On Fri, 2 Feb 2001 23:39:56 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (arachne-digest) wrote: > > arachne-digest Friday, February 2 2001 Volume 01 : Number 1441 > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 21:13:52 -0500 > From: "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Is anyone paying attention ??? > > On Thu, 1 Feb 2001 12:54:11 -0500 (EST), Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Clarence Verge wrote: > > >> I went off half-cocked there: that included the download time ! > >> But I was pretty sure it didn't when I wrote it. arrrrrgggh :-\ > > > Well, download times and display times are still irrelevant > > if only a select few can actually see the image. > > Yeah, I guess you're right. > > There are only a "select few" users who are likely to have an unzipping > program on their HDD. <g> > > And then of coarse there are even fewer who might have a program > capable of viewing a .BMP <g> > > > > - -- > Glenn > (your friendly neighborhood compu-nerd) > http://arachne.cz/ > http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ > http://freedos-32.sourceforge.net/ > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 21:26:24 -0500 > From: "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Is anyone paying attention ??? was IE in X (sorta) ... bug? > > On Thu, 1 Feb 2001 22:22:29 +0100 (CET), Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > BTW: I never checked, is it the latest version of png2bmp that's shipped > > with 1.70r3? (You'll notice my name in the plugin list if it is). > > Yep..... > > > List of installed Arachne Packages Arachne 1.70 > file:l:\arachne\apm.dgi Thu, 01 Feb 2001 21:23:44 > ________________________________________________________________________________ > > List of installed Arachne Packages > ============================================================================== > > <snip> > > ============================================================================== > PNG2BMP - Ver.1.00 > > License: Copyright(C) 1999 MIYASAKA Masaru > > 32bit version of PNG2BMP convertor for DOS. Compiled - 00-10-05 by Bernhard > Eriksson. With libpng ver.1.0.8 and zlib ver.1.1.3 > ============================================================================== > > > > > > - -- > Glenn > (your friendly neighborhood compu-nerd) > http://arachne.cz/ > http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ > http://freedos-32.sourceforge.net/ > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 23:10:06 -0500 (EST) > From: "Andy Geoghegan, Superstar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: OT: re: IE in X > > Hi all, > > please forgive this OT blurb; > > I am a UNIX shell and SLIP account owner... when I browse the web using my > shell account and my ISP's UNIX machines, I use lynx > > I have heard that X or X Window is like a GUI for UNIX... and I remember > circa '90 - '96 at the now-defunct ivy high-tech/med book shop - TONS of > greek computer texts on: X.24, X.23, X.500, X Tools, X Motif - What Were > These??? What Were These books about?? > > What Is X?? > > can a random access shell/CLI+{SLIP} acct. user, "Install X?"??, remotely > on his or her's ISP's UNIX machines?? > > How would/is this/be done?? > > for the average shell(and SLIP) Unix user, like me, of what use? would > this be/is this??? > > would I want to, or even could I, run/install/configure Netscape or IE or > even Arachne, remotely from my shell terminal to my ISP's UNIX rather than > on my own (DOS)-WindowsX machine?? would it be faster? ? ? > > just curious! > > please e-me off-list if you feel this is too OT ... > > Andy > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Phila. PA > USA > > > DOS TCP/IP * <URL:http://www.ncf.ca/~ag221/dosppp.html> > > "*every* child is gifted!" > > please visit: <URL:http://www.reusers.org> ( my story ) > > also please visit: <URL:http://eop.com/recruiting-cd.html> lists companies > actively recruiting professionals with disabilities > > please visit: <URL:http://worldcrr.org/kiosks.htm> > or call Dr. Poe at: (USA) 1-775-829-1799 > get (donated computer) kiosks for *your* country! > > also please visit: <URL:http://eff.org> (where I hope to work one day) > > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 23:17:41 -0400 > From: "Clarence Verge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: IE in X (sorta) ... bug? > > On Thu, 01 Feb 2001 19:15:15 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote: > > > On Wed, 31 Jan 2001 16:56:03 -0500 (EST), Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> This started out as just a kind of picture of irony, but then > >> when I tried to display it in Linux Arachne 4.1.66, (GGI & SVGA) > >> I couldn't use horizontal scroll to see the entire graphic. > > > Everything seems to be working just fine at 800x600 Hicolor > > (including horizontal scrolling of the page) > > http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/ok_here.zbm > > > You'll need to save it as ok_here.zip and then unzip it if you don't > > have the .ZBM "plugin" installed. > > Hi Glenn; > > Four points of possible interest. > > 1) Your ISP apparantly isn't as co-operative as mine. > It came down as text/plain. > 2) It downloaded in 26 sec. - the png took me approx 52 sec. > BTW, I'm awake this time. ;-) > 3) Once saved and selected, it hit the screen in 1 sec exactly. > WIDE awake. 