Re: A way to let DOS apps to access Winmodems and USB modems

2000-01-05 Thread Thomas Mueller
There is a shareware Win9x utility called ViP, which allows DOS programs to access a Windows-only communications device under Win 9x. These include Winmodems, USB modems, and PCI modems. You can download a demo at http://www.turbocom.com/vip.html I thought DOS programs running in a DOS window

Long file names, also DOS source

2000-01-11 Thread Thomas Mueller
Bernie, Rebel and others, Long file name support with FAT12/16/32 is really a kludge as far as I can tell, not part of the directory information, in contrast to the true long filename support in HPFS (OS/2) and Unix. But perhaps a more serious problem with DOS is lack of FAT32 support, meaning

Re: Probles with blank screens on inbox outbox

2000-01-20 Thread Thomas Mueller
to Mark David Roth: Quoted from your AUTOEXEC.BAT: LH D:\TEAC\CORELCDX.COM /D:TEAC-CDA /M:15 /CACHE=2,2,2 /XMSSIZE=-1 LH D:\TEAC\CORELCDX.COM /D:TEAC-CDA /M:15 /CACHE=2,2,2 /XMSSIZE=-1 Did you mean to have this same line twice? Support the International Alliance for Compatible Technology

Re: Arachne 1.6

2000-01-20 Thread Thomas Mueller
Getting it by email probably would be faster as the file now resides on your ISP's server and the only factor is your connection speed and how busy your ISP's server is when you download the mail message. Dale, Why should downloading by email be faster than HTTP if the email size is 4/3 the

arachne login script

2000-01-22 Thread Thomas Mueller
Rebel, Here is a copy of my chatscr, used with chat.exe called by EPPPD: ABORT ERROR ABORT BUSY ABORT 'NO DIALTONE' ABORT 'NO CARRIER' ABORT RING REPORT CONNECT TIMEOUT 10 '' ATFD3W2S6=7S2=128 OK\r\n ATDTW5025151521 TIMEOUT 60 CONNECT \c This is for PAP, not Arachne-specific. I use this

Re: telnet to fix sick pop3 account

2000-01-23 Thread Thomas Mueller
If some ISPs don't permit their subscribers to access POP3 server by telnet, then how, at the low level, is a POP3 server accessed? How does Insight, Eudora, Outlook Express, Pine, Mutt, etc, access the POP3 (and SMTP) server? Regarding whether Jan is a masculine or feminine name, the first Jan

Arachne Email Inbox problem

2000-01-30 Thread Thomas Mueller
Hans-Juergen, I have been using UKA_PPP recently on newsgroups, alt.support.asthma and alt.folklore.herbs. That has kept me away from my e-mail, and I am only now catching up, with an e-mail file of almost 1.3 MB with 32000 lines. I don't have Crosspoint. I have Yarn but haven't used it yet.

System date/time

2000-02-04 Thread Thomas Mueller
Has anybody run Arachne when their computer's clock/calendar was off, especially ahead rather than behind? UKA_PPP is subject to crashing if something is not just right, like WATTCP.CFG environment variable pointing to any directory other than the UKA_PPP directory. Then I noticed strange years

Duplicate messages

2000-02-04 Thread Thomas Mueller
A message that I sent once appears twice on this list, same Message-ID. I copied each one separately onto the References line, and they look the same. Second time, there were more header lines added by servers in .de .cz domains. I believe this has happened before, in most cases not the

Re: C programs and 2038

2000-02-09 Thread Thomas Mueller
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

Re: Virus Alert!

2000-02-12 Thread Thomas Mueller
Instead I make a point of checking every executable file before I run it, even when it comes from trusted former sysop friends. I received a message, apparently from [EMAIL PROTECTED], dated Feb 7, 2000, routed through Mexico, bilingual Spanish/English, with a base64 attachment Fix2001.exe,

Re: 1.60 in VGA mode !

