Re: (OT) AOL/windows users (was Re: screwed attachments)

2000-02-26 Thread L.D. Best
Sam and All, I have the true answer, but there are millions who would deny it. The reason why Sam, Glenn, I, and many others on the list trim and snip and clean up is because *we* are computer users. Not only are we computer users now, we were computer users when "the net" meant Itelec or

Re: history list growing by leaps and bounds

2000-02-26 Thread L.D. Best
I have never deleted or "cleaned up" my history list. I know for a fact it simply does not stay around forever -- if it did, I could find stuff about where I was a couple of days ago. G I just went and checked my old history.lst, in 1.5s.r.c. with hundreds of days of heavy usage, searches, etc

Cache size [*NOT* Re: Arachne load error]

2000-02-26 Thread L.D. Best
Thomas is correct. The only limit on number of files in cache that Michael has in the software is a top limit of 256 on the *report* of number of files in cache. G It's fun ... hit F8 and the percentage starts moving over the green bar ... but then it disappears as your HDD deletes more and

PC-Pine for DOS doesn't like NWCACHE

2000-02-26 Thread Thomas Mueller
Sam Heywood and Ricsi, If the user posts to and downloads from specified newsgroups, why would PC-PINE try to read the entire newsgroup list? Is that what happens? Is there no place in PC-PINE to keep track of or edit the news message numbers? UKA_PPP doesn't insist on knowing all the other

Re: http://sac-ftp.gratex.sk/utilprog11.html

2000-02-26 Thread Neil Parks
On 25 Feb 00 at 10:27, arachne-digest wrote: From: "Thomas Mueller" [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you get a blank screen attempting to download anything, you might press F6 to get the source HML code, or run wget or HTGET to get the Web page F6 was the first thing I tried, and it did not do

Re: PC-Pine for DOS doesn't like NWCACHE

2000-02-26 Thread Samuel W. Heywood
Hello: On Fri, 25 Feb 2000 10:28:45 +0100 (CET), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Menedetter) wrote: Hi "Samuel W. Heywood" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [PINE] SH Here is my description of the problem: You don't do anything wrong ... That's IMHO normal behaviour. Yes, once I thought I was

Re: history list growing by leaps and bounds

2000-02-26 Thread Neil Parks
On 24 Feb 00 at 7:23, arachne-digest wrote: From: "Gregory J. Feig" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5...when it comes back from your mailserver, store it in "LINKS" folder and you have all those "nifty" links ready to launch, instead of kicking yourself all around the room and through the

Re: Slightly off topic from TELNET thread

2000-02-26 Thread J J Young
Author's note: This message solely discusses Windows software. Delete now if desired. On 24/02/00 Barry Kaufman wrote: snip I need a WIN32 mail client that will POP/IMAP/TELNET, etc. concatenate my compuserve mail (including what is in lists) to a text file. How about PC-Pine, Fox-Mail,

Re: Inline Attachments and Insight

2000-02-26 Thread Glenn McCorkle
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000 04:23:55 -0500 (EST), Thomas Mueller wrote: --366E9BA7933FD9EA785993EA Content-Type: image/jpeg Content-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: inline; filename="C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\nsmailRS.jpeg" Is that file name path

Re: Trouble with TELNET

2000-02-26 Thread Bjorn Simonsen
On 24 Feb 00 at 11:31, Michael Hildenbrand wrote: I downloaded Pegasus for dos some time ago, and recently downloaded it again. I cannot figure out how to configure it to download my email. See: Setting up DOS Email by Michael Glover:

Re: .tgz binaries displayed as text

2000-02-26 Thread Charles Boisvert and Catherine Clinton
In MIME.CFG, which takes priority--the data type as reported by the server, or the file extension? Is there any way to override the data type for a given extension? It should be the content-type, but clients usually rely on the extension instead. Since all those brain-dead windoze clients

Re: Dead...!!..???

2000-02-26 Thread Glenn McCorkle
On Sat, 26 Feb 2000 02:40:48 -0800, Gregory J. Feig wrote: Manthis list is dead all or a sudden...I haven't received anything for over 14-hoursnot that I'm looking for a handout mind you, but, is this server still upg g g It's still up. But, with so few "problems" in

Re: DR-DOS 7.01 or 7.03

2000-02-26 Thread Glenn McCorkle
On Sat, 26 Feb 2000 02:41:36 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am going to be downloading a copy of DR-DOS to install on a friend's 386 along with Arachne. I have been using DR-DOS 7.01 on one of my own boxes and haven't tried 7.02 or 7.03. I was going to download 7.03 for my friend, but I

New old topic -- cleaning memory

2000-02-26 Thread L.D. Best
Ran into near problems again today. Red boxes started sprouting! Check on memory shows 13 in bright red! Now what??? ALT E to shell out, Arachne cleans itself out of memory, enter EXIT to return to Arachne and voila! memory is 108. Arachne is capable of clearing everything from memory.