8-)) > 4) The horizontal scroll problem doesn't go away for ME in Hicolor mode. > At least with A1.62. BRB. > Nope. It doesn't scroll sideways for me in A1.70 either. (Hicolor) > What are you doing different ? Aside from being YOU ?? > > > - - Clarence Verge > - - Still using Arachne V1.62 .... > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 23:21:45 +0000 > From: "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: C:\ARACHNE\EXAMPLES\TESTDGI.HTM > > On Thu, 1 Feb 2001 11:00:23 +0100, Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Sam wrote: > >> Either way, it works, assuming a default installation. For that reason I > >> utterly fail to see your point. Your way, or my way, it doesn't matter. > > > The point is that my way would work regardless of where Arachne is > > installed. Default installations aren't interesting since we can choose > > where we want to install in DOS (this isn't Windows <g>). > > //Bernie > > That's OK Bernie. As I had said before, I respect your right to be > different. You don't have to do what everybody else does. More power > to you if you to thine own self be true. Don't quote me. I think > the one who first said that was a character in Shakespeare's Hamlet. > > Sam > - -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/ > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 23:46:39 -0400 > From: "Clarence Verge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: DOS Navigator > > On Thu, 01 Feb 2001 17:37:33 +0000, Ron Clarke wrote: > > > Hi Clarence, > > > It IS worth trying to get it to run. :) > > Hi Ron, anyone interested in my inflammatory opinions; <g> > > I found out why I couldn't get DN (DOS Navigator) to run. > That piece of crap wants me to have a mouse. :(( No option. > > It only takes one dumb thing like that to make the other dumb stuff > jump right out at me. > > To get out of it, you have to hit, in sequence,: > alt, F, x, ENTER. (for yes) What's wrong with ESC ESC ? > > With two MAJOR strikes like that, it could make my breakfast every > day and I'd still dump it. :( > > It's wiped. > > > - - Clarence Verge > - - Still using Arachne V1.62 .... > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 23:55:31 +0000 > From: "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: List of installed packages > > On Thu, 1 Feb 2001 05:03:38 -0500 (EST), Thomas Mueller wrote: > > >> I have written about this problem before. So far I have gotten no > >> response. I currently have Arachne 1.70 installed on three machines. > >> In the case of one of the machines, when I am viewing the file UTILS.HTM > >> and I click on the ikon "List of installed packages" I will always get > >> the Arachne Load Error Page if I am offline. When online the list of > >> installed packages will appear. The "List of installed packages" feature > >> will always work as it should on the other two machines regardless of > >> whether I am online or offline. Does anyone else have this problem? > >> Does anyone have any ideas as to how I might correct this problem on the > >> machine that is apparently misbehaving? > > >> Sam Heywood > > > Can you view .MES or .CNM files offline? I wonder if your inability to view > > installed packages offline is related to my inability to view .MES and .CNM > > files offline. Did you have this problem with earlier Arachnes like around > > 1.48? > > Yes, no problem wiewing .MES or .CNM files offline, except for once in > a blue moon when my index scheme becomes farkled. (See my recent reply > to Ron Clarke on what to do about this.) > > I have used Arachne versions 1.20, 1.41, 1.60(?), and 1.66, and have not > had this problem before. > > Sam > 6 > - -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/ > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 23:42:29 +0000 > From: "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Corrupted ACFs - smiley faces and more > > On Fri, 02 Feb 2001 10:57:18 +0000, Ron Clarke wrote: > > <snipped all> > > It is possible that your index files in your mail folders might have > become farkled. I know of a neat trick that sometimes works with > problems like yours. Following my advice might not help, but it > certainly can't hurt. This is what *sometimes* works for me to get > things sorted out correctly: > > 1. ALT - X to get out of Arachne. > 2. del *.idx and del *.srt in all mail folders. > 3. Then go back into Arachne. > > When you re-open your mail folders some new *.idx and *.srt files will > automagically be created for you. Then things might work as they should. > I can't guarantee that this will fix the problem, but it might. Sometimes > this works for me. > > Sam > - -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/ > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 03:17:43 -0500 (EST) > From: "Thomas Mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: List of installed packages > > Sam Heywood, > > You showed your ARACHNE.CFG, but where