from Bernie:
Something like:
mode com1 baud=19 parity=n data=8
should work as initializer for the com-port. I don't have the modem connect
to this computer so I can't test it, "help mode" will get you more
information.
I never initialize the COM port with the MODE command under DOS. I am able
TM There is also NetBSD (http://www.netbsd.org).
Ricsi and freebsd.org and openbsd.org
If you only mention one of them, the others get jealous ;)
TM Tell that to BSDI, formerly Walnut Creek CDROM!
?? why
Walnut Creek CDROM, now their successor, BSDI, sells only FreeBSD, unless that
Several modem manufacturers are out of business. For this reason you would
find it very difficult to find any support or other information on them
on the web. Right now I can think of two very-well known modem
manufacturers that are out of business: Practical Peripherals and
Cardinal
TM Now I wonder what Voyager web browser (included with QNX) is like.
Ricsi I haven't taken a deeper look at it yet, but it looks good ...
there is also a 128 bit ssl plugin.
That makes Voyager a bankable browser with 128-bit encryption, suitable for
online banking? I guess such is but a pipe
Welcome to get.qnx.com, the download site
for QNX realtime platform (RTP), free for
non-commecial use. You can download a
self-installing exe file for Windows (24M) or
a CD-ROM image (91M).
Don't want to download?
Still a problem.
If a person is using a RAM-Drive for storing the E-Mail?.. when using
such limited space, most of us just put everything in its root.
(and dont tell me that 512 letters in pop3 is impossible.. I've seen
worse! :)
Or Botton
Lately, whenever I try to send mail from my 1Nation
Online account to an address that is not @1nol, I
get an error message. I called the 1 Nation Online
toll-free customer service number and got a recorded
message that said the call could not be connected
as dialed. I then called the phone
One problem is that Linux and DOS handle the double dot [ .. for one
level up in directory structure] differently. DOS requires that there
be NO space " cd.. " whereas Linux requires that there *MUST BE* a space
used in "cd .." for it to work. That alone is reason enough to always
use complete
http://www.supercatjaguarspares.freeserve.co.uk
Host name comes to 40 characters, which should be just at Arachne's limit.
Protocol is 7 characters. I didn't try this with Arachne.
A few months ago, I posted a message about a long URL of 713 characters in an
about.com page. That included a
Sometimes I have found URL's that are incorrectly written. For example:
"some/ /where" ought to be "some/where" or "some/../picture" instead of
"some/picture".
I wonder if these errors are indicative of particular webpage design
progs, or if it's just human error?
Pete,
"some/../picture"
Not necessarily - I wasnt able to get into that site with Arachne,
however LYNX-386 (on DOS, anyway) managed to get trough ok.. not that
it mattered since that site was filled with tons of little images
without ALT tags, and you know how good it looks like on a text
browser.. :P
What version of
Roger:
The above header indicates that you received the message in digest form.
If you had received it as an individual message, then InSight would have
displayed a blank page upon clicking on the subject line. An HTML tag
is not used as a subject line of the digest.
Regards,
Sam Heywood
In
No fear Matt, you can easily change back to the other OS by using "boot
os2" or "boot dos" (well in OS/2 3 Warp anyway). You could also install the
OS/2 Bootloader (better than any of the alternatives according to some - I
haven't tried it myself so I can't comment on that).
//Bernie
OS/2
from Neil Parks:
Have just discovered an interesting difference between DOS and Linux in
the way they send email via smtp.
With every DOS and Windoze smtp client I've ever heard of, you have to
specify an smtp host--usually the one provided by your ISP. That's okay
if you always use the
from "Neil Smith" [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Linux runs fine on my Cx486/100 w/ 36M ram. That's with *KDE* - the 1st time
I saw it I was hypnotised by the possibility of 4 virtual desktops which can
be switched instantly, all on a machine with a 1Mb display card!
(end of quote)
I have Cx486DX2/66 with
from Budd:
I had the same results from home with both Internet Explorer
version 3.03 and Opera v.3.62. I tried the URL's from the
college lab with IE v.5.? and NS v.4.5 (or higher) and they
worked. I have not looked at the HTML or JavaScript to see
why this occured. What browser are you
Hi Howard,
I am writing this using 1NOL access. This
is the first time 1NOL has worked for me in at least
a week also. It is strange how 1NOL keeps losing its
connectivity on a regular basis.
