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> arachne-digest       Monday, February 19 2001       Volume 01 : Number
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>
> Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 13:14:00 +0100
> From: "Joerg Dietze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Unisys & GIF
>
> Hi folks,
>
> On Sat, 17 Feb 2001 15:48:12 -0500, Clarence Verge wrote:
>
> <snip>
> > OK. Pictures of Kari don't compress much.
> > But you should mention that that JPEG is crap - sort of a general idea
> > of what the original image was on a macro scale, but microwise 100%
> > invention.;-)
>
> This is a good description of "Minidisk" and MP3, too.
>
> Regards Joerg
> - -- Arachne V1.70, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 05:38:09 -0500
> From: "Sam Ewalt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: This doesnt look good.
>
> On Sun, 18 Feb 2001 11:00:38 +0200, Or Botton wrote:
>
> > For those who havent seen it on Slashdot allready:
> > http://www.webstandards.org/upgrade/pr.html
>
> > Group of developers is trying to persude the W3C and generaly web
authors
> > to drop support for anything lower then N6, IE5.5 and Opera 6.
>
> Yeah what the hell is that giant insect down in the far lower right
> corner? Weird design concept to be sure. But people in general really
> like bells and whistles and do-dads.
>
> It's routine now that many sites that offer just routine information
> like movie show times and food product information are unusable with
> Arachne.
>
>
> Sam Ewalt
> Croswell, Michigan, USA
> - -user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/
> - -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 10:17:17 +0100
> From: Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Unisys & GIF
>
> Ricsi wrote:
> > B> Then good servers (Apache for instance) will compress the file
> > B> (atleast I assume that's what it does) and send it to the browser for
> > B> decompression.
> >Does that work for files other than HTML as well ??
> >(I mean does apache for instance have the ability to compress images (BMP
> >...) as well ?? )
>
> I don't know, it would seem good to do it all the time, but on files that
> are already compressed you will not gain anything (or very little if you
do
> it). The question is then if it uses more CPU time for the server than it
> will gain in transfer time. A client should probably gain on it since most
> of us still sit on a modem connection.
>
> > B> BMP files should be compressed almost as good with gzip as with pkzip
> > B> and it is a lot easier.
> >100% agree ... and IMHO there is also gzip/gunzip for DOS
>
> Correct, g(un)zip is one of the most portable programs. I haven't tried to
> compile the latest version with BC but I did fix the makefile for DJGPP so
> it works with the latest version. (So it's downloadble from my pages -
> bernie.arachne.cz/download.htm should have a link).
>
> > B> Still it will not help the poor bastards that don't have such support
> > B> (both NS and IE has it since a few versions back IIRC).
> >REALLY ?? IE does support this ??
>
> IIRC yes.
>
> >Maybe this can be triggered by the user agent string ...
> >or how does the server know, that the client is able to process gzipped
> >files ??
>
> It sends something like:
> Compress: gzip
>
> I'll of course make sure I write the correct line into the source, but I
> kind of lack it. BTW: This is my third hint Michael ;-)
> file://Bernie
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:19:07 +0100
> From: Michael Polak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: arachne-digest V1 #1467
>
> > JUNO ONLINE JUMPS INTO SUPERCOMPUTING
> > Juno Online Services yesterday announced that it will launch the
> > Juno Virtual Supercomputing Project, an attempt to use the ISP's
> > subscriber base for distributed-computing projects. In
>
> .....
>
> > equivalent of 500,000 years of computing time. Although Juno has
> > yet to reveal any potential users of its supercomputer network,
> > CEO Charles E. Ardai has said Juno subscribers would be allowed
> > to choose whether to download the software necessary to
> > participate in the project. However, Ardai suggested that
> > subscribers to the free service who decline to join the Virtual
> > Supercomputing Project may have to become paid subscribers.
