Re: Modems

2000-09-29 Thread Samuel W. Heywood
On Fri, 29 Sep 2000 22:29:32 -0400, Roger Turk wrote: > Neil, > How can you tell if you have a Win(non)modem? I don't know, but the first > thing that I would do would be to open the case and look at the modem. If I have a properly configured working modem installed, the first thing I woul

re: Modems

2000-09-29 Thread Budd
On 29 Sep 00, at 20:25, neil tanner wrote: > Many tnx for the info regarding modems. One more before I make a > purchase. From some of the sites I have visited, it seems that Arachne > will run fine with a 14.4 modem. Should I go for the faster modems? > Tnx.Neil I am using Arachne with a

Re: Modems

2000-09-29 Thread Samuel W. Heywood
On Fri, 29 Sep 2000 22:23:07 -0500, Clarence Verge wrote: > neil tanner wrote: >> Many tnx for the info regarding modems. One more before I make a >> purchase. From some of the sites I have visited, it seems that Arachne >> will run fine with a 14.4 modem. Should I go for the faster modems?

Re: Grammer errors.

2000-09-29 Thread Samuel W. Heywood
On Fri, 29 Sep 2000 22:17:26 -0500, Clarence Verge wrote: > Hi All; > I just got a summons regarding some spelling and grammer mistakes I made. > Sorry about that, I will try to do better in the future. > If you don't know what I'm talking about, it's cuz it's a secret. No, no, no, Clarence! N

Re: QNX is out.

2000-09-29 Thread Clarence Verge
On Fri, 29 Sep 2000 22:08:00 -0500, I wrote: > Glenn McCorkle wrote: >> I just tried it. >> Absolutely AMAZING > Hey friend, could you zip that thing up so a non Win9x user could try it ?? Oh. You were talking about the DEMO disk. Me sorry :( I have THAT working. > - Clarence Verge >

Re: Arachne Screen Display

2000-09-29 Thread Dale Mentzer
On 29 Sep 00 at 8:04, Chuck wrote: >>Hi Gang, >> >> At present Arachne fills about 4/5ths of my screen from right to left. The >>question is how do I get her to fill the screen? Try another videocard resolution/color depth combination using the setup.bat in Arachne. Also try F5 or "*" change re

re: Modems

2000-09-29 Thread Roger Turk
Neil, Before you go off buying modems that you may not need, it might help if you provided some more information to the list about your system, whether you are running pure DOS or trying to run Arachne from a DOS window? What does your ARACHNE.CFG file look like (post it but out your pas

Re: QNX is out.

2000-09-29 Thread Clarence Verge
Glenn McCorkle wrote: > > On Thu, 28 Sep 2000 14:30:41 -0500, Clarence Verge wrote: > > > The link to the Demo disk is: > > http://www.qnx.com/demodisk/download/modem.html#windows > > The main site is: > > http://www.qnx.com/ > > I just tried it. > > Absolutely AMAZING Hey friend, could

Grammer errors.

2000-09-29 Thread Clarence Verge
Hi All; I just got a summons regarding some spelling and grammer mistakes I made. Sorry about that, I will try to do better in the future. If you don't know what I'm talking about, it's cuz it's a secret. - Clarence Verge -- - Help stamp out FATWARE. As a start visit: http://home.arachne.cz/

Re: Modems

2000-09-29 Thread Clarence Verge
neil tanner wrote: > > Many tnx for the info regarding modems. One more before I make a > purchase. From some of the sites I have visited, it seems that Arachne > will run fine with a 14.4 modem. Should I go for the faster modems? Yes. You should be able to get a 28.8 or 33.6 cheap. Ops.

Re: Arachne Screen Display

2000-09-29 Thread Clarence Verge
Glenn McCorkle wrote: > > On Thu, 28 Sep 2000 23:03:57 +, Chuck McGill wrote: > > > Hi Gang, > > > At present Arachne fills about 4/5ths of my screen from right to left. > > The question is how do I get her to fill the screen? > > F5 to toggle through the screen options. > * for full-scree

re: Modems

2000-09-29 Thread neil tanner
Many tnx for the info regarding modems. One more before I make a purchase. From some of the sites I have visited, it seems that Arachne will run fine with a 14.4 modem. Should I go for the faster modems? Tnx.Neil " I had a dream.just wished I could remember it"

Re: QNX is out.

2000-09-29 Thread Glenn McCorkle
If you D/L the 25MB 32bit-windows install It creates a set of files within the Windoze file system. It also creates a boot menu from which you choose to boot Win or QNX If you choose to boot QNX, you will be in QNX (not Win) If you D/L the 95MB CD-ROM image file and then install QNX from t

Re: Arachne Screen Display

2000-09-29 Thread Glenn McCorkle
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000 23:03:57 +, Chuck McGill wrote: > Hi Gang, > At present Arachne fills about 4/5ths of my screen from right to left. > The question is how do I get her to fill the screen? F5 to toggle through the screen options. * for full-screen > Thanks, You're welcome. BTW, "K" is

Re: QNX is out.

