Bastiaan,
Thank you for your lengthy reply. I have worked a bit with Arachne
now and have, as you self say, come to the conclusion that the
built-in editor is works very well in general and with �, �, �.
So I stick with it for a while.
A Pegasus set-up might be interesting in the future, but currently
the built-in mail system in Arachne is sufficient. I do most of my
mail work on a win work station, and I plan to use this 486 DOS
laptop as my secondary mail system. So I do not need a more competent
mail system yet. If I start to use the laptop more seriously
when it comes to mail, I believe I have to start looking into
solutions you mention in order to easier handle larger mail
quantities.
BTW, I just love this laptop. It is a Canon BN22, 486/25 Mhz
black and white screen. Built in printer under the keyboard, and
I got a PCMCIA modem with the purchase together with the original
manuals, original installation diskettes and spare ink cartridges
to the printer for SEK 900, or roughly USD 90. Just fantastic!
Installed PC DOS 2000 and used the PCMCIA drivers which comes with
the PC DOS and it works like a charm. Installed today also the DOS
drivers for my 100 Meg Paralell port zip drive and that one also
works like a charm!
So much competent computing hardware/software for "peanuts". It is
amazing.
Anyway,
Thank you for all the info
Best regards,
Bj�rn
Bastiaan Edelman wrote:
>> Subject: Questions
>> 2) How do i use an external mail editor to compose an outgoing
>> message? Cannot find any info on this..
> Hi Bjorn,
> there are basically two ways to do this:
> a) External editor
> If you just like to use a different editor to write your messages
> you may want to replace Arachne's internal editor with another one
> that is quicker or more convenient. This would not consider only
> composing of mail, but any editing task that turns up (cf. key F4).
> For older versions of Arachne, there is an add-on (APM) on the
> download page. But I think the 1.70 has an even more simple way of
> selecting an external editor. At the very end of Options-Preferences
> page there is a space to fill in an editor's name. I have never tried
> this, but it would be interesting to know whether it works.
> BE> This message is written with an external editor (Norton Edit).
> Very external because I left Arachne saving Bj�rn (�= alt 248)
> his question by using the P key. A copy is now -4prt.txt
> I loaded -4prt.txt into Norton Edit. When finished I load it
> back into Arachne mail with cntrl R (read file).
> As you use national characters, I would like to add one remark: Even
> if Arachne's internal editor seems to be slow and simple it offers
> a fantastic support of any font set and any keyboard definition.
> This is why I (writing mainly Czech and German) have not replaced
> Arachne's editor, but I am just switching between several ones.
> Q? How does one activate this support? Is it possible to change the
> keyboard definition? Bastiaan
> BE> -4prt.txt can also be used for caracterset conversion before or
> after an external editor is used.
> b) using a mail client together with Arachne
> As e-mail mainly concerns text, it may be useful for someone to use
> still another program for composing, reading, sorting and archiving
> of email offline. Arachne does a great good job online. She is very
> versatile in sending and receiving messages with different e- mail
> accounts. And she is able to display the messages with embedded
> links so that you can "click" on them and get right at the linked
> webpages. Other features of Arachne's email components have often be
> criticised and may appear insufficient to those who have a lot of
> email traffic, mailing lists etc.
> In this case you may consider to use a better program together with
> Arachne. The critical point is that it produces outgoing mail in
> files with extension .TBS and reads incoming mail with extension
> ...CNM. I have been using Pegasus Mail for DOS (PMmail) for quite a
> while together with Arachne. I can start PMail from inside Arachne
> or independently to read and compose, then I use Arachne online to
> send, receive and preview incoming mail. If you are interested in
> how to set this up, ask me by private mail. I shall give you the
> details.
> Regards
> Christof Lange
> BE> Yeh, .TBS and .CNM makes storing and sorting not easy.
> More trouble is made (IMHO) by the numbered suffix. This does
> not give any information about the content of the file nor is
> it easy to remember.
> When I read the mail I reply from the Inbox, delete the not
> interesting stuff and store anything to be kept to e.g. the
> \download directory.
> Sorting and storing is done (often) with Norton commander out of
> Arachne.
> To ease things a lot can be done with MIME in Arachne.
> For instance I added under "aliases and standard file types" the
> following line:
> file/.doc |@$eview.exe $1
> If there is a .doc file in the inbox (attachment) which at present is
> a M$ Word document... view.exe is activated and the output shown
> on the Arachne screen. Before this I had to close Arachne, start
> windoze, open Word (or click with Windows Commander) and finaly I
> was able to view the Word text.
> Back to Arachne? First close windoze, restart the PC and open Arachne
> again! (Dos prompt in windows is of no use for Arachne; this does not
> free enough memmory.)
> Of coarse other programs can be installed in Arachne this way.
> Best regards, Bastiaan
> PS: I use this editor in 437 caracter mode, so I see a "degree"
> caracter on the screen with alt 248 (�).
> Degree in LATIN-1 and CP-850 is probably alt 176 (�) = graphical
> in CP-437. Lets see what happens after reading this file back to
> Arachne without converting.
> -- Arachne V1.61, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
> ===================END FORWARDED M
> ESSAGE===================
-- From an old 486/25 Mhz laptop using only DOS and Arachne
-- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