>
> This is exactly what I was thinking of few years ago: I though,
> that shared CPU time may become valuable, and that it will be
> possible to sell it, either for money or for some kind of
> virtual "credits", and buy again whan one needs to perform
> some distributable, time-consuming taks, eg. crack someone's
> cipher, or let's say produce Hollywood-class moovie (this is
> especially good example, because virtual reality rendering is
> easily distributable - each CPU can work on one movie frame
> easily, while amount of input and output data for one frame is
> moderate. And there are many thousands of independent pictures
> in each movie, making it good example of distributable job....
>
> > ------------------------------
> > image/x-zbitmap >BMP|[150]pkunzip -o $1 $azbm \n copy /b $azbm\\*.bmp $2
\n del $azbm\\*.bmp
> > image/zbm ZBM
>
> Are you sure this works ? I mean, if you receive MIME type
> image/zbm, does Arachne assign ZBM extension and look for
> file/.zbm definiton ? Because now I am really not sure if it
> was written to work this way - if yes, it would save lot of
> MIME.CFG lines, of course ;-)
>
> MIME.CFG has to be devided to separate MIME.CFG and let's
> say SCRIPTS.DGI
> files anyway. SCRIPTS.DGI will be version-dependent, and not
> intended for user modification. MIME.CFG will be user configurable,
> and won't be overwritten when new version is installed...
>
> > file/printprn.dgi    |[100]TYPE _*.txt>PRN\ntype _>prn
> > file/printbmp.dgi |[100]f:\\graphics\\printgfd\\printgfd.exe _4prt.bmp
/x
> > file/printjpg.dgi |[100]f:\\graphics\\printgfd\\printgfd.exe _4prt.jpg
/x
>
> ;-)) This doesn't make much sense, because Archne will hardly
> ever produce _4prt.jpg file... ;-)
>
> > file/.mp3             |@d:\\audio\\mpxplay\\mpxplay.exe -m $1
>
> I haven't tested this MP3 player - is it 16bit or 32 bit ?
> How much memory it requires ?
>
> > text/enriched            >HTM|@call rtf2htm.bat $1 $2
>
> > text/richtext            >HTM|@call rtf2htm.bat $1 $2
> > application/rtf          >HTM|@call rtf2htm.bat $1 $2
>
> What is this ? Does it produce any usable output ?
>
> > file/.swf                |@call $e\\swf2cnm\\swf2cnm.bat $1|arachne
$aswf2cnm.cnm
> > application/x-shockwave-flash |@call $e\\swf2cnm\\swf2cnm.bat $1|arachne
$aswf2cnm.cnm
>
> What exactly are you doing with SWF files ?
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 13:26:35 -0500
> From: "Sam Ewalt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: NO CONNECTION
>
> On Tue, 13 Feb 2001 21:29:34 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote:
>
>
> > 3) before starting Arachne, run setlsppp.bat to place the needed
> > settings in the lsppp environment variable
>
> > --- setlsppp.bat ---
> > set lsppp=/M:at&fs7=90s11=50 /B:115200 /P:*** /U:glennmcc /d:3306298686
> > rem -- change^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ to your modem settings
> > rem -------- replace with your password   ^^^ and^^^^^^^^ username ----
> > rem ---------------------------- change to your dialup P# ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > ____________________
>
> > That's all there is to it. ;-)
>
> > 1,2,3... your're online with Arachne/Lsppp
>
>
> Glenn, I'm having trouble getting this to dial. The problem is the
> /d switch. I believe the first three digits after the colon are
> instructions to the program. Is that right? And only the last seven
> digits are the phone number. Correct?  I'm not getting a dial tone
> before it gives up and dumps me back to the dial page. Then it redials
> and not getting a dial tone right away dumps me back to the dial
> page. And so on. The error message flashes by so quick that I can't read
> it. Something about a comma being needed. Maybe it's comma and then
> the phone number. Like this /d:,6298686
>
>
> I tried increasing the first digit to five, but that didn't help.