2000-09-29 Thread Glenn McCorkle
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000 14:30:41 -0500, Clarence Verge wrote: > The link to the Demo disk is: > http://www.qnx.com/demodisk/download/modem.html#windows > The main site is: > http://www.qnx.com/ I just tried it. Absolutely AMAZING -- Glenn (your friendly neighborhood compu-nerd) http://www

fatal error

2000-09-29 Thread L.D. Best
Attached is message rec'd from a list I belong to. Attempts to open the html resulted in FATAL ERROR. Only thing I could see that might have caused problems was the eol code[?] and/or the "URL" for the bg GIF? I didn't give the file a suffix, so any of you who might be able to figure this out ca

plug & pray

2000-09-29 Thread Kali McLaughlin
Dear list: Plug and play is certainly a seperate matter to something being a winmodem. I guess it is a matter of the computer interface being software controlled, rather than the modem functions being software implemented. My comment is that we have a mobile Nokia phone which unfortunately requi

Re: modems

2000-09-29 Thread L.D. Best
Hey guys, Hayes was bought out, not out of business, and IIRC the modems under Hayes name are still "supported." They were bought by Cardinal I think, and the conglomerated bunch was bought by 3COM. 3COM has good support and drivers etc for older modems are available at a number of web sites ou

Re: Arachne Screen Display

2000-09-29 Thread L.D. Best
Chuck, You need to tell Arachne you have VGA or better video card. Save your currently arachne.cfg somewhere as backup, then do a *basic* setup again .. I think you have to delete arachne.pck from your main Arachne directory, and then Arachne will automatically start out in "initial setup" mode.

Re: Arachne Screen Display

2000-09-29 Thread Clarence Verge
Chuck McGill wrote: > > Hi Gang, > > At present Arachne fills about 4/5ths of my screen from right to left. > The question is how do I get her to fill the screen? Huh ? The question should be how the heck did you do that ? Ok. What video mode are you using ? 640x480x16, 640x480x256, 800x600x1

Re: Arachne Screen Display

2000-09-29 Thread Budd
On 28 Sep 00, at 23:03, Chuck McGill wrote: > Hi Gang, > > At present Arachne fills about 4/5ths of my screen from right to left. > The question is how do I get her to fill the screen? > > Thanks, > > Chuck Hello Chuck... there is a command for fullscreen mode... and I do not remember it at

text only browser (was: Cyrillic characters)

2000-09-29 Thread cce . zizkov
>Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 03:40:27 +1000 >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Cyrillic characters > >Hi, > >I have heard that with Arachne the text in a page can be spoken out loud, >would >anyone care to explain this to me? and why hasn't it been implemented in >any other >prominent web browsers?

Re: Cyrillic characters

2000-09-29 Thread Christof Lange
Dear Vasily, >Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 21:59:55 +0300 >From: "Vasily Zatsepin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Cyrillic characters > >Hi Christof, > >some my objections ;-) ... > >Arachne is very reliable as mailer (if works ;-). It's my prefered mailer, >BTW. Have many times got/sent messages a

QNX is out.

2000-09-29 Thread Richard Menedetter
Hi Mike Millen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: MM> I'm not particularly interested in exploring QNX but if the demo MM> includes a Browser that supports Secure Shell ?? Secure shell is a secure replacement for telnet ;)) I suppose you mean SSL (secure socket layer -> https protocol) MM> I thought

Re: QNX is out.

2000-09-29 Thread Mike Millen
Hi Clarence, CV>Ah Mike, the bootable 1.44 floppy is a demo in all senses of the word. CV>It loads itself into memory + ramdisk and runs 100% from there. That's ok. (I think) I'm not particularly interested in exploring QNX but if the demo includes a Browser that supports Secure Shell I th

Re: modems

2000-09-29 Thread Thomas Mueller
>Several modem manufacturers are out of business. For this reason you would >find it very difficult to find any support or other information on them >on the web. Right now I can think of two very-well known modem >manufacturers that are out of business: Practical Peripherals and >Cardinal Techn

Re: QNX is out.

2000-09-29 Thread Thomas Mueller
TM>> There is also NetBSD (http://www.netbsd.org). Ricsi>> and freebsd.org and openbsd.org >>If you only mention one of them, the others get jealous ;) TM> Tell that to BSDI, formerly Walnut Creek CDROM! ?? why Walnut Creek CDROM, now their successor, BSDI, sells only FreeBSD, unless t