2000-02-12 Thread Thomas Mueller
Bernie, Do DOS graphic programs get no better than VGA 640 * 480 * 16 colors in NT 4 VDM? OS/2 Warp 4 VDM allows Arachne to run 800 * 600 * 65536 colors just as in straight DOS. Does anybody know what will happen in Win 2000 regarding running Arachne in VDM? Or is MS trying to squeeze out

Re: Cache

2000-02-12 Thread Thomas Mueller
I too have the problem of old versions of Web pages coming up, especially weather reports linked from http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/iwin/textversion/main.html To avoid having to press the R(efresh) key every time, only way I have seen so far is F8 to kill the cache, which I sooner or later have to do

More screwed attachments

2000-02-25 Thread Thomas Mueller
Michael Dawley, This time you sent two text files encoded base64. You have to watch Arachne/Insight. mem.txt was encoded quoted-printable, resulting in a couple of stray =3D's. In a few of the most important cases, I go to the trouble of extracting with MPACK/MUNPACK.

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: Need Help?

2000-02-17 Thread Thomas Mueller
Brian, You don't say what kind of CPU the computer has, nor the capacity of the hard drive. If you have another computer such as the one you have been using to read this list and post your query, you can download DR-DOS from http://www.lineo.com, and that extracts into diskette images and a

Re: Arachne does not connect to SMTP-server

2000-02-14 Thread Thomas Mueller
From one moment to the other Arachne does't connect to my SMTP-servers mail.gmx.net and mail.talknet.de. Help please. Maybe the SMTP server requires POP3 access within 30 minutes before SMTP access. I read that about GMX but am not familiar with mail.talknet.de. Support the International

Re: 1.60 in VGA mode !

2000-02-16 Thread Thomas Mueller
Those machines you are thinking about exploring seem quite powerful, and it would be a challenge to get them running with Netscape, etc. You might have to say goodby to Arachne if they don't have DOS on them, I'm not sure. If I buy a new non-Intel/compatible computer, I might have to give up

Re:Modem nodems!

2000-02-16 Thread Thomas Mueller
Still trying to get the 233 working with Arachne, without success. The = modem is a "Pro-media" Data/Fax/Voice Modem and says on the box it's a = V90 PCI 56k unit. Maybe the modem is a Losemodem? Try booting straight DOS, or any non-Windows OS. I believe most but not all PCI modems are

Re: Any browser

2000-02-24 Thread Thomas Mueller
l.d., Some e-newsletters, including some but not all about.com newsletters, have "AOL-friendly" links such as your example A Http://fillinthe.spaces.com "This is a link" /AClick Here Without this style, with a bare URL such as http://fillinthe.spaces.com, AOL users could probably copy paste

Re: Arachne load error

2000-02-24 Thread Thomas Mueller
... Michael P. has set a limit on 256 items in the cache and when it reaches that limit, Arachne just stops! Clearing the cache (and CACHE.IDX) with the F8 key will usually get Arachne zipping along again. On one of my computers I have Cache and CACHE.IDX on a resizeable RAM drive that clears

Re:Arachne on TV - How it looked like

2000-02-27 Thread Thomas Mueller
Jörg, DR-WebSpyder would be somewhere on http://www.lineo.com if it is still available, or maybe on their FTP server. I don't know if the full path would be the same as when I downloaded it a few months ago, and there might have been an update. If you can't find it, maybe you can find an email

aberrant spelling

2000-03-05 Thread Thomas Mueller
Even subtracting the 174 "abberant files" above, that leaves 384 "items" which were in the cache. My dictionary didn't have the word "abberant" in it (or anything resembling it). Please remember that not all on the list are native English speakers. Bernie, It can be difficult to find a word in

Re: In Army value of cosine can reach 4.

2000-03-12 Thread Thomas Mueller
Actually, the value of cosine can reach or exceed 4, if you're using complex numbers.

