On 24 Jul 01 at 0:07, owner-arachne-digest@arachne wrote:
>Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 18:23:47 +0200
>From: Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Why I use Windows 9x
Hi list,
it seems that Arachne discussions have come to an end, now, even if
the program's name still appears in some mail signatures. Can just
tell me anybody in short what was the result of that discussion?
>Ah, let us see..
I see we are getting to other interesting topics. Fine. For me it is
a bit hypothetical, though: Since my CD-ROM drive died a couple of
months ago, there is no way to run any W9x on my machines. But I
really love this kind of "science fiction".
So let me remember and imagine. Is there any reason why *I*
would like to use W9x if I could?
* Windows commander 3.53: the most comfortable way to clean up and
upload my websites - but I can live without it. It just took some
time to find the right FTP program (as their names are all the same)
and to write the scripts that do the same work during an ordinary
Arachne online session.
* Acrobate reader and HTML converter for PDF: pdf2txt mostly does not
work. The only hope is the fact that Google has started to convert
PDF files on the web and offers you alternative versions. So I was
able to access information I would never have got without their help.
Is there anybody who has got an idea, how this service works?
* Soft602 program to read Excel: This is a really bad case, too. I
was much afraid when I went for the results of public census in Czech
republic. The statistical office offered: PDF, Excel and Quattro for
Windows. Finally I fished the numbers out of the PDF. But lost a lot
of time.
* MSIE: In future I may need a browser to test JS. I wrote some
interactive HTML-pages with questions and answers. They are
containing DGI and ordinary DOS batchfiles. How can I put them
online? How can I distribute them without Arachne program? I will
have to learn JS.
* But now the one and only reason why I *will* need W9x: There is no
music notation program allows to include Czech texts and produces
acceptable output on a laser printer in DOS. In order to return from
fiction to reality: I wonder whether this will be possible with
Linux?
Christof Lange
(still interested in Arachne topics)
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Christof Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Prokopova 4, 130 00 Praha 3, Czech Republic
phone: (+420-2) 22 78 18 00 / 22 78 20 02, telefax: 22 78 18 01
http://www.volny.cz/cce.zizkov
