Re: What are most common problems for newbies ?

2000-05-28 Thread Thomas Mueller
That's a problem. If you have something on 1 and 2 with a modem on 4, and if PPPDRC.cfg says the modem is on com 2, EPPPD will not try the address for port 4. I think. No one has this problem now. They have fixed it with a workaround program that modifies the bios list or they have moved their

OT: Cute Mouse

2000-05-28 Thread Richard Menedetter
Hi "L.D. Best" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LB I'm sorry you don't understand English. You don't have to be sorry ... I never had any big problems with people not understanding me ... Not everybody has the luck of being born in an english speaking country. But if you want I can continue in my

newbees

2000-05-28 Thread Richard Menedetter
Hi "Bastiaan Edelman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BE A lot of my problems were due to "out of memory" at some stage. BE Indeed the Norton Commander uses memory ... I changed the sequence: BE first Arachne (including cute mouse) and after Exit from Arachne going BE into Norton Commander... BE

slip PPP

2000-05-28 Thread Harold
Hi, I can't get into my provider as the password doesn't work. After the username input, the password input does not function, the keyboard input seems to freeze. Then I get garbage on the screen in PPP mode and the line is cut off.

Newbees bootgui=0 is OK

2000-05-28 Thread Bastiaan Edelman
Hi, and thanks to Ricsi I changed msdos.sys: bootgui=1 = bootgui=0 This did the trick... now I can control the program-flow at starting up the machine. BTW: it was not easy to change this 'read only' file. Norton refused to edit... and PCTOOLS does not function on this machine (a pentium

Re: OT: Cute Mouse

2000-05-28 Thread Bernie
L.D wrote: AND ... just for your information ... the version of CTMouse I was referring to was 1.6, by the *orginal* author -- NOT by Bernie. In case anyone is interested it seems like the original authour (Nagy Daniels) doesn't have time for chaning Cute Mouse anymore. I'll try and coordinate

Re: ISPs and Standards (Was: Java Script and...

2000-05-28 Thread Bernie
Sam Heywood wrote: One of the problems with "Surf-Watch" and other programs designed to prevent children from accessing "bad" sites is that these programs are not capable of performing "smart exclusions". Yes, a good example is "blow" and "job" - put together they form a word that only is on

Re: What are most common problems for newbies ?

2000-05-28 Thread Eric S. Emerson
Thomas Mueller wrote: Clarence Verge wrote: That's a problem. If you have something on 1 and 2 with a modem on 4, and if PPPDRC.cfg says the modem is on com 2, EPPPD will not try the address for port 4. I think. No one has this problem now. They have fixed it with a workaround program that

Re: Cute Mouse program

2000-05-28 Thread Bernie
Ricsi wrote: This _is_ Cutemouse :-)) (Bernie has downloaded the sourcecode, and changed some things) Yes, can someone who's using QEMM tell me if you have any problem with the smallmem .com file? (try qpv or qpeg and see if it locks/crashes your system). And if someone(s) would be so kind to

Re: Newbies 2

2000-05-28 Thread Bernie
Bastiaan wrote: This might be the solution I was looking for a long time: how to prevent loading Wimndows if not wanted ? To use Norton as a stop is a solution but not a nice one... beter prevent than curing the symptons. Tnx Ricsi. Another option might be to add "lh c:\command.com" - this

Newbees bootgui=0 is OK

2000-05-28 Thread Roger Turk
Bastiaan, In order to change a read only file, you have to remove the read only attribute, thus: ATTRIB -r msdos.sys To remove all attributes (read only, system, hidden) you would use: ATTRIB -r -s -h msdos.sys To remove all attributes from all files in a directory, you would: ATTRIB -r -s

Re: Hmmmn...CFM = Cold Fusion..???

2000-05-28 Thread Clarence Verge
Eric S. Emerson wrote: Clarence Verge wrote: Complaining is getting to be tiresome. We should generate some sort of form letter that goes out automatically to places like this when we send the mailto address to a "bitching" engine. g Hi Clarence, Good idea! And it should

Re: newbees

2000-05-28 Thread Clarence Verge
Bastiaan Edelman wrote: Hi to you all... We discussed already some of my problems: #1 remove the "-" from the dialing/login script #2 it would be a great thing to have a log file to check the whole login cycle, preferably with added log of memory used/free with each step. Hi

Re: slip PPP

2000-05-28 Thread Clarence Verge
Harold wrote: Hi, I can't get into my provider as the password doesn't work. After the username input, the password input does not function, the keyboard input seems to freeze. Then I get garbage on the screen in PPP mode and the line is cut off. Hi Harold; When you see the garbage,

