Hi Michael, all > As I told, complete rewrite is needed. Which means programmers with > open-source experience must be attracted to join the project, which > means open source release of at least somesthing at www.freshmeat.net, > which seems to be just too big headache for one person. It's question of > shift from "pretending that I am software company" attitude to more > community-oriented approach. I can provide lot of expertise on "how web > efficient browser should be written" - much more, than when I started to > write Arachne. But I don't have any energy left to code it on my own.
If Arachne does go open source, I'd sure like to help. Where do I sign? Hi Andy, It's no surprise your having trouble: > here's what I get when I type "mem" in DR-DOS: > Memory Type Total Bytes ( Kbytes ) Available for Programs > Conventional 655,360 ( 640K ) 511,440 ( 499K ) > Upper 163,840 ( 160K ) 108,048 ( 106K ) > High 65,520 ( 64K ) 2,224 ( 2K ) > Extended 32,505,856 (31,744K ) 0 ( 0K ) > Extended via XMS ----------- 28,536,832 (27,868K ) > Largest executable program: 464,400 ( 454K ) > Total Free DOS memory: 619,488 ( 605K ) My 'mem/c' looks like this: Modules using memory below 1 MB: Name Total Conventional Upper Memory -------- ---------------- ---------------- ---------------- SYSTEM 33,952 (33K) 10,896 (11K) 23,056 (23K) HIMEM 1,168 (1K) 1,168 (1K) 0 (0K) EMM386 4,320 (4K) 4,320 (4K) 0 (0K) 4DOS 6,832 (7K) 432 (0K) 6,400 (6K) NANSI 3,184 (3K) 0 (0K) 3,184 (3K) RAMDRIVE 1,456 (1K) 0 (0K) 1,456 (1K) IFSHLP 2,864 (3K) 0 (0K) 2,864 (3K) SMARTDRV 35,056 (34K) 0 (0K) 35,056 (34K) 320-180C 5,312 (5K) 0 (0K) 5,312 (5K) KSTACK 1,072 (1K) 0 (0K) 1,072 (1K) CTMOUSE 3,360 (3K) 0 (0K) 3,360 (3K) Free 747,488 (730K) 638,160 (623K) 109,328 (107K) Memory Summary: Type of Memory Total Used Free ---------------- ----------- ----------- ----------- Conventional 655,360 17,200 638,160 Upper 191,088 81,760 109,328 Reserved 0 0 0 Extended (XMS) 132,912,528 12,872,080 120,040,448 ---------------- ----------- ----------- ----------- Total memory 133,758,976 12,971,040 120,787,936 Total under 1 MB 846,448 98,960 747,488 Largest executable program size 638,144 (623K) Largest free upper memory block 70,160 (69K) MS-DOS is resident in the high memory area. As you can see, I have room for a 623K program vs. your 499K. Check your own 'mem/c' and you'll see what's going on in your memory. Then you'll know what needs fixing in your autoexec.bat and config.sys. Ray Andrews, Vancouver, Canada -- Arachne V1.71;UE01, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
