Freeserve DNS settings

2000-12-04 Thread Neil Smith
On Sat, 02 Dec 2000 18:41:58 -000 Mike Millen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Does any UK Arachne user connect to the Internet via Freeserve? >I'm pretty sure the problem is with DNSs. >They say that these are assigned dynamically and I don't need to >know them (yeah, right :). Working TCP/IP config

Re: A168 interface

2000-12-04 Thread Mike Millen
CL>This interface made Arachne far superior to all those explorer CL>communicator etc. What happened now: Two lines have been reduced to CL>one, I can read only half of the title and only half of the URL CL>address. Some of the coloured spots have moved from one side to the CL>other one

Re: DOS Footprints

2000-12-04 Thread Samuel W. Heywood
Roger Turk wrote: > Gregy wrote: > ...so, quit smirking at us and TELL us. > whereis WHERE.COM ...so we can all go get it and save you the > agony of holding your face in that unnatural position.. > So, you want to know where is whereis.com??? > www.zdnet.com/downloads/stories/info/0.0003

Re: 1.68 out for testing

2000-12-04 Thread Mike Millen
CV>MM> The square buttons are nice, as are the new colours, but it's CV>MM>*horrible* having to move backwards and forwards all the time CV>MM>between Arrows and History. CV>MM> CV>MM> PLEASE Michael, put all the new buttons on the right of the screen CV>MM> (in two lines). CV>This

Re: DOS Footprints

2000-12-04 Thread Samuel W. Heywood
On Mon, 04 Dec 2000 03:14:22 -0700, Gregory J. Feig wrote: > Roger > ...so, quit smirking at us and TELL us. > whereis WHERE.COM ...so we can all go get it and save you the > agony of holding your face in that unnatural position.. > .. > ..gregy > PS...I also use the DRDO

Re: A168 interface

2000-12-04 Thread Christof Lange
Michael, I just unzipped Arachne 1.68. Even before running it, I am already able to explain why I am going to stay with 1.66: yes, it is because of the extra-line feature (or shall I call it...). It was the excellent Arachne interface between 1.48 and 1.67 that made me almost forget that there i

Re: 1.68 out for testing

2000-12-04 Thread Clarence Verge
On Mon, 04 Dec 2000 21:53:51 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote: > Personally, I prefer *this* layout to all others. > http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/layout.jpg > This allows me to keep-an-eye-on memory usage at-all-times. Hey buddy, is that some kind of subliminabobble message ? It sure is a

Re: Fw: png2bmp [ was Re: http://disvr.cjb.net/dos/dls.html

2000-12-04 Thread Clarence Verge
Glenn McCorkle wrote: > > IMO, the only way we are going to "fix" this problem is by completly > eliminating content-type from consideration and always use the file > extension. (just like we do for local files now) > > file/.png PNG>BMP|$epng2bmp.exe -s -o $2 $1 > > Should be used for bo

Re: 1.68 out for testing

2000-12-04 Thread Glenn McCorkle
On Mon, 04 Dec 2000 16:01:01 -0500, Clarence Verge wrote: > Mike Millen wrote: >> The square buttons are nice, as are the new colours, but it's *horrible* >> having to move backwards and forwards all the time between Arrows and >> History. >> PLEASE Michael, put all the new buttons on the right

Re: http://disvr.cjb.net/dos/dls.html

2000-12-04 Thread Glenn McCorkle
On Mon, 04 Dec 2000 16:19:34 +0100 (CET), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Menedetter) wrote: > Hi > 04 Dec 2000, Sam Ewalt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Now Caldera/Lineo is no longer selling DR-DOS except in lots of 50 >>> or more copies. So where does that leave the notion of single-copy >>> sha

Re: DOS Footprints

2000-12-04 Thread Glenn McCorkle
On Mon, 04 Dec 2000 03:14:22 -0700, Gregory J. Feig wrote: > Roger > ...so, quit smirking at us and TELL us. > whereis WHERE.COM ...so we can all go get it and save you the > agony of holding your face in that unnatural position.. > .. > ..gregy > PS...I also use the DRDO

Re: Fw: png2bmp [ was Re: http://disvr.cjb.net/dos/dls.html

2000-12-04 Thread Glenn McCorkle
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000 08:20:36 +0100 (CET), Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Glenn wrote: >> As you can see... they have the server set to send .PNG as text/html >> WRONG, WRONG, WRONG !!! > Hmm... they were correct in Netscape 3.04G (AFAICT), that is the mime-type > was correct. Netscape 3.x

Re: Non-HTTP compliant message

2000-12-04 Thread Glenn McCorkle
v1.68 gave me the same problem as Eric. Until I shelled to Dos and deleted my cookie file. Upon reentering Aracne and reloading the page all works fine. I'll now try going into the page again after disabling cookies and deleteing that cookie file. Yep, it worked fine this time on the first

Re: DOS footprints?

