Please see below ...

Joe.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Glenn McCorkle [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 5:31 AM
> To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject:      Re: No final 1.71 until at least 6th September, sorry.
> 
> On Sun, 01 Sep 2002 19:57:59 +0000, Michael Polak wrote:
> 
> > ted olausson wrote:
> >>  > I may release 1.71 "UE- user edition" as it is, but I don't want
> >>  > to do it before I have some nice looking Arachne copy of Arachne to
> >>  > offer at the same time. If someone can send me complete package (not
> >>  > just patches, because applying patches requires lot of disk space,
> lot
> >>  > of testing, time, etc) without Clarence's "color enhancement", it
> can
> >>  > help me a lot.
> 
> >> I suppose many of us regular users only cares about CORE.EXE
> >> So could it alone be released as soon as possible??
> 
> > There are almost no important changes in core.exe alone...
> 
> "almost no important changes" ????
> 
> Did you read the new changes.txt ????
> 
> Well, here it is for the whole world to see.
> (the release date will now need to be changed) ;-)
> 
> 
> Changes since release 1.69
> --------------------------
> 
> Complete history can be found at
>  http://browser.arachne.cz/download/history.txt
> 
> 1.71 stable for DOS (*First co-op compilation!*)
> ----
> 
> Release date: August, 2002
> This is the first release of an Arachne version with changes and fixes
> wholly supplied by the Arachne-Development Team. Michael Polak has made
> this possible by setting up an ftp system accessable by anyone wishing
> to contribute, rewarding contributors with free registration keys, and
> giving his stamp of approval to one of the many possible compilations.
> When reading the following please remember that these minor changes
> to a great piece of work could not be possible without the existence
> of Arachne in the first place. Thank you, Michael !
> 
> All coding changes to core.exe are solely the result of many hours of
> love and unpaid effort on the part of Glenn McCorkle, without whom DOS
> Arachne might as well be dead.
> He has given us the long awaited user selectable https2http patch that
> gives us access to most https sites if we don't actually need the https
> service.
> He has given us a fix for the runaway download bug present in the last
> versions.
> He has provided an IgnoreJS function which the user can enable to cause
> Arachne to ignore ALL content inside <script> tags - something we thought
> she already did !   Valid HTML inside the tags will also be ignored.
> He has made it just as easy to use LSPPP as EPPPD with Arachne, and
> either of them may now be loaded low or high without problem.
> He has modified Arachne to provide both upper and lower case commands
> to LSPPP and other programs which need them.
> He has fixed the incorrect rendering of CSS colors pointed out to us
> by David Gunnells.
> He has incorporated several fixes suggested by Sergey Sokoloff - known
> as Mithgol the Webmaster.
> 
> For users of the keyboard cursor, at my suggestion Glenn has changed
> the cursor step size to 8 pixels from 10 - giving 80 positions across
> the screen now in 640 mode.
> He has also modified the horizontal panning step size for us keyboard
> users (shiftHome/End) from 1/2 screen width to 1/8 screen width.
> And he has made it possible to pass ANY arachne.cfg keyword thru the DGI
> using the new mime.cfg variable $k as a prefix - obsoleting $j (and
> really a lot more).
> And I also got Glenn to change the default filename for file insert (the
> cntrl+R function) to Quickpad.txt from textarea.txt.  Paste that page of
> text as easily as the single line afforded by cntrl+V !
> Finally, at my suggestion and with critical help from Bernie, Glenn has
> re-instated the textarea.tmp save - allowing us to implement a more
> friendly mail compose function.  You can now exit and return to compose
> without losing your work ! The "CC" and "Subject" lines will still need
> to be re-entered, but we will fix that in the next release. ;-)
> 
> Glenn has also modifed Insight to pre-select the Reply-to option when
> answering a "list" posting and provided automatic "CC" and "BCC" field
> fill-in when editing and/or resending a previously composed message.
> Glenn has fixed the problem the old WWWman had with the new cache index
> format.
> 
> Changes:
> Veteran users will notice a number of cosmetic changes, mostly minor
> color shifts, added to mark the expansion of the development effort to
> a team. We hope you like them. Some spelling errors have been fixed and
> options added to several setup files. You can now choose to use the very
> fast older style dialpage for instance. You can now change video modes,
> e.g. color depth, resolution and VESA / card-specific VGA on the fly.
> We have added a "Force Binary" switch to Arachne's internal FTP upload.
> We have added a new directory for "Exported" materials.
> You won't see the "lock" screen anymore if you accidentally restart
> Arachne while shelled out.
> You now have a choice of four different dial pages. See conf_ext.ah.
> ZBMs are now officially part of Arachne's bag of tricks, but you must
> make sure PKzip is in your path. ;-)
> 
        [Joe da Silva]  

        Errrr .... Why should PKzip be required???

        Why not InfoZip's (http://www.info-zip.org) (UN)ZIP instead?
        It's free, and it doesn't contain the LFN bugs of PK(UN)ZIP!

        BTW, what's a ZBM?

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