Re: rach now on tap!

I am a week behind om my email, so hopefully v1.73;GPL will have been released by now. But since Michael has already released Arachne under GPL, and is no longer involved with Arachne, why do you (Glenn) need his permission? If you really think you need his permission to release v1.73;GPL,

Re: FREE DOS Multi-tasking?

Hi! But then some poorly written programs will be able to allocate whole memory and nothing will be left for other tasks. Which ones? That shouldn't be able! so long,flox Dr-DOS - the unofficial page - http://www.drdos.org SEAL - the best GUI for (Free)DOS - http://www.seal.de.vu Ostbahnkurti

Re: Free DOS Multi-tasking

Hi! I've tried tu use the multitasking feature of DR-DOS, too. They specify in the doc (somewhere in the help file I believe) that it was impossible for two applications to share the same peripheral (say a COM port). In fact this is done by creating a virtual machine for each application, and

FOSSIL Drivers

Hi! I found this link http://www.juge.com/bbs/Dos.1.Html bye, flox Dr-DOS - the unofficial page - http://www.drdos.org SEAL - the best GUI for (Free)DOS - http://www.seal.de.vu Ostbahnkurti - http://www.archlab.tuwien.ac.at/~hase/franz/konzert_kal.html -=Lieber Inl„nder Rum als Ausl„nder

Re: Bugs in 1.70

I haven't used it much, but with some CSS implemented something is finally noticable for the users :) Great work as always Michael, I'll expect a big mail download soon when the source comes by. Yes, great work! The CSS is very nice feature which I had missed. I can only use Arachne as offline

Re: Requirements for Internet Radio?

Also many programs from Linux can be ported to DOS easily!! Yes, I've heard this before. My questions are: If it's so easy... Why do we only see it done with the small/simple utilies ? And none of the "good stuff"??? ;-) Not enouph time :))) Bye, Florian --"I brauch kan Dokta...Mia hilft

Re: Requirements for Internet Radio?

Why do we only see it done with the small/simple utilies ? And none of the "good stuff"??? ;-) Are mp3 library, Lynx browser, TEX, other Editors etc. _small utilities_?? I don't think so ;))) Look at DJGPP and you will find much more! Bye, Florian --"I brauch kan Dokta...Mia hilft nur da

Re: Requirements for Internet Radio?

1) There no longer exists any such thing as a "DOS guru". Sad. 2) Arachne with QV.APM can do Shoutcast if additional configuration is done, it just can't be listened to in real time. Download as many minutes as you wish to hear (while doing NOTHING else with the PC), THEN listen to what you

Re: Requirements for Internet Radio?

The biggest one is *.mp3. Up and coming is the Open Source *.ogg format with tighter compression and better sound. It uses a variable bitrate throughout the stream, tailored to the content of the music, whereas *mp3 uses a constant bit rate... So given an average bit rate of *.ogg that's

Re: Audio streams and DOS life status

Hi! You can also use DOS as mp3 player. Also Wordprocessor are avaiable (like NewDeal Office). There is only Napster for win :))), so I have to use it. BTW: www.opus.co.tt/dave/index.htm Bye, Florian --"I brauch kan Dokta...Mia hilft nur da RockRoll" www.ostbahn.at -- www.seal.de.vu - the DOS

No Subject

Hi! Happy new year and and millennium!! Guten Rutsch ins neue Jahrtausend :) Schöne Grüße, cu, florian --"I brauch kan Dokta...Mia hilft nur da RockRoll" www.ostbahn.at -- www.seal.de.vu - the DOS GUI -- www.drdos.org Club Dr-DOS -- This mail was written by user of Arachne at www.arachne.cz

Re: Windows-only printers (Was: Would this proposed workaround, etc...)