>
>
> Sam
>
>
> Sam Ewalt
> Croswell, Michigan, USA
> - -user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/
> - -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 13:27:11 -0500
> From: "Sam Ewalt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: NO CONNECTION
>
> On Tue, 13 Feb 2001 21:29:34 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 12 Feb 2001 12:37:33 +0000, "Edenyard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> >> On Sat, 10 Feb 2001 22:33:41 -0500, Glenn wrote:
>
> >>> It's possible that your friend's ISP has switched to "dynamic DNS
assignment"
> >>> (which EPPPD.EXE does not support)
> >>> If you find that this is what has happened:
> >>> You can switch-over to LSPPP.EXE as the packet driver.
> >>> (Lsppp *does* support dynamic DNS)
>
> >> Is there an 'How-To' or idiot's guide for getting and installing
> >> LSPPP? I seem to be up against dynamic-DNS ISPs, too!
>
> > No problem.
>
> > Here's the D/L page for Lsppp...
> > http://members.tripod.com/~ladsoft/lsppp/index.htm
>
> > Once you've got Lsppp.zip and unzipped it, here's how
> > to setup Arachne to use it.
>
> > 1) rename lsppp.exe to lspppd.exe and place it in your
> > arachne_main_directory.
> > (in my case it becomes l:\arachne\lspppd.exe)
>
> > 2) use these settings in arachne.cfg
>
> > [profile]
> > Profile lspppd.ACF
> > Connection @lspppd.exe>>PPP.LOG ;<-- don't need "lh" here
> >                               because this is actually a
> >                          "dummy line" (lspppd.exe will actually be
> >                          loaded when the Dialer line is executed)
>
> > [dialer]
> > Dialer @lh lspppd.exe         ;<-- will load low if too little
> >                               upper mem is available
>
> > UseTerminal No                ;<-- must be "No" (lsppp won't dial
> >                               if we use the terminal (miniterm.exe)
>
> > Autologin Yes                 ;<-- can also try -- NO
>
> > WaitFor1                      ;<-- all waifor
> > Response1                     ;<-- and response
> > WaitFor2                      ;<-- settings
> > Response2                     ;<-- must be
> > WaitFor3                      ;<-- left blank
> > Response3                     ;<-- when Autologin is "Yes"
>
> > PPPusername                   ;<-- Also must be left
> > PPPpassword                   ;<-- blank when Autologin is "Yes"
>
> > [tcp/ip]
> > IP_Address PPP                ;<-- can also try "BOOTP"
> >                    (however, with BOOTP the online timer won't work)
>
> > IP_Grab IP address set to     ;<-- can be anything you like)
>
> > NameServer                    ;<-- leave both
> > AltNameServer                 ;<-- nameservers blank
>
> > 3) before starting Arachne, run setlsppp.bat to place the needed
> > settings in the lsppp environment variable
>
> > --- setlsppp.bat ---
> > set lsppp=/M:at&fs7=90s11=50 /B:115200 /P:*** /U:glennmcc /d:3306298686
> > rem -- change^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ to your modem settings
> > rem -------- replace with your password   ^^^ and^^^^^^^^ username ----
> > rem ---------------------------- change to your dialup P# ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > ____________________
>
> > That's all there is to it. ;-)
>
> > 1,2,3... your're online with Arachne/Lsppp
>
> > --
> > Glenn
> > http://arachne.cz/
> > http://freedos-32.sourceforge.net/
> > http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/
> > http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/download.htm
>
> Sam Ewalt
> Croswell, Michigan, USA
> - -user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/
> - -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 15:29:32 -0500
> From: Clarence Verge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: NO CONNECTION
>
> Sam Ewalt wrote:
> >
> > I'm having trouble getting this to dial. The problem is the
> > /d switch. I believe the first three digits after the colon are
> > instructions to the program. Is that right? And only the last seven
> > digits are the phone number. Correct?  I'm not getting a dial tone
> > before it gives up and dumps me back to the dial page.
