from Harry Murphy:
I'm still having trouble linking to my ISP and would
appreciate any help you can give me. As I said in an earlier
message, when I dial my ISP, I find myself in text mode, as if I
were trying to access my ISP's BBS system, rather than his Web
site.
I asked my ISP
to Howard Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Perhaps MPACK fits your need? From the README.DOS file:
mpack/munpack version 1.5 for dos
Mpack and munpack are utilities for encoding and decoding
(respectively) binary files in MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail
Extensions) format mail
Although I've coded in FORTRAN for over 40 years, my favorite
language today is Pascal which has excellent control structures and
which enforces "strong typing" to reduce the probability of bugs
in the program. I see "C" as having an "anything goes" attitude
(as well as a strange fascination
I am still trying to get Arachne 169 to finish connecting.
I notice that in Arachne.cfg, that one line reads:
;Connection READY ...connection is permanent, packet driver in AUTOEXEC...
I haven't noticed any Arachne related files in the Autoexec.bat.
Is there a line that should be in the
Thomas Mueller wrote
Anybody know what Win32 application runs
non-text .scr files?
It's a screensaver, it might even work in win 3.x
//Bernie
http://bernie.arachne.cz/
I noticed that sexy virgin.scr file began with MZ, so maybe it was really an EXE
with a different name? But sexy virgin.scr
Now I see, the "gate" in Soupgate refers to fido - Internet, therefore is not
of any use for me. But I have seen newsgroup messages using fidonet - Usenet
gateway. I guess this subject can be dropped now.
Ricsi I never said that it was preinstalled !!!
I wrote that this was a 'special offer'
I've gotten LSPPP (v0.7 IIRC) dialing and connecting with my ISP.
How do I get Arachne (v1.69) to recognize there is already a PPP
connection? TIA.
Regards,
Dale Mentzer
You can have Connection READY in ARACHNE.CFG and Hangup NUL, and you will have
to let Arachne know where to find your IP
Please, better install RedHat or SuSE or an other "big" Linux.
I think a miro-Linux is nothing for real Unix testing.
Try to downsize a big Linux (I had a 300 MB mix of SuSE 6.2-7.0
and it worked well).
Look- a NeXTstep 2 or so was around 200 MB and I think it was a
nice OS.
regards Joerg
Someone sent it to me, did a *very* expert insertion leaving fewer
header lines than normally even local mail has.
Needless to say, being a DOSasaur has its benefits. I sent headers to
ISP and zipped up the worm with password protection.
Anyone want to trash their own dozerware? Just wait,
(from Sam Heywood)
Upon booting, WIN95 DOS loads a GUI by default. You have to either respond
to some prompts or resort to a hassle and read some manuals in order to
figure out how to fix this behavior. This is a very poor design feature,
IMNSHO. Whether to automatically load a GUI upon
Ben Hood wrote:
As much as I hate HTML mail, it is the accepted norm. Of course
that doesn't mean I won't try and stop it.
from Or Botton:
Example from life: I'm running a mailing list for Anime
(japanese animation) fans. Luckly, most of the list members are
"advanced" so most of them dont
egroups does not send email in HTML format. The only advertising you get
is a two or three line text ad with every message received. Of course an
individual subscriber to a list may have the option of turning on HTML
email with his POP3 client, but other list members would probably flame the
I've been having excellent luck with PygmyLinux v0.6 and version 0.7
came online yesterday. 9.9Mb total download to 7 x 1.44Mb floppies.
I haven't tried it yet.
Clarence,
How much hard disk space did PygmyLinux 0.6 take, if any? I'm curious to check
it out. Did you run Linux Arachne? Now I
Over the long haul, the world is moving to SQL databases, which I think would make
the
dBASE5 learing curve unappealing unless you need it for a specific reason. With the
'big' SQL databases, like DB2 Oracle, there is a big time learning curve. At least
in
OS/2, there is a native program
Eric S. Emerson wrote:
Try deleting your DOS commands in WIN and see how well
your WIN boots up.
from Or Botton:
They allready did.. they call it Windows 2000.
And Windows 2001 is underway.
Obviously, we're talking about Windows NT. But dear Uncle Bill
said that Windows 2000 is the next
As far as I know, there is a Linux version of Real Audio that can play .ram
files. So you don't need Windblows.
DOS is dead. Live with it. Having a rough time with the fact, myself.
If DOS is dead, CP/M should have been dead a long time ago. I was amazed by the
activity in newsgroup
Restarted A1.62 and got this message FROM ARACHNE:
Sector not found reading drive C:(Sound familiar ?)
