On Thu, 30 Nov 2000 19:50:49 +0000, Arachne4Dos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> 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!
It's not. It's a remake and distant cousin of the original Voyager which
ran, I think, on Amiga. The reason you have to put in the DNS each time
is that The floppy loads to a ramdisk created at boot. As soon as you're
booted, you can remove the floppy; it's not used again. QNX itself (the
whole thing) is now available for download IF you have a CD-ROM burner
so you can use the ISO image. As for the DNS address, on the demo it
disappears when you turn the machine off 'cos the ramdrive ceases to
exist then. IIRC, the same was true of Web Spyder demo, but not the full
install.
> 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.
As already stated, QNX is a unix variant.
Bob
Starts April 1, 2001
-- Arachne V1.67, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
