On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Glenn McCorkle wrote:

> On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 19:39:24 -0500 (EST), I wrote:
> 
> > Tried installing Arachne 1.71UE on my machine at home. The download looks
> > fine. Here's what Linux says is on the floppy:
> 
> > -rwxrwxr-x    1 gjones   gjones    1021462 Nov  9 16:40 ara171ue.exe
> 
> You have an incomplete download.
> As stated on  http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/ara171ue01.htm
> [1,039,025 bytes] is the correct size.
> 
> /id/glenndoom/ara171ue.exe
> Last-Modified: Tue, 05 Nov 2002 05:10:56 GMT
> Content-Length: 1039025

Glenn, something is mangled. First my Mozilla crashes on your page. 
Second, with Netscape I just download the following:

med-physio11:~$ ls -l ar*
-rw-rw-r--    1 gjones   gjones    1021462 Nov 28 20:57 ara171ue.exe
-rw-rw-r--    1 gjones   gjones    1186108 Nov 28 20:58 ara171ue.zip

The zip file is the right size, but the exe file is not!

> > The machine is a 1.3 GHz Athlon with 256 MB memory! It is running DR-DOS
> > 7.02 so only 64 MB is recognised, but I have quite a good feeling that 64
> > MB should be enough. Indeed Arachne 1.70 installs and runs just dandy.
> 
> In addition, do a `mem' to see how much free 'low memory' you have.

Ahh, it is optimized almost to the limit, 624K free low memory, 15Meg XMS,
16 Meg EMS, 32 Meg VDISK for Arachne Cache, write delay caching to the
hardisk and the harddisk is in UDMA 6 mode. Arachne page rendering is
almost too fast to notice compared to downloads, even though I have
consistent 53K dialup connections. The only things I didn't try yet are
putting the DOS SHELL and other DOS bits into high memory, and also trying
to load DOSPPPD in high memory.

I will take those downloads home tonight, and try them tomorrow morning.

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Gregor J Jones                    mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Boston MA

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