Hi Christof, Folks,
From: Christof Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 14:11:32 +0000
> >From: "Ron Clarke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Subject: Re: Edit Arachne's Hotlist
> >
> > 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
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Oh, it's not Ron, it's actually Bill speaking...
> What are you doing here, on our list, Bill?
That mongrel doesn't own the English language. Not yet, at least.
But I may have been careless in my choice of words. :)
Perhaps we need a Sheriff for "microspeak".
> >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.
>
> Using Arachne as a shell for different applications? I thought about
> it too, Arachne has no task switching.
Well, almost as good - one can always shell out to DOS (Alt+E) and invoke
another application. Alternatively, I use FASTFLIP when I need to "multi-task"
my DOS programs (including Arachne, but not while on-line), such as using a
word processor to edit an .HTM file, such as my BOOKMARK.HTM file <g>, and
checking the results with Arachne.
> What would be important to put
> into an OOK file is a file manager
Yup, I .OOK to Dos Navigator.
It has a .GIF that can be used as a link button.
I find it more useful than XTREE.
It is also a "desktop" in its own right.
> and selecting of national
> character sets (replace fonts and keyboard map and change
> ARACHNE.CFG).
<snip>
> What has finally convinced me that Michael is right: On Saturday I
> tried to backup email of half a year. Because the monthly folders
> from Pegasus contained several hundreds of files and were much to big
> for floppies, I tried to extract them to individual files and collect
> them into zip files. I moved extracted every message, moved it to
> a zip directory, zipped them together. Then I tested it the other way
> around: Unzipped the archive, opened the zip directory moved the
> files back to a Pegasus folder. Working with individual files
> at this scale is much too slow! Goodbye, directories! I put my
> desktop into one file just as Ron and Bill do. But I have to get a
> utility that divides up zip files to several floppies...
As has been said, pkzip will make a big zip file go onto
multi-floppies AS IT IS BEING ZIPPED. But this may not be convenient for
existing big files. So ....
I have AXE.EXE. It will split and re-join "any" existing file into sections
of your choice in size. Make it 1.4 MB and each section fits on a floppy.
I have emailed it to quite a few list members before (may have been a
different list) and happy to do so again. Freeware. Command-line app.
You will need to gather ALL sections together to re-join them again, so take
great care in labelling etc. if you use them as a form of back-up.
I get the impression that many of us are looking at all sorts of
customisations for Arachne. I hope someone is gathering all these things
together in one place. We may not need some of these at the moment, but
one's needs change over time.
A web site of collected, working, customisations ? That has got to be even
better than skins. :)
Or at least a set of mutually hyperlinked sites of instructions and
downloadable batch/OOK files ?
And it should impress a few Arachne-newbies.
Regards,
Ron
Ron Clarke http://homepages.valylink.net.au/~ausreg/music.html
-- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client
