>Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 15:34:55 +0000 >From: "Ron Clarke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Edit Arachne's Hotlist ... >> 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. ... Arachne can be used only for viewing files. MIME.CFG defines which file extension will need which application. Everything is possible! But Arachne is not a programme for copying, moving, deleting, renaming... of files. This is why somebody put DC.COM on the Arachne download page. DC.COM is a minimalistic freeware Norton Commander clone. You may use Norton commander versions, Volkov Commander, Dos Navigator... etc. They offer a lot of interesting features. But they have one thing in common: They can view files with external programmes, too. There is a configuration file NC.EXT, DC.EXT (or whatever it may be called) that associates a file type with a viewer. Viewer may be any DOS running program: viewer, editor, batch file. NC.EXT has the same meaning for Norton Commander as MIME.CFG for Arachne. You can even call Arachne from your file manager in order to view a files with the extensions HTM, AH, ASF or mail messages. If you need both programmes in any case, you may wonder whether you call Arachne from filemanager or file manager from Arachne. Which way is more practical to you? Examples: 1. You use Arachne to view files of all kinds online and offline. If you want to copy, move, zip, or just control the files you have just downloaded, you need not exit Arachne or interrupt your online connection, but call the file manager with the SHIFT+F10 hotkey. 2. You use the file manager to access (not only view) everything. You run executable programmes and batch files with DOS. You open data files with the appropriate applications. Sometimes the application will be Arachne: Move the cursor to the file with the name HOTLIST.HTM, press RETURN and Arachne loads with your bookmarks on the screen. Or you have a file called MYNAME.ASF. If you press RETURN, Arachne dials, connects, uploads and downloads your mail, hangs up and exits. The second way has to consider how much resident memory does the file manager need when starting an external programme. So, please, tell me what was first, the hen or the egg? Regards, Christof Lange _______________________________________________ Christof Lange Prokopova 4, 130 00 Praha 3, Czech Republic phone: (+420-2) 22 78 18 00 / 22 78 20 02 fax: (+420-2) 22 78 18 01 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.volny.cz/cce.zizkov