>
> There is a quite nice doc file with LSPPP.
> I know it's nice cuz I complained until it was readable. <G>
>
> The short answer to your question is all those numbers are part of
> the phone number. Options to LSPPP are alphabetical. And case MATTERS.
>
> In my area, we will have to dial the area code for local numbers soon.
>
> - -  Clarence Verge
> - --
> - -  Help stamp out FATWARE.  As a start visit: http://home.arachne.cz/
> - --
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 15:36:51 -0500
> From: Clarence Verge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: arachne-digest V1 #1467
>
> Michael Polak wrote:
> >
>
> > > ------------------------------
> > > image/x-zbitmap >BMP|[150]pkunzip -o $1 $azbm \n copy /b $azbm\\*.bmp
$2 \n del $azbm\\*.bmp
> > > image/zbm ZBM
> >
> > Are you sure this works ? I mean, if you receive MIME type
> > image/zbm, does Arachne assign ZBM extension and look for
> > file/.zbm definiton ? Because now I am really not sure if it
> > was written to work this way - if yes, it would save lot of
> > MIME.CFG lines, of course ;-)
>
>
> Here's MY 2 cents worth:
> It certainly works for ME.
>
> My ZBM processing line is different, however, because I find the COPY
> operations take FAR too long. I just use rename. ;-)
>
> Lots more good questions there for Glenn. <G>
>
> - -  Clarence Verge
> - --
> - -  Help stamp out FATWARE.  As a start visit: http://home.arachne.cz/
> - --
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 20:29:18 +0000
> From: Arachne4Dos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Sunday Salsa
>
> Hi Gangue,
>
> Salsa late to-day, was called out on emrgency from work at 08.00,
> just back at 20.10 hrs. Long Day, never mind think of the money!
> To-day should pay the first instalment on the new Pajero
>  [ grin *8>) ]
>
> For Ron, I have gone for the Pajero 2.5TD manual, Ella tried the
> manual gearbox and found things ok for her hands, and we were able to
> get a bit better discount from the price for the manual gearbox (es)
>
> Arachne is locked up on the xswap error, Bernie sent me an un-tested
> "fix" but the machine just locked up again at a different xswap line
> number.
>
> In the news here, a trucker killed a pedestrian whilst composing a
> text message on his mobile phone and driving ? at the same time. Why
> do people not think sufficiently before they do these sort of "It
> won't happen to me" sort of things. I have to perform a risk
> assessment before almost every job I do in the course of my full time
> work. Dealing with electricity up to 400Kv (yes Kv) you really don't
> take any chances whatsoever. Before we enter into any situation we
> have to consider any and all risks. After a while this spills over
> into everyday life, and I find myself anticipating potential hazrads
> in almost everything I do.
>
> Friday Ella and I had to go visiting with some landowners regarding
> our caravan club and renting sites for caravan rallies later this
> year. We did around 200 miles, that's 320Km, all in beautiful clear
> sharp winter sunshine throughout the Scottish Borders. We had a
> wonderful day and saw wild red deer, and wild Scottish mountain goats
> when we stopped to have a picnic lunch at Clatteringshaws Loch. (A
> loch is what most of you would call a lake, the Scottish word is
> "loch", it's pronounced like the German "ch" sound)
>
> The kind of day that makes life worth living!
>
> When you cheat, the only person you really cheat is yourself! Lost
> about 12 lbs, thats around 5 kilos in weight on the diet! Ella says,
> I could lose another 6 kilos of ugly fat if I got my head cut off?
> GRIN VBG. Then she gave me a St. Valentine's card to make up for it
> and a cuddle.
>
> Not sure if those other than US and UK have Valentine cards?
