Re: new hotlist manager...
On Tue, 08 Feb 2000 20:26:18 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote: Just tried the new hotlist manager. (oo, ugly)g I'll stick with my "old-tried-and-true" methode. (F4, make changes, F2). - Glenn McCorkle - Sorry, forgot to say none of my links got "lost". - The list I just reorganized had 33 links in it. -How many did yours have in it when some of them were lost? - At one time in the past. The limit for hotlist manager was 100 links. -Does anyone know if this limit still exists? I always keep my hotlist short. I use a text editor and save the links to other local pages I have of many different categories. I think I have about a thousand local pages by now.
Re: Hotmail.com probs
On Tue, 8 Feb 2000 13:45:07 -0800 (PST), Jorge Alex Ortega O. wrote: --- "Samuel W. Heywood" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, I do know that Arachne hasn't been able to use "www.hotmail.com" ever since the site was bought out by Micro$oft about two years ago. Before Micro$oft messed things up, Hotmail used to work just fine with Arachne and even with text-browsers such as NetTamer and DOS-LYNX. Well... Hotmail.com has been modified to work with WINDOWS-ONLY web browsers (requires Security certificates, which are available only on MSIE 4.0 or later (my copy of MSIE 3.0 doesn't work with it) and probabily with later versions of netscape... also requires https capabilities (secure http transfers, which involves encription and some other 'security' trashes...) instead of hotmail you can use yahoo mail (mail.yahoo.com) or crosswinds (www.crosswinds.com...:)) which are good and better Then I wrote: [swh] Hola Jorge - Wrong name of URL. Not crosswinds.com, it is [swh] crosswinds.net. [swh] Very interesting website. I'm checking it out now. I'll get back later. [swh] I found out that http://www.crosswinds.com exists also, but it does not [swh] offer email services. Crosswinds.com would be a good site to visit if [swh] you are planning on moving to Detroit. And now I am back after spending considerable time exploring http://www.crosswinds.net. I have this to say: Very interesting site. They offer free personal web pages and even free business web pages. (To get a free business web-page you have to let them put one of their banners on your page) From reading about their free email, it appears they do not offer web-based mail, but they do offer IMAP email, in which you will need to configure your own email client to use the web-site's mail servers. The kind of email service offered by crosswinds should not be compared to hotmail because it is not web-based mail. Yes, you probably could use it with Arachne, or with any other program having its own internet email client. Sam Heywood than hotmail and you can use all in arachne :) Have a nice day :) J. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com -- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client
About PDF in DOS..
BTW, I have found, that Ghostscript, which is available not only for Linux and other unixes, but also for DOS (although not latest version), can open not only PostScript, but also any PDF file I tried. But I tried latest Linux version, not last version which was ported to DOS... -- http://home.arachne.cz/ (homepage of Arachne, www browser for DOS Linux)
OT Re: what is .pdf
GMUnfortunately, AcroDos will not work with the new format of .PDF files GM. GMFor now, the only way a "pure DOS" user can get the text from a new GM.PDF is to send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Not any more, Glenn. :) Go to www.foolabs.com and download the XPDF utilities for DOS. (It includes PDFTOTEX.EXE.) Mike --
Re: C programs and 2038
pretty safe. Beware, porting to 64 bits is a much more difficult than just recompiling. I don't know details but the Linux kernel people are currently discussing this problem and haven't found an easy solution yet. I believe Linux has already been ported to 64 bits: Alpha and RS-6000, maybe others? Support the International Alliance for Compatible Technology http://pages.cthome.net/iact/
My inbox is fixed
My inbox has been showing just a blank screen for quite some time. Because I don'ttrust my hard drives right now, I thought I'd ZIP up a trimmed down copy of Arachne that could be installed to a ramdrive from a floppy. To trim it down I xcopied it from drive F: to C: to work on it. For some reason my inbox started working OK. I'm now using the trimmed down copy on C: drive. I tried to make an exact copy of it back on F: drive doing a Search and Replace of every reference inevery files from C: to F:. It still wouldn't work. Figure that one out.