Re: slip PPP

2000-05-28 Thread Glenn McCorkle
On Sun, 28 May 2000 11:17:06 +0200, Harold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I can't get into my provider as the password doesn't work. After the username input, the password input does not function, the keyboard input seems to freeze. Then I get garbage on the screen in PPP mode and the line is

Re: newbees

2000-05-28 Thread Bastiaan Edelman
On Sun, 28 May 2000 15:23:12 -0500, Clarence Verge wrote: Bastiaan Edelman wrote: Hi to you all... We discussed already some of my problems: #1 remove the "-" from the dialing/login script #2 it would be a great thing to have a log file to check the whole login cycle, preferably

Thanks.

2000-05-28 Thread Michael Polak
Thank you about your suggestions what are the most needed improvements in next releases. As usually, the conclusion of all your comments is simply, that I have to improve and change *everything* ;-) I was in fact thinking mainly about changes in default configuration, not changes in code...

Re: OT: Cute Mouse

2000-05-28 Thread Mike Millen
The Documentation is not lying ... but there is a bug in the code, which prevents port autodetection. Bernie is already searching for it ... but he has very few time. IMO the documentation *is* lying if the program isn't able to autodetect where the mouse is (on com1/2). I can't get

ctmouse

2000-05-28 Thread Michael Polak
The CTmouse version I have downloaded from net is 1.6. Is it up-to date ? I haven't noticed any license issues preventing me from adding it to Arachne package... however, I don't promise any mouse detection or installaton wizard in 1.62, it will be intended just for people with Arachne on floppy

directory ?

2000-05-28 Thread ralya
Hi Gang!I upgraded from ver1.48 to 1.61,and like it a lot,but I see now that in my file manager for win 3.1 that I have 2 arachne directories.one has 180 files using 2.74mb and it has the 1.48 exe.The oher directory has 101 file using 1.32mb space.Can I delete the one directory with the old 1.48

Suggestions for Arachne

2000-05-28 Thread Dev Teelucksingh
Just thinking on ways to improve Arachne : * Removing the hardware system specific portion of Arachne.cfg and putting it into (say) system.cfg Then the profiles will be more portable on different machines with Arachne installed. The wizard structure would also change. There would be a

Re: directory ?

2000-05-28 Thread Dale Mentzer
On 4 Jan 80 at 17:03, ralya wrote: Hi Gang!I upgraded from ver1.48 to 1.61,and like it a lot,but I see now that in my file manager for win 3.1 that I have 2 arachne directories.one has 180 files using 2.74mb and it has the 1.48 exe.The oher directory has 101 file using 1.32mb space.Can I delete

OT: Cute Mouse

2000-05-28 Thread Ron Clarke
Hi Folks, I also hangs head could not get Cute Mouse to work for me. I had always assumed that my species of rodent was just different. I was not aware that I needed to tell it where its port was. Now, Cute Mouse runs like it should in Arachne, other DOS programs (including my own)

Re: Cute Mouse program

2000-05-28 Thread Willy J. Hoogstraten
Hi Bernie, On Sun, 28 May 2000 19:40:44 +0200 (MET DST), you wrote: Yes, can someone who's using QEMM tell me if you have any problem with the smallmem .com file? (try qpv or qpeg and see if it locks/crashes your system). And if someone(s) would be so kind to try it with other

connection question

2000-05-28 Thread The Wizard
Hi, I can connect to my local ISP with the PPP dialer that was setup with the wizard. It connects. Then instead of inputting the username and password that I have saved, I have a login screen and have to manually login. Then after that I can't do anything, I thought it should go back to the

thanks

2000-05-28 Thread ralya
Hey Dale and Bastiaan thanks for your help!I deleted the old directory and got a few MB of space back.phil -- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client -- Arachne V1.61, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/

Re: Cute Mouse program

2000-05-28 Thread Willy J. Hoogstraten
Hi Bernie, In addition to my previous post, here are the test results from the "bernie.arachne.cz CTMSs". All SERIAL results are the same on 2 machines with DR-DOS 7.03: - 486DX2-80, 32 MB RAM, 2-button mouse (MS), COM1. - P-75, 32 MB RAM, 3-button mouse, COM1 (only 2-button tests). The PS2 is

Re: connection question

2000-05-28 Thread Dale Mentzer
On 28 May 00 at 21:28, The Wizard wrote: I can connect to my local ISP with the PPP dialer that was setup with the wizard. It connects. Then instead of inputting the username and password that I have saved, I have a login screen and have to manually login. Then after that I can't do anything, I