>
> Regards
>
> Mel
> - --from Mel Evans, e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Webmaster Services to Scotts Caravans of Mayfield Dalkeith
>
> Commercial sites located and serviced at
http://www.webtheon.freeserve.co.uk
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:35:42 +0000
> From: "Ron Clarke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: GIF Licence.
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> >> Long live ingenuity!
>
> Glenn wrote:
> > Could you perhaps be referring to the "ingenuity" of JPEG and PNG ???
> > IMHO, if someone develops an animated JPEG or PNG..... Goodbye GIF !!!
>
>    I have got some examples of animated JPEG.  They are called MPEG.
>
>    Somewhere, among my graphics progs. - I cannot remember which - is
> one that transfers the GIF to another format, THEN decompresses it. This
> approach does not use the LZW decompression, and should make GIF viewing
> unchargeable at least.
>    I just can't find which one. And I was just reading it recently.  :(
>
>
> Regards,
>         Ron
>
> Ron Clarke  http://homepages.valylink.net.au/~ausreg/music.html
> - -- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Versatile Internet
Client
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 23:55:36 +0000
> From: "Flip ter Biecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: NO CONNECTION
>
> * This message is in MIME format.
>
> - --MIME-multipart-message-boundary-982558537
> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
> Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit
>
> On Sun, 18 Feb 2001 15:29:32 -0500, Clarence Verge wrote:
>
> > Sam Ewalt wrote:
>
> >> I'm having trouble getting this to dial. The problem is the
> >> /d switch. I believe the first three digits after the colon are
> >> instructions to the program. Is that right? And only the last seven
> >> digits are the phone number. Correct?  I'm not getting a dial tone
> >> before it gives up and dumps me back to the dial page.
>
> > There is a quite nice doc file with LSPPP.
> > I know it's nice cuz I complained until it was readable. <G>
>
> > The short answer to your question is all those numbers are part of
> > the phone number. Options to LSPPP are alphabetical. And case MATTERS.
>
> > In my area, we will have to dial the area code for local numbers soon.
>
> > -  Clarence Verge
> > --
> > -  Help stamp out FATWARE.  As a start visit: http://home.arachne.cz/
> > --
> For the moment, I'm useing the following .bat (attached), but the
> /M:ATZL0 is supposed to suppress login noises, instead of the ATL0DT I
> usually use in arachne.cfg.
> It doesn't work though. Any suggestions?
> I haven't trioed to call this bat from arachne yet; would @call
> dialxs.bat stand a chance?
> Alphabetic order seems not really of influence, or at least the /d
> before the /B doesn't matter. I only used the lsppp /? output for this
> bat.
> Bart
>
> - -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser -
http://arachne.cz/
>
> - -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
>
>
> - --MIME-multipart-message-boundary-982558537
> Content-Type: application/octet-stream ;name=dialxs.bat
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
>
> bHNwcHAgL246MiAvZDoxNjU1MDMxNDM2MTc4NiAvQjoxOTIwMCAvTTpBVFpMMCAvTjoxOTQu
> MTA5LjYuNjYgL1A6KioqKioqKiAvVTpQbGFicmF0IC9WOjB4NjANCg==
> - --MIME-multipart-message-boundary-982558537--
> ÿ
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 18:19:19 -0500
> From: "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: (OT) Re: Unisys & GIF
>
> On Sat, 17 Feb 2001 03:11:25 -0400, Clarence Verge wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> > With .ZBMs replacing .GIFs in standard HTML, the browser must
> > recognize yadayada.ZBM as a legal image source.
>
> > Before reviewing the format of my Netscape "Helpers" section, (yuk.-
> > - - shades of Mac!) I was convinced that simply telling Netscape that
> > ZBM is image/x-compressed bitmap and specifying the name of the
> > decombobulator should do the job !