There are some DOS programs, such as WordPerfect for DOS for example, which provide drivers that will enable you to print using some printers that are normally winblows-only. If you do not find the drivers you need in your software package, you can download additional drivers from the

Re: 16-bit? (was: Re: Windows-only printers)

They write because DOS is 16-bit and very old but that wouldn't be a problem. When they say "DOS is 16 bit", I tend to answer a response with 2 lines: - Actually, it can be 32-bit if you want it to be 32-bit. http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/ - A pretty good example. - But

Re: Arachne 1.69 for DOS

Hi! The best feature in 1.69 is the support of slashes "/" in paths fe. f:/player/mpxplay/mpxplay.exe Such kind of features are included into DJGPP and it makes the live easier! LFN support would be also good...and a DJGPP port... ;-) But that shouldn't be the main goal. By

Re: http://www.bgnett.no/~giva/

Watt-32 might get used in some future version of Arachne. For now we must stay with the 16bit WATTCP or we would be saying "goodbye" to those who are still using machines older than a 386. WAT-32 also supports 16-bit, but the main focus is 32-bit. Bye, Florian Xaver www.

Re: 1.68 out for testing

Whatever happened to the Winsock interface for Arachne, as opposed to the DOS packet driver? Is that Winsock a dead issue? How does need them?? Bye, Florian Xaver www.drdos.org www.seal.de.vu

Re: http://disvr.cjb.net/dos/dls.html

Hi! I am the webmaster of Club Dr-DOS. There is no realy problem, but I want to be sure that my site is legal. I hope I can upload the site next week again. Lineo don't want to change the licence of Dr-DOS now, I want only to ask them about: OpenDOS 7.02 documentation DRFAT32 files LFN files

Re: http://disvr.cjb.net/dos/dls.html

ercial use it is free. They will not change it. I think they would make it GPL, if there would be no competitor. Bye, Florian Xaver www.drdos.org www.seal.de.vu

Re: http://disvr.cjb.net/dos/dls.html

if it would be GPL. 2) There are some licence which would make it difficult 3) Dr-DOS brings Lineo much money (they have no work with it, but get much money). Bye, Florian Xaver www.drdos.org (updated)

Re: Ok... so we have wheel mouse support in Arachne ;-)

I thought the last beta version supports wheel mouses? They simulate keys. bye, florian [ SEAL www.seal.de.vu | Club Dr-DOS www.drdos.org | www.widerstand.de.vu gegen Schwarz-Blau] Rotz und Wasser Da Himmel

Re: Printer Drivers

Anyway - thanks a 10^6, Glenn - it worked a treat. Thanks, too, for the pointer to PrintGFD, which prints to an HPLJ about the best that I've seen. Where can I find PrintGFD? bye, florian www.seal.de.vu www.drdos.org

Re: Virtual Arachne

Yes, many people think that DOS is only text mode or 320x200 with 16 colors :)) They also think that win is a OS and not a DOS program. They also don't know that there are 32-bit programs (protected mode programm), they played doom, but they think that this are Win, Linux features. The manager

xpdf

Hi! Today I tried xpdf and I think it is very good. Is there such a tool to convert TXT or HTML files to pdf? thanks, florian *** Autor Günter Brödl gestorben Plötzlicher Herztod in seiner Wiener Wohnung - Brödl erfand den "Ostbahn

Re: DJGPP/Allegro port of Arachne

Seal v1D http://www.home.sk/public/seal/ Free graphical desktop environment for DOS and for DJGPP programs. (it uses Allegro) There's no built-in TCP/IP support (yet), and it's rather buggy (I do use it from time to time - but I prefer "the Paw" over it). Which bug do you found? I have

images/banners

I found a site, where have been images for bobcat, arachne, lynx for dos etc. But I don't know the url anymore They looks very nice and I would like to include it into my page! If somebody knows it, please write me the url! florian

STYLE TYPE=text/css

Hi! Does Arachne and DOSLYNX support STYLE TYPE="text/css" /style? I want to use it in my page, but I also want that it is compatible with all browsers! thanks, florian *** "Murphy's Love Law #1 All the good ones are taken." Seal -

Arachne in the news

Hi! Today I looked into a German pc magazin (PC-WELT, "PC-World") and they had been written about DOS bootdisk and make publicity for some real good DOS programs! They also wrote one A4 site about ARACHNE 1.66! I think, I will buy it... :-)) so long, florian www.drdos.org www.seal.de.vu

Re: DOS 7.0 beta

Dr-DOS: www.drdos.com or www.drdos.org so long, flo -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Pete [EMAIL PROTECTED] An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Datum: Sonntag, 10. September 2000 05:51 Betreff: Re: DOS 7.0 beta On Thu, 07 Sep 2000 18:38:36 +0100, Joerg Dietze wrote: Hi folks, if