is the indication for Cache local > objects? I can't find it in your ARACHNE.CFG or in my ARACHNE.CFG. Problem > was the Arachne Load Error when trying to view local files offline. > > Also I noticed in your ARACHNE.CFG, MailSortOrder DateSnt, which means incoming > mail is jumbled, not kept in the order of receipt. That is very confusing to > me, as I remember from my days using Ultimail Lite for OS/2. One mail dated > March 1 was hidden back at the beginning with date January 3, as Ultimail Lite > transposed the day and the month. Besides, sometimes an incoming email message > bears a date several days or several years in the past. > > To the other Sam (Ewalt): https & shtml are not related. > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 12:30:24 +0000 > From: "Edenyard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: V1.70 (DOS) bug - HTML background colour > > Another bug, chaps! In V1.70 (DOS): > > In ARACHNE.CFG, I've set the line 'HTMLbgColor' to TEAL. Now - if I > reply to a message, I click on 'reply' in that message and I get a nice > teal background. If, however, I want to write an original message from > scratch, I click on 'compose message' and the background is light grey. > In fact, the background in this instance is always light grey, no matter > what HTMLbgColor is set to. > > Can someone else please confirm this before I write to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks! > > Ron. > > Ron Ickse - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 12:01:36 +0000 > From: "Edenyard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Corrupted ACFs - smiley faces and more > > On Fri, 02 Feb 2001 10:57:18 +0000, Ron Clarke wrote: > > > (....) > > for creative writing). You will note that the garbage begins > > immediately after the SmoothScroll line - sound familiar, anyone ? > > > > Yes - that's the one, Ron! I get 4 Ctrl-A characters, one to a line, > before that inserted comment line. It doesn't always do it, though - > does it? > > All the best, > > Ron - the other one! > > (Ron Ickse - [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 11:43:35 +0000 > From: "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Corrupted ACFs - smiley faces and more > > On Fri, 02 Feb 2001 12:01:36 +0000, "Edenyard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, 02 Feb 2001 10:57:18 +0000, Ron Clarke wrote: > > >> (....) > >> for creative writing). You will note that the garbage begins > >> immediately after the SmoothScroll line - sound familiar, anyone ? > > > Yes - that's the one, Ron! I get 4 Ctrl-A characters, one to a line, > > before that inserted comment line. It doesn't always do it, though - > > does it? > > I get the four smiley faces in the same place too, as described. They > put in a an appearance from time to time. Don't have any idea what > causes it. > > Sam Heywood > - -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/ > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 11:48:58 +0000 > From: "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: V1.70 (DOS) bug - HTML background colour > > On Fri, 02 Feb 2001 12:30:24 +0000, "Edenyard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Another bug, chaps! In V1.70 (DOS): > > > In ARACHNE.CFG, I've set the line 'HTMLbgColor' to TEAL. Now - if I > > reply to a message, I click on 'reply' in that message and I get a nice > > teal background. If, however, I want to write an original message from > > scratch, I click on 'compose message' and the background is light grey. > > In fact, the background in this instance is always light grey, no matter > > what HTMLbgColor is set to. > > > Can someone else please confirm this before I write to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks! > > The same thing happens to me on all three machines in which I have > installed Arachne. The background color does not remain consistent. > I have found that if I shell to DOS (ALT-E) and then return to Arachne > by typing EXIT, then the background color will often be restored to the > color specified in the options. > > Sam Heywood > > - -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/ > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 18:03:42 +0100 > From: Flip ter Biecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: termin won't close in a win95 dos box > > Install bugs get rarer by the day, here, but here's one that seems > unwilling to surrender... > > Arachne runs nicely under win95. Miniterm dials without delay, video runs > as in Dos, and so does insight. > Not termin.com though. All installs fail to return to arachne, when termin > is invoked by alt-h, and when I enter "termin 0x60 after I shell to dos, > termin just won't return to the c:\> prompt. > > Can anyone confirm this? > > (I start arachne from a direct link to arachne.bat on the desktop. She > starts in a box, then takes full screen. Alt-e returns to a box. If termin > hangs, I can't kill the box, because the mouse is hardly useable. I don't > think it's a common irq conflict, because ctrl-esc and alt-tab won't work > either. ctrl-alt-del brings up windows' process list, but the window won't > react