practical even for
>> the old 386 on which I use Arachne only to view HTML documents.
>
> Agreed.
>
>> - - CTRL+arrow keys: yes, Ron, the home key gets me back to the very
>> beginning of the file. But then I have to start my search again. Take
>> the worst case eg. that your screen displays only some 22 rows of
>> text. Even with the best index it will happen that you do not exactly
>> remember in which category to look for the link. You try one
>> category, and if you failed, you go to the category which is next to
>> it. But you do *not* go back to the beginning. This is my concern.
>> If you have the categories in different files you can navigate by the
>> CTRL+arrow keys, if everything is in one file you cannot (only with
>> MSIE, but do not do that!).
>
> Actually, you can. Use the Search hotkey - "/" (*) and enter a little bit
>of the text you know is in the URL title. Michael's excellent search
>routine will find it, but only if it is in the file you have on your
>screen. I have gotten into the habit of using this facility on any file
>or web page that is longer than one screen display. Much of the time this
>is even faster than using my "Topic Header" internal links.
>
>(*): Note - "/" or F7 or Ctrl+Q are all SEARCH hotkeys. :)
>
>> - - I admit that the above problems are not relevant as far as you
>> just want to collect a couple of links for your individual online
>> traffic. But let us say there are several people working with Arachne
>> on one PC or in a local network. Each of them will collect his own
>> bookmarks and can have his own hotlist (customized in ARACHNE.CFG).
>> But it would be quite practical if they also had access to bookmarks
>> collected by others...
>
> Then each user may have her/his profile .ACF file to point to a
>personal hotlist file (Rons_BM.htm, Chris_BM.htm, Clarence.htm etc..)
>with the "master" bookmark.htm including links to each of those personal
>hotlists.
>
>> - - And finally: I always considered Arachne to be an ideal combination
>> of online browser and offline viewer. As I work with old and quick
>> text editors that do not display HTML grafically, I really need a
>> HTML viewer, because I am neither able nor willing to convert
>> everything to pure text in DOS codepage. So there is a constant
>> growth of useful files on my hard disk, some of them containing
>> further online and offline links. You could say that my hotlist is
>> actually not a hotlist, but a hot-and-cold-list containing all those
>> HTML files that I once downloaded to my hard disk and wanted to keep
>> for the future.
>
> I do, too. I have a very large collection of downloaded MSDS
>(material safety data sheets) relevent to my work as a chemical
>consultant. They are spread through an extensive directory "tree" but all
>linked from a single INDEX.HTM file at the start of the MSDS directory.
>This is one of the most useful things I have done - the .HTM files go AS
>IS into the structure, and I read them with Arachne.
>
>> When I started to edit my hotlist manually I had to
>> differentiate between online and offline links. It can be done by
>> colours (insert eg. <BODY LINK="...">). Eventually I arrived at
>> this: links to further lists display green, links to the web blue,
>> links files on the harddisk yellow. I think, what I describe is
>> commonly called infranet. Anyway it is too much for a single
>> HOTLIST.HTM.
>
> My main BOOKMARK.HTM (the "master bookmark index") also has a section
>called "My Hard Disks", into which are placed links to all the
>directories of .HTM files and links to indeces. Thus Arachne has also
>become a most important desktop portal to all the HTM and related files
>on my entire system. As it happens, I have also set up my nominated
>"home page" for Arachne as a web-page type .HTM file, that links to .OOK
>files calling many of my DOS applications, as well as having links to
>each of my ISP's on-line websites and to Google.
>
>> These are the reasons why I arrived at putting my bookmarks into a
>> DOS directory tree. I wanted to share them with you. Nothing more.
>
> And that is what this mailing list does so well. :) Share ideas.
>
> Which just goes to show how flexible and configurable Arachne is.
>The best way to configure Arachne is the way that makes most sense to
>each individual. And it seems to me that most DOS users are individuals
>in every sense. Which makes me wonder if there will ever be a *best* way
>to set up a bookmark/hotlist manager that suits everyone.
>
> And I think that is good. It should mean that there are no artificial
>borders to what is possible.
>
>Clarence Verge wrote:
>> p.s. My current 2 cents worth:
>> My Netscape bookmark file is much more extensive than my Arachne
>> Hotlist. I also have an Opera bookmark file.