I found the same concerning dial-in numbers. All
the free access ISPs I have used use the
Snippets from Pete Randolph:
With 5MB free RD space and 16MB free RAM IE is *very* slow.
With FM IR fiber-optic connections, the available bandwidth will be
nearly unimaginable- Tens of TerraHertz per beam. So much that these
programs will be transparent and behind the scenes. Most computers
Veeery Funny, Florian!
If that was an accident, then try to remember that HTML tags are not
tolerated within the subject line;-)
- Pete Randolph -
- Morristown Corners, Vermont -
Is this prohibition or nontolerance generally true or just an Arachne
Not really OT, unless OT = On Topic, since we want these Web sites to be
viewable from Arachne.
(begin quote)
Dear Jake,
We're sorry that your browser was not able to access Instant Books. It was
designed to work with IE and Netscape, and we do expect that close to 99%
of our visitors use one
I couldn't find either the access numbers or a signup URL that worked. When I
tried http://signup.onfree.com/cgi-bin/infree.cgi, I got Registration-error
Invalid arguments for signup script. (NOTE: No picture available
below.)
I tried both infree and onfree in each of the two parts of the
"Neil Parks" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
BUT FAT is one of the worst (read THE worst) filesystem imagineable !
It is simply a table which holds the information.
right!
Modern Filesystems use a balanced binary tree. (HPFS, ExtFS2, even NTFS,
.)
Access is MUCH faster, and
OK, I have been thinking of trying Linux for some time, but
I have a couple of issues.
1) Can I easily install it without disrupting my current DOS
configuration?
I was going to try Win-OS/2 the other day, but was
afraid to try to install it so it wouldn't overwrite my Hard Drive.
Has anyone been successful getting Arachne and PPP to work
correctly with either the "infree.com" or "onfree.com" ISP?
I can use the ISP fine under Windows Trumpet Winsock, but
can not seem to get it to work under DOS and the dialer/ppp
with Arachne.
Budd [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I tried
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
from Joerg Bartels [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Linux
-
1. Melden Sie die CD-ROM an (mount cd-rom).
Beispiel: mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /cdrom
2. Geben Sie folgende Befehlszeile ein(enter commandline):
dd if=/Corel/Boot/boot1440.img of=dev/fd0
3. Nach Fertigstellung der Startdiskette
from [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Menedetter):
MS Edit from Win95 is really good.
Can load huge files, and can handle up to 9 files.
I have just tried Pedit ... many features and it's really great, but it
cannot handle large files, and I have found no way of switching between
multiple files with
Any Linux editor can do this by running a second version
of the editor (ALT-Fx). Even in the CLI, you can paste
between them using the mouse.
Cheers,
Steven
I never could figure how to select text accurately with the mouse at the command
line. Then I remember the mouse would get into
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
I don't have to go back to DOS 3.x - I'm using DOS 3.3 as I type here in
Netscape 2.02. The interesting point about the CDROM is I had one in the
box - no problem with DOS 3.3 - but I took it out because there wasn't
anything useful to do with it. Everytime I stuck a CD in it, someone
wanted me
On Mon, 04 Sep 2000 09:19:35 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Some Linux text editors are easy to use. Pico, ae,
and ee are examples. And there are also Wordstar clones
(for those who find Wordstar easy).
I have a little experience with Pico, features are rather limited, nothing
approaching
from Clarence Verge [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I have no need for 32Bit FATs either. OR gigabyte drives.
DOS has already evolved too far for me. I find the bells and whistles
designed to keep the great unwashed from hurting themselves exceedingly
annoying. Perhaps if we had let them run with sharp
I could quote here but there are too many lines.
I agree with Clarence Verge on hating GUIs. I don't see how I would survive Mac
with no command prompt. Supposed to be more user-friendly than Linux?
Windows ME is almost but not quite eliminating the command prompt?
Are Linux text editors
What is "Itanium"? Is this the new 64-bit chip from intel?
Is there a problem with it and DOS?
Personally I believe that unless DOS keeps being developed, so it
can be adapted to new hardware (and be able to control its
new abilities), it wouldnt survive long. This is why its good to have
I tried those weather pages again with Arachne 1.66, this time under DR-DOS 7.03,
didn't display right, same problems as previously reported.
weather pages linked from http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/iwin/textversion/main.html.
