On Sun, 15 Dec 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: First, Bastiaan, please accept my condolences on the death of your mother. She is the one woman in the whole world that a man can not replace.
...now.....to your replies: > Why not store some 'clean' version of mime.cfg with another name, incase > you need it sometime... like mime.c!g ..and your following suggestion, also. > Note from Bastiaan: I am not asking for things I like, anyway not in > this discussion. I just want of the features that are there... that they > perform well. Please see my previous apology to Klaus....my style is sometimes abrasive, when I am being emphatic. > IMHO all nice things using external programs must be switched off in the > distribution. And a kind of help file added with sugestions for the > extra nice things that can be added. WARNING: not for newbies! You don't have to have a "HO" about that idea....<g g g>...I think we would all be agreed with that.... > Do you mean the removal of all entries in MIME.CFG, all entries not > functional in the basic package of Arachne? IMHO that would be wise > since the current situation is quite disturbing, even to experienced > users. ��! maybe....or maybe it would just be enough to "comment them (;)" so they do not operate, and put a "comment" documentation NOTE just above them in the MIME.CFG. Or include "Advanced-series" extra MIME.CFG files with the basic package, or have them available for download somewhere. >>> While I was experimenting with boot GUI=0 I did find I had the >>> famous "My computer IKN" problem with a hard lock up when I clicked the >>> IKN, and I haven't got a CD installed. WHOA...!!! podner..!!! hmmm...well, sheeesh..!!!...I have MISSED something here. This was in the back of my mind, nagging me at a low level. See my next post, SUBJECT: WHOA..!!! CDROM IKN >>> So that problem and the wait for the win boot up persuaded me to run >>> Arachne in Windoze. I have to use W95 to do anything else with files. >>> I could avoid this of course by putting Norton Commander on this >>> machine, and using that instead of windoze for local file work. >>> That's not a bad idea. That is a GOOD idea...(of course, that's what I'm doing all the time, using TopDOS, unless I specifically want to grab a file (.PDG, .JPG, etc) with Arachne. > However, IMHO Laurie hits the nail of the problem and apperently Arachne > or pure DOS cannot handle the "@" in "file:@:*.*". Anyway the disks are > not find on the computer and Arachne locks up. > Is this just the DOS that comes with Win95? ahhh....hmmm...pure DOS (DOS that is not a part of any W9x package) is the DOS that does handle the @ correctly. All mine do. But the DOS that comes "under" W9x seems to not do this correctly. That "DOS-under-win" should be version 7.0 or higher. MSDOS 6.22 does handle the @ correctly. ....gregy -- This mail was sent by a user of Arachne - The Ultimate Internet Client
