Dne Wed, 3 May 2000 19:32:21 +0200 (MET DST), Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
napsal:
>> I know how to detect mouse driver...but I don't think this would help
>> maany DOS users ...
> Well, I assumed you could create a function on your own but I didn't have
> much to do that morning. It probably took more time locating Ralh Browns
> Interupt list than making the program <BG>.
> I still think it would help people that have used Windows and want to try
> Arachne if some sort of message was presented for them if there's no mouse
> driver present. (With stub32 and LFNs you are trying to get some Windows
> users are you not?)
Not really... I am trying to let Windows-stuck webmasters to check their
existing websites with Arachne for compatibility of HTML code and layout
;-) I have already given up "converting" Windows users long time ago -
in fact, I have never started. I just want to help those, who are already
willing to get rid of Windows - persuading those who prefere Windows is
not my job. I just have to make sure, that there is enough
Arachne-compiant web content available online for Arachne users.... and
I mean mainly users of future versions of Arachne in cellphones, WebTVs
and PDAs, because end users of Arachne on PCs will be always in
minority, I am afraid.
> A friend of mine ignored Arachne because "the mouse didn't work with it",
> that he soon after got a new Pentium II (IIRC) and broke his old 486 might
> have had something to do with it as well but he didn't know he needed a
> mouse driver...
It is written in system requirements. You are right I should display
some warning message, maybe non-fatal warning screen simillar to
"Disk full" - well, Clarence Verge will definitely complain about it,
i will have to add checkbox "Don't display this message any more" ! ;)
>> I will let SVGAlib to handle this for me in Linux....
> Ok, but will an error screen pop up inside Arachne or what will happen?
In Linux, Arachne's policy of being user-friendly will probably face
hardest-ever challenge. I think gpm works automaticaly in most
distributions, so I am not so much concerned about it - but I would like
to allow Arachne users to configure PPP interface, if they provide root
password to system. And THIS will be probably terribly hard... I never
really succesfuly confgured pppd manualy - in fact, only PPP tool in
Linux which works for me is kppp, both RedHat PPP dialer and linuxconf
PPP setup and GNOME PPP tools don't do what I need from them, and I am
not speaking about manual configuration - this worked for me only once,
but when I moved to provider witch CHAP, I have run into troubles. I
know I need file chap-secrets, simillar to PAP-secrets, but... ;)
Maybe PPP configuration tool, which would be able to convert existing
data from ARACHNE.CFG to files in /etc/ppp/ directory is most urgent
Linux Arachne component. Maybe many users of existing DOS version will
be disapointed, if they won't be allowed to import data from DOS
ARACHNE.CFG... ok, there are still some differences, like pathnames and
filenames, which will be different, but they will be probably
non-configurable in Linux version anyway, and existing enviroment
variables like "MAIL=/var/spool/mail/username" will be probably used
instead...
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