Re: C programs and 2038
Bernie wrote: Casper wrote: This is a known problem that affects most computer system including all Unices. A solution is to go 64 bit, something that is expected to happen in the next decade. Older machines will be a lot of trouble in 2035-2038. I hope, but do not expect, this will be solved in time. Solving it on other machines is IMHO harder than Y2K but doable. And the problem is exactly what? I repeat, I don't know. The Linux kernel people have quite some trouble solving it. We only change the start year from 1970 to 2038 (or whatever it is) if the year reported is less than 29 (for a program made after 1999 of course - this will change as the years passes by...) IMO "32 bits is enough for anyone" ;-) tell that to someone studying Greek history or something. There are other problems, which will require a complete rewrite of the standards, SQL for instance stores the year like a string (something like "2000-02-08") and therefor has a Y10K bug. But I doubt anyone will use any SQL database I create now after 8 000 years ;) //Bernie http://hem.passagen.se/bernie/index.htm DOS programs, Star Wars ... -- Casper Gielen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- I'm a guy too. Jerry Springer
Re: C programs and 2038
Thomas Mueller wrote: pretty safe. Beware, porting to 64 bits is a much more difficult than just recompiling. I don't know details but the Linux kernel people are currently discussing this problem and haven't found an easy solution yet. I believe Linux has already been ported to 64 bits: Alpha and RS-6000, maybe others? My mistake, cut past did some nasty things to my mail. Linux indeed has been ported to some 64 bits architecturers like Alpha, Ultra Sparc and IA64. However replacing a 32 bit timekeeper with a 64b one is not as easy as just recompiling. The 32 bit Linux folk are worried about 2038 and want to anticipate. On a 32 bit platform this is rather hard. -- Casper Gielen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- I'm a guy too. Jerry Springer
Arachne installation problems
Hello Clarence,
Thank you for your hint concerning the formatting problems.
I try it again now and send a copy to the Arachne mailing list,
because other people may have had the same problem as you.
Again I have tried to install Arachne using the advice I have
got from this mailing list. Thanks for the help. I have come a
little bit further.
I have adjusted autoexec.bat and config.sys, and choose the
graphic card Trident 800x600. Then Arachne starts:
The two grey headlines (Arachne ..)are visible, one line at the
bottom (copyrigth ...) and then two rectangular grey areas at
the rbottom rigth corner of the screen in the upper field
(of this two) a message appears: DOS Memory (KB) 4303 [+] ,
Festplatte 0 [!!!]. Then at the top of the screen the following
message comes still: memory allocation error; Command cannot
be loaded, system halted.
If I remove smartdrive and keyb.com from the autoexec.bat
(to get more memory) the following message appears after
the harddisk wws engaged in work for quite a long time: Stack
overflow.
I do not know what to do now!?!?
Here some additional information:
At our school we have some old 386´s (with 8 MB Ram and
without Windows), which we want to use for Internet-access.
During setup I choose XMS and VG.A
Betriebssystem / operating system: MS-Dos 6.22
Grafik-Karte /graphic card : Trident TVGA 512K
Monitor:AOC CMLB-337
Netzkarte / netcard:NE2000 kompatibel / compatible
Autoexec.bat
@ECHO OFF
LH C:\DOS\SMARTDRV.EXE /X
PROMPT $p$g
PATH c:\mouse;C:\DOS
LH MOUSE SER 1
SET TEMP=C:\Temp
SET ARACHNE=
SET ARACHNETEMP=
SET MYIP=vvv
SET REMIP=vv
SET NETMASK=vvv
SET PEERMRU=vv
lh c:\dos\keyb.com gr
Config.sys
DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS /TESTMEM:OFF
DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE NOEMS HIGHSCAN
BUFFERS=20,0
FILES=60
DOS=high,UMB
LASTDRIVE=E
FCBS=4,0
stacks=20,512
rem DEVICEHIGH=C:\DOS\SETVER.EXE
Speichertyp Insgesamt = Verwendet + Frei
- -- - -
Konventioneller 640K 32K 608K
Hoher 155K 51K 104K
Reserviert 384K 384K 0K
Erweiterung (XMS) 7,013K2,269K 4,744K
- -- - -
Insg. Speicher8,192K2,736K 5,456K
Insg. unter 1 MB795K 83K 712K
Maximale Gr"áe fr ausfhrbares Programm 608K (622,080 Byte)
Gr"áter freier Block im hohen Speicherblock104K (106,288 Byte)
MS-DOS ist resident im oberen Speicherbereich (High Memory Area).
