Re: Memories, memories, of the days gone by~

2000-10-17 Thread Thomas Mueller
L.D. & Ricsi, I too feel limited with DOS and OS/2, feel a need to go with Linux and maybe NetBSD or FreeBSD. Graphic Web browsing is limited and clumsy with Arachne and Netscape 4.04, maybe would go better with a newer Netscape (4.61) on a newer, faster computer. I use Lynx a lot. I notice th

Re: Getting Started

2000-10-17 Thread Bernie
Jim wrote: >1) Where can I learn about options in the .cfg files? keywords.txt for arachne.cfg The others are, more or less, exaplained inside them. >2) Can the screen appearance be customized without writing a new .apm? Depends on which screen it is. Some can be changed by changing the file th

Re: Programming Languages

2000-10-17 Thread Budd
On 17 Oct 00, at 22:07, Bernie wrote: > Budd wrote: > >1. Assembly was the only way to program originally. > >Then, FORTRAN and COBOL were first generation languages. > >Later, ADA and C (and many others) were second generation. > >Now, JAVA and others (C++, SmalllTalk etc. are third > > genera

Re: arachne-digest V1 #1308

2000-10-17 Thread Or Botton
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000 23:44:38 +0200 (CEST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Menedetter) wrote: > Or do you mean, that the next DOS Arachne release will be compiled with > DJGPP ??? (would be GREAT !!) ... it allready is. (You can get a 16-bit version of CORE from the Arachne site, though.)

Getting Started

2000-10-17 Thread Palmer
I'm just getting started with Arachne, and am very impressed with it's capabilities. As I get more familiar with it I expect that I would like to be able to customize it some. Where does one learn how to do that? For example... 1) Where can I learn about options in the .cfg files? 2) Can the sc

Re: Glenn's fixed bug

2000-10-17 Thread Glenn McCorkle
I must apologize to every member of this list. My 'bug fixed' message should have been kept 'off list'. Michael was 100% correct by 'chastising' me. I promise not to do it again. That said, I'll comment on your comments. Rest assured that Michael *IS* working to make Arachne a 'real alternativ

Re: Speling and gramma

2000-10-17 Thread Robert Deering
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000 08:13:33 +, Ron Clarke wrote: > Hi Folks, > I writted: > Subject: notice of violation >> From: Ron Clarke >>> Subject: Re: notice of violation - its getting sillier >>> Hi Folks, >>> Nah, Arachne needs its spelling and grammar checked >>> properly.< > Terri FitzSimons

Re: Programming Languages

2000-10-17 Thread Robert Deering
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000 22:07:32 +0200, Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Originally you would change the bits by hand (switches, punch cards). Not only that, but reading data erased that cell of the magnetic core memory. The programmer had to include a loop-back that would restore the data after

Speling and gramma

2000-10-17 Thread Ron Clarke
Hi Folks, I writted: Subject: notice of violation > From: Ron Clarke >> Subject: Re: notice of violation - its getting sillier >> Hi Folks, >> Nah, Arachne needs its spelling and grammar checked >> properly.< Terri FitzSimons writted: > Speaking of spell- and grammar-checking... Although you

arachne-digest V1 #1308

2000-10-17 Thread Richard Menedetter
Hi 17 Oct 2000, Michael Polak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Recently saw an article about 32bit DJGPP being available ... >> can't remember where, but saw it. MP> It is included by default in latest Arachne releases ;) ?? Complete DJGPP package ?? Wouldn't that be a bit large ?? Or do you m

Re: Arachna freeze

2000-10-17 Thread Clarence Verge
azazello wrote: > > Hi All, > > I have used Arachna offline for a several weeks. She worked fine. > Recently I decided to go online and try her. She dialed the > number, connected, loaded homepage and then stop responding for a > 2-3 minutes. After that she again worked fine during

Worst spam ever

2000-10-17 Thread Samuel W. Heywood
Hi folks: I just received a spam message having a notice saying that anyone attempting to shut down his spam site will cause reprisals to be carried out against others wishing to be removed from his list of victims. I quote the threat from his message: - begin quoted material -- ==

