Hi L.D., Hi Glenn, On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 17:52:05 -0400, L.D. Best 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] Revenge isn't the thing I love, so I'll forget I've ever read your reply to my message about WWWMAN ;-) But let me comment on a few details: > 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. As the problem with WWWMAN seems to be related to FAT32, it is important to fix it, as other (non-M$ and truly fully functional) DOSes (FreeDOS, DR-DOS) either already support or will support in future the FAT32 interface as well. Micros**t doesn't own the whole DOS world, does it? ;-) > 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. I forgot to state this clearly: I never tried to run Arachne on Windows. I just copied WWWMAN.EXE and WWWMAN.CFG onto a Windows system to test for the "your computer" bug. I've seen from MIME.CFG that WWWMAN can be the culprit... and it is! On Sun, 15 Dec 2002 18:25:51 -0400, Glenn McCorkle wrote: > I've just tested another version of W95 MsDos. > v4.00.950 works fine with wwwman.exe :) > The version I already had (v4.00.1111) has the bug. :((( 4.00.950 is the first release of Win95 that doesn't support FAT32. It's DOS reports itself as version 7.00, not 7.10. So the "your computer" bug seems to be related to FAT32. Could anyone test WWWMAN on a FAT32 kernel of FreeDOS (I don't have currently a working install)? You don't have to use FAT32 on your disk, just having the kernel with FAT32 API is sufficient. A test under FreeDOS would clarify, whether the "your computer" bug occurs due to some bugs in MS-DOS or due to FAT32 API and/or system structures. Greetings, Michal