>
>  And now you have discovered that it's not quite that easy. <vbg>
>
> The *first* step is getting "image/yadayada.ZBM"
> defined as a legal image source so that the server computers will send
> "content-type: image/x-zbitmap" (or whatever is decided upon)
> As it stands right now, on almost all servers any .ZBM will be defined
> as "content-type: text/plain". :(
>
> Heck, some servers still don't know what a .PNG is. :(
>
> <rant>
> While I'm on that point... I have also found some servers that are
> sending .MPG as text/plain.
> And even some that send .HTM as text/plain. :(
> (they send .HTML as text/html.... but .HTM is sent as text/plain)
>
> IMNSHO, the administrators of those servers are STUPID!!!
> </rant>
>
> > Now I'm sure that's not the case. I don't think NS will display
> > anything as PART of a HTML page unless it does the conversion itself.
> > The version I looked at, 3.04, only processes GIF,JPEG and strangely
> > enough XBM inside the browser itself. Since I believe XBM is "C" code
> > for generating an image or icon, that seems a bit wierd to me.
>
> > Anyway, unless someone has a better idea, I think it might be possible
> > to patch the XBM part to ZBM, but it would likely require a special
> > "patch" for each version.  Pretty ugly, but not impossible.
>
> > I don't know what IE does for mime type "helpers"
>
> > I DID originally say, "Without going into the nitty gritty...." <G>
>
>  The "nitty gritty" for NS is that you need to write a plugin.
> NS will display within an HTML page the needed additional GUI stuff
> of properly written plugins.
> (MIDI players, MOV players, MPG palyers, etc, etc, etc)
>
> Screen cap from NS 4.5 with MOV plugin.....
> http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/ns-w_mov.jpg
>
> (the same screen capture before converting from BMP to JPG)
> http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/ns-w_mov.zip
> (hit reload after getting that warning page from Angelfire)
>
> - --- bmp2jpg.bat was used to convert it ---
> CD\1TEMP
> f:\GRAPHICS\JPEG6B32\CJPEG *.bmp
> ?"Delete original BMPs Y/N " del *.bmp
> CD\
> PAUSE
> ___________________________
>
> It was then moved to c:\1temp\bmp
>
> - --- zbm.bat was used to zip-it-up ---
> c:
> cd \1temp\bmp
> for %%c in (*.bmp) do pkzip -ex \1temp\zbm\%%c %%c
> ren \1temp\zbm\*.bmp \1temp\zbm\*.zbm
> cd \
> @echo Done!
> _____________________________________
>
>  I then renamed it to .ZIP and uploaded it to Angelfire.
>
> This is the section of the HTML that does it in NS ....
>
> <center>
> <embed src="sample.mov" width="200" height="260" target="quicktimeplayer">
> </center>
>
>  However, this same section of code causes Arachne to "branch-out" to
> the external viewer for .MOV files.
> (or pops-up the saveas page if no viewer has been defined in mime.cfg)
>
>  In addition, the embed tag only works for locally saved .HTM files.
> (Michael disabled the embed tag for remotely accessed files)
>
> So,
> until Arachne duplicates the operation of the embed tag in NS.... ;-)
>
> BTW,
> This is one of those cases where .JPG far "out shines" .ZBM in D/L size.
> But, I must admit that this also shows the "loss" in "lossy jpg". <g>
> (not a whole-heck-of-a-lot of loss...... but it's noticeable) :(
>
> Temporarily change this line in mime.cfg
>
> application/zip          ZIP
>
> Make it so that it will treat D/Led ZIPs as ZBMs....
>
> application/zip >BMP|[150]pkunzip -o $1 $azbm \n copy /b $azbm\\*.bmp $2
>  \n del $azbm\\*.bmp
>
> (make sure that pkunzip.exe or unzip.exe from Infozip is in you path and
>  that the needed subdirectory \arachne\cache\zbm has been created)
>
> Hmmm, I just wonder if this will work.....
>
> application/zip >BMP|[150]md $a\\zbm>nul \n pkunzip -o $1 $azbm \n
> copy /b $azbm\\*.bmp $2 \n del $azbm\\*.bmp
>
> Son-of-a-gun!!!