Re: New old topic -- cleaning memory

2000-02-26 Thread Michael L. Dawley
On Sat, 26 Feb 2000 17:50:30 -0400, L.D. Best wrote: Ran into near problems again today. Red boxes started sprouting! Check on memory shows 13 in bright red! Now what??? ALT E to shell out, Arachne cleans itself out of memory, enter EXIT to return to Arachne and voila! memory is 108.

PC-Pine for DOS doesn't like NWCACHE

2000-02-26 Thread Richard Menedetter
Hi "Samuel W. Heywood" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SH Anyway ALL problems mentioned in my posts on this subject are now SH solved. GREAT !!! What was the problem ?? Maybe others will have these problems too ... SH Sam Heywood CU, Ricsi -- Richard Menedetter [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ICQ: 7659421]

New old topic -- cleaning memory

2000-02-26 Thread Roger Turk
L.D. wrote: Ran into near problems again today. Red boxes started sprouting! Check on memory shows 13 in bright red! Now what??? ALT E to shell out, Arachne cleans itself out of memory, enter EXIT to return to Arachne and voila! memory is 108. Arachne is capable of clearing everything

Kak virus

2000-02-26 Thread Samuel W. Heywood
Hello fellow Arachnids: On Fri, 25 Feb 2000 22:53:1 +0800, J J Young made this comment while writing on an unrelated subject: The only problem has been when the majority were sending HTML-format mail which is displayed as a plain text message followed by the bulky and tiring HTML source.

Re: ngs aren't mail [Re: PC-Pine for DOS doesn't like NWCACH

2000-02-26 Thread Samuel W. Heywood
Hello L.D: On Sat, 26 Feb 2000 04:16:52 -0400, L.D. Best wrote: To pull from or post to news groups, you don't use either POP3 or SMTP. You use whatever your ISP says is the proper "news" address. Sometimes that is just news.ispname.here or sometimes it is a "rental" news server.

arachne-digest V1 #1015

2000-02-26 Thread arachne-digest
arachne-digest Saturday, February 26 2000 Volume 01 : Number 1015 -- Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 04:23:55 -0500 (EST) From: "Thomas Mueller" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Inline Attachments and Insight -

Re: PC-Pine for DOS doesn't like NWCACHE

2000-02-26 Thread Samuel W. Heywood
Hello Arachnids: Take a look at my configuration file and then try to imagine what kinds of problems I had in figuring out all this stuff. On Sun, 27 Feb 2000 00:12:36 +0100 (CET), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Menedetter) wrote: Hi "Samuel W. Heywood" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SH Anyway ALL

Re: Dead...!!..???

2000-02-26 Thread Gregory J. Feig
On Sat, 26 Feb 2000 17:24:03 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote: Maybe we should all stop using v1.60b1 and go back to v0.9 At least then we'de have some bugs to comment on.vbg Glenn ..no, it was down for about 10-12 hoursmy mailserver sent me several warnings about "undeliverable" of that

Re: Kak virus

2000-02-26 Thread Gregory J. Feig
On Sat, 26 Feb 2000 19:18:26 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: --snip- It has long been believed that it is impossible to transmit a virus with an ascii text file. I have recently heard a story that Micro$oft Outlook can be infected with a straight-up ascii email message,

Re: Dead...!!..???

2000-02-26 Thread Dale Mentzer
On 26 Feb 00 at 17:24, Glenn McCorkle wrote: It's still up. But, with so few "problems" in v1.60b1 there's not much for us to talk about.g Maybe we should all stop using v1.60b1 and go back to v0.9 At least then we'de have some bugs to comment on.vbg Of course, Glenn, you would just

arachne-digest V1 #1016

2000-02-26 Thread arachne-digest
arachne-digest Sunday, February 27 2000 Volume 01 : Number 1016 -- Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 04:16:52 -0400 From: "L.D. Best" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ngs aren't mail [Re: PC-Pine for DOS doesn't like NWCACH To