Re: arachne-digest V1 #1032

2000-03-12 Thread Thomas Mueller
Hi, Michael: It seems to me that keeping the bad guys out is preferable to trying to throw them out after they are in. And if you have some sort of existing force to resist an invasion, it might make the bad guys think twice about trying to come in. Henry Carmichael Remember the Prague

Re: some notes

2000-03-20 Thread Thomas Mueller
I decided, that direct arachne mailing list slow down sendmail at arachne.cz too much; I would like to move all users to arachne-digest mailing list. But if some of them would do it on your own, voluntarily, maybe I would be able to keep both lists running ? Michael, How often is

Re: IMAP servers and newsgroups

2000-03-21 Thread Thomas Mueller
Bernie, What speed modem did you use last time you accessed Usenet? I get good speed with news.bluegrass.net, about as fast as e-mail with UKA_PPP. A browser with NNTP capability can help you decide where to start in terms of message number. DOS Lynx 386 now has this ability while Arachne

Re: PPP link is down

2000-03-23 Thread Thomas Mueller
Please help me. I cannot connect to the internet. I get the following messages: PPP link is down driver not installed unable to initialize ppp no IP address was found in PPP dialer log file or no packet driver was loaded packet driver not found When I try to connect it dials and starts to

Dr-Dos Fdisk Bug (was Re: Where o Where Is DOS)

2000-03-24 Thread Thomas Mueller
I don't see how MS-DOS 6.22 made it out the door with FDISK in such sad shape, it doesn't run on my system at all. And MS-DOS can't read the FAT16 partition on my second hard disk ("Invalid media"); I think you may be barking up the wrong tree here. Did you FDISK your system with DR-DOS

Re: www.moma.org

2000-03-25 Thread Thomas Mueller
http://www.moma.org is the Museum of Modern Art in New York website. It used to work just fine with Arachne but now it has been improved and doesn't work at all. grin and grinding of teeth) Anybody know why? The page loads and you can view the source but reading html is not something I can do

Re: Saving files question

2000-03-28 Thread Thomas Mueller
What does Arachne do if you direct Arachne to save a downloaded file to a non-existent directory. I just downloaded a rather large file (~10MB) and when I was asked what I wanted to do with the file, I sent it to a directory that I **knew** existed, but didn't. No warning, no message, no lost

Re: Success!

2000-03-30 Thread Thomas Mueller
My first experiments [with web page I knew was horridly graphics intensive and a comparison d/l of 1.61 [no I haven't installed yet; wanted to get cable up running which meant finally getting all the cabling, phone lines, power cords etc in the office/front room straight clean proper after

Re: Arachne V1.61

2000-03-31 Thread Thomas Mueller
Michael, You mention APMs. Since V1.50b2 I've fallen behind, neglecting to carry over the APMs. How current are the APMs from V1.50b2 or V1.48? Should I redownload? Trouble with direct installation of APMs is that the .APM file itself is not saved, thus when a new Arachne version is released,

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: (OT) fax and keyboard

2000-04-03 Thread Thomas Mueller
I'm really behind on this list but here's my 2 cents. QL2FAX for DOS works well. AND their fax document files are cross compatible with those gen- erated with the windows version. dew. Any URL where to find QL2FAX?

Re: It went ... :

2000-04-03 Thread Thomas Mueller
Finally found someone who would "give me a hand with this "DOS" based web browser stuff. Arachne seems to be a great program if you can get it to "fly"! Yes, I suppose I could try to install the Juno upgrade and go from there. For now though, I am running the old Juno that cannot

Re: POP3 aborts

2000-04-05 Thread Thomas Mueller
I ran consternating thru my spell checker and it wouldn't recognize it. Is consternating anything like disconcerting? Or, does it have other implications? Eric My first encounter with a spell checker was in the on-computer tuturial included with WordPerfect 5.0 in 1990. That was on an

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 ...

2000-04-07 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: EGA?