> It worked and automatically created the needed directory. :)
>
> So now all that needs to be done is to alter that line in mime.cfg
> and make sure that the unzipping program of choice is in the path. <g>
>
> Now visit http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/ns-w_mov.htm with images
> on or hit insert to load the images.
>
> BTW2,
>  This has brought to mind one more point.
> If Arachne were to treat "embed src=" exactly the same as if it was
> "img src="...... everything would work fine in both NS and Arachne.
>
> Michael and Bernie,
>
> Do you think that would be possible ???
>
>
> - --
>  Glenn
>  http://arachne.cz/
>  http://freedos-32.sourceforge.net/
>  http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/
>  http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/download.htm
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 00:13:51
> From: Christof Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: 1.70r3 for DOS: styles in tables
>
> Word wrap in tables sometimes interferes with the style function.
> If a links are divided into two lines or if they begin in a new
> line some of them do not show the hover function correctly.
> Whether a certain link displays correctly differs according to table
> parameters and screen resolution.
>
> Example:
>
> <HTML>
> <HEAD>
> ...
>   <style>
>    a {text-decoration:none}
>    a:hover {color: "#0000C0"; text-decoration: underlined}
>   </style>
> ...
> </HEAD>
> <BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000C0" VLINK="#00C0C0"
> ALINK="C0C000" MARGINWIDTH=20 LEFTMARGIN=20 topmargin=20>
>
> <TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#D0D0D0" CELLSPACING="5" CELLPADDING="12">
> ...
>   <TR>
>     <TD VALIGN="TOP"><B>
> <A HREF="links.htm#MANUAL">MANUAL</A>
>     </B></TD>
>     <TD><B>
> <A HREF="links.htm#Arachne">Arachne</A> |
> <A HREF="links.htm#Pegasus">Pegasus Mail</A> |
> <A HREF="links.htm#Internet">Internet</A> |
> <A HREF="links.htm#SurvPC">SurvPC</A> |
> <A HREF="links.htm#Unicode">Unicode</A> |
> <A HREF="links.htm#SMS">SMS</A> |
> <A HREF="links.htm#Printer">Printer</A> |
> <A HREF="links.htm#CD">CD ROM</A> |
> <A HREF="links.htm#Modem">Modem</A> |
> <A HREF="links.htm#Technology">Technology Assessment</A>
> <p>
>     </B></TD>
>   </TR>
> ...
> </TABLE>
>
> </BODY></HTML>
>
>
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.volny.cz/christianpeace
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 18:55:27 -0500
> From: "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: (OT) Re: Unisys & GIF
>
> On Fri, 16 Feb 2001 21:07:22 +0100, Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> > Clarence wrote:
> >> I know that you have been paying attention, so I also know YOU know
> >> about .ZBMs. And I understand that you would not consider it to be more
> >> than a toy, due to it's lack of universal built-in-ness.
>
> > Why don't we just add gziped support to Arachne? Then good servers
(Apache
> > for instance) will compress the file (atleast I assume that's what it
does)
> > and send it to the browser for decompression. BMP files should be
> > compressed almost as good with gzip as with pkzip and it is a lot
easier.
> > Still it will not help the poor bastards that don't have such support
(both
> > NS and IE has it since a few versions back IIRC).
> > file://Bernie
>
>  How would we do that on the server end?
> Give the file a name like "testfile.bmp.gz" ???
>
> If so, what content-type do we need to add to Arachne?
>
> Ahhh, there it is... "application/x-gzip"
> (according to http://www.ltsw.se/knbase/internet/application.htp )
>
> Now the problem will be getting the servers on the net to conform to it.
> (this one does not.... http://support.serv.ch/freebsd/manpages-de/ )
>
> Every .gz file is being sent as "application/octet-stream" :(
>
> There we go.
