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I just sent Seekhey the ARCHN170.EXE as an email attachment...I know
it went, 'cause I saw it go...
My ISP wuuuuvs me...!!!...actually he lets me do just about anything
like this I want to do....someone tried to receive a 200Mbyte email
attachment, once, and jammed up all the servers, except the main
portal server, and he got a bit miffed, but other than something
like that, he just lets us jump in and try the water to our hearts
content.....<g g g >
Seedhey should get back to me later today and let me know if the
attachment got through....
If it did, then we are one step closer to SeekHey's install...BUT
we need to get instructions ready, as to how he should install it,
where, his file-directs (e.g. f:\mail\, i:\cache\, etc.
I think we all agree that Arachne runs best from an approximately
12Mbyte, or bigger, RAMDisk. Installed this way, Arachne is the
fastest Downloader on the whole web, as far as dialup ISPs go.
..and even 14.4 should be reasonably fast.
.......gregy
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Do most ISPs accept 200 MB email nessage? Bluegrass Net stated their maximum
was 8 MB, while most other ISPs had a maximum of 5 MB.
I thought Seek Hey said he was going to download Arachne at school and carry
home on diskette.
Seek Hey's modem speed. 14.4K, might roughly suggest how much RAM he might have,
considering what was in vogue when 14.4K modems were in vogue (1994?). Some
extended memory must be saved for DPMI programs and other extended memory use.
Maybe 12 MB would be too much? How big a RAMdisk is possible in DOS if one has
a current up-to-date computer with 256 MB RAM?
Regarding the illegality of Seek Hey's grandmother sharing a copy of Windows,
commercial software licenses typically allow use on one computer. But with
Linux or (Free, Net or Open)BSD, it is perfectly legal to use a CD or set of CDs
to install on multiple computers. I guess they're not on the lookout for people
using the same copy of DOS on more than one computer?
