I forget the exact subject, and the message is not in front of me, is in a file
too big to fit in this text editor (low DOS memory limitation), but I browsed
that URL (with Arachne 1.70 rev 3)
http://www.satirewire.com/features/siliconpines/acf.shtml
It was slower than molasses in the coldest winter weather of the South Pole,
repeatedly downloading things but not really going anywhere, redrew the screen
a few times. I eventually pulled the telephone connector out from the wall,
subsequently hit Ctrl-Break, after several tries that worked. I was returned to
DOS prompt in a weird mode, presumably 800 * 600 with 16384 colors, very
difficult to read. I mamaged to find C:\TVGAUTIL directory and type SVM 3,
returning video mode to 3 (default text mode, 80 * 25). Zip 250 was buzzing
madly even though Arachne was running from D:\ARACH170, where D was a VDISK
(what DR-DOS calls a RAM disk). I am not sure whether that huge 89667881.BMP
file of 2,089,014 bytes in the cache was from that download or the previous one.
Volume in drive D is VDISK
Directory of D:\ARACH170\CACHE
. <DIR> 5-03-01 4:58a
.. <DIR> 5-03-01 4:58a
89666482 HTM 97,578 5-12-01 7:21a
89667751 HTM 2,113 5-12-01 7:42a
89667768 HTM 7,501 5-12-01 7:42a
HEADERS <DIR> 5-03-01 4:58a
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89669407 BMP 0 5-12-01 8:10a
52 File(s) 2,494,924 bytes
2,749,952 bytes free
