Re:It AIN'T all that easy [was Re: Something I've noticed ...

2000-04-08 Thread Bernie
Thomas Mueller wrote: 40 MB total for Borland C++ 3.1 included all the Windows stuff. Oh, well I don't have that (atleast I don't think so g). Would DJGPP work for Insight? With some changes yes, and with an upcomming Linux version of Arachne beeing able to compile it under DJGPP will be a

Re: Re:It AIN'T all that easy [was Re: Something I've noticed ...

2000-04-08 Thread Florian Xaver
Of course anything compiled with DJGPP will require a 386 (and cwsdpmi.exe which we already have with Arachne). Yes, but an old version.

Re:It AIN'T all that easy [was Re: Something I've noticed ...

2000-04-07 Thread Thomas Mueller
I believe Borland C++ 3.1 took 40 MB. I do not think so since my p:\bc directory is ca 20M B and then I got many files in there that shouldn't be there. 40 MB total for Borland C++ 3.1 included all the Windows stuff. IMHO DJGPP is the best alternative, especially since you then can (more or

Re:It AIN'T all that easy [was Re: Something I've noticed ...

2000-04-07 Thread Thomas Mueller
Borland c/c++ 5.5 is free now, and its 7.8 Mb for download. http://www.inprise.com/bcppbuilder/freecompiler/cppc55steps.html Rebel, Your next message after that gave system requirements suggesting it would not be suitable for DOS. We need DOS support for Insight; 32-bit Windows stuff does us

Re: It AIN'T all that easy [was Re: Something I've noticed ...

2000-04-07 Thread Florian Xaver
Hi! Why not porting the Linux version to DJGPP.? As graphic lib Allegro could be used. Bye, Florian -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Richard Menedetter [EMAIL PROTECTED] An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Datum: Freitag, 07. April 2000 17:05 Betreff: It AIN'T all that easy [was Re

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2000-04-06 Thread Sergie
Richard Menedetter wrote: TM or maybe Perl? Perl has a DOS version, though I am not sure if the TM DOS version includes the Internet functionality. Nope ! Does PERL have much Internet functionality ?? I have only used it for some CGI Scripts under Linux. Dos version of Perl can work

Re: It AIN'T all that easy [was Re: Something I've noticed ...

2000-04-06 Thread Charles Boisvert and Catherine Clinton
Does PERL have much Internet functionality ?? I have only used it for some CGI Scripts under Linux. CGI simply takes the commands, executes them locally , and delivers the result back to the browser at the other end. Anything that will communicate through STDIN and STDOUT. So PERL does not

Re: It AIN'T all that easy [was Re: Something I've noticed ...

2000-04-05 Thread Thomas Mueller
InSight is opensourced, see http://gnu.arachne.cz/ (you'll need Borland C/C++ 3.x as well). //Bernie Is Borland C/C++ 3.x now available for free download, and, if so, how big is it? I believe Borland C++ 3.1 took 40 MB. I see I have a CD for Borland C++ 4.0, and manuals, from 1994 (?). Would

Re: It AIN'T all that easy [was Re: Something I've noticed ...

2000-04-05 Thread Rebel
From: "Rebel" [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "Thomas Mueller" [EMAIL PROTECTED] InSight is opensourced, see http://gnu.arachne.cz/ (you'll need Borland C/C++ 3.x as well). file://Bernie Is Borland C/C++ 3.x now available for free download, and, if so, how big is it? Borland c/c++ 5.5

Re: It AIN'T all that easy [was Re: Something I've noticed ...

2000-04-05 Thread Rebel
From: "Thomas Mueller" [EMAIL PROTECTED] InSight is opensourced, see http://gnu.arachne.cz/ (you'll need Borland C/C++ 3.x as well). file://Bernie Is Borland C/C++ 3.x now available for free download, and, if so, how big is it? Borland c/c++ 5.5 is free now, and its 7.8 Mb for download.

It AIN'T all that easy [was Re: Something I've noticed ...

2000-04-05 Thread Richard Menedetter
Hi "Thomas Mueller" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TM Would I be better off with WATT-32, ??? WATT-32 is a _library_ ;) It's another flavour of the WATTCP library which Arachne is linked against! Do you mean DJGPP ?? (the 32 bit C/C++/Obj. C compiler) (http://www.delorie.com) TM or maybe Perl?

It AIN'T all that easy [was Re: Something I've noticed ...

2000-04-03 Thread Thomas Mueller
P.S. I feel cheated. I'm supposed to be able to get 10Mbs downstream, and that means 34Mbytes should take 34 seconds, right? It took me 38 minutes to download 18Mbytes! }; If I didn't know how internet works, I might actually be disappointed. I doubt the doze cable users on the system know

Re: It AIN'T all that easy [was Re: Something I've noticed ...

2000-04-03 Thread Bernie
L.D wrote: Lantcp.cfg is used with Waterloo TCP. But I'm not using that as far as I know. In fact, looking at the lantcp.cfg file, if I were calling on it, I wouldn't be getting through at all because all values are still default ... which means inoperable. It is included in Arachne. Let me

Re: It AIN'T all that easy [was Re: Something I've noticed ...

2000-04-03 Thread Bernie
Thomas Mueller wrote: Bernie, your math is off! That was 8 KB/sec. A CD has capacity of 650 or 680 MB, so the download, figuring 38 min for 18 MB, would take near 24 hours. Yes, I've already said so myself. I do hope it was an error on my part and not my calculator. Another one I had (way

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2000-04-03 Thread L.D. Best
Bernie, It made NO difference, since those values and that lantcp.cfg file are both ignored. G On Mon, 3 Apr 2000 18:36:17 +0200 (MET DST), Bernie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you want to try something like that set mss=0 in arachne.cfg instead. //Bernie http://bernie.arachne.cz/ DOS

It AIN'T all that easy [was Re: Something I've noticed ...

2000-04-02 Thread Richard Menedetter
Hi "L.D. Best" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LB *NOW* if I hit ALT-M I see my local IP of 10.5.16.15 but *only* LB because that's what I told Arachne my IP was. G OK ... I have sent you tcpinfo.exe privately ... Hope this helps ! LB Thanks to whomever said to mess with Telnet -- it was the only

Re: It AIN'T all that easy [was Re: Something I've noticed ...

2000-04-02 Thread Bernie
L.D wrote: Thanks to whomever said to mess with Telnet -- it was the only way I had to find out what I needed. So far using static IP is working fine. Great :) (I will not answer your private mail to me about this then). P.S. I feel cheated. I'm supposed to be able to get 10Mbs downstream,

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2000-04-02 Thread L.D. Best
Ricsi, In laughingly speaking of cable modem speed, I said you asked ... On Sun, 02 Apr 2000 09:43:55 +0200 (CEST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Menedetter) wrote: LB I doubt the doze cable users on the system know the difference. G What do you mean by that statement ??? At last count

Re: It AIN'T all that easy [was Re: Something I've noticed ...

2000-04-02 Thread L.D. Best
Ok, I'm confused again. :) On Sun, 2 Apr 2000 10:25:09 +0200 (MET DST), Bernie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip You could perhaps change your mss value (lantcp.cfg) to something larger than the normal 1024 bytes (2048 or 4096 for instance) and get a speed increase that way. Lantcp.cfg is

It AIN'T all that easy [was Re: Something I've noticed ...

2000-04-01 Thread L.D. Best
When running a NIC, Arachne doesn't show your IP unless *you* have manually entered said IP in your arachne.cfg file, or set it up as environmental variable. If you enter static IP, Gateway, etc in cfg file, nothing is set as an environmental variable because it doesn't vary so no need for