2000-04-07 Thread Thomas Mueller
Kali, PS I ran Arachne in an OS/2 window on a pentium laptop yesterday..impressive! It went like a rocket. What DOS settings do you need for Arachne so that it uses memory cache instead of thrashing the hard disk? With Arachne = 1.50 in OS/2 Warp 4 VDM, I had lots of disk thrashing and

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: Where's Michael!

2000-04-08 Thread Thomas Mueller
And now I'm beginning to feel like someone pulled the teeth of my Pentium and sent me back to the dark ages of 286. Arachne is taking FOREVER to load pages from cache, to load pages like the 'print utility' and let's not even talk about how long it is taking to load some web pages. : l.d.,

Re: that loading page from Disk/smooth scrolling

2000-04-10 Thread Thomas Mueller
P.S. I've lost my "smooth scroll" again for some reason. It's set that way, I went in and set it again, saved used new ... but no smooth scroll even on short pages with emptied cache before loading. For me with Arachne 1.61, some pages scroll smoothly, and some blank and redraw. With the

Re: Spell check

2000-04-10 Thread Thomas Mueller
Spell checkers are nice-to-have features. Looking up words in dictionaries can be slow. Another nice thing about spell-checkers is that they will usually catch a typo error. It is very important in a mailing list like this to pay very close attention to your spelling because there are many

Re: SVGA monochrome EGA

2000-04-14 Thread Thomas Mueller
No, you are not missing anything. You would still have that grainy look. Grayscale on a color monitor is not even close to grayscale on a monochrome monitor. Clarence, One computer dealer told me (1992?) about monochrome SVGA monitors used in CAD that cost around $2000. Maybe such a monitor,

Re: LoadHigh of Mouse Accomplished

2000-04-17 Thread Thomas Mueller
A much easier way (IMHO) is to use the multi-boot option in the particular DOS (if one exists). Under MS-DOS 6.x the help on this is under "help menuitem" (and other parts that you can reach from these pages). Doesn't DR-DOS also have this? (Novell-DOS have AFAIK). //Bernie DR-DOS 7.03, the

Don't Windows Me!

2000-04-17 Thread Thomas Mueller
Has anybody heard about the upcoming consumer version of Windows? According to Heise News, in German, the new release won't have the ability to run DOS real mode applications, and according to about.com, won't have the ability to boot into DOS as Doze 98 can. So where will that leave Arachne?

Re: seeking for latest Arachne version

2000-04-20 Thread Thomas Mueller
Sorry for disturbing You. I recently downloaded Arachne from Arachne official homepage via e-mail and directly from download page. Both of them were versions 1.60. I don't know if I could not download it correctly, or what the problem was. I need the 1.61 version. As I saw, some people use this

Re: Don't Windows Me!

2000-04-20 Thread Thomas Mueller
Apparently there is a misconception on Windows 2000 and Windows ME (Millennium Edition). Windows 2000 is built on NT, while Windows ME is an update to Windos 98 (built on DOS). Apparently MS is trying its damnedest to hide the DOS base from Windows ME users. So why is MS developing Windows ME

Chain letter

2000-04-20 Thread Thomas Mueller
hope, because with every name that this is sent to, The American Cancer Society will donate 3 cents per name to her treatment and recovery plan. If there were any serious chance this would help this girl's fight against cancer, I'd spread it more. But the

Re: Another possible FreeISP

2000-04-22 Thread Thomas Mueller
I guess I am going to have to try their tech support to see if I can connect with IE and them maybe I can figure out how to make it happen with Arachne. I tried to access the signup page with Arachne, but I get an error message that the protocol was not supported by Arachne (probably https or

Re: !!!!! :-(

2000-04-23 Thread Thomas Mueller
Michael Polak, Regarding Arachne digest, what time of day is it sent, and how frequently? It would simplify my email not to have so many little messages as separate files. Why should the digest not be able to take MIME attachments as raw data as is, without trying to interpret the strange

Re: running the Web with the browser? where.....practical

2000-04-23 Thread Thomas Mueller
[EMAIL PROTECTED], On crashing one's hard drive installing Linux, it seems to me safer than installing MS Windows 95, 98, NT or 2000. Linux installation leaves the other partitions alone. But it is quite possible to destroy a Windows partition with Linux fdisk. I am familiar with the

Re: DNS Numbers - or not?