Re: Pure DOS (was Re: Edit VS Pico (stiring up hornets nest))

Is it possible to install an alternative DOS in addition to the existing DOS version in a Windows 95 machine so that Windows will think it is a "previous" version of DOS so that you can have an option to boot to the "previous" version of DOS? In this case the alternative version of DOS is not

Re: Pure DOS (was Re: Edit VS Pico (stiring up hornets nest))

Download Lineo/Caldera Dr-DOS 7.03 from www.drdos.org . Switch into pure ms-dos 7 and type install. I automaticly install a bootmanager: LOADER. Then you can switch at the beginning between Dr-DOS and Win9x. OK, Thanks. Questions: Will I also have the option of selecting the version of

Re: DOS and the future

Hi "Florian Xaver" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FX There is a 32-BIT DOS: FX Dr-DOS, with its memory manager it is a 32-BIT. IMHO not ... it's a 16 bit DOS with a 32 bit memory manager. There is no 32 bit API provided ?? (or is there) IMHO it switches back to realmode to access I

Re: DOS and the future - writing CD-ROMs

Hi! Look at www.opus.co.tt/dave/index.htm , there should be some links (one or two) two cd burner software for DOS. There you can look, which you can bye. so long, florian -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Richard Menedetter [EMAIL PROTECTED] An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Datum:

Re: Excellent text editor for DOS and Linux : SETEDIT

SET Editor is the best Editor!!! :-)) so long, florian -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Dev Teelucksingh [EMAIL PROTECTED] An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Datum: Mittwoch, 06. September 2000 05:45 Betreff: Excellent text editor for DOS and Linux : SETEDIT For DOS users, using

Re: DOS and the future

Even though the last time I actually used MS-DOS since I switched to DR-DOS (and then PC-DOS) was around 1997, I still keep a copy of Edit. Yep, I use the MS-DOS 6.22 Edit. Its actually one of the better programs I saw so far. I'm still amazed that something like this actually came out from

Re: DOS and the future

Hi! They use the protected mode. (memory limited to 4 GB afaik) The only processor with a 640 K limit is the intel 8086 and 8088. All other processors can additionally to their real operating mode (protected) emulate the 8086 with its memory limit (real mode) OB Which brings up the

Re: DOS and the future

Sorry, it was another program. Sorry!! so long, florian -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Or Botton [EMAIL PROTECTED] An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Datum: Dienstag, 05. September 2000 11:51 Betreff: Re: DOS and the future Florian Xaver wrote: Did you read the copyright

Re: DOS and the future

Hi! 1)So what's preventing people from making a DOS that will initially run in protected mode? (besides the 286- support.) 2)And what about the programs that use "protected mode extenders"? Ok, lets assume we'll make a new 32-bit DOS: 1. We create a 32-bit DOS 2. We create a 16-bit emulator

Re: Alternate DOS

I don't know if it is good, but look at www.opus.co.tt/dave/index.htm , there should be a link... On a completely different note, does anyone know of a good IRC client for DOS ? so long, florian

Re: DOS and the future (was: DOS and Windows ME)

Hi! Yes, I also think so. I cannot describe it, maybe because DOS is (also with multitasking, 32-bit etc.) so simple, you don't need to compile the kernel, etc. And I think, Linux is very good for big networks in firms, but not for home pc. It is like Unix... so long, florian (btw: DOS

Re: Linux

There's something in the user interface that I do not find as comfortable as in the DOS command line. The directories structure, the whole "feel" of the interface. It's probably just a matter of familiarity. There are small differences between the DOS and Linux CLIs, which can be

Re: DOS and the future

Hi! Problem with DOS is making memory above 640 KB more difficult to access. Arachne won't start if low memory is insufficient. But DOS is good for testing video modes and other hardware capabilities without interference from Windows device drivers. There are some 32-bit compiler (DJGPP,

Re: Re: DOS in Windows ME/Linux Discussion

Now what happens to DOS when Intel's Itanium and/or AMD's Sledgehammer become widespread? Maybe find a home with Arachne on cell phones and other handheld devices? Caldera/Lineo is already using DR-DOS and Embrowser on set-top boxes. IMOH Embrowser works on Lineos Linux Emlinux or so? Is

