Re: Mandatory change for all APM packages

2000-05-12 Thread Bernie
L.D wrote: Today I discovered, the hard way of course, something which needs to become a new requirement for any APM available from the Arachne download page. I rec'd an MP3 file attachment. I clicked on it and Arachne went into its "what do I do now?" dance. I was certain I'd installed an APM

Usenet Newsgroup software for DOS

2000-05-12 Thread Howard Eisenberger
"Bob Buckland ?:-\)" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "Thomas Mueller": What good software is there for Usenet? Well, I keep hoping I can answer that with Arachne, but... Personally, it doesn't bother me that Arachne doesn't "do" NNTP. I don't mind using a Web browser for browsing, and dedicated

Why Java script?

2000-05-12 Thread Richard Menedetter
Hi "Samuel W. Heywood" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Michael would not implement [javascript compatibility] into Arachne, if [it] were sooo bad) SH If web-site developers would simply desist from using Java-Script or SH Java in their web-pages, then no browser developer would have to SH

Re: OT: I did a no-no

2000-05-12 Thread J. J. Young
Glenn McCorkle wrote: I suggested that to L.D. (and attached a sample MP3), last evening. Thxsound.wav is over 2mb in size. L3enc.exe turned it into Thxsound.mp3 which is only 180kb -- I tracked down the 92kB DOS version of L3enc.exe (1994) but WinPlay3 for Win3.1x (from 1997) complains the

Re: How to browse long filenames in Arachne?

2000-05-12 Thread Thomas Mueller
I would like to offline browse files from Linux and Windows (long names). Is there some utility to convert long names to the DOS 8.3 format before transferring them from Linux (Win)? Not only file and directory names must be converted, but links inside html files too... Lubor I don't think

Re: Mandatory change for all APM packages

2000-05-12 Thread Casper Gielen
Bernie wrote: Why not a new idea: 1. Copy the apm.id to the backup directory as apmname.id 2. Create backup\apmname 3. Copy the .cfg that will be changed to backup\apmname 4. Add apmname to some extra file specifying the order the APMs were installed in 5. Install as usual Problem: if

Re: Why Java script?

2000-05-12 Thread Samuel W. Heywood
On Fri, 12 May 2000 09:51:04 +0200 (CEST), Richard Menedetter) wrote: Hi "Samuel W. Heywood" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Michael would not implement [javascript compatibility] into Arachne, if [it] were sooo bad) SH If web-site developers would simply desist from using Java-Script or SH

Re: OT: I did a no-no

2000-05-12 Thread Bernie
Jake wrote: -- I tracked down the 92kB DOS version of L3enc.exe (1994) but WinPlay3 for Win3.1x (from 1997) complains the MP3 produced is incompatible with the ISO/MPEG standard due to the wrong Hufman tables. :-( Weird, I've used Winplay3 on files I've used l3enc on, what versions did

Re: Mandatory change for all APM packages

2000-05-12 Thread Bernie
Casper wrote: Problem: if three APM's are installd, APM X, APM Y and APM Z, and the first installed APM (say X) is uninstalled, the backup mime.cfg will not now about Y and Z. Exactly, so apm.exe install backup\y.id and backup\z.id and we should be correct again... I wrote: So when we want to

Wonder why the lockup

2000-05-12 Thread L.D. Best
The following page gave me nothing but trouble. First it would freeze at 41% of generating virtual page. So I disabled virt page. Then it locked up tight while doing the frames/tables bit. So I disabled images and cleaned the cache. Then I was finally able to d/l it. If it was an image

Shouldn't vs actual [was Re: Mandatory change for all APM packages

2000-05-12 Thread L.D. Best
Faster? Maybe ... On Fri, 12 May 2000 07:59:08 +0200 (MET DST), Bernie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Learning how to remove the correct lines from mime.cfg will probably be very much faster. But I say it shouldn't be necessary. As to losing the carefully put together handmade changes to

Re: OT: I did a no-no

2000-05-12 Thread J. J. Young
Jake wrote: -- I tracked down the 92kB DOS version of L3enc.exe (1994) but WinPlay3 for Win3.1x (from 1997) complains the MP3 produced is incompatible with the ISO/MPEG standard due to the wrong Hufman tables. :-( Bernie replied: Weird, I've used Winplay3 on files I've used l3enc on, what

Re: Mandatory change for all APM packages

2000-05-12 Thread Glenn McCorkle
On Fri, 12 May 2000 07:59:08 +0200 (MET DST), Bernie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah yes, the everlasting problem of backing things up. We've been over this many times on the list and so far noone has (as far as I can remember anyway, please correct me if I'm wrong) presented a good sollution to

Re: Problem with ISP dialup - PPP not starting sucessfully- please help...

2000-05-12 Thread Glenn McCorkle
On Thu, 11 May 2000 18:42:06 +0100, "neil" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any help / comments most welcome! I had this working once (last year)... A brief message flashes up saying 'Invalid com address', (only just able to catch it before PPP error ocurs)...even though that address is set above in