On Sat, 2 Nov 2002 07:21:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Hi Glenn, Michael & team,

> many, many thanks for the new release. I finally went through the
> files and put together an upgrade for my customized RAM installation.

> The new (not yet documented) dgi variable $k sounds very interesting.
> Will it be possible to use it for new keywords added to arachne.cfg?

Here's an example of how to use the new $K function.

This line in mime.cfg uses $k in conjunction with dirdgi.htm
(dirdgi.htm can be found in the arachn_main directory of v1.71;UE01)

file/dir.dgi >htm|dir $klastdir \|$esystem\\dgi\\fixmem dir>$2

dirdgi.htm is just a "test file" for showing a listing of
any directory typed on the text input line.

The directory listed will be saved into arachne.cfg as... lastdir [path]

The next time that dirdgi is used... that dir will be in the text entry
field. (if a new dir is listed, that new dir will take the place of
the old one in arachne.cfg)

note:
Only one $k can be used per mime.cfg line.

example:
file/dir.dgi >htm|dir $klastdir $klastdrive \|$esystem\\dgi\\fixmem dir>$2
(_______________________________^^^^^^^^^^^ any more than 1 will be ignored)

> Just a few remarks:

> 1. The layout of prtbmp.ah does not seem very logical to me. I would
> expect "Export as BMP" and "Convert to JPG" in two different dialogue
> boxes. Preview of .bmp file and print as .bmp should belong to the
> first one, ale the rest to the second one.

See if you like this one better. <g>
http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/prtbmpah.htm

> 2. Mime.cfg: in view of the codepage mess I would not recommend to
> view rtf files with martha. The code is not available and it does not
> read Czech. Last week I had to open some ugly Czech rtf documents. I
> finally succeeded with 'unrtf'. The source code is available (for
> Linux and DOS) and a programmer will probably easily change the
> conversion for the 8bit characters: the existing version of the
> program produces html with West European entities. For East European
> documents, it should just leave the 8bit chars as they are.

And you have just pointed-out one of the best features of Arachne. :)
By simply changing that one line in mime.cfg, you can choose whatever
RTF viewer you would like to use.

> 3. I am afraid that 171UE is less useable for me than 170r3. Xswap
> error returned, and it seems to be worse than ever.

> It now appears although I do not use any 'reload' at all. What
> crashes Arachne are probably two shtml files with I run with
> Michael's SSI support program. When I call them from my mail script I
> get Xswap error in line 262 of URLOVRL.C

> If anybody wants to reproduce the problem, I have uploaded the
> following files to

>    http:\www.volny.cz\lange\xswap.zip

I downloaded it and tried to use it.

But without knowing what line you have placed into mime.cfg
to be used for viewing .SHT files..... it does nothing on my machine.

BTW,
Your link should read....
http://www.volny.cz/lange/xswap.zip

-- 
 Glenn
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