From: "John Sparks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Thanks Steve, following your suggestion, found a 16 bit Windows program
ns-batch which converts names to IP addresses or vice verca. It will also
list all items starting with a specified first 3 parts of the IP
address. However, don't know how to recognise a DNS name. One that I now
know is entity.enta.net
Thanks Ron, have now two working unmetered ISP's using the other DNS
addresses which I knew. Progress!
Having now spent a few hours browsing on-line with Arachne 1.66 I did
encounter more problems than expected (some may be set-up related) I am,
unfairly, comparing Arachne with MSIE 5.0 / MS-DOS5 / Win3.1 being in the
fortunate position of having a PC just about capable of that
(486 DX2 50MHz 16MB)
Problems included:
- Overall Arachne is slower (which surprised me) though not too bad
with simple pages. However the MPEG APM is good. Arachne is using XMS.
- More than 50% of the web site index pages I tried gave problems
ranging from no disply (cart.com) through missing information or
unwanted switching between an OK display to advert banner only
(formula1.com) to minor problems with text and background colours
nearly matching (space.com) Deja and Compuserve forums failed with
error indications (cookies with the former)
I had another (self induced?) problem. Had extrated an html bookmark
file from MSIE and added this to A's hotlist. This did not achieve the
desired result but otherwise the hotlist was OK until it went missing!
(Arachne error screen and couldn't find file in DOS) After creating a
new hotlist file, all was OK including MSIE bookmarks.
I suspect that Arachne mail compares more favourably with my MS Outlook
Express set-up but havn't done much with it yet.
Any comments or suggestions welcome on what this novice is doing wrong.
John
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