Good in Arachne 1.62 as previously, bad in Arachne 1.66. Full URLs were
Talk about New Deal Office/Publish and use on older computers makes me think of
Framework, originally developed by Ashton-Tate (through version IV), then
acquired by Borland when they bought Ashton-Tate, although Borland didn't do
anything with Framework. I had Framework III 1.1 back in 1990.
Anyone else get the Cable TV De-scrambler MPAS (exchange first last
letters) from [EMAIL PROTECTED]?
I really like aircraft sound effects as email addresses...
Regards,
Jake
I got it too, sent through an apparently open relay in Japan. And not the first
cable descrambler spam I've received
I think you should try, Thomas.
Both of those versions work fine for me, but so does 1.66.
Your problem with 1.66 is likely related to something else - and we could use
the bug report.
- Clarence Verge
I had Arachne 1.62 already installed and set up, so I tried to view those
weather pages
For a laptop with 8MB RAM but a dead hard drive I use Arachne
exclusively, thereby keeping a machine from a flight into a dumpster/skip.
With 12MB RAM (and a working HDD) I keep copies (several) of Arachne,
plus Opera3.6x, MSIE3.x and NN3.x. I've tried NN2.x but it's too outdated.
MSIE3's Java
from "Glenn McCorkle" [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Mon, 28 Aug 2000 00:03:47 -700, Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
Going on a longer holiday I wonder if I could order my Arachne digest to
nomail?
Somebody a solution at hand?
Send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
unsubscribe arachne-digest
end
I think you should try, Thomas.
Both of those versions work fine for me, but so does 1.66.
Your problem with 1.66 is likely related to something else - and we could use
the bug report.
- Clarence Verge
I had Arachne 1.62 already installed and set up, so I tried to view those
weather pages
On Sat, 26 Aug 2000 10:08:33 +0100, Joerg Dietze wrote:
On Sat, 26 Aug 2000 11:35:28 +, Steven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snipped
However, if you have only 8meg RAM (or less), your best
choice for a GUI may be win3x. Or perhaps OS/2 ?
IMHO, the best on old comps is Geos or it's newer
Gloria, I would personally recommend 1.50b2 (not s.r.c) to a 1.44 user.
You may find that some of the search engines you are having trouble with
work in this version. It is really stable,
My next recommendation is 1.62 - although you will find MUCH has changed,
it seems quite stable and is
from Steven [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
For an OS to "do the most", it must have a wide variety
of applications available. This restricts our choice to
a few mainstream OS. I think we can agree that win9x and
winNT are too resource-hungry for an old computer. Ditto
for Linux KDE and Gnome.
Slackware can boot from CD, or you can make boot and root diskettes with RAWRITE
under DOS, and RAWRITE also works in an OS/2 DOS session. I believe this is
true for FreeBSD and NetBSD. You can also make diskettes from images on CD with
dd from Linux or Unix. Maybe there is a dd for DOS
To Neil Smith Clarence Verge:
I didn't even notice the angle brackets in the subject line, didn't think g
could floor Arachne/Insight. I haven't looked through the SMTP RFC for what
characters are illegal in the subject line. Sometimes I get a message with
upper ASCII (= 128) characters in
Glenn,
Your message to me arrived with no To: line, just as expected.
If, using NetMail for DOS, I put a line To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] in the .TXT file, the
To: address that counts is in the .WRK file, so the message should go there, and
the To: line in the .TXT file is just window dressing. Once
Eric Emerson's truck displays properly for me using EPM (OS/2 Enhanced Editor)
with fixed-width font, or in the Tiny Editor (text mode). I don't think I ever
tried viewing it in Arachne.
Those little circles could be tabs (ASCII 9) that some text editors and readers
show that way.
Programs I
Anybody got any thoughts on 'retaliation' ? Perhaps there's too much mail as
it is, so filling their reply address mailbox with c*ap would be a tad
irresponsible?
Answers on a postcard
One thing I thought of is responding to the "remove" address but with other than
your own email address,
Years ago, a dirty, grimy, disheveled, articulate "homeless" person appeared
repeatedly before governing bodies advocating services, food, shelter, etc.,
for the homeless.
It was later reported that this individual had a Ph.D. in social work.
