On Wed, 29 Nov 2000 19:37:09 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>For the sake of completeness, I should add to my last note about DR-
>DOS
>that, yes, Caldera sold it to Lineo and sends you to the
>www.drdos.com
>website run by Lineo for more information. However, it isn't
>available for
>download at the Lineo site either, although Lineo mentions it as a
>commercially available "embedded or thin client solution".
>
>The Lineo site also seems to indicate that the Web Spyder thin
client
>browser is no longer being developed, or available, although Embedix
>UI
>(which I gather is an offspring) is pushed as a low footprint HTML-
>based
>user interface solution for embedded devices. As I recall, Web
>Spyder is
>mentioned in the Arachne FAQ as being the underlying (licensed)
>Arachne code
>with a different user interface and such.
I came across a site I think it was a couple of weeks ago which was
www.qnx.com
and this has what looks very, very much like a re-badged version of
Web Spyder from Caldera. I have to say it looks like it has a much
better set-up wizard than the Arachne one, but it does suffer (at
least in the freebie non-commercial download) from the Web Spyder dns
syndrome i.e. you have to punch in the DNS numbers each time you load
the thing!
I wish I knew more about the dos/linux stuff, I'm not even sure it
runs in DOS, but it downloads to my/our hard drive, then you make a
floppy from the zip programme which then has it's own GUI on it as
well.
Obviously this was how Web Spyder ran at one time if you remember and
I did eventually get Web Spyder to use this from the machine HDD with
some poking around with a bat file. Since I still don't have a real
modem hooked up to this machine, I'm not able to investigate further,
but the set-up wizard came back and told me that! A bit more
impressive than Arachne's set-up Michael (GRIN 8>} )
Regards
Mel
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