Exited.
Chkdsk. One lost cluster 4kb. Fixed it.
NDD. Check drive C: says the FATS aren't the same. (Familiar now ?)
DOS hadn't objected. Let Norton fix it. Hey, it's trashed anyway. :-(
I enjoy reading arachne digest but wish to change my
subscription from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Would you please direct my
mailing? Thanks.
This brings up the question: is there any way to use Arachne from Netzero?
Further, I heard Netzero is no longer free, will have to check
On Wed, 27 Dec 2000 01:03:25 +, "J.J.Young"
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I believe Sam expressed an interest in VB for DOS.
It's available from a site that was mentioned at
Arachne Chat recently, along with some other
interesting DOS software that could be described
as abandonware.
I have posted messages using DOSCIM, but don't recall if they were to
HMI-only fora or not. I am not certain what "response" you were waiting for,
but I cannot recall ever being "timed out."
Roger,
I was trying to send a forum message, mostly in DCIMSUP and to a lesser extent
OCIMSUP, which
BTW, the ony reason I might sometimes need to run MicroSoft Winblows is that
it is required to make some of my hardware work, hardware such as scanners
and some printers. They don't make compatible hardware anymore, except
that there are a couple of manufacturers still producing real modems.
That particular account forever carried spam mail, porno offers, get
rich quick MLM, you name it garbage. Despite the obvious inference that
this was due to this one out of the five being registered via their US
server, any suggestion their security was lax, or someone was feeding
details out to
Compuserve doesn't require you to use their software.
I had a Compuserve account that I accessed only with Linux...
(hey, how can you beat 43,000+ minutes a month for $20?)
and there are those on this list who access it with Arachne.
AFAIK, you do need proprietary ware for the rest.
-
Roger,
I used DOSCIM to access Compuserve, also tried OS/2 CIM when that came out, but
that didn't work well. Compuserve started switching fora to HMI-only, and I was
never able to post a message to an HMI-only forum, either with DOSCIM or
OS/2 CIM. I was "Timed out waiting for a response"
Maybe Arachne is too slow rendering the images?
Most likely it is related to the screen output since there's no
"COMx-part" in core.exe (it's being set up by miniterm and epppd).
Hopefully lsppp should make it a bit easier, especially since it doesn't
allow (IIRC) the UART to buffer anything.
I'm used to getting more than one attachment to mail from certain
people. The only times in the past where I had problems with InSight
failing to show all of them would be if I was short on memory or cache
was choked, etc.
But in the last two days I've rec'd not only the message I wrote about
from Guenter Bietzig:
that's also my observation. With a 486/100 Mhz, UART16550 and 56K-Modem
the best throughput (for me) is with COM-Speed 28800 and Modem line
speed 33600.
If setting Modem line speed to 56k, with my telephon line, I get
a maximum of 44k.
On a PIII/450Mhz I've got the
A problem with newsgroups is that individuals will get spammed for
posting. The newsgroup will get spammed too. Some newsgroups have
become almost unuseable due to the traffic in spam. Another problem
is that some of our newbies don't know how to get into newsgroups.
The mailing list concept
Some newsgroups, comp.lang.python for instance, are both mail
lists and newsgroups. I haven't looked into exactly how it's done,
but all news articles go to the mail list, and all e-mails go to
the newsgroup.
That setup would allow Arachnids to participate in the newsgroup.
-
Steve Ackman
Jake wrote:
Has anyone tried a parallel port modem? -- or even seen one?
Hi Jake,
Wouldn't that be basically the same as an internal
buss modem?
Eric
I never heard of a parallel port modem, don't think they exist. I don't think
there exist any internal parallel port
I have heard the same. BTW, don't the more modern Visual Basic programs run
only in Windoze, and are you not required to have the visual basic runtime
modules installed in your Windoze OS in order for the virus to run? I have
heard that there is a very old version of Visual Basic for DOS. I
Q(uick download of all links on the current page)
Where are all these links downloaded to? Where and how does the user find the
download files? Hopefully not somewhere in the CACHE with cryptic names?
There is a wget, originally for Unix, that can download all links, and can go
recursively
I remember somebody on this list (Sam Heywood?) mentioned a CPM newsgroup,
comp.os.cpm. I went there largely for curiosity, thought there would be no more
than a trickle of activity as in comp.os.msdos.mail-news, but found quite a lot
of activity for a dinosaur OS, 75 messages totaling 160 KB
I received another EXE base64 attachment from [EMAIL PROTECTED], did anybody
else get that spam? Excerpt from the header:
From: Hahaha [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Snowhite and the Seven Dwarfs - The REAL story!