>> BOTH of these can be accessed via Arachne. I just have a link to
>> each in my (real) Arachne hotlist. The formats are compatible.
>
> Yeah, mine too. :)
>
>> I don't know or care about IE.<g>
>
> :)
>
>
>Regards,
> Ron
>
>Ron Clarke http://homepages.valylink.net.au/~ausreg/music.html
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>
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>
>Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 02:14:29 -0500 (EST)
>From: "Thomas Mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: Arachne & ADSL
>
>>my brother-in-law runs A. with ADSL. You have to load a packet driver
>>for Your network card and a driver called pepa.exe, which is about 79 kB
>>filesize. I'll try to find out about about memory this driver needs.
>>
>>Regards Joerg
>
>Do other DSLs besides ADSL use this same driver, and what about cable
>connections?
>
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>
>Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 02:14:22 -0500 (EST)
>From: "Thomas Mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: Re-grading Arachne
>
><yes, I know, sometimes she is behaving like Windows! But Arachne
><gives you the chance to backup the configuration. So I was actually
><talking about files I wanted to save for the next version, and of
><course I have saved them in a backup directory.
><
><Your article is excellent for those who configurate Arachne by the
><wizards. Who edits files, probably even knows, how to back them up.
><Once I begin to edit files manually, I should know that I take up
><responsible for Arachne's file management, too. And there is little
><reason to complain: CHANGE.TXT always gives you an idea which
><files are new or have been changed/deleted since the last version.
><
><Christof Lange
>
>It would be much nicer to be able to install a new Arachne from a .ZIP file, and
>copy, and if necessary slightly modify, the previous ARACHNE.CFG, than to run
>the ARCHN*.EXE and go through the "wizards". How did software install "wizards"
>get that name? It is rather disconcerting to go through that clumsy scrolling
>during the install when it would be so much smoother to edit a configuration
>file.
>
>Has anybody had trouble accessing one's own files with Arachne 1.67? I tried
>arachne e:\asave\mail\charset.mes
>offline, and got Arachne load error. Arachne 1.48 did OK with the same file.
>After the lack of success with Arachne 1.67, I typed dir (4 spaces)(F3) to prove
>that the file really was there, no typo on my part. F3 played back the
>remainder of the command line from the previous command.
>
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>
>Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 00:40:51 -0500
>From: "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: text/plain text/html headers
>
>On Sat, 04 Nov 2000 17:13:18 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote in part in
>responding to a recent post by L.D. Best:
>
>> You will see that it is actually this message converted to HTML format
>> by Insight.exe <g>
>
>> Speaking of which....
>> I really *should* get in gear and recompile Insight.
>> It's no longer called "Mailman".<vbg>
>
>Of course L.D. would have much rather preferred that it would have been
>called "mail person". You know how she is. <vbg>
>
>All the best,
>
>Sam Heywood
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>Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 01:39:47 -0500
>From: "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: Dfilter v3.0 - Arachne Email filtering program
>
>On Sat, 04 Nov 2000 22:20:13 -0400, Dev Anand Teelucksingh wrote:
>
>> I've just uploaded Dfilter v3.0 on my Interesting DOS programs page
>> at http://www.opus.co.tt/dave.
>
>> Dfilter is a an email filtering program. It searches your messages
>> for a specified text string and moves any found messages to a
>> specified subdirectory (under the mail directory).
>
><snip>
>
>> Comments, suggestions are welcome.
>
>My comments:
>
>This is probably a good way to deal with spam. I frequently receive
>over a period of time dozens of spam messages from various sources,
>all dupicates, and all having the same subject header. Maybe this
>D-Filter could be set up so as to automagically search for a certain
>string in the subject header and move the entire message to a folder
>named spam. I have noticed also that the text of most spam messages
>tends to share in common certain phrases that are not normally found
>in a legitimate email. So far my spam problem has not been so severe
>as to necessitate the installation of a filtering program. If the
>problem should get a lot worse then I will want to look into D-Filter
>as a candidate for helping to provide a solution. Thanks for informing
>us about your program.
>
>All the best,
>
>Sam Heywood
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