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? -------- snip --------
