Hi Listers, I'm sorry I've been away for 2 week's and not been able to enjoy the Arachne list but my POP3 download stuck on a message on the 27th of Sept.
As this Apricot machine running W95 was originally connected to a network using network protocols, TCP/IP was not installed and I could not use a dial up modem (only in Arachne with built-in TCP/IP). I bit the bullet borowed a CD rom and daisy-chained it to the IDE port and after backing up all my Arachne hotpages, addressbook and other stuff. I destroyed the partition on the harddrive. I have re-installed W95 version 4b after spliting the HD into logical drives to improve the 16Kb cluster size. Thank's Clarence and Glenn, your clustersize calculations were spot on. I have installed 32 bit Pegasus Mail and whatever would not download in Arachne has been downloaded. Everything looked fine, I could not see anything obviously dodgy, but that doe's not mean a thing. Arachne 1.70 r3 has been re-installed and all my hotlist's have been restored, the tip's given over the months on how to use PKZIP have been very helpful, it was a delight to see 160 arachne list messages unzip to 8 seperate Arachne directorys. After doing battle with W95 again "I am INVINCABLE !! " after getting 129Kb of base memory after Arachne has loaded. It was trial and error and windoze was naturally no help at all. After using Internet Explorer to check it would work with my modem I will definatly be using Arachne as my main web browser. The windows email will be a standby to recover from my intermittant "sticky" POP3 problem. And I realy must learn how to use Telnet. After using windows it just shows how informative and efficient Arachne is. In Windows Messaging a "Getting and receiving e-mail" dialogue box is nowhere near as good as the status bar at the bottom of Arachne when you are getting and sending your mail. You have no idea of what you have to download, how big it is, if it's working fast or slow etc. So I have 160 odd email's to clear. Wonder what you have been talking about. Regards Laurie Pegasus Mail 32 Bit