Re: Linux Discussion

THX Joerg! I just D/Led ND3 (16mins) and will begin playing with it today :-) I like thier mission statment. It seems similar to Michael's wish of unfettered access for everyone. ND3 is a *prog*; it runs on DOS 3.3+. There are many components which I will not use. Perhaps thier users would

Re: Up and running with version 1.65

I also tested it (only offline :(, I have an ISDN card, which isn't compatible) and found one great improvement. It is very very fast !!! :) Only my site ( www.drdos.org ) looks worse than 1.64 :( Bye, Florian -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Samuel W. Heywood [EMAIL PROTECTED] An:

Re: e-mails with alternative HTML content

I would like to get to some more or less stable, usable, sustained version, and then have a rest for some time. But it seems that each time I release new version, it means only new bugs, and list of missing features is growing too fast. I am starting to feel it is time to gave up... It means,

Re: PDF files

There is an APM for Arachne, which extract bitmaps and text out of PDF files! so long, florian

Re: BASH for DOS

I heard also about other version. If somebody want it, please write into the DJGPP newsgroup. florian -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Roger Turk [EMAIL PROTECTED] An: Arachne List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Datum: Montag, 10. Juli 2000 17:18 Betreff: BASH for DOS IIRC, some time ago there was

Re: SSH for DOS

No WATTCP is a library, but an old. The newer version has the name "Watt-32" so long, florian -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Bernie [EMAIL PROTECTED] An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Datum: Samstag, 08. Juli 2000 19:37 Betreff: Re: SSH for DOS Florian wrote: Why not using

Re: SSH for DOS

Why not using the much better WATT-32? so long, florian -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Bernie [EMAIL PROTECTED] An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Datum: Samstag, 08. Juli 2000 11:12 Betreff: SSH for DOS http://www.vein.hu/~nagyd Although this version (0.1) can have problems

mailto

Hi! I cannot use Allegro, because I have an ISDN card, which doesn't support DOS. But now, I downloaded the new version and tested my homepage and saw one problem: It doesn't support: A HREF="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=asdfemail me /A If doesn't support ?body= or ?subject etc., but it is

Re: EMBED

If Arachne would be a DJGPP program, also now problem, but so... florian -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Glenn McCorkle [EMAIL PROTECTED] An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Datum: Sonntag, 02. Juli 2000 01:01 Betreff: Re: EMBED On Fri, 30 Jun 2000 18:04:00 +0200 (CEST), Michael

Re: FORM

Yes, i changed it yesterday. Thanks -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Bernie [EMAIL PROTECTED] An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Datum: Montag, 26. Juni 2000 11:29 Betreff: Re: FORM Florian wrote: INPUT TYPE=radio NAME=action VALUE="very_good" CHECKED (snip) INPUT TYPE=radio

Re: Stub32

-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: djvomght [EMAIL PROTECTED] An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Datum: Mittwoch, 21. Juni 2000 17:15 Betreff: Re: Stub32 From: "Clarence Verge" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi. I'm still trying to get Arachne running on my brother's Toshiba laptop running

ISDN modem

Hi! I have ISDN and want to buy an ISDN modem, which support DOS. (has a CAPI 1.x/2.x driver). Does somebody know a good one? Thanks, Florian Seal - free desktop enviroment for DOS http://www.seal.de.vu DrDOS/OpenDOS http://www.drdos.org FreeDOS (English) http://www.freedos.org (German)

Re: Great utility : WGET - download files via HTTP or FTP; can resume aborted downloads

I came across this fantastic utility. Called WGET, it is a freely available network utility to retrieve files using HTTP and FTP. Wget has many features to make retrieving large files or mirroring entire Web or FTP sites easy, but the most important one is : * resume aborted downloads, using

Re: What are most common problems for newbies ?

Hi! A question: I downloaded the last DOS RAR. But there was no TUI/GUI, only command line and the DPMI version isn't compatible with other dpmi server. So, where do I get RAR with the Text User Interface (like NC)? Thanks, Florian -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Richard Menedetter

Re: What are most common problems for newbies ?