Module, die den Speicher unterhalb 1 MB verwenden:
Name Insgesamt = Konventioneller + Hoher Speicher
---
MSDOS 25,245 (25K) 25,245 (25K) 0(0K)
HIMEM1,168(1K) 1,168(1K) 0(0K)
EMM386 3,136(3K) 3,136(3K) 0(0K)
COMMAND 3,328(3K) 3,328(3K) 0(0K)
MOUSE 15,744 (15K) 0(0K) 15,744 (15K)
SMARTDRV29,024 (28K) 0(0K) 29,024 (28K)
KEYB 6,944(7K) 0(0K) 6,944(7K)
Frei 728,784 (712K)622,176 (608K)106,608 (104K)
Speicher-Zusammenfassung:
Speichertyp Insgesamt = Verwendet + Frei
- ---
Konventioneller 655,360 33,184 622,176
Hoher 158,320 51,712 106,608
Reserviert393,216 393,2160
Erweiterung (XMS) 7,181,7122,323,8564,857,856
- ---
Insg. Speicher 8,388,6082,801,9685,586,640
Insg. unter 1 MB 813,680 84,896 728,784
Maximale Gr"áe fr ausfhrbares Programm622,080 (608K)
Gr"áter freier Block im hohen Speicherblock 106,288 (104K)
MS-DOS ist resident im oberen Speicherbereich (High Memory Area).
Detaillierte sbersicht des konventionellen Speichers:
Segment Insgesamt Name Typ
--- -- -
0 1,039(1K) Interrupt-Vektor
00040271(0K) ROM-sbertragungsbereich
00050527(1K) DOS-sbertragungsbereich
00070 2,656(3K) IO Systemdaten
CON System-Ger"tetreiber
AUX System-Ger"tetreiber
Re: Virus Alert!
Sorry to hear that. F-Prot antivrus is free for personal use. The primary locations are ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/virus/fp-xxx.zip ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/virus/fp-xxx.zip http://www.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/virus/fp-xxx.zip xxx stands for the version number -- which will be 304 or higher. Get in touch if you need details of how to request it by email direct from the developer (Frisk in Iceland). Jake At 09/02/00 03:11:00, Mark David Roth wrote: My whole system got infected with the Fantasma.1000 and Stoned (something or other) and my 386 is acting very peculiar. My CMOS is giving me a lot of trouble. Can't access my hard drives except under very peculiar circumstances. I suspect it may be caused by another virus I haven't been able to clean out yet.
Re: Why aren't GIFs displaying?
On Wed, 9 Feb 2000 01:43:20 -0500, Mark David Roth wrote: On Tue, 8 Feb 2000 16:30:37 -0500, Mark David Roth wrote: Instead of displaying GIFs I'm getting red boxes. What is wrong? Here is my ARACHNE and MIME CFGs if someone might see what is wrong for me. ARACHNE.CFG - Glenn McCorkle replied: - We need some example URLs where the GIFs do not display for you. The URLs I had trouble with are. I'm listing first the URL then the image. I right clicked the image and tried to reload it. It still didn't work. I saved the images to a file and viewed them successfully off line. http://www.angelfire.com/ca/hawkeyemjs/elmo.html http://www.angelfire.com/ca/hawkeyemjs/images/elmo.gif http://www.angelfire.com/ca/hawkeyemjs/love.html http://www.angelfire.com/ca/hawkeyemjs/images/turtlelove.gif http://www.angelfire.com/ca/hawkeyemjs/witch.html http://www.angelfire.com/ca/hawkeyemjs/eatin.gif http://www.angelfire.com/ca/hawkeyemjs/clintons.html http://www.angelfire.com/ca/hawkeyemjs/images/clinton.gif Correct file name on this one is: http://www.angelfire.com/ca/hawkeyemjs/images/clinton.Jpeg http://www.angelfire.com/ca/hawkeyemjs/turtle.html http://www.angelfire.com/ca/hawkeyemjs/turtle.gif http://www.angelfire.com/ca/hawkeyemjs/moses.html http://www.angelfire.com/ca/hawkeyemjs/moses.gif The problem is not in Arachne. All of the above images is "backwards". Every one with a .GIF extension is actually a Jpeg (not a gif) The one with a Jpeg extension is actually a GIF89 I have found this same problem at other web sites. If you'de like, you may notify the "webmaster". I didn't have any trouble with these links: http://www.angelfire.com/ca/hawkeyemjs/zipper.html http://www.angelfire.com/ca/hawkeyemjs/images/pic.jpg http://www.angelfire.com/ca/hawkeyemjs/beer.html Which displayed: http://members.rotfl.com/joke/beer.gif An animated GIF Yes, you had no problems with either of those because they _are_ in the formats that they _say_ they are. (the .jpg _is_ a Jpeg and the .gif _is_ a GIF)g -- Glenn McCorkle [EMAIL PROTECTED] North Jackson, Ohio, USA DOS prog. for QV cameras http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/qvplay.html Other stuff http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ Arachne, The Web Browser for DOS Open the 'DOOR' to the WWW. Keep the 'windows' closed. http://arachne.browser.org/ http://arachne.cz/