2000-04-23 Thread Thomas Mueller
It is current practice for an ISP to assign DNS numbers dynamically when the connection is established. After running Arachne or Lynx, the values that were used are in the environment variables "myip" and "remip". Ken Martwick MYIP REMIP are distinct from the DNS (nameserver) addresses,

Re: Another possible FreeISP

2000-04-23 Thread Thomas Mueller
Dale, FreeWWWeb has no news server? I thought their information page said there was a news server, news.freewwweb.com, though I saw news.smartworld.net on another page. Why would one want to use Web access to email instead of POP3/SMTP which is Javascript-proof? Is 28.8k 1 Nation Online's top

More on Windows ME

2000-04-24 Thread Thomas Mueller
Now I see there will be much-reduced DOS and boot-diskette functionality in the upcoming Windows 98 update known as Windows ME. But there looks to be a trick whereby DOS programs may still run, and it may be possible to prepare a boot diskette to boot into DOS mode. Still hope for Arachne, but

Re: PKZip Creator dead at 37

2000-04-29 Thread Thomas Mueller
I'm saddened. I can recall when I first discovered PKZIP. I didn't like the coverage, even though it may have been true. Makes you wonder if maybe his dreams about computer software were just one more victim to Microsoft. Without DOS ... back to some form of "expand" from M$? Phil Katz is

Re: Linux and Losemodem (AKA Winmodem)

2000-04-30 Thread Thomas Mueller
Does anyone know if there is a Linux program (probably a daemon) to allow use of the ridiculous Winmodem I am saddled with? I am considering "updating" my Linux from the fine 1.2.13 (no ELF!) kernel. Ken Martwick Is this computer new? Were you led to believe the modem was real? If so, maybe

Re: Why Java script?

2000-05-05 Thread Thomas Mueller
Congratulations, Sam Heywood, on taking a stand against Javascript! If the purpose of the Internet, including the WWW, is to provide information rather than glitz, we need less bloatware, not more. It reaches a stage where I think we were better off with Gopher. With Javascript, Java,

Re: Bluegrass Net Javasnit

2000-05-06 Thread Thomas Mueller
I guess Bluegrass in Bluegrass Net refers to the state. No music involved. That http://www.bluegrass.net crap was like that since fall 1999, as best I recall.

Re: VIRUS WARNING: love letter

2000-05-07 Thread Thomas Mueller
Somebody told me back in the days of Windows 3.0 that Windows was for somebody who doesn't know how to use a computer, and the ILoveYou virus proves that a lot of Windows users, even in big business, don't know how to use a computer. If they did, they would make sure to set their email program

Re: VIRUS WARNING: love letter

2000-05-08 Thread Thomas Mueller
My sister has no idea how to change. So she continues to use M$OE for mail. Last month, she was infected with and sent out to about 50 others happy99.exe (yes, M$OE opened the attachment automatically when she moved to that message) I once received a message with containing happy99.exe in

Re: Why Java script?

2000-05-10 Thread Thomas Mueller
My point on standard HTML and the upcoming XML was that the WWW should be for information rather than glitz. Maybe the webmasters who create those fancy image-laden pages have a fast Pentium or Athlon with a LAN connection? All those images on ZDNet fall on blind eyes when I use Lynx to speed

Re: Performance problems...

2000-05-11 Thread Thomas Mueller
You are right, that Arachne's still noticabe slower than Netscape. Paralell download of two images at once helped a lot, but Arachne now needs "Keep alive" option. What is "keep alive" in this context? Lots of little images mean one server call for each image, which makes the WWW into the

Re: I did a no-no

2000-05-11 Thread Thomas Mueller
I pulled a doze stunt just now... sent an e-mail that was 2.9MEGAbytes. It was to my ex ... who has broadband access so it shouldn't take him more than 15-20 minutes to download it. l.d., I get normally about 200 KB/min at 56 K, so your time estimate looks more like 56 K than broadband.