I'll bet that his dissertation was on how to use
Quoting the start of that spam
Received: from z2k01.zcom.com.tw (z2k01.zcom.com.tw [203.67.40.253])
by aristotle.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id GAA00807
for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 06:29:54 -0500
(CDT)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Received: from 5f2suI06e
I don't know what Eric uses but I use Netscape and it displays only what
it gets. So, without CRLFs, Richard's post went off into right field for
me also. In addition, if I try to quote a message like that, Netscape will
wrap it into the compose window but cuts the line off at 256 characters.
Hi Glenn,
Since you have been explaining how Cc:, Bcc:,
etc. works I have been experimenting with the Detroit
Freenet mailer. Bcc seems to work just the way you
described it should. I can find none of the addresses
in the headers of mail sent by Bcc. However, I notice
all headers
A friend of my using Arachne and recived a email
with 16 pics attached, but he could only view the first 10 pics.
Others were just file://...jpg in red and when he clicked on
the nema, Arachne said: file not found.
How many attached files can Arachne/Insight handle?
Rebel
I am on a one-way
The phrase "to fully-preserve" is wrong for two reasons. The first is one
does not use a hyphen for a verb plus an object; the hyphen is used for
compound modifiers, compound nouns, etc. The second is that there is a
split infinitive--definitely a grammatical faux pas. A better way to
phrase
I finally went to http://www.1nol.com/central and abandoned the attempt to sign
on, not because my software can't handle it, but because I'm geographically
challenged! 1nol has much less phone numbers that Freewwweb, and none in the
entire state of Kentucky, and nothing in 812 area code of
DNS#1 204.178.185.5
DNS#2 204.178.185.105
smtp: mail1.1nol.com
pop: mail1.1nol.com user: "user" password: "password"
What I posted on this list from a text-file download agrees with the DNS #s, but
the SMTP POP3 server were both mail.1nol.com. Did they insert another 1?
Did I see someone sucessfully running Arachne under OS/2.? I could use
some tips.
I have never been able to run Arachne from an OS/2 connection, but was able to
run DOSPPPD and Arachne from OS/2 Warp 4 VDM. Arachne and DOS Lynx386 download
this way, under DOSPPPD in OS/2 Warp 4 VDM, is about
BCC = Blind Carbon Copy
Recipient of BCC doesn't know about the main recipient, unlike CC, where
recipient can see who the main recipient is. I am sending this to Arachne list
with BCC to Eric S. Emerson. Let me know how/if this demo works.
I can dial up the local 1nol access number without any problem but am
experiencing an "invalid loging" message when when trying to login.
The e-mail address that I used in signing up to 1nol was:
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]".
They emailed back that I was successfully registered and they had my
Dialing modems go up to 56 K now, but cable, DSL, and wireless in the future, go
far higher.
Wouldn't it be easier to say you aren't interested and ask them to not call
you again? Most (all?) calls here are from companys where you have already
been a customer, and that affects my opinion of
If you can boot Linux from a CD or diskette, you can achieve the effect of
booting from hd with a command like mount root = /dev/hda1 at the boot prompt.
Or you can use loadlin.
Perhaps MS-DOS 5 (or rather "pre 6") don't close files when the program exits?
MS-DOS since the early versions closes files when a program terminates normally.
int 21h function 4Ch terminates a program, flushes file buffers and closes
files, and frees memory owned by the terminating program.
I disagree. When a telemarketer calls you he pays for the phone call. You
don't pay for your online time on the telephone when you are answering an
incoming call. When you download your SPAM over an internet connection, you
pay for your online time. Unless you are connected to an IMAP server,
Most web-based email sites are poorly designed and will not function with
Arachne.
Here are my observations about some web-based email sites that do work
well with Arachne:
http://www.telebot.com This site works great with Arachne whenever the
site is up. The site is
Hello, sorry if this was posted twice, I had a problem with my email.
I had a problem where Arachne would download pages very slowly and
stall when downloading a page. It would only do it on the page it
downloaded the graphic images just fine, if it got that far.
Basically, I am running it on
Return-path: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Received: from dns (dns.hdpu.edu.cn [202.194.145.66]) by mailsvr1.telebot.net
(Rockliffe SMTPRA 3.4.7) with SMTP id [EMAIL PROTECTED] for
[EMAIL PROTECTED];
Tue, 1 Aug 2000 02:47:01 -0700
Received: from bluegrass.net by dns (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4)
id
Some Arachne list members wanted to know how to send mail through an open relay.