to either enter or escape. Another three finger salute does force a > reboot though.) > > Bart > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 14:18:38 -0500 (EST) > From: Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: OT: X apps on Win'95 > > On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Andy Geoghegan, Superstar wrote: > > > I am a UNIX shell and SLIP account owner... when I browse the web using my > > shell account and my ISP's UNIX machines, I use lynx > > > > I have heard that X or X Window is like a GUI for UNIX... and I remember > > circa '90 - '96 at the now-defunct ivy high-tech/med book shop - TONS of > > greek computer texts on: X.24, X.23, X.500, X Tools, X Motif - What Were > > These??? What Were These books about?? > > X.25 is the protocol for radio modem. I'm not sure about the > other X.xx protocols. > Motif is a proprietary graphics API for Unix. It's also what > PC/GEOS used. Lesstif is its open-source counterpart. > > > What Is X?? > > X is the abbreviation for "X windows system" which is the > low/medium-level graphics interface software. Motif > would be the layer directly on top of X, then the window manager > is the layer above that. Gnome & KDE are Desktop Environments > which are even higher level layers atop the window managers. > > > can a random access shell/CLI+{SLIP} acct. user, "Install X?"??, remotely > > on his or her's ISP's UNIX machines?? > > No. You need root privelege to install X... that's even > assuming the server has a graphics card. Many don't. > HOWEVER, my last ISP had X installed, and even had some of the > config files as part of each user's default files. That's > quite the exception however. Do 'ls -al' to see what kind of > "dot" files you might have in your shell. > (If your ISP has X installed, you should be able to run the > vncserver from your user space though) > > > would I want to, or even could I, run/install/configure Netscape or IE or > > even Arachne, remotely from my shell terminal to my ISP's UNIX rather than > > on my own (DOS)-WindowsX machine?? would it be faster? ? ? > > I only downloaded VNC day before yesterday, so I can't say > authoritatively what it can or can't do. Not to mention that > there are other X server/client kind of programs besides VNC. > Running programs on the Linux box and viewing them from Win'95 > over VNC hasn't been flawless... but this is "out of the box." > I haven't even looked at any config files yet. > > > CAN run: (*)Barely runs: (**)Doesn't run: > - -------- ------------ ---------- > Netscape 3.04 Arachne-GGI > xv xgalaga(+) > Amaya 4.2.1 gtv > ImageMagick > xjewel > tetris > pine > GIMP > taipei > xmms(+) > slrn > soundtracker(+) > gv (frontend for ghostview) > Netscape 4.76 (-) > > (*) Barely runs > - --------------- > Arachne-GGI - I'm going to suppose that the extra GGI layer has > something to do with it. Type in a URL and sit there twiddling > your thumbs for 30 seconds for a text-only page from the same > machine it's on. I stopped waiting after 5 minutes for a page > with minimal graphics. During this time, Arachne was hogging 90% > of the CPU cycles. Ordinarily, Arachne might gobble up to 25% and > then die back to 0% as soon as the page is displayed. > > xgalaga - This is a highly graphical action game. You get about > one frame every three seconds, so you're already dead before you > even see anything coming your way. > > gtv - an mpeg player. Works fine if you want to step through > the frames at about 1.5 per second, but at full speed, you might > as well forget it. > > (-) Netscape 4.76 - runs fine for user "steve," but complains > that it can't find a certain 100 dpi font when run by user "crow." > Strange. > > (+) Obviously, since it's the host's soundcard that's in use, the > Windows machine won't output any sound from its speakers from those > apps. All the sound is coming from the host machine. > > > Doing this over a 10Mbit ethernet is mostly satisfactory. > Doing it over a modem would be purely for patience-building. ;-) > VNC does have more than just a single protocol though, so it > might be possible to optimize the protocol to whatever type > of application you're using. > > - Steve > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 20:31:57 +0100 > From: Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: C:\ARACHNE\EXAMPLES\TESTDGI.HTM > > Sam wrote: > >That's OK Bernie. As I had said before, I respect your right to be > >different. You don't have to do what everybody else does. > > The point isn't that *I* do things diffrently than anyone. The point is > that we can do it (and IMHO should - installing over an old copy of Arachne > might create problems, or hide them). I still think (like I said in the > first mail IIRC) that it's good that you found a problem, but you need to > make a better fix to claim that you've made one IMHO. For instance if I > think my computer is too slow I could fix that by not using it since I > wouldn't notice that it's slow then, but I don't think it's a very good > sollution ;-) > > > More power > >to you if you to thine own self be true. Don't quote me. I think > >the one who first said that was a