More on Free ISPs

2000-05-11 Thread Thomas Mueller
There is an article in about.com on free ISPs including Freewwweb: * Freebies Guide Lee Seats can help you get free Internet access. http://freebies.about.com/library/weekly/aa050700a.htm I finally registered successfully with Freewwweb, using Netscape Communicator 4.04 for OS/2 Warp 4, which

Re: How to browse long filenames in Arachne?

2000-05-12 Thread Thomas Mueller
I would like to offline browse files from Linux and Windows (long names). Is there some utility to convert long names to the DOS 8.3 format before transferring them from Linux (Win)? Not only file and directory names must be converted, but links inside html files too... Lubor I don't think

Usenet Newsgroup software for DOS

2000-05-15 Thread Thomas Mueller
Howard, I've got plenty of e-mail addresses (all valid). I don't subscribe to the list with more than one at a time. The useful thing about the gmx address is that I can change it and keep the same account. Unfortunately, I get lots of spam to the addresses I can't change, and none to the one

Re: Problem with starting EPPPD

2000-05-15 Thread Thomas Mueller
Is the problem starting EPPPD a problem with EPPPD or with MINITERM? Using EPPPD and CHAT, DOS version, I connect with COM4, using base 0x2e8 in straight DOS or COM4 in OS/2 Warp 4 VDM, no problem even though I have no COM3. NETDIAL and EPPPD also work. UKA_PPP's dialer is much trickier, and

Re: Opcode

2000-05-14 Thread Thomas Mueller
Since short every time I use Arachne 1.61 on my Windows free Pentium II with DrDos 7.03 I get "Error 6, Invalid Opcode." This error is given by EMM386.exe. That sounds like an invalid processor instruction, most likely caused by the program getting lost, outside the program code area. I have

Arachne needs contiguous low memory?

2000-05-17 Thread Thomas Mueller
I inadvertently shelled out to DOS (F5) from within the Tiny (text) Editor with one small file remaining there, was able to access the Internet and run DOS Lynx386 and UKA_PPP (mail news), but Arachne came up short of low memory by 7680 (?) bytes. I ran mem /c | more and found T still there,

Re: IE for Win 3.1

2000-05-19 Thread Thomas Mueller
However, even zipped to maximum that file is about 1.1 Mbytes and that may be too large to attach to mail for you. If you want to try receiving the software as an attachment to mail, Maksim, let me know. But it will probably be well over 3Mbytes once encloded. l.d., I remember sending another

Re: Problem with starting EPPPD

2000-05-19 Thread Thomas Mueller
Howard, As far as I know, PPPDRC.CFG contains the arguments to EPPPD and WATTCP.CFG contains the arguments to the stack (and application). I don't think that EPPPD looks at WATTCP.CFG. Using EPPPD with CHAT and fake BOOTP, PPPDRC.CFG and WATTCP.CFG never change. Without fake BOOTP (for KA9Q),

Re: Performance problems...

2000-05-13 Thread Thomas Mueller
The max # of files you'll end-up-with is 256*3=768 (plus an indeterminate number of orphaned .JPs)g Glenn, I am not up tp 768 files in the cache yet but did once exceed 800. I believe that was with Arachne 1.50b2. With all those files in the cache, Arachne becomes bloatware!

Re: I did a no-no

2000-05-13 Thread Thomas Mueller
I know the feeling, and have only had a PC with a sound card for about a month. All is not lost for you though: there are PC-speaker drivers for DOS and Win3.1x, and parallel port devices if you are persistent and want to spend money. Trouble is it's not really worth spending any appreciable

Usenet Newsgroup software for DOS

2000-05-13 Thread Thomas Mueller
Howard, I see you have many variations on your e-dress. How do you get Arachne list to recognize them all? As can be seen from the different opinions on this subject, everyone seems to have their own favourites. As far as transport- ing news over DOS PPP for offline reading, I use both

Re: unknown protocol or lazy program?