I tried and succeeded on the first attempt, using an open relay from a spam
message I received. Using X_MAIL.EXE in UKA_PPP, I saved the outgoing file to
\UKA17X1\UKA_PPP\SPOOL\M0001.OUT and ran the command
COMTCP
BTW - Do you know anything about Mickeys??
A mickey is a unit of mouse movement (computer, not rodent).
How can one tell what type of drive one has? I just reconfig'd a 1.2MB
to 360K and installed MS-DOS 4.01 sucessfully on an old 286. (it was the
only OS available g)
I assume the track width is determined by the head construction; but
they all look the same on the outside :-(
I installed Arachne 1.66. When the dial succeeded but login failed, due to
Arachne using non-automatic BBS-style login instead of the correct PAP, I
changed ARACHNE.CFG to run with Connection READY and Hangup NUL, dialing with
EPPPD and CHAT. So Arachne found my modem on COM4 IRQ 5 but couldn't
http://www.geocities.com/Eureka/Plaza/4918/mail.html
That page had nothing to help me with the header format for SMTPOP. SMTPOP12
really ought to include a sample message to show the header format.
BTW, this message was sent using SMTPOP.EXE as a standalone program.
All the best,
Sam
I can use Arachne InSight and other DOS-based email clients to access my
free email accounts at http://www.subdimension.com and at
http://www.telebot.com. With Arachne InSight and also with other various
DOS email clients, I can both send and receive email through these accounts.
These web-sites
You can use Arachne to send mail with smtp:// URL. I've done it. Then you can
use other software to receive POP3 mail. I never tried to run Insight without
Arachne.
Are you sure you have x_mailn.exe set up correctly? Are you sure you have the
correct special WATTCP.CFG required by UKA_PPP?
If you use a DPMI server (Windows, Linux, cvsdpmi, dos4gw,etc)
you can use the os's services.But it's called protected mode programming.
And that's what Micheal doesn't want to get in.(And i can understand him,
but this is the only way to Java, Js, download mail, while surfing, etc)
DOS was
GREAT !!
Did anyone besides me have Arachne blocked by their ISP ?
- Clarence Verge
About two months (?) ago, there was a three-day stretch where I got nothing from
the Arachne list, though I don't know if that was related to ORBS or open relay.
Perhaps any Internet user can send mail
"Disappearing passwords" could be a bug in Arachne or a bug in your ISP,
mysterious to me.
"Relaying denied" could be a failure of SMTP authentication. Normally SMTP
authentication would be used by a free email service such as Telebot that is not
an ISP, to prevent an open relay that could be
http://www.geocities.com/Eureka/Plaza/4918/mail.html
I guess I need to look at that Web page to see why I was never able to make
SMTPOP work on the SMTP part. But I think I prefer NetMail DOS over the
cryptic naming/numbering of POP3 download files by SMTPOP or Insight.
360K floppies are
I managed to get my primary ISP to TEMPORARILY lift the block they had on
[EMAIL PROTECTED] just in time. Seems my secondary is blocked now. :(
Clarence,
Why did your ISPs block [EMAIL PROTECTED]?
Dale,
Naturally I don't want to have to use Juno's proprietary bloatware just to get
email, nor do I want to go through their WWW interface.
Apparently Pegasus indents the subject and date, but Arachne doesn't. I show a
few samples. I use Insight very sparingly, am in EPM (OS/2 Enhanced
The URL is http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jchap/tvde.htm
It is indeed a program that incorporates SMTPOP; however, with Barebones
you don't have to create a work file and a message file for each email
message. Barebones is very easy to use. No need to hassle with "glued
headers" and other
Under POP3 protocol, a server does not actually delete the messages requested to
be deleted until the client issues a quit command. That is to prevent loss of
data when a download is interrupted. Thus if the program bombs after
downloading 29 of 30 messages, all 30 messages will still be
If you don't like the way Net-tamer appends all your email messages into
long concatenated files, then you you might want to consider using NetDial
for DOS, or the Barebones DOS email system. These programs do not
produce concatenated email messages. They provide you with individual
files.