Attachment name was joke.exe first time, dwarf4you.exe this time. Bluegrass Net
I saw an article in Warpcast (http://www.warpcast.com) that might be of interest
to Arachne users, at least those few that have or are thinking of having WinME
installed. Warpcast deals primarily with OS/2 issues. I haven't looked at the
article yet.
(begin quote)
The sixth RIPL article (which
Thanks, Clarence, for clarification on some of those oddities of Arachne
installation. I think I once had an ARACHNE.CFG with the Profile line deleted,
and no ill consequences from that omission/deletion.
A better way to beta-test would be by directly editing ARACHNE.CFG. Maybe a
text file
In response to "Eric Yaeger" [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Sure, a 56K modem will run on a 486, probably just as fast as on a fast Pentium
or Athlon. There is a disclaimer that, due to FCC regulations, a 56K modem
won't do a full 56K, more like 53K, but still much faster than 33.6K. Writing
to a 1.44 MB
I think I might have seen SPIN linked on http://www.fdisk.com/doslynx/ site.
I think there was a DOSzilla that never really got off the ground.
I am rather reluctant to try evaluation versions that tend to be crippled, but
buying New Deal for an old computer is cheaper than buying a new
I guess the person who suggested
del .
slipped, it should have been DELTREE.
I notice DELTREE.EXE in my C:\DOS directory from MS-DOS 6.22, don't think I ever
used it. This directory still exists, so I could still use MS-DOS 6.22 by
booting from drive A and setting SHELL=C:\DOS\COMMAND.COM...
I notice, since Arachne 1.67, that Arachne won't view a .MES file offline
(Load Error). That means I can no longer load a file with non-tagged URLs and
click on the links online, and no longer load a character-set reference file. I
wonder why it worked with earlier Arachnes.
I think Roger
I suppose many virus writers don't know DOS email software exists. It doesn't
take any great sophistication to write a VBS virus, from what I hear.
I received an EXE base64 attachment from [EMAIL PROTECTED], did anybody else
get that spam? Subject was
Subject: Snowhite and the Seven Dwarfs -
I have been having trouble with Arachne (v. 166 and 168)
being able to activate the buttons on some URLs.
An example: http://www.aircanada.ca/home/
Most likely Javascript which is not yet supported by Arachne, only
promised for version 1.70.
One way to find out is to save the Web page (F2)
(in reference to the ultimate Arachne uninstall program)
FORMAT C:\
That might not work; I never tried. FORMAT command does not deal with
directories, correct would be
FORMAT C:
or maybe
ECHO Y | FORMAT C:
(try at your own risk)
del .
DEL command only works on files, not directories. I
Getting different things mixed in the same directory can create confusion,
making it difficult to uninstall, and installing a new APM creates the risk of
overwriting an already existing file with another file having the same name.
Whenever I UNZIP a ZIP file, I always UNZIP to a separate new
Somebody will have to do a comparison with New Deal, Arachne and other DOS
Internet programs. DOS Lynx 386 can browse the WWW and display graphics,
including inline, on a separate screen when used with a graphics viewer like
PICTVIEW, but won't run on a 286. I think Bobcat has some facility
I have a BTC modem (k56E) right out of the trashcan :)
The BTC website says it will work under DOS and Linux
without drivers -fine but i could not test it because
i have no powersupply. Does someone know the specs. for
the powersupply (germany)?
regards Joerg
Maybe check the BTC website again
Yes - for what it's worth! I used to build my own Z80
computers - all of 32k RAM - and tinker with CP/M V2.2 to make it run on
them. I seem to remember that it involved writing one's own boot sectors
on the 8" FDs. Even had monochrome graphics on one system and it ran
BBC Basic and Wordstar
Do they really make computers with crippled BIOSs that won't run anything
other than windoze? If so, since when? I am asking so that I might become
informed of which models and which vintages to avoid.
I read that some brand name computers use proprietary BIOSes that cause
incompatibilities
C, C++, and
Ada are highly portable languages with compilers.
Perhaps not so "highly" portable. After all, why is there such
a disparity between DOS Arachne and Linux Arachne. If C is so
portable, it should be a trivial matter to simply compile the same
source using a compiler for a
On Living On Earth, broadcast over National Public Radio stations including WFPL
in Louisville KY, there was a part about old computers being brought back to
life with New Deal software, which includes word processing and Internet. There
was discussion on this list some months ago on New Deal.