Re: OT Re: what is .pdf
On Wed, 09 Feb 2000 10:06:46 -000, Mike Millen wrote: GMUnfortunately, AcroDos will not work with the new format of .PDF files GM. GMFor now, the only way a "pure DOS" user can get the text from a new GM.PDF is to send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Not any more, Glenn. :) Go to www.foolabs.com and download the XPDF utilities for DOS. (It includes PDFTOTEX.EXE.) Mike -- Thanks very much Mike. ftp://ftp.foolabs.com:21/pub/xpdf/xpdf-0.90-dos.zip might work as a PDF veiwer "plug-in" for Arachne. to be continued.g -- Glenn McCorkle [EMAIL PROTECTED] North Jackson, Ohio, USA DOS prog. for QV cameras http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/qvplay.html Other stuff http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ Arachne, The Web Browser for DOS Open the 'DOOR' to the WWW. Keep the 'windows' closed. http://arachne.browser.org/ http://arachne.cz/
Re: Arachne installation problems
Bernd Martin wrote: I have adjusted autoexec.bat and config.sys, and choose the graphic card Trident 800x600. Then Arachne starts: The two grey headlines (Arachne ..)are visible, one line at the bottom (copyrigth ...) and then two rectangular grey areas at the rbottom rigth corner of the screen in the upper field (of this two) a message appears: DOS Memory (KB) 4303 [+] , Festplatte 0 [!!!]. Then at the top of the screen the following message comes still: memory allocation error; Command cannot be loaded, system halted. This sounds like either a memory management problem or bad memory. I have no idea what Festplatte 0 [!!!] might be but DOS mem 4303 kb is crazy. If I remove smartdrive and keyb.com from the autoexec.bat (to get more memory) the following message appears after the harddisk wws engaged in work for quite a long time: Stack overflow. You have enough memory to get started, judging from the following: Frei 728,784 (712K)622,176 (608K)106,608 (104K) If you reduce stacks to 0,0 you will have more. The harddisk was working a lot because you did not have the cache installed. Smartdrive installs in the upper memory blocks so it does not impact on Arachne. The stack overflo is probably related to the original memory allocation problem. Here some additional information: At our school we have some old 386´s (with 8 MB Ram and without Windows), which we want to use for Internet-access. During setup I choose XMS and VG.A Betriebssystem / operating system: MS-Dos 6.22 Grafik-Karte /graphic card : Trident TVGA 512K Monitor:AOC CMLB-337 Netzkarte / netcard:NE2000 kompatibel / compatible Autoexec.bat @ECHO OFF LH C:\DOS\SMARTDRV.EXE /X PROMPT $p$g PATH c:\mouse;C:\DOS LH MOUSE SER 1 SET TEMP=C:\Temp Remove the following: SET ARACHNE= SET ARACHNETEMP= SET MYIP=vvv SET REMIP=vv SET NETMASK=vvv SET PEERMRU=vv - Down to here --. lh c:\dos\keyb.com gr Config.sys DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS * Remove /TESTMEM:OFF (You may have problem) DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE NOEMS HIGHSCAN BUFFERS=20,0 - Change to 20 (,0 is default anyway) FILES=60 DOS=high,UMB - Try to move to before Buffers (?) LASTDRIVE=E FCBS=4,0 stacks=20,512 - Change to 0,0 rem DEVICEHIGH=C:\DOS\SETVER.EXE Nothing I have suggested above will fix the memory allocation error. Possibly Himem.sys will report a problem when it tests the memory. My only other suggestion is to try the installation on one of the other machines. If it behaves the same, there could be an error in the file you downloaded or in Himem.sys I guess. - Clarence Verge -- - Help stamp out FATWARE. As a start visit: http://home.arachne.cz/ --
arachne-digest V1 #987
