At 14:32 25-12-02 +00, you wrote: >On Wed, 25 Dec 2002 06:45:30 -0500, Sam Ewalt wrote: > >> On Tue, 24 Dec 2002 23:01:19 -0400, L.D. Best wrote: > >>> Ray, > >>> You misconstrue what I said. I didn't say he should not attempt to fix >>> the \\ bug. What I said, and what I stand by, is that attempting to >>> make Arachne run on advanced platforms when it is designed for -- >>> practically the lifeline for -- low-end legacy non-supported by most of >>> the world systems, said systems neither needing or being able to >>> function with bloatware. > >> Yes, but going into 2003 what's a low end legacy system? Anything >> running 95, 98 or ME would now be considered "legacy" systems by >> the mainstream. > >> Tempis fugit. Arachne should be compatible with those no longer >> advanced systems that are now commonly discarded as "obsolete". > >Many of us are 'forced' to use those 'obsolete' winxx systems... >exept for small .txt mailings nearly all text are in WORD-format now. >And I have lots of other programs and hardware that need windows...
Programs we'll all have to choose for ourselves, but considering worddocs, feel free to join me on a little quest to convince others of the necessity to send out info in some other than commercial standard, thus returning all such mail with a request to convert to RTF or HTML. (although I must admit that for me too, having some converter installed is a matter of survival in this town. If I'm not mistaken some doc2txt for dos has already been discussed, together with the pdf2txt converter) BRB > >So Arachne must be able to run in an environement where win is present. > >I started computing with BASIC... DOS... and Windows followed. >Everage lifetime of these OS's = 7 years... I wonder what and when is >next? > >Regards, Bastiaan > >> Sam Ewalt >> Croswell, Michigan, USA >> -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/ > > >