2000-05-21 Thread Thomas Mueller
Why on earth can't Arachne handle the fact that DNS sometimes changes a URL to include a port designation? And isn't 80 the normal port one would expect for a top webpage? Places I want to go I can't get to ... not because of DNS problems but because Arachne absolutely refuses to even contact

Re: Problem with starting EPPPD

2000-05-22 Thread Thomas Mueller
Real BOOTP is run on the server. To see if your server is using it, use PPPD and tcpinfo. In most cases, it will fail. I suppose most ISPs would be stumped if asked whether they had real BOOTP. For these reasons, I run the UKA_PPP x_*.exe programs from my main WATTCP.CFG directory and set the

Re:Arachne start HELP

2000-05-24 Thread Thomas Mueller
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000_0007_01BFC45F.6FC54640 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, it's me again... I followed Torbens advice and added: SHELL=3DCOMMAND.COM /p /e:2048 because I also

Re: What do I do now?

2000-05-24 Thread Thomas Mueller
A web page I enjoy visiting has recently been "improved", (possibly by a blind designer) so that it has mostly dark blue lettering on a black background! I can edit the HTML source and change the background color, but have not found out how to get Arachne to use the modified page. From

Re: Some questions...

2000-05-26 Thread Thomas Mueller
Maksim Semenow, One message text, in charset=Windows-1251, looked all screwy, but the next message in my email download file, also by Maksim Semenow, was readable. What happened? I tried to view that message with the screwy text in Arachne, and it was still screwy. But my software was not

Re: ISPs and Standards

2000-05-26 Thread Thomas Mueller
Much as I believe the cyber world would be much better off without Java, Javascript, Shockwave, frames, cookies too, I would rather not have censorship by the ISPs, though of course they could recommend the virtues of keeping Web sites simple, viewable with any browser, not just the latest and

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

Re: ISPs and Standards

2000-05-29 Thread Thomas Mueller
Also it is a waste of time when you are looking for a page having technical data on IC chips and you go to a page having a title that sounds like what you are looking for only to find that you are accessing a porn page. (This actually happened to me once! I often start my searches with "-porn

Re:What are most common problems for newbies ?

2000-06-01 Thread Thomas Mueller
3. Fix download of .ZIP files so that it isn't necessary to go back from a screen full of odd-looking text to the download link and click it again to get the 'save to' box up. That makes me think, how does one download a file in Arachne? Is there any elegant way that avoids

Re:What are most common problems for newbies ?

2000-06-05 Thread Thomas Mueller
Don't know if you'd consider it "elegant" [I'm not elegant, and don't like feathers and jewels] but downloading a file with Arachne is pretty basic and simple. L.D., You start, saying downloading is so easy in Arachne, then later you run into difficulties (dragon76 files). There ought to be

Re: What are most common problems for newbies ?

2000-06-06 Thread Thomas Mueller
L.D wrote: Phil Katz brought out one last upgraded version of PKzip before he died of MicroSoft poisoning.. I always try and use the latest when it comes to compression program - PkZIP 2.50 was therefor what I used (with -exx) - even old versions of RAR easily beat it. And I don't think

Re: Arachne list down?

