Re: Useful function for Arachne

2000-09-12 Thread Clarence Verge
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000 17:21:05 -0500, I wrote: > It would be nice if Arachne supported ping, but while it doesn't, you > can use this fantastic service: http://www.fifi.org/services/ping-eng.html I have used the above page with Arachne 1.62 and 1.66, NS 2.02 and 3.04, and Opera 3.5?. It looks diff

Re: Edit vs Pico

2000-09-12 Thread Dale Mentzer
On 12 Sep 00 at 12:16, Neil Parks wrote: >>The EDIT.COM that came with all flavors of MS-DOS 6.x is the same. It's >>just a shortcut to the QBASICC editor which is what does the work. >> >>It is slow and cumbersome, and works on only one file at a time. (If you >>It works in MS-DOS 6.2 very ni

Re: NEW: FreeDos kernel 32bit (fwd)

2000-09-12 Thread Or Botton
You picked it up in the freedos site as well? ( http://www.freedos.org ) The newsbit about the 32-bit kernel stated that its author claims that there is absolutly no improvment what so ever when he compared the 16-bit and the 32-bit kernels. Or Botton

NEW: FreeDos kernel 32bit (fwd)

2000-09-12 Thread Andrew Geoghegan
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Useful function for Arachne

2000-09-12 Thread Clarence Verge
Hi All; I've been having a lot of trouble with one of my ISPs. They seem to be up, or partially up, only 70% of the time. I've found it useful to "ping" them before trying any other type of contact because of the wait times involved. Netscape will try to get my mail for a minute before telling me

Re: Re: Linux (was Alternate DOS)

2000-09-12 Thread Matt Bahls
At 9/12/00 3:22:00 AM you wrote: >>OK, I have been thinking of trying Linux for some time, but > I have a couple of issues. > >1) Can I easily install it without disrupting my current DOS >configuration? > I was going to try Win-OS/2 the other day, but was >afraid to try to install it so i

Re: DOS 7.0 beta

2000-09-12 Thread sacha menge
On Mon, 11 Sep 2000 22:54:58 +0200 (CEST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Menedetter) wrote: > Hi > "Neil Parks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > BUT FAT is one of the worst (read THE worst) filesystem imagineable ! > It is simply a table which holds the information. right! > Modern Filesystems use a

Clear cache error

2000-09-12 Thread Mike Millen
RB>I'm running the latest version of Arachne and I get an error every RB>time I try to clear my cache. It seems to be looking for files that are RB>something like clearcache.dgi and clearhtml.dgi. I've looked all RB>through the Arachne folder and several older versions as well, but don't

Re: Linux (was Alternate DOS)

2000-09-12 Thread Thomas Mueller
>OK, I have been thinking of trying Linux for some time, but I have a couple of issues. 1) Can I easily install it without disrupting my current DOS configuration? I was going to try Win-OS/2 the other day, but was afraid to try to install it so it wouldn't overwrite my Hard Drive. >

Re: Clear cache error

2000-09-12 Thread Clarence Verge
On Mon, 11 Sep 2000 20:17:14 -0200, Richard V. Burckhardt wrote: > Hi gang - > I'm running the latest version of Arachne and I get an error every time > I try to clear my cache. It seems to be looking for files that are > something like clearcache.dgi and clearhtml.dgi. I've looked all through >