Re: Arachna freeze

2000-10-17 Thread Samuel W. Heywood
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000 00:52:35 +0500, azazello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > I have used Arachna offline for a several weeks. She worked fine. > Recently I decided to go online and try her. She dialed the > number, connected, loaded homepage and then stop responding for a > 2-3 min

Re: Programming Languages

2000-10-17 Thread Bernie
Budd wrote: >1. Assembly was the only way to program originally. >Then, FORTRAN and COBOL were first generation languages. >Later, ADA and C (and many others) were second generation. >Now, JAVA and others (C++, SmalllTalk etc. are third > generation languages. Originally you would change the bi

Re: http://www.supercatjaguarspares.freeserve.co.uk/

2000-10-17 Thread Bernie
Ricsi wrote: >Hmmm ... Michael ... >wouldn't it be time for a DJGPP version ?? Looks like I better take this here now "out in the open" ;-) Michael I have a suggestion for when this can be done (perhaps). As you may remember between January and May next year I'm supposed to work on a project of

Re: http://www.supercatjaguarspares.freeserve.co.uk/

2000-10-17 Thread Bernie
Michael wrote: >> In URL.H I have doubled the "STRINGSIZE" from 40 to 80. >> "80 ought to be enough for everyone". ;-) >> >> Now the "k" does not get dropped from... >> http://www.supercatjaguarspares.freeserve.co.uk/ >> >> (wouldn't you know, that URL is 41 with the trailing /) :( > >Maybe we

Arachna freeze

2000-10-17 Thread azazello
Hi All, I have used Arachna offline for a several weeks. She worked fine. Recently I decided to go online and try her. She dialed the number, connected, loaded homepage and then stop responding for a 2-3 minutes. After that she again worked fine during 10-15 minutes (I visited 3-4

FTP upload errors.

2000-10-17 Thread Lars Wigrell
> Has anyone else had a problem with Arachne FTP upload ? No, at least not what I know of.

Re: arachne-digest V1 #1308

2000-10-17 Thread Michael Polak
>Recently saw an article about 32bit DJGPP being available ... can't >remember where, but saw it. It is included by default in latest Arachne releases ;) -- http://arachne.cz/ (Arachne WWW browser for DOS+Linux / Webhosting / MP3streaming)

Re: arachne-digest V1 #1308

2000-10-17 Thread Michael Polak
Note specially for L.D.Best: STRINGSIZE is used as size for various strings, like hostname. Entire URL is declared to be URLSIZE characters long. -- http://arachne.cz/ (Arachne WWW browser for DOS+Linux / Webhosting / MP3streaming)

FTP upload errors.

2000-10-17 Thread Clarence Verge
Has anyone else had a problem with Arachne FTP upload ? I've be finding the last block missing quite frequently. No error messages, just text pages cut off in the middle of words. - Clarence Verge - Using Arachne V1.62 for a change

Re: http://www.supercatjaguarspares.freeserve.co.uk/

2000-10-17 Thread Joerg Dietze
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000 16:58:58 -0400, L.D. Best wrote: > Recently saw an article about 32bit DJGPP being available ... can't > remember where, but saw it. > l.d. > > On Mon, 16 Oct 2000 21:22:52 +0200 (CEST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard > Menedetter) wrote: >> Hi >> 16 Oct 2000, Michael Pol

ISDN and ADSL drivers for DOS

2000-10-17 Thread Joerg Dietze
Hi folks, my brother-in-law just sent me this link. Perhaps it's useful for someone. There are drivers for ADSL and ISDN. Description sounds interesting. http://home.t-online.de/home/hanewin/homepage.htm Regards Joerg Neu: Voice/Fax Mailbox 0180/505253996299 -- This mail was written by user of

Re: Not that anybody ...

2000-10-17 Thread Joerg Dietze
Hi L.D., I'm tested some versions of Arachne and never had lost sectors discovered caused by her (exeption: A. crashed). I have the bad feeling that there is a hardware problem in Your machine. I mentioned a similiar case with Geos some months before. Would You mind describing me Your HD system a