I had my try with Warpzilla, the OS/2 Warp 4 port of Mozilla. Prereleases of
M17 crashed on takeoff, and after reading about how slow the final M17 was, I
gave up on it. I noticed the bloated requirements for the Linux version, and
wondered what was supposed to be the advantage over Netscape
Sam Ewalt wrote:
My price point for computer buying is around two-hundred and
fifty bucks. Six years ago I paid that for an XT. Checking the
used computer prices in Detroit I see where I could now get a
Dell Pentium 200 with 64mb a 2GBHD, CD, and a 17" monitor for
$234.95 plus shipping.
Sounds
good question ... I wanted to ask that myself ! (stub32 ?)
There is another alternative IMHO, there should be a packet driver out
there, that connects to windows, and provides a packetdriver interface to
dos, but it seems to be payware and I don't know how buggy it is.
CU, Ricsi
It seems
Just a comment here. When they released Windows 2000, Microsoft was already
telling the business community that Win95/98 would not be upgraded again,
and they needed to start the transition to the NT line. I think the user
community as a whole said-- no --and hence we see the arrival of
On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, Glenn McCorkle wrote:
There exists only one "true DOS" OpenDos v7.01
What about DR-DOS 7.03? I understand there wassome kind of
problem with 7.02, but didn't that get fixed with 7.03?
Or did they just leave things undone when they stopped
developing it?
IMO,
You
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, arachne-digest (actually Bernie) wrote:
Nope, in short this is how Arachne is going to progress:
Linux will be the main OS for the 2.x series, if someone (yours truly
most likely) makes a 32-bit version for DOS that will follow along with
the Linux version.
The
from "Robert Deering" [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I still enjoy using my old i286-based Zenith. Arachne's documentation
strongly suggests = i386, and I'd say that's correct. Machines that
don't use protected mode like i386-up really need regularly updated
internet software of their own. Anyone who'd
Ricsi You can evaluate it ... but it's NOT free any more ...
but shareware (referring to Caldera DR-DOS)
Now Caldera/Lineo is no longer selling DR-DOS except in lots of 50 or more
copies. So where does that leave the notion of single-copy shareware?
Now I read in Heise News about Sun
The site is there, but there are no files shown for download [by 1.67].
I saw a bundle of downloadable files, but wasn't using Arachne. Downloading
with Arachne is user-unfriendly, Lynx so much easier.
It appears that soon the only repository for DOS files of this nature
will be non-public
Michael,
I thought maybe your message meant Arachne 1.68 was ready for download, but I
browsed http://browser.arachne.cz, and current DOS version was 1.67. Please be
sure to indicate on the download pages which version is ready for download,
otherwise I could fill in my name, email, number of
There doesn't seem to be any port of XFree86 to DOS,
Not a free one anyway...
http://www.xfree86.org/FAQ/#DOSPort
Is that the X Appeal that I saw some time ago? It looked like a crippled demo,
where one would have to pay money for the real (?) thing. That didn't seem
cost-effective,
TM That somewhat dilutes the advantage of FAT32. No advantage to FAT32
TM on anything 256 MB, including the Zip 250.
Ricsi?? 256 MB ?? shouldn't that be 256 GB ;)
FAT32 was invented to support large disks.
When you want to fdisk a partition smaller than 1 GB it even warns you not
On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Richard Menedetter wrote:
I have the same problem, but no solution :(((
It seems that the user part of the email address is allways the current
user, and thet there's no way to change that :(
Steve Linux User [EMAIL PROTECTED] responded:
} This is desirable.
I've had trouble like this on and off. Try removing (or altering)
the [memory value] from the appropriate lines in MIME.CFG:
I really don't know what the bracketed numbers are for in MIME.CFG. I notice a
difference in syntax between Arachne 1.48 and 1.67 MIME.CFG.
From Arachne 1.48 MIME.CFG
/ Yup... well, technically, I do *have* a 505752K DOS partition,
/just that it's completely empty. One of these days I intend to
/put all my old DOS stuff on it, and configure dosemu again so I
/can run GeoWorks and a few other old DOS favorites again...
/
/ As to actually booting to DOS, I
I think F8 at boot time will make Win 95 or 98 boot into straight DOS, though I
never had the chance to try it.
