Hi Folks, Christof,
Christof wrote:
> thank you for your report. So, it is basically possible to work with
> FASTFLIP. May be I can give it another try,
At least I haven't been able to make it crash, but then I am only
asking it to perform one function.
> has Dos Navigator a task switching feature?
No. Or if it has, I haven't found it. :)
> Or do you mean the file
> manager of DOSShell is slow? That may be true, I never tried it...
Yes, I find the file manager to be slow.
>> Haven't tried Arachne on-line under DOSSHELL, never seemed to be any
>> point when I can go on-line with Arachne straight from the CLI. And
>> shell out to DOS if I needed something else but wanted to keep the
>> connection alive.
> But the connection does stay alive! If you leave Arachne (not by
> task switch, but by ordinary exit) and return to it a minute later
> (provided you add the commandline switch -r for arachne.bat) you can
> resume the connection. You only have to get used to pressing the
> ALT D once more. Arachne then knows that it need not dial again,
> but can renew the connection. You loose a few seconds, true. But the
> time you loose at re-entering is saved if you can return to open
> applications of the task switcher.
To remain on-line while running a DOS application (or to look up the
name of a file, etc..) I always use the Alt+E to shell to DOS, then type
EXIT to return to Arachne still on-line.
I have NEVER been able to completely exit Arachne (Alt+X) while
on-line and then return to Arachne and pick up the connection again. For
that matter, I have NEVER been able to access ANY existing (and
apparently still "live") internet connection in DOS once I have closed
the application that made the connection in the first place. That
includes Arachne, BareBones Email, HTGET, WGET, Nettamer (only tried
this once) NetDial and anything else that I trialled over the last three
years.
i.e. arachne -r does NOT work for me. :(
I wish I knew why.
BTW: Is there a little .DOC of the commandline switches for Arachne that
also tells us what should happen. I haven't been able to find one.
Regards,
Ron
Ron Clarke http://homepages.valylink.net.au/~ausreg/music.html
-- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client