2000-06-10 Thread Thomas Mueller
Michael, I am now getting messages from Arachne list after three days no see. I never unsubscribed, and I didn't resubscribe. Would I do better to switch to digest? I can't see why I didn't get Arachne list messages for three days when other email reached me, including some other emailing

Re: Arachne and Onetel.net

2000-06-13 Thread Thomas Mueller
They don't change their servers as much as a "dynamic DNS" sounds like. Its really so they don't have to tell windows users the address; it gets it automatically. All you need to know is the modem number, username and password. Windows can apparently even get things like proxy server info as

Re: Inconsistent behavior when encountering Java Script

2000-06-14 Thread Thomas Mueller
If Java is supposed to be able to run on any platform, then it would seem logical that it would be possible to write Java Script in such a manner that it should be correctly interpreted and run on any platform and with any program properly designed for it also. Java and Javascript are not the

Arachne 1.62 install (DOS)

2000-06-14 Thread Thomas Mueller
I downloaded Arachne 1.62 (ARCHN162.EXE), wished it could have been a .ZIP, since then I could run UNZIP -l (zip-file) | more and see what's in it, see if there is a directory structure before deciding what directory to unzip to. It wanted to install to C:\ARACHNE, but since I am too strapped

Re: Arachne and Onetel.net

2000-06-15 Thread Thomas Mueller
Perhaps windows does something akin to BOOTP. To see BOOTP in action, use the telnet/ftp APM ... it quearies the server to get DNS and a bunch other information. l.d. Are you sure there is one telnet/ftp APM? I thought telnet and ftp were two different things. Which one would you use,

Re: httpS

2000-06-19 Thread Thomas Mueller
I have had the same problem with Netscape's security certificate expiring December 31, 1999. My solution was to set the computer date to sometime in 1999. The program will give an error message concerning the difference in dates between your computer and the computer on the other end of the

Re: exercise in futility

2000-06-22 Thread Thomas Mueller
BTW, I use wattcp applications (Arachne, ftp...)in the same way (ODI) like you (lsl, ncomx, nwremote, pkt2odi, web32.cfg...etc.). Unfortunately, I can't use epppd on my system. I don't know why. Oh, by the bye: I H A V EN OW I N M O D E M ! ! ! :-)) Best regards, Csaba Csaba, Do

Re: problem 1Gbyte IDE HDD

2000-06-29 Thread Thomas Mueller
I was helping someone with a 1Gb HDD that would only partition 500+Mb and was being difficult. I wrote IBM tech support. I have the info on downloadable untility that will fix things. Write me so I can give you the info. Old BIOSes could only recognize slightly 500 MB, or the first 1024

Re: Grrr

2000-06-29 Thread Thomas Mueller
I'm willing to pay for software that does what I want it to do. When I'm desperate, I've been known to pay for software that simply *claimed* that it did what I wanted to do. [Can you say "burned?"] But the willingness of people to pay for something being the only determination of what goes

Re: Validators

2000-07-01 Thread Thomas Mueller
Don't most email clients convert an ordinary URL into a hypertext link? Jake Arachne includes an email client integrated with the Web browser, but I don't think that can be said of email clients in general. There is something at http://www.rahul.net/dkaufman supposed to convert URLs into

Re: Investors, scrolling, lawyers, etc.

2000-07-02 Thread Thomas Mueller
Michael, On clumsy scrolling, I have virtual screens enabled, at least I think I do. Here is that section of my ARACHNE.CFG ScrollBarSize 14 ScrollBarStyle NextStep Colors 11 0 MouseColors 15 15 VirtualScreen 5000 ScreenMode Auto SmoothScroll Yes ScrollStep 50 BgColor #00 Does anything

Re: Investors, scrolling, lawyers, etc.

2000-07-04 Thread Thomas Mueller
What video mode do you use ? Virtual Screens and smooth scrolling don't work in standard VGA (16 colors). Also, when it DOES work, it's hard to tell. It's not at all like Netscape or I.E or Adobe. - Clarence Verge I have Arachne in 800 * 600 SVGA mode, 256 or 65536 colors, I forget which, but

Re: FreeWWWeb

2000-07-05 Thread Thomas Mueller
Thanks for the info. As I told you previously Freewwweb would not work for me from Wed. 06/28/00 to Sat. 07/01/00. On Sat. night my Freewwweb access returned as if by miracle. And it seems to work better than before I lost it. They were changing something and when I tried to set up a

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