character in Shakespeare's Hamlet. > > I'm almost embarassed to admit it but I've never seen (or read) Hamlet. > > BTW: I'll try not to post again on this thread ;-) > //Bernie > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 20:44:39 +0100 > From: Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: OT: X apps on Win'95 > > Steve wrote: > >Gnome & KDE are Desktop Environments > >which are even higher level layers atop the window managers. > > Just to complicate things QT is before KDE ;-) > //Bernie > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 15:12:44 -0500 (EST) > From: Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: C:\ARACHNE\EXAMPLES\TESTDGI.HTM > > On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Bernie wrote: > > > The point isn't that *I* do things diffrently than anyone. The point is > > that we can do it (and IMHO should - installing over an old copy of Arachne > > might create problems, or hide them). > > What this whole thing boils down to is relative vs. absolute > links. > > As with websites, internal links should always be relative, > and external links (obviously) need to be absolute. > > When I moved metamorphosis from delphi.com to twovoyagers.com, > I simply zipped up the directory on my hard drive, uploaded the > file to twovoyagers.com, and then unzipped it there. Voila! > All links work. > > This is the same with software packages. Make all links > relative, and it doesn't matter what top level directory they > reside in. They all work relative to each other. > > - Steve > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 21:11:20 +0100 (CET) > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: (OT) Hello Steve, I need help for kernel-update in loadlin > > Hello, > I tryed to update my system-kernel but something is going wrong. > I use loadlin for booting Linux and after updating the kernel > Yast asked me to copy the new kernel (/boot/vmlinuz) to loadlin? > I tryed to cp vmlinuz to /mnt/loadlin (after mounting my DOS-drive > /dev/hda1 to /mnt) but that does not work and in loadlin there is only > a zimage (the old kernel?). What I am doing wrong? > Thanks for helping. > regards, Joerg > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 15:38:06 -0500 > From: Clarence Verge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: V1.70 (DOS) bug - HTML background colour > > Edenyard wrote: > > > > Another bug, chaps! In V1.70 (DOS): > > > > In ARACHNE.CFG, I've set the line 'HTMLbgColor' to TEAL. Now - if I > > reply to a message, I click on 'reply' in that message and I get a nice > > teal background. If, however, I want to write an original message from > > scratch, I click on 'compose message' and the background is light grey. > > In fact, the background in this instance is always light grey, no matter > > what HTMLbgColor is set to. > > > > Can someone else please confirm this before I write to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks! > > That's not a bug, Ron. > > My limited and probably incorrect understanding of the meaning of "HTML > Background Color" is it's the default color behind text/images/whatever > on a HTML page that doesn't specify it's own background color. > > The compose screen, and the related reply and resend screens and the editor > all specify their own BGcolor as a too damn bright #C4C4C4. > If you want TEAL, edit sendmail.ah, and the others as you come across them, > to set BGCOLOR to whatever you want. I'd suggest #808080. <G> > > > - - Clarence Verge > - -- > - - Help stamp out FATWARE. As a start visit: http://home.arachne.cz/ > - -- > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 15:41:07 -0500 > From: Clarence Verge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: termin won't close in a win95 dos box > > Flip ter Biecht wrote: > > > > Install bugs get rarer by the day, here, but here's one that seems > > unwilling to surrender... > > > > Arachne runs nicely under win95. Miniterm dials without delay, video runs > > as in Dos, and so does insight. > > Not termin.com though. All installs fail to return to arachne, when termin > > is invoked by alt-h, and when I enter "termin 0x60 after I shell to dos, > > termin just won't return to the c:\> prompt. > > > > Can anyone confirm this? > > Sorry. Operation under Windows (tm) is not supported. > > - - Clarence Verge > - -- > - - Help stamp out FATWARE. As a start visit: http://home.arachne.cz/ > - -- > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 21:36:10 +0200 (EET) > From: Cristian Burneci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: File manager features > > Christof Lange wrote: > > >b) NDN, DN, DOS Navigator (Clarence mentioned it) > > >There several different versions and similar programme names. I am > >talking about a Russian programme that is still under development. > >It contains most of the advanced features offered by CONNECT and > >still other ones eg. handling of screens and text mode windows. The > >latest versions are very interesting, but not very stable. So I dare > >not to replace NC with this one, yet. The built-in help is in > >Russian. > > >Even if it is probably not perfect, yet, there is