> This site http://www.lsp.ups-tlse.fr/Chafai/Fichiers/ uses the following
> content types...
> ( .ps.gz  --- application/postscript
> ( .pdf.gz --- application/pdf
> ( .tar.gz --- application/x-tar
>
> However, for each one of these it also sends "content-encoding: x-gzip"
>
> A further check at http://support.serv.ch/freebsd/manpages-de/ shows
> that it is also sending "content-encoding: x-gzip"
>
>  So if I understand correctly, what Arachne would need to do is to
> disregard "content-type" when "content-encoding" is sent.
>
> - --
>  Glenn
>  http://arachne.cz/
>  http://freedos-32.sourceforge.net/
>  http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/
>  http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/download.htm
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 19:07:49 -0500
> From: "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: arachne-digest V1 #1466
>
> On Sat, 17 Feb 2001 11:36:31, Christof Lange wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> > Another problem I met with lsppp: I used to login through two Czech
> > servers (quick.cz and volny.cz). Both are free, but login procedures
> > are a bit different, and both have been doing a lot of SW upgrading
> > and changing during the last year. So I am always prepared for the
> > situation that one day the server will not work and I have to try
> > the other one or set up the connection differently. Now, in
> > combination with EPPPD Arachne works fine with both of them. But
> > LSPPP cannot get through with quick.cz. It displays:
>
> > Dialing...Connecting to network...Authenticating...
>
> > Just at the time when I expect to appear the message
>
> > Negotiating IP linkage...
>
> > it hangs up the phone instead. Is there any way to get further?
> > Or do I just have to accept that the server does not like lsppp's
> > way of authentication?
>
>  Lsppp.exe uses PAP/CHAP authentication.
> If quick.cz does not recognize either PAP or CHAP, then you'll need to
> use a login script.
>
> So, try this in Arachne.cfg
>
> Autologin Yes
> WaitFor1 ogin:
> Response1 \u
> WaitFor2 sword:
> Response2 \p
> WaitFor3 session   <-- this is one of the words my ISP shows after
>                        successfully negotiating the PPP connection
>
> Response3          <-- leave blank in most cases
> PPPusername glennmcc
> PPPpassword *****
>
> - --
>  Glenn
>  http://arachne.cz/
>  http://freedos-32.sourceforge.net/
>  http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/
>  http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/download.htm
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 19:14:39 -0500
> From: "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Bernie and the xswap thing HELP!
>
> On Sat, 17 Feb 2001 17:19:42 +0000, Arachne4Dos
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hi Bernie (and Clarence I think?)
>
> > Tried the .asf you sent
>
> > arachne:dialer
> > pop3:
> > smtp:
> > relaod:file://inbox.dgi
> > arachne:hangup
>
> > and machine is now locked up on arachne!
>
> > Giving me xswap error at "line 1691 of file HTML:C"
> > message. This was from starting arachne, then dial page then select
> > asf button, then "new" pop3smtp.asf file. NOT on line at the time.
>
> > I can get out of the end (DOS) screen where it says press any key to
> > continue, using Control C I can get back to W95, but each time I try
> > tom open arachne again, it locks up back at the
>
> > xswap error in line 1691
>
> > message.
>
> > ISTR Clarence sent a way to unlock the xswap thing, but it is in the
> > arachne files and I can't get at it to put it into effect. Could
> > someone send me this again please? It was something like unlock ppp
> > and cache in the instructions.
>
> > Regards
>
> > Mel
>
>  Does it also do this if you run Arachne outside of W95 ???
>
> What I mean is if you boot directly to DOS. (F8/command prompt only)
> Not by going into W95 first and then shutting down.
> And not by running Arachne in a "DOS-box" within W95.
>
>
> - --
>  Glenn
>  http://arachne.cz/
>  http://freedos-32.sourceforge.net/
>  http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/
>  http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/download.htm
>
> ------------------------------
>
> End of arachne-digest V1 #1468
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