"Florian Xaver" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FX A question: I downloaded the last DOS RAR. But there was no TUI/GUI, FX So, where do I get RAR with the Text User Interface (like NC)? Simply start it without parameters ... :) FX Thanks, Florian CU, Ricsi -- Richard Menedetter [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Latest version of Cute Mouse Driver (CTMOUSE CTMOUSEP)

Hi! Now version 1.7 is avaiable: look at www.freedos.org Bye, Florian -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Dev Teelucksingh [EMAIL PROTECTED] An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Datum: Freitag, 26. Mai 2000 09:13 Betreff: Latest version of Cute Mouse Driver (CTMOUSE CTMOUSEP) Cute

Re: OT: I did a no-no

Hi! Why don't you use Bladeenc? Look at www.opus.co.tt/dave/index.htm I think, it is the best mp3 encoder. Bye, Florian -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Bernie [EMAIL PROTECTED] An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Datum: Sonntag, 14. Mai 2000 18:09 Betreff: Re: OT: I did a no-no

Re: A bit of a SCHUBERT!

Hi! That's totally fair comment. As a senile-oldie (a surprisingly accurate description, considering that you've never even met me!!!), I do understand that others have a different viewpoint and I respect that. I also agree that we don't NEED the wonders of Javascript, but we DO need our

Re: More on Windows ME

I think tha Arachne users will use another DOS like Dr-DOS, FreeDOS, PTS-DOS Bye -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Thomas Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Datum: Montag, 24. April 2000 10:51 Betreff: More on Windows ME Now I see there will be

Re: Don't Windows Me!

Hi! Because some (Windows) GAMES need Windows Millenium. It's better for games, because it is based on DOS :-) Also they can faster/better improve/develope drivers for Win ME than for Win 2000 Bye, Florian -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Thomas Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] An: [EMAIL

Re: LoadHigh of Mouse Accomplished

Hi! Logitch Mousedriver supports Lineo Dr-DOS 7.0x DPMS (DOS PROTECTED MODE SERVICE), so it needs less memory!! Bye, Florian

Re: Re:It AIN'T all that easy [was Re: Something I've noticed ...

Of course anything compiled with DJGPP will require a 386 (and cwsdpmi.exe which we already have with Arachne). Yes, but an old version.

Re: It AIN'T all that easy [was Re: Something I've noticed ...

Hi! Why not porting the Linux version to DJGPP.? As graphic lib Allegro could be used. Bye, Florian -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Richard Menedetter [EMAIL PROTECTED] An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Datum: Freitag, 07. April 2000 17:05 Betreff: It AIN'T all that easy [was

Re: Something I've noticed ...

Hi! smartdrv from msdos 7.0 (aka win95) smartdrv 6000 (8.72) nwcache from drdos 7.03 nwcache 6000 /x /delay=1000 (8.89) ncache2 from norton utilities ncache2 /ext=6000 /delay=01.00 (8.39) So indeed norton cache is by 4% faster than smartdrv. Nwcache is by 2% slower than

Re: full screen

BTW: With 2MB XMS should I use this as disk cache or let Arachne use some (or all) of it? I think, you should use all of it for Arachne. BTW2: This was the first time I could actually see what the xSwap debug info was (can't see it in VESA mode for me - plain apparently VGA works when I tried

Re: Dr-Dos Fdisk Bug (was Re: Where o Where Is DOS)

You can also ask at the open dos/dr-dos mailing list: www.delorie.com -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Bernie [EMAIL PROTECTED] An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Datum: Donnerstag, 23. März 2000 18:38 Betreff: Re: Dr-Dos Fdisk Bug (was Re: Where o Where Is DOS) Bjorn Simonsen

FreeCDP 2.0 released

Hi! I uploaded FreeCDP 2.0. New features: +Play AUD files: "play your favourite songs (.AUD files) from Dune 2000, Command Conquer, Red Alert and other Westwood releases" + List cd-tracks Download it at: http://members.aon.at/seal Bye, Florian

Re: DJPEG 32-bit

Why don't you use SET EDIT? There is a link at www.opus.co.tt/dave/index.htm Hi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: t I liked DR-DOS EDIT better than MS-DOS Edit/Qbasic because it handles t files too large to fit in low memory. But both of these EDITs can t handle only one file at a time, no