On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, "L.D. Best" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The mention of WWWMAN is misleading; the "tests" done aren't valid. From > the results given by some users, it is obvious the problem is *NOT* in > Arachne, or WWWman ... -----------snip--------------- >> It looks like WWWMAN has trouble with interpreting available drive >> letters under plain MS-DOS 7.10; > Not the job of WWWman ... WWWman just passes the commands thru to > get the requested data; the failure is in the OS itself. Thank you, thank you...L.D...I need someone to help me maintain my sense of perspective. Sometimes I forget "the swamp" and get intranced by the "alligators"......<g g g g> > Since Arachne is designed for "low end" systems, those which operate on > Linux, or MS-DOS 5.x or lower, I think it is counterproductive for people > to be "testing" it on Win9x or W2K or WinMe or WinXP. uuummmmm...yes...but...we need to know that it is being tested on these other OSs when problems are being reported. So that we do not try to "fix" Arachne for a non-existent "Arachne-problem". > Arachne is not a Windows program!!!!!!!! If you want to run Arachne, > then use an OS that is fully functional ... don't blame it on the > software design of Arachne. ...and...when we identify OS-caused problems, we can caution that "such-and-such" can be expected when doing "so-and-so" on WteverOS. .....gregy -- This mail was sent by a user of Arachne - The Ultimate Internet Client