Seeing only part of your AUOTEXEC.BAT and none of your CONFIG.SYS, I can't see
why you are going into Windows instead of plain DOS.
I notice your message is repeated in an HTML
I choose Arachne for browsing and NT/NTR for messaging.
Hm.. I wonder if its possible to get Arachne to call up nettamer
to download the mail as part of an .ASF script?...
Maybe Arachne could call up or somehow integrate with Pegasus? Would that solve
the authenticated SMTP problem with
Personally, I've been boycotting them ever since they tried to
enforce their patent on "one click shopping" to include just about
any kind of web shopping that uses cookies.
Cheapbytes, borders, barnesandnoble get my business now. Amazon
will never see my credit card number again until
Or Wondering whats the advantage of the OS/2/NT HPFS over ext2fs.. if
there's any?
HPFS is now just for OS/2 and eComStation, not NT. OS/2 Warp Server for
e-business and eComStation have adopted a JFS (Journaling File System), but this
is not bootable. Boot partition must be either HPFS or
TMI'll have to browse http://www.nettamer.net to verify that Net-Tamer
TMis going text-only.
MMYup... Beta v1.13.
I saw that. But I couldn't tell whether Net-Tamer intended to remain text-only
in the release version.
TMYou could download DOS Lynx386 and Pictview, all freeware, and
(referring to Net-Tamer)
A browser it ain't! AAMOF the latest beta has finally removed all
vestiges of graphic support and it now only browses in text mode.
Arachne is a great browser with great potential and I use it greatly. ;)
However... IMO NT/NTR is a much better choice for messaging.
You want to know what _I_ think? I think you swiped Wayne's page at
www.fdisk.com/doslynx/ and didn't give credit for it. Very tacky...
I noticed a lot looked similar, including outdated, no-longer-good links such as
Caldera Web Spyder and IBM Web Boy.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Any one
I was wondering how old LSPPP.EXE was because it didn't allow a
baud rate 19200. I went to the Web page and found it was current, and that
the maximum baud rate was improved to 57600, still one step short of the desired
115200, and LSPPP.EXE was considered alpha software. Maybe not quite
to [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
What made Trumpet Winsock quit working? Did your ISP modify the login protocol?
Did your user name, password, or something else change? Or was one or more
files corrupted? I never used Trumpet or any other Winsock.
How old is LSPPP.EXE? It must be very antiquated if it doesn't allow a
baud rate 19600. I remember Ashton-Tate Framework III 1.1 allowed a
baud rate up to 19200 (or was it 38400?), and ports could be COM1, COM2 or
COM3, but not COM4, but that software dates to 1989. I think there still is
a
There *may* be a way to do this within autoexec.bat for whichever OSes
you're using. Since time/date are system variables you should be able
to use them to change to correct date. Just stick to month/day and add
the year with something like "date $1 $2 2000" or some such in the
appropriate
50% of the problem consists in finding the file containing the (elusive) upgradw of
the BIOS.
The only clue you have got is the serial number appearing at the bottom of the screen
when you
start the computer. It contains the BIOS date at the begining, the motherboard
chipset and some
other
Finding the manufacturer of the motherboard and then finding if they have a Web
site is a doubtful proposition. How do I find the FCC ID, and do I have to take
everything apart? Motherboard booklet said nothing about upgrading the BIOS.
Does Promise's ISA DriveMax permit DOS to see up to 128
I seem to have lost my desktop. I've been using Arachne 1.66 since the
second week it came out. It has been solid as a rock for me and my
usage.
Now I cannot get the desktop. F10 or clicking on the icon gets me to
the "Arachne Load Error" page. Is there an easy way to get it back?
Thanks,
from Ron Clarke:
I have NEVER been able to completely exit Arachne (Alt+X) while
on-line and then return to Arachne and pick up the connection again. For
that matter, I have NEVER been able to access ANY existing (and
apparently still "live") internet connection in DOS once I have closed
the
The only obvious solution to the 1994/2094 problem is, unfortunately, to upgrade the
BIOS.
There are a few early versions of Award Bioses written in such a way that, simply
hacking the
century byte in CMOS (if that byte is really there!) is noy enough to solve the
solution to the
Y2K
Reason for replacing the whole full-tower case when only the power supply was
bad was because such big bulky power supplies were no longer available, being
long out of production.
