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. (oooooo, ugly)<g> I'll stick with my "old-tried-and-true" methode. (F4, make changes, F2). - -- 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, 8 Feb 2000 20:38:49 -0500 From: Mark David Roth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Virus Alert! Virus Alert! I don't know if this virus scare message is a hoax or not I haven't had a chance to check it out yet. Subject: Fw: DEADLYVIRUS From: "Gene Roth", INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Phyllis and Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED] From: John Hale <[EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Saturday, February 05, 2000 11:37 PM PASS THIS ON TO ANYONE YOU HAVE AN E-MAIL ADDRESS FOR. If you receive an email titled "It Takes Guts to Say Jesus" DO NOT OPEN IT. It will erase everything on your hard drive. This information was announced yesterday morning from IBM; AOL states that this is a very dangerous virus, much worse than "Melissa," and that there is NO remedy for it at this time. Some very sick individual has succeeded in using the reformat function from Norton Utilities causing it to completely erase all documents on the hard drive. It has been designed to work with Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer. It destroys Macintosh and IBM compatible computers. This is a new, very malicious virus and not many people know about it. Pass this warning along to EVERYONE in your address book and please share it with all your online friends ASAP so that this threat may be stopped. Please practice cautionary measures and tell anyone that may have access to your computer. Forward this warning to everyone that might access the Internet. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2000 20:46:00 -0500 From: "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: "new" hotlist manager... On Tue, 08 Feb 2000 20:26:18 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote: > Just tried the new hotlist manager. (oooooo, ugly)<g> > I'll stick with my "old-tried-and-true" methode. > (F4, make changes, F2). Sorry, forgot to say.... none of my links got "lost". L.D., 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? - -- 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: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 1:58:34 +0800 From: J J Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Virus Alert! Yep, just a bandwidth hog, which is why I've snipped your message. Came across it a couple of days ago on another list. Thanx for your concern, though. Jake At 08/02/00 20:38:00, Mark David Roth wrote: >Virus Alert! >I don't know if this virus scare message is a hoax or not I haven't had a >chance to check it out yet. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2000 20:56:36 -0500 From: "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: OT Re: Virus Alert! On Tue, 8 Feb 2000 20:38:49 -0500, Mark David Roth wrote: > Virus Alert! > I don't know if this virus scare message is a hoax or not I haven't had a > chance to check it out yet. Place this link at the very top of you "hotlist". http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/hoax.html When someone sends you one of these "warnings", _immediately_ go to the above URL. The one you've "warned" us all about this time is here.... http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/jesus-hoax.html - -- 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 21:22:35 -0500 From: "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Virus Alert! On Tue, 8 Feb 2000 20:38:49 -0500, Mark David Roth wrote: > Virus Alert! > I don't know if this virus scare message is a hoax or not I haven't had a > chance to check it out yet. > Subject: Fw: DEADLYVIRUS > From: "Gene Roth", INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: Phyllis and Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: John Hale <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Saturday, February 05, 2000 11:37 PM > PASS THIS ON TO ANYONE YOU HAVE AN E-MAIL ADDRESS FOR. > If you receive an email titled "It Takes Guts to Say Jesus" > DO NOT OPEN IT. > It will erase everything on your hard drive. <snipped the rest of the warning message> Hello Mark: The warning message is worded in so much the same manner as the typical hoaxes that have been going around for years, especially in AOL circles. Because of the style and tone of the wording in this message, I would not take it seriously. It smells too much like just another hoax, and someone crying wolf. If you really want to check this one out for us, Mark, we would appreciate your doing so. I think you will find only a little boy crying wolf. You may be most assured that one of these days the wolf really will appear, and no one will listen to the screams of dire distress. The great wisdom of Aesop will bear this out as being a true story, and most worthy of being told, and passed down from generation to generation until the end of time. Sam Heywood - -- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2000 21:36:40 -0800 From: Clarence Verge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Why are there tmp files in my main Arachne directory? L.D. Best wrote: > > I have TEMP set to r:\temp\ ... I even have TMP set to r:\temp\ ... > > So why do I find textarea.tmp and 4 or 5 other *.tmp files sitting on my > HDD? Very good question - and some have missed the point. Michael has stated that he was trying to direct as much temporary file use as possible to ramdisk via the "TEMP or ARACHNETEMP" variables. I think he also said something about TEMP in connection with expire static and expire dynamic. Actually, he has said a lot about a lot of things and I wish I had more of it hardcopied !