one reason why you > >should look at this ongoing project from time to time. Obviously the > >authors intend to provide a support for FTP online file management. > >In the history information it claims to work under Windows, but I did > >not get it to work. > > I am using Dos Navigator extensively. Currently it is the only Dos file > manager installed on both my computers. I find version 1.51 pretty > stable. And the built-in help is in English (what version are you using?) > Also it work well under Windows (no LFN support but it can use the > system clipboard). On a Win9x system "direct disk access" must be > disabled. > > AFAIK the DN development was discontinued but I haven't visited their site > since 1999 :-). > > > Cristian Burneci > DHP Technology SRL > Bucharest, Romania > e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 16:13:32 -0500 > From: "L.D. Best" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: V1.70 (DOS) bug - *not* "HTML" background colour > > Ron, > > This isn't a bug. Default 'HTML background color' is only for HTML > pages with no bgcolor declared in most cases; setting html bgcolor will > *NOT* affect the background color of tables ... and the forms you refer > to *are* tables. > > The mail-handling stuff is separate .htp or .ah pages [those things I > spend hours on making workable for me]. The color codes are hardwired > [except for link colors which are part of Arachne selection]. > > If you want the background to be "teal" you need to rewrite those pages; > if you have a decent editor simply do a search/replace for #C0C0C0/teal. > You'll find the .ah files in system/gui and the .htp files in main > directory. > > Hope that helps ... > > Hope everyone realizes that everytime Arachne doesn't do what you want, > that doesn't mean it's a "bug." <G> > > l.d. > ==== > On Fri, 02 Feb 2001 12:30:24 +0000, "Edenyard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Another bug, chaps! In V1.70 (DOS): > > > In ARACHNE.CFG, I've set the line 'HTMLbgColor' to TEAL. Now - if I > > reply to a message, I click on 'reply' in that message and I get a nice > > teal background. If, however, I want to write an original message from > > scratch, I click on 'compose message' and the background is light grey. > > In fact, the background in this instance is always light grey, no matter > > what HTMLbgColor is set to. > > > Can someone else please confirm this before I write to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks! > > > - -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/ > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 17:38:10 -0500 (EST) > From: Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: (OT) Hello Steve, I need help for kernel-update in loadlin > > On Fri, 2 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hello, > > I tryed to update my system-kernel but something is going wrong. > > I use loadlin for booting Linux and after updating the kernel > > Yast asked me to copy the new kernel (/boot/vmlinuz) to loadlin? > > It's been a while since I used loadlin, so I don't know how > clear my memory will be on this: > > Loadlin is a DOS program, so let's keep our OS's separate in the > discussion to keep things straight. > If you have a directory, C:\LOADLIN then you need to have > LOADLIN.EXE and the compressed kernel image there (regardless of > whether you name it vmlinuz, bzImage, or linuz-2.218) > > Then, IIRC, > C:\LOADLIN> loadlin bzimage root=/dev/hda2 ro > or something very similar boots you to Linux... or there's often > a LINUX.BAT that you just modify to suit. I think you're all > clear on this part though... > > > I tryed to cp vmlinuz to /mnt/loadlin (after mounting my DOS-drive > > /dev/hda1 to /mnt) but that does not work and in loadlin there is only > > a zimage (the old kernel?). What I am doing wrong? > > Thanks for helping. > > regards, Joerg > > There are usually several directories within /mnt already. > Usually, at the very least, /cdrom & /floppy. I always mounted > my DOS partitions as /mnt/c-dos and /mnt/d-dos. Then with the > correct /etc/fstab entries, (mine is like so) > /dev/hda1 /mnt/c-dos msdos user,exec,nodev,nosuid,rw,umask=0 0 0 > it's as simple as 'mount /mnt/c-dos' > > Otherwise, you have to do the whole mount command, such as > 'mnt -w -t <type> /dev/hda1 /mnt/c-dos' where <type> will likely > be msdos or vfat. > > Before you copy anything there though, 'cd /mnt/c-dos' and > 'ls' to make sure it's really mounted the way you think it is. > If it didn't mount correctly, you'll just see an empty directory. > Otherwise, you see a directory listing of your C:\ directory, > and assuming /loadlin already exists there, you can then > 'cp /<path>/zImage /mnt/c-dos/loadlin/linuz-2.218' or whatever > you want to call the new image. Generally, you DON'T want to > overwrite the old kernel... just in case the new kernel doesn't > work the way you hoped it would. Then you can just use the same > old command you always did to get back in and try compiling the > new one again. > > Alles clar? > > - Steve > > ------------------------------ > > End of arachne-digest V1 #1441 > ****************************** >