1994/2094 problem occurs whenever I reboot, whether or not the computer was off,
even if the computer is on all the
I notice a pack of 4 little batteries, 1.5v, that the people who replaced my
full-tower case that had the bad power supply with a minitower case couldn't
figure what those batteries were for. Now I think it might possibly be for the
CMOS. Lack of those batteries might have been the reason for
I tried to view that message in Arachne 1.67, after block-copying the whole
thing in raw-data form including headers from my big mail download file.
Arachne 1.67 gave Load Error, couldn't even find the file, while Arachne 1.48,
which I haven't yet got around to deleting, viewed the message, and
As far as I know, DSL connection is always on, like LAN or cable. I believe DSL
can be by DHCP, but DSL providers are leaning toward PPPoE. DSL is by phone
line, but separate from the voice part so that the same phone line carrying a
DSL connection can carry a voice conversation at the same
TM Do other DSLs besides ADSL use this same driver,
Ricsi I have checked this ...
the driver is a PPP over Ethernet driver.
TM and what about cable connections?
Ricsi it depends ... usually you only need an ethernetcard + a packetdriver
I think PPP over Ethernet is shortened to PPPoE?
Normal apostrophe is ASCII 39.
Thanks, I noted that but not being proficient in
HTML, I assumed that using "#146;" for an apostrophe was
normal usage. Why else would Apple use it in their newsletter?
Apple, so GUI-oriented with Mac OS, wants to be fancy. ASCII 39 is too easy.
Character Set Character Set
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 90 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
130
In many cases, when you subscribe to an e-mailing list, you must confirm before
the subscription takes effect. If you don't respond to the confirmation
request, sometimes within a given time limit, the subscription won't take
effect. Sometimes there is an authorization code that you must
Or Botton,
Do you think that it could be possible in theory to port the
flash library in your site to a DOS based program?
Well, if you're talknig about my Flash engine, I think there must be no problem
except the DOS issues (16bit programming is too much of a pain).
Regards
-Olivier
It isn't a question of readbility, but rather clarity of
expression and observance of the language rules. I don't care
whether you drop your apostrophes or not -- so long as you are
doing it deliberately and not out of ignorance.
This sort of sloppiness would not be acceptable, nor
Ricsi All people using Arachne Inisght as their mailer will not see lines that
start with the word begin or end.
Only half correct, from my testing, though I tested only on Arachne 1.48. Lines
beginning with end were OK. See if you can read these following:
Next line begins with end
I knew I couldn't run Arachne (at least, not to dial out and
communicate) under my OS/2, or its WIN-OS2 module, but never even
tried to run it off my WIN3.1 install..
So, if this gets thru, the this configuration for Arachne, is
a definite GOg
.gregy
Only DOS Internet
Well... Links is included in BasicLinux and that runs
from DOS. You don't even need to use the rest of
BasicLinux -- just four commands: pppsetup, ppp-on,
links, ppp-off.
The whole thing sits in a DOS directory on your
harddrive and only takes 2meg of space.
Maybe I can reuse the OS/2
I tried out that message with Arachne 1.48, which sits gathering virtual dust on
my second fixed disk. I block-copied the message to a file, HLINE2.MES, then
the same message to HLINE2.TXT. Arachne 1.48 showed all three lines in
HLINE2.TXT but missed the second line in HLINE2.MES, the exact
You should try "Links". It's similar to Lynx, but the
screen layout is *much* better. It handles tables and
frames quite well.
Cheers,
Steven
Where do I find Links, and what OSes are supported? Any Links for DOS? Any way
to display images on a separate screen as with the newer versions of
Web-pages accessed with Net-Tamer do not take as long to download because there
are no graphics to download. Furthermore, you do not use a mouse with
Net-Tamer when in http mode.
All the best,
Sam Heywood
But Net-Tamer is a graphic Web browser, as far as I know, with the 386 version
having
Yes. Or what about porting Arachne to the Geos/ NDO system? Yes, I AM a
NDO freak. But think about this:
- Geos 3.0 is the OS of Nokia Communicator 9110
- Geos / NDO's memory managment is really nice working thou it's a real
mode application
- there is a SDK available using a slightly modified C
It seems that pointers and file I/O are simpler in assembler than in C or C++.
ASM is more direct, C is devious. I don't think reading or writing a file in
ASM would have any problems with ASCII 26 characters, though writing to the
console or printer when there is an ASCII 26 character is
from Glenn McCorkle:
For an even 'higher educated' guess...
I am almost certain that the 'seperate partition' install will look like
this to DOS:
---directory listing of the demo diskette---
Volume in drive A does not have a label
Directory of A:\
bpsjn T" DIR 7-00-41 9:16a
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