arachne-digest Wednesday, February 9 2000 Volume 01 : Number 987 -- Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2000 19:30:45 -0500 From: "Glenn McCorkle" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Why aren't GIFs displaying? On Tue, 8 Feb 2000 16:30:37 -0500, Mark David Roth wrote: Instead of displaying GIFs I'm getting red boxes. What is wrong? Here is my ARACHNE and MIME CFGs if someone might see what is wrong for me. ARACHNE.CFG We need some example URLs where the GIFs do not display for you. - -- Glenn McCorkle [EMAIL PROTECTED] North Jackson, Ohio, USA DOS prog. for QV cameras http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/qvplay.html Other stuff http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ Arachne, The Web Browser for DOS Open the 'DOOR' to the WWW. Keep the 'windows' closed. http://arachne.browser.org/ http://arachne.cz/ -- Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2000 19:06:07 -0500 From: "Glenn McCorkle" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Modem Nodem! And then there's that "really difficult" way of finding it in Arachne. 1) press "D" 2) link to "PPP setup" 3) scroll 1/2 way down the left side of the page How can anyone find it when Michael has "hidden" it so deeply???vbg On Tue, 8 Feb 2000 00:05:50 -0600, Jack Cotter wrote: The modem initialization string that Win95 is using can be found in the Registry typing in regedit on the "Run" line. Then open HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\Current Control Set\Services\Class\Modem\000x\Init where x=0,1,2 etc. depending on how many modems have been set up on the machine. Be careful when you are in regedit. You can disable the OS easily. Another way to get the data on the modem is to click the modems icon in control panel, Select the Diagnostics Tab, Highlight the Com Port shown for the modem and then click the radio button More Info In a few seconds you will get a complete listing of the resources for the modem and the results of a series of quires that Win95 transmits to the modem. With a 56k modem I'm pretty sure it will identify itself. Jack - Original Message - From: Or Botton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 07, 2000 11:52 PM Subject: Re: Modem Nodem! Mel Evans, Registered Arachne User wrote: New (second hand, new to me!) 'puter today! 233, big Hard Drive 2.1G lots of room for software, fast on the html and so on.. Congrats! It's got a Rockwell internal modem of some kind. Arachne detects it on com1, IRQ4 and inputs info into ppp dialler ok. When asked to dial, Arachne says it can't initialize the modem. Any ideas anyone? Sounds like you dont have the correct initilization string. I guess that the platform you have on it now is Windows 9x? (I dont know what else can cause a modem to appear on a COM without it being actually there.). Here's how to extract the data from Windows: Start - Settings - Control Panel - System - Device Manager - Modem You should either see "General Modem" or the brandname of your modem. double-click it. Choose the "modem" tab. You should see the (real?) port of the modem in there. Now, for the IRQ: Go back to the Device Manager menu. On the top of the device list, there should be the option "Computer". Double-click it. You will receive a list of "resources" and where they are being used at. Choose "Interrupt Request (IRQ)" (it should be chosen as default). There, look for the IRQ that is used with the COM that your modem is using. Thats it! If its the same settings, or if its diffrant settings but Arachne still doesnt work even after using these settings, then there are 3 options: 1)Did you tried to use it without Windows on the background? Try if you didnt. 2)WinModems should work on DOS if Windows is running in the background. If you still cant get it to work from a DOS box, its another problem. (or its a really low-quality winmodem.) 3)You dont have the right initilization string. :) Either try to get it from the book, or maybe that dialer that IE is using got it somewhere... (though I heard that IE is so user friendly, that it doesnt let you do any _real_ setup. like init strings. sigh) Or Botton [EMAIL PROTECTED] - "Truth is stranger than fiction, because fiction has to make sense." - http://members.xoom.com/dsdp/ - -- Glenn McCorkle [EMAIL PROTECTED] North Jackson, Ohio, USA DOS prog. for QV cameras http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/qvplay.html Other stuff http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ Arachne, The Web Browser for DOS Open the 'DOOR' to the WWW. Keep the 'windows' closed. http://arachne.browser.org/ http://arachne.cz/ -- Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2000 20:26:18 -0500 From: "Glenn McCorkle" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: "new" hotlist manager... Just tried the new hotlist manager. (oo, ugly)g I'll