2000-12-04 Thread Glenn McCorkle
On Sun, 3 Dec 2000 07:17:39 -0500 (EST), Sam Ewalt wrote: > On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, Glenn McCorkle wrote: >> There exists only one "true DOS" OpenDos v7.01 > What about DR-DOS 7.03? I understand there wassome kind of > problem with 7.02, but didn't that get fixed with 7.03? > Or did they just

Re: arachne-digest V1 #1360

2000-12-04 Thread Michael Polak
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, arachne-digest wrote: > Another thing which was lost in 1.67 was the 0-100% "fuel gauge" > bar on the bottom line. It works for file and image downloads and > for *some* page downloads but rarely, if ever, for the first page > download of a new URL. Can we have it back please?

Re: arachne-digest V1 #1359

2000-12-04 Thread Michael Polak
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, arachne-digest wrote: > Nope, in short this is how Arachne is going to progress: > > Linux will be the main OS for the 2.x series, if someone (yours truly > most likely) makes a 32-bit version for DOS that will follow along with > the Linux version. > The 1.99...99 versions w

DR-DOS

2000-12-04 Thread Sam Ewalt
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Richard Menedetter wrote: > could you tell me where you have read that ?? www.lineo.com/cgi-bin/drdos/faq says that you can download a copy for non-commercial use at www.drdos.org drdos.org says that it's "free for non-commercial use" And gives a link back to the lineo ftp

Sorry for virus attack.... + more

2000-12-04 Thread Michael Polak
Someone attacked arachne-announce mailing list vith virus attachments.. .only cca 1000 out of 18000 mails were sent before we deleted mail queue. I will try to increase security of this mailing list... BTW, I will probably start spending more time in DOS once again, thanks to SSHDOS client. It i

ARACHNE 1.68 release

2000-12-04 Thread Terri FitzSimons
I've downloaded and installed 1.68. I really don't see much functional difference between it and the previous release. I am not able to sign on to HTTP://search.epnet.com (through my library) with it; but I can with Arachne 1.66. In fact, 1.68 generated a non-fatal error when I first attempted

Test result 1.66 v. 1.68 Re: MemoryMonster

2000-12-04 Thread L.D. Best
I *do* have a working version of 1.66 and the results are as follows: Before loading Virtual Ave chat, I had 140 available memory; after 117 Load Arachne Chat, available memory 123 Back to Virt, available memory 117 Back to Arachne, available memory 123 After multiple switches back and forth, no

Pardon my confusion here ...

2000-12-04 Thread Richard Menedetter
Hi 04 Dec 2000, "L.D. Best" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: LB> That would seem to indicate that under FAT32 there could be more LB> sectors per cluster than in FAT16. ?? what does indicate so ?? Have you read my previous messages ?? There I wrote, that the only difference between fat16 and fat32

Re: Pardon my confusion here ...

2000-12-04 Thread L.D. Best
That would seem to indicate that under FAT32 there could be more sectors per cluster than in FAT16. It would further seem to indicate that under FAT32 there would be far more slack on a HDD than with FAT16 -- because if "addresses" can only be kept track of for areas of 4K or larger, a small fi

Re: 1.68 out for testing

2000-12-04 Thread Clarence Verge
Mike Millen wrote: > > The square buttons are nice, as are the new colours, but it's *horrible* > having to move backwards and forwards all the time between Arrows and > History. > > PLEASE Michael, put all the new buttons on the right of the screen > (in two lines). This sounds like a request

Re: HOW TO: Yahoo mail

2000-12-04 Thread Neil Parks
On 27 Nov 00 at 9:52, arachne-digest wrote: > From: "L.D. Best" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > P.S. Does anyone know how to get e-mail forwarded from Yahoo to another > e-dress? Can it be done? Try: http://www.mailstart.com By using www.mailstart.com you should be able to read email from

Re: DOS footprints?

2000-12-04 Thread Clarence Verge
Gil Parrish wrote: > > Sam Heywood said: > > >To search for filenames in subdirectories with DR-DOS you can use XDIR.EXE, > >as in "xdir arach*.* /s". > > Yet another DR-DOS command I won't remember when I need it. ;-] > > Thanks. Hehe. Just like the Linux commands that won't do anything use

Re: 1.68 out for testing

2000-12-04 Thread Mike Millen
SM>>CV> My favorite Arachne frame is gone. :( SM>>CV> What do I hafta do to get it back ? SM>MP> You don't like the new one ? :-O I thought you will like that you SM>MP>have more screen size available... SM>I like it. But it would be even better to have all buttons on one side SM>of

Re: Pardon my confusion here ...

2000-12-04 Thread ichi
Bernie wrote: > > As I understand it an inode is the equivalent of an > allocated unit in FAT. Not really. Every file (big or small) requires just one inode. > The inode size can be set during the installation > (1024, 2048 and 4096 or something like that). Or > have I missunderstood this?

Re: 1.68 out for testing

2000-12-04 Thread Sacha Menge
Sun, 3 Dec 2000 22:53:30 +0100 (CET) schrieb Michael Polak: > On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Clarence Verge wrote: >> A nuts ! >> My favorite Arachne frame is gone. :( >> What do I hafta do to get it back ? > You don't like the new one ? :-O I thought you will like that you have > more screen siz

Re: Pardon my confusion here ...