<G> There definitely was a big note on TEMP once that I can't find. If it is more convenient for him to do cleanup if only a certain type of data is in TEMP, then perhaps we should have a different TMP area to separate the above mentioned files from the more permanent (and less accessed) stuff in the main ARACHNE directory. I just downloaded history.txt to check the references to "TEMP" and the post that I vaguely recall wasn't in it. As a side note, I did the download with 1.6b1 and it went very nicely until time came to read the file offline. Just like Windows, Arachne did whatever she wanted without any concern for what *I* wanted. I couldn't find the damn downloaded file anywhere. Certainly not in the Download directory where any reasonable person might expect it. In actual fact, (and I suppose most of you know this) it was in Cache under a totally obscure numbered name. Luckily, I remembered it was about 70 Kbytes. That's one friendly way to handle a download. :-(( - - Clarence Verge - -- - - Help stamp out FATWARE. As a start visit: http://home.arachne.cz/ - -- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2000 21:52:40 -0800 From: Clarence Verge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Hotlist - Missing Links L.D. Best wrote: > > Also, big warning for those who spend hours finding links: At first it > looks like Hotlist.mgr was working far better than ever before. So I > trusted it again today, to properly allocate the new links collected > [which always appear at the bottom of the old list] to the correct > areas. Instead I lost over 20 hours worth of blood, sweat and tears; > all the new links disappeared. :< L.D.; I can't say for sure about the NEW Hotlist Manager, But I used to loose links all the time with the old one ! The problem was Arachne would attach the link but sometimes, SOMETHING, would attach an EOF character to the Hotlist. Any links added after the EOF would still be there, but were invisible. View the Hotlist with a display program like BROWSE. You may see the EOF arrow character and all your hard work may still be there ! Just remove the EOF (1AH) with debug. - - Clarence Verge - -- - - Help stamp out FATWARE. As a start visit: http://home.arachne.cz/ - -- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 01:43:20 -0500 From: Mark David Roth <[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 - - 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 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 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 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 01:57:56 -0500 From: "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: 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 Hola Jorge - Wrong name of URL. Not crosswinds.com, it is crosswinds.net. Very interesting website. I'm checking it out now. I'll get back later. I found out that http://www.crosswinds.com exists also, but it does not offer email services. Crosswinds.com would be a good site to visit if you are planning on moving to Detroit. 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 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 08:49:23 +0100 From: "Lars Wigrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Virus Alert! On Tue, 8 Feb 2000 20:38:49 -0500, Mark David Roth wrote: > Virus Alert! > I don't know if this virus scare message is a hoax or not I haven't had a > chance to check it out yet. > PASS THIS ON TO ANYONE YOU HAVE AN E-MAIL ADDRESS FOR. > If you receive an email titled "It Takes Guts to Say Jesus" > DO NOT OPEN IT. [CUT] It's just a hoax. Or, more precisely: The only true dangerous thing about it, is that it takes guts to say Jesus, and to recieve him as your Lord and Saviour. Do you have the guts ? ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 03:10:32 -0500 From: Mark David Roth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: "new" hotlist manager... > On Tue, 08 Feb 2000 20:26:18 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote: > Just tried the new hotlist manager. (oooooo, 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. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 03:11:44 -0500 From: Mark David Roth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Virus Alert! > On Tue, 8 Feb 2000 20:38:49 -0500, Mark David Roth wrote: > Virus Alert! > I don't know if this virus scare message is a hoax or not I haven't had a > chance to check it out yet. > Subject: Fw: DEADLYVIRUS > From: "Gene Roth", INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: Phyllis and Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: John Hale <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Saturday, February 05, 2000 11:37 PM > PASS THIS ON TO ANYONE YOU HAVE AN E-MAIL ADDRESS FOR. > If you receive an email titled "It Takes Guts to Say Jesus" > DO NOT OPEN IT. > It will erase everything on your hard drive. <snipped the rest of the warning message> - -Sam Heywood replied: - -Hello Mark: - -The warning message is worded in so much the same manner as the typical - -hoaxes that have been going around for years, especially in AOL circles. - -Because of the style and tone of the wording in this message, I would not - -take it seriously. It smells too much like just another hoax, and someone - -crying wolf. - -If you really want to check this one out for us, Mark, we would appreciate - -your doing so. I think you will find only a little boy crying wolf. You - -may be most assured that one of these days the wolf really will appear, and - -no one will listen to the screams of dire distress. The great wisdom of - -Aesop will bear this out as being a true story, and most worthy of being - -told, and passed down from generation to generation until the end of time. I'm sorry everbody. It did turn out to be another hoax. I guess I'm a little sensitive to virus scares right now. 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. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 04:17:31 -0500 From: "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: 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 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 11:01:39 +0100 (CET) From: Michael Polak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: 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) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 10:06:46 -000 From: Mike Millen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: OT Re: what is .pdf GM>Unfortunately, AcroDos will not work with the new format of .PDF files GM>. GM>For 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 - -- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 05:39:05 -0500 (EST) From: "Thomas Mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: 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/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 16:52:03 +0200 From: "Or Botton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: GNU live video system? Is there, anywhere, a live video protocol/system that is open-source or etleast not heavily protected by patents? All I know of is Video Live (which was squashed by Real), Real video, and the dreaded Windows Media. What else? Or Botton [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - "Truth is stranger than fiction, because fiction has to make sense." - ----------------------------- http://members.xoom.com/dsdp/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 09:39:43 -0500 From: Mark David Roth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: 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. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 17:39:51 +0000 From: Casper Gielen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: 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 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 17:43:05 +0000 From: Casper Gielen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: 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 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 20:17:08 +0100 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bernd Martin) Subject: 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 386s (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=vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv SET ARACHNETEMP=vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv SET MYIP=vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv SET REMIP=vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv SET NETMASK=vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv SET PEERMRU=vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv 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) 7,013K 2,269K 4,744K - ----------------- ---------- --------- --------- Insg. Speicher 8,192K 2,736K 5,456K Insg. unter 1 MB 795K 83K 712K Maximale Gr"e fr ausfhrbares Programm 608K (622,080 Byte) Gr"ter freier Block im hohen Speicherblock 104K (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) HIMEM 1,168 (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) SMARTDRV 29,024 (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 Reserviert 393,216 393,216 0 Erweiterung (XMS) 7,181,712 2,323,856 4,857,856 ----------------- --------- --------- --------- Insg. Speicher 8,388,608 2,801,968 5,586,640 Insg. unter 1 MB 813,680 84,896 728,784 Maximale Gr"e fr ausfhrbares Programm 622,080 (608K) Gr"ter 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 ------- ---------------- ---------- ------------------------- 00000 1,039 (1K) Interrupt-Vektor 00040 271 (0K) ROM-sbertragungsbereich 00050 527 (1K) DOS-sbertragungsbereich 00070 2,656 (3K) IO Systemdaten CON System-Ger"tetreiber AUX System-Ger"tetreiber PRN System-Ger"tetreiber CLOCK$ System-Ger"tetreiber A: - C: System-Ger"tetreiber COM1 System-Ger"tetreiber LPT1 System-Ger"tetreiber LPT2 System-Ger"tetreiber LPT3 System-Ger"tetreiber COM2 System-Ger"tetreiber COM3 System-Ger"tetreiber COM4 System-Ger"tetreiber 00116 5,072 (5K) MSDOS Systemdaten 00253 19,920 (19K) IO Systemdaten 1,152 (1K) XMSXXXX0 Instal. Ger"t=HIMEM 3,120 (3K) EMMQXXX0 Instal. Ger"t=EMM386 3,264 (3K) FILES=60 256 (0K) FCBS=4 512 (1K) BUFFERS=20 448 (0K) LASTDRIVE=E 11,040 (11K) STACKS=20,512 00730 80 (0K) MSDOS Systemprogramm 00735 3,024 (3K) COMMAND Programm 007F2 80 (0K) MSDOS -- Frei -- 007F7 304 (0K) COMMAND Umgebung 0080A 320 (0K) MEM Umgebung 0081E 88,992 (87K) MEM Programm 01DD8 533,104 (521K) MSDOS -- Frei -- Detaillierte sbersicht des hohen Speicherbereichs: Segment Region Insgesamt Name Typ ------- ------ ---------------- ----------- ------------------------- 0C959 1 96 (0K) MOUSE Umgebung 0C95F 1 29,024 (28K) SMARTDRV Programm 0D075 1 15,648 (15K) MOUSE Programm 0D447 1 320 (0K) MSDOS -- Frei -- 0D45B 1 6,944 (7K) KEYB Programm 0D60D 1 106,288 (104K) MSDOS -- Frei -- Speicher-Zusammenfassung: Speichertyp Insgesamt = Verwendet + Frei ----------------- --------- --------- --------- Konventioneller 655,360 33,184 622,176 Hoher 158,320 51,712 106,608 Reserviert 393,216 393,216 0 Erweiterung (XMS) 7,181,712 2,323,856 4,857,856 ----------------- --------- --------- --------- Insg. Speicher 8,388,608 2,801,968 5,586,640 Insg. unter 1 MB 813,680 84,896 728,784 Verfgbarer Speicher bei Int 15h 0 (0K) Maximale Gr"e fr ausfhrbares Programm 622,080 (608K) Gr"ter freier Block im hohen Speicherblock 106,288 (104K) MS-DOS ist resident im oberen Speicherbereich (High Memory Area). XMS-Version 3.00; Treiber Version 3.16 Freier konventioneller Speicher: Segment Insgesamt -------- ----------------- 007F2 80 (0K) 0080A 320 (0K) 0081E 88,992 (87K) 01DD8 533,104 (521K) Insgesamt frei: 622,496 (608K) Freier oberer Speicher: Bereich Max. frei Insgesamt frei Ingesamte Gr"e ------- -------------- -------------- --------------- 1 106,288 (104K) 106,608 (104K) 158,320 (155K) ------------------------------ End of arachne-digest V1 #987 *****************************
