Hi Bob,
Your instructions are OK ;-) and I post them to the list because they
might be of some use to others.
Bastiaan
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 09:59:13 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi Bastiaan,
> My computer with DOS and Arachne is disassembled at the moment, so this
> is from memory. Arachne doesn't work with the computer I'm using now.
> Look in MIME.CFG for these lines ...
> ;------------------------------------------------------------------------
> --
> ;Local files and DGI:
> ;------------------------------------------------------------------------
> --
> ;Try to uncomment following, and you will have MSIE 9.0 style desktop ;-)
> ;(note: extension .com must precede .c, etc.)
> ;file/.exe |@$1
> ;file/.com |@$1
> ;file/.bat |@$1
> ;
> Remove the comment-code ( ; ) in front of the word FILE. That makes
> Arachne recognize those three file extensions (exe, com, and bat) and
> execute the instructions that follow ( |@$1 - see the end of MIME.CFG to
> understand these codes). Arachne will now run programs with those
> extensions without having to use DGIs or OOKs.
This was easy ;-)
> Now (this is the part from my memory) look in some of Michael's Arachne
> web pages (probably the .AH files are best) and find some code where he
> runs a program.
This was not easy so I skipped this and applied the next advice:
> I think it should look something like this ... <A
> HREF="file://FILENAME.EXT">
> I did it on my other computer and replaced the Arachne editor with
> EDIT.EXE - I just changed one of the Arachne web pages and saved it
> (keeping the same name - don't use SAVE AS).
> I think the code I used was <A HREF="file://dos/edit.com">.
> That was all I did. Now, when I edit a page with Arachne, the DOS
> EDIT.COM program runs.
> I also changed the menu in HOME.HTM so that I could run programs from
> that menu. For example, I replaced one of Michael's original lines in
> HOME.HTM with <A HREF="file://games/chess.exe"> and that now runs a chess
> program with a click of the mouse.
*********************
I already did make some changes to the "Arachne Desktop" (the HTML-code
is in "home.htm"). Your Computer bug is still not solved with this
computer so I changed "Your Computer" ikon to "A:\ floppy" ikon and
added a "D:\ HD 2" ikon to home.htm
<TD ALIGN=CENTER>
<A HREF="file:D:\*.*">
<IMG SRC="d-dir.bmp" BORDER=0></D><BR>
D:\ HD 2
(It seems I am the only one, on just one computer {of three} where the
new wwwman does not fix the problem... I do not realy care.)
Nice, but I could not run an external program this way (shelling out).
Now I followed your instructions to try to make Norton commander running
from inside Arachne... bingo! The following was added to home.htm
<TD ALIGN=CENTER>
<A HREF="file://C:\norton\nc.exe">
<IMG SRC="system\ikons\norton.ikn"></A>
Norton
***** Norton was running at the first try... and very nice: closing
Norton sends you imediately back to arachne, to the desktop of course.
> You can also pass variables to the DOS programs, but that's a little
> harder. The instructions at the end of MIME.CFG are a little confusing,
> but they explain how to do this.
> Try this and see if it works. Keep notes on the changes you make. If it
> doesn't work right, just change everything back to the original.
> Let me know how it works out.
> Bob
Maybe i give a little explanation why I wanted to shell out. With a
friend we are working on a little project.
I made a homebrew spectrum analyser and want a screen printout on paper
or an image file... and i proposed to use a lot of digital chips to
realise this thing.
My friend came forward with the following idea... why not use the
soundcard?
The soundcard is at the moment not running in DOS but Win95.
We make a .wav recording of the signal comming out of the spectrum
analyser in Win95.
Then BASIC is started and the .wav recording is converted to a .bmp
image. Next this image is stored and displayed, displayed with picture
view and printed.
I would like to do all this in Arachne.
To make the recording would perhaps involve another soundcard.
But if arachne could be shelled out to dos and BASIC -now this is
possible- the resulting .bmp could be displayed by Arachne.
And printed... thanks to modifications in printing for Arachne.
A variety of electronic measuring instruments could be coupled to
arachne eg by using the game/printer/RS232 ports.
DOS is not dead, neither is BASIC ;-))
Thanks for your help Bob,
Thanks for Arachne Michael,
Bastiaan