2000-12-04 Thread Steve Linux User
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Bernie wrote: > Ricsi wrote: > > LB> What sector sizes does Linux allow? > > sector size is usually 512 bytes (independant of OS ... hardwaredependant) > > but linux does not group sectors together as clusters as DOS does. > > So IMHO clustersize=sectorsize=512 > > Aren't we

http://disvr.cjb.net/dos/dls.html

2000-12-04 Thread Richard Menedetter
Hi 04 Dec 2000, Sam Ewalt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Now Caldera/Lineo is no longer selling DR-DOS except in lots of 50 >> or more copies. So where does that leave the notion of single-copy >> shareware? SE> You don't have to buy it for single copy use, you can just download SE> it from

Pardon my confusion here ...

2000-12-04 Thread Richard Menedetter
Hi 04 Dec 2000, Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> So IMHO clustersize=sectorsize=512 B> Aren't we talking about the inode size now? yes ... and i was wrong ... B> As I understand it an inode is the equivalent of an allocated unit in B> FAT. The inode size can be set during the installat

WHEREIS.COM (was RE: DOS Footprints)

2000-12-04 Thread Roger Turk
The WHEREIS.COM program that I referenced (ver. 1.5) is not as versatile as the version that I have. (It does not appear to search across multiple drives as the syntax is: whereis [drive:] filename.) The program that I have is a 1989 program; the one I referenced is 1996 and is version 1.5.

RE: DOS Footprints

2000-12-04 Thread Gil Parrish
Roger Turk wrote: >So, you want to know where is whereis.com??? >www.zdnet.com/downloads/stories/info/0.0003BD.html Oops. When I try this link, all I get is: "We're sorry, but we were unable to find the page you requested." Well, ZDNET probably still has it somewhere.

RE: DOS footprints?

2000-12-04 Thread Gil Parrish
Sam Heywood said: >To search for filenames in subdirectories with DR-DOS you can use XDIR.EXE, >as in "xdir arach*.* /s". Yet another DR-DOS command I won't remember when I need it. ;-] Thanks.

Re: http://disvr.cjb.net/dos/dls.html

2000-12-04 Thread Sam Ewalt
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Thomas Mueller wrote: > Now Caldera/Lineo is no longer selling DR-DOS except in lots of 50 or more > copies. So where does that leave the notion of single-copy shareware? > You don't have to buy it for single copy use, you can just download it from the Lineo server and use

re: DOS Footprints

2000-12-04 Thread Roger Turk
Gregy wrote: >>Roger ..so, quit smirking at us and TELL us. whereis WHERE.COM ...so we can all go get it and save you the agony of holding your face in that unnatural position.. . .gregy PS...I also use the DRDOS 6.0 xdir command and have always been very satisfied...but.

re: MemoryMonster

2000-12-04 Thread Gregory J. Feig
...the MemoryMonster does not seem to be present on the arachne.cz pages (good news for the HomeFront...)...and... I can,also, move around eBay all day and not have any memory eaten... The wheelMouse support isn't my bag, since I exclusively use ALPS Glidepoint. The "keep alive" delights me...th

MemoryMonster

2000-12-04 Thread Gregory J. Feig
...anybody who wants to try this can swiftly bring the Monster out into the open: 1. At MAIL screen, hit F8 (clear cache), then SHIFT-~ (turn images off). 2. Enter http://chat.arachne.cz/ then ENTER (to launch this URL). After the page loads, ALT-M (to check your free memory). 3. Ente

MemoryMonster

2000-12-04 Thread Gregory J. Feig
Michael, Whatever is causing 1.68 to eat memory on chat.arachne.cz, was also probably what was causing 1.67 to do the same thing...it is even worse on Hoody's arachne.virtualave chat site. I was going to make it crash, then send you an xwap dump, but, since you have bumped into it yourself, wh

re: DOS Footprints

2000-12-04 Thread Gregory J. Feig
Roger ..so, quit smirking at us and TELL us. whereis WHERE.COM ...so we can all go get it and save you the agony of holding your face in that unnatural position.. . .gregy PS...I also use the DRDOS 6.0 xdir command and have always been very satisfied...but...whereis.com so

Pardon my confusion here ...

2000-12-04 Thread Richard Menedetter
Hi OK another website: http://wusun10.utsi.edu/myBook/InsideWindows98/ch14.htm says: Windows 98, as with DOS before it, allocates disk space in clusters. A cluster is a group of sectors on a disk. CU, Ricsi -- Richard Menedetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ICQ: 7659421] {RSA-PGP Key avail.} -=>

Pardon my confusion here ...

2000-12-04 Thread Richard Menedetter
Hi 03 Dec 2000, "L.D. Best" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> LB> RAM drive set with 512 sectors, but my HDD has sector size 2048 >> LB> on the primary drive, and temporarily 30K on the 2nd HDD. >> these are CLUSTERS >> FAT groups together sectors and forms clusters. >> So you have to administe