According to information on their web-site, http://www.dialfree.net, you have
to provide them with your credit card number when you sign up. Also when you
sign up you will agree to let them charge your credit card if you fail to
repond to the survey form. I don't think they would terminate a
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000 03:44:30 -0400 (EDT), Thomas Mueller wrote:
I remember months ago, when I visited Netzero's Web site, Netzero would charge
$59.95 for a month where a user disabled the ads showing on screen.
They can't legally do that unless the "Terms of Service" expressly
Hi Michael Polak,
I just tried to download Arachne
from text version webpage. I was using Lynx. When I
clicked on download link I received an error message
which said I could not download because of ".shtml"
redirection. The other download links I tried worked.
I downloaded
Hello List !
In DR-WEBSYDER there is a nice tool an "onscreen-keyboard"
Such thing maybe very usefull when you use Arachne on a
arcademaschine or things like that. Is it possible to do
that for Arachne ?
Thanks for reading-
regards Jörg
How old is this DR-WEBSPYDER, and is it still available
I could not access my pop3 mail server and did not try smtp. The
trick of using the other DNS addresses (I used MSN's DNS numbers)
works fine for surfing. If you use the original FreeWWWeb DNS numbers
you can't go anywhere but to the Juno welcome page.
I was able to reach
Last night, Friday July 21 at about 5:00 EDT (0900 GMT), I successfully logged
on to Freewwweb. That was my first attempt with OS/2 as opposed to DOS. But
accessing the mail servers failed at first, even tracerte failed. I went to the
support site, and it looked rather strange. I filled out
DOS programs, even most TSRs, run in single task mode because there is no
Task Manager. There is NO reason why you couldn't have multiple DOS programs
running semi-simultaneously (semi is all even Linux can get) if you have a
simple task manager. As long as you are talking about programs that
Michael,
I downloaded Arachne 1.65 and some of the APMs, but some of these downloads may
have been redundant, the same as was previously downloaded. Are IRC.APM and
TELNET.APM, from early 1999, still current? I didn't redownload these, will
install from early 1999 download. It would be
My modem is on COM4 (base 0x2e8) IRQ 5, that worked with Compuserve, and works
with OS/2 Warp 4, Linux and DOS using DOSPPPD 0.6 (EPPPD CHAT, or NETDIAL
EPPPD). MS-DOS 6.22 and DR-DOS 7.03 don't recognize COM4 but do recognize
0x2e8. OS/2 Warp 4 VDM recognizes COM4, probably because of a
Very soon, I am going to release GGI version of Arachne for Linux.
It has one big speed advantage against SVGAlib: I have set asynchronous
screen access, so you can define max. frame-per-second rate of your
screen in arachne.conf... as a result, it loads and display pages even
faster than SVGAlib
You will start getting filenames like DOWNLOAD\9823423423.TMP - I dont
kwno if you will be happy about it...
Actually such a file name is not permissible under DOS: it looks like ten digits
before .TMP. Maybe possible with Linux Arachne, though cryptic 8.3 file names
are already bad enough. I
I too have been unable to find a DOS email program that puts all downloaded
email messages in one file. I have used popdump, but that sometimes would just
hang, leaving the disk buzzing/humming but no progress, and there was nothing
else to do but reboot (Reset button). Fortunately when I
AFAIK noone else have a SCSI HD.
I do, in a way, installing Arachne on external SCSI Iomega Zip 250. My fixed
disks total about 1600 MB in two HDs, EIDE. I haven't noticed lost chains with
Arachne, ran CHKDSK once when Boanne was on this list.
But I don't run Arachne nearly as regularly as do
Maybe Arachne could allow, in a future version, the user to override the file or
attachment type, for instance to view plain text as HTML or .MES? Or view .GIF
as .JPG or vice versa, in case the file was misnamed?
What is BASH?
Sam Heywood
BASH = Bourne Again SHell, an open-source shell (command interpreter) for Unix
and Linux, also ported to OS/2 and DOS. Much more powerful than COMMAND.COM or
even OS/2 CMD.EXE
And I have blind friends who have to listen to their computer. Imagine
them trying to make sense out of the Arachne graphics home page. They
are just one good reason why I offer a text-only alternative to my main
page, graphics free newsletter html page, and archives as pure text
files.
I want
A changes-only .zip file upgrade would be useful and a big time saver for
Arachne users upgrading from one version to the next. A full-package .zip would
also be good, then the user could edit ARACHNE.CFG with a text editor or copy
from a previous version. I don't like those installation
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