Re: OT ? (was Using Linux Arachne and Re: DOS footprints?)

2001-01-12 Thread Glenn McCorkle
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001 09:58:46 -0500, Robert Deering wrote: > On Fri, 12 Jan 2001 15:21:18 +0100 (CET), Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> Clarence wrote: >>> While messing about tonite I copied the default .bashrc from Pygmy06 >>> to Pygmy07. Why copy ? I couldn't figure out how to create a n

hy-somethingorother W95 worm

2001-01-12 Thread L.D. Best
Someone sent it to me, did a *very* expert insertion leaving fewer header lines than normally even local mail has. Needless to say, being a DOSasaur has its benefits. I sent headers to ISP and zipped up the worm with password protection. Anyone want to trash their own dozerware? Just wait, you

Re: Where is Or going??

2001-01-12 Thread Or Botton
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001 22:58:56 +0100, Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > tomstfor wrote: >>> So sorry to hear about this development. I like Bernie's site with it's >>> support for Win 9.x but written in a style that all browsers can see. > I have? Well, I guess there's nothing stoping Win9x from

Re: OT ? (was Using Linux Arachne and Re: DOS footprints?)

2001-01-12 Thread Clarence Verge
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Each user has his own .bashrc (in his home directory). > The changes made to .bashrc are specific to that user. > If you want something to apply to everyone, you put it > in /etc/profile. Does this mean that everyone, including root, must have /etc in their path ? -

Re: update, Arachne169 setup help

2001-01-12 Thread Clarence Verge
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello Clarence and Bernie, and anyone else who has an idea on why I can't > get Arachne to connect to the Internet. > > I tried all the steps to increase the amount of free memory. I also have > tried a second ISP that I use daily in Win98, with the correct DNS user

Re: OT ? (was Using Linux Arachne and Re: DOS footprints?)

2001-01-12 Thread Clarence Verge
Robert Deering wrote: > > The very last thing I am is a linux expert, but I think pico [newfile] > works, too. That was the very first thing I tried. And mcedit [newfile]. There is a significant chance that I don't HAVE pico in this version - I will have to check tonite. This business of tryi

Re: OT ? (was Using Linux Arachne and Re: DOS footprints?)

2001-01-12 Thread ichi
Clarence Verge wrote: > > I understand that typing it at the commandline is supposed > to make the alias temporary, It remains until you unalias it or logout (whichever comes first). At any time you can execute alias (without parameter) to see what aliases are active. > and putting it in .ba

Re: OT ? (was Using Linux Arachne and Re: DOS footprints?)

2001-01-12 Thread ichi
Bernie wrote: > > Normally yes, but I had assumed Clarence had tried that > already and that his Linux version somehow had a diffrent > version of pico. No, I don't think pico was the problem. Rather I suspect that Clarence tried to edit a file without w permission. Pico happily displays fil

Re: Where is Or going??

2001-01-12 Thread Bernie
tomstfor wrote: >>So sorry to hear about this development. I like Bernie's site with it's >>support for Win 9.x but written in a style that all browsers can see. I have? Well, I guess there's nothing stoping Win9x from accessing it anyway ;-) One of these days I'll need to redesign it so it doesn

Re: update, Arachne169 setup help

2001-01-12 Thread Robert Deering
heh. Small correction. ppp.log should be gone. Send pppfail.log . Bob Starts April 1, 2001 -- Arachne V1.69, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/

Re: update, Arachne169 setup help

2001-01-12 Thread Robert Deering
You have plenty or upper memory to load epppd, so try this one: copy arachne.cfg arconfig.bak Start arachne, press s, choose manual setup, then external dialup driver. Leave the name of the configuration file as it is. On the left side, choose "Try to do bootp". Your nameserver info is probably

Re: update, Arachne169 setup help

2001-01-12 Thread Eric S. Emerson
Hi Ed, I just downloaded ARCHN169.EXE into RAMdrive D:. Typed "archn169" and ran archn169.exe. I picked D:\arachne as my Arachne directory. I selected "0" for next 2 options(xms,vga). I selected proper video options for my video card. I selected 486 option for my computer setup. I then abo

Re: Heads up Linux lovers

2001-01-12 Thread Steve
Klaus Hameyer wrote: > > 7. You NEED to make a PPP connection before running Arachne. Actually, arachne works just fine offline for looking at local html files, etc. You don't NEED to be online just to run it. > 9. ... I also removed the non-SVGAlib >option from the script since I fou

Re: update, Arachne169 setup help

2001-01-12 Thread Gregor J Jones
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... [major snippage of login and memory details] Ed, looks to me like you are trying to do a login by PAP authentication when you should be doing a manual login, or have "username", "password" and "ppp" in a script file. IIRC, these should show up o

Where is Or going??

2001-01-12 Thread Thomas Tabler
Dear Or: >So sorry to hear about this development. I like Bernie's site with it's >support for Win 9.x but written in a style that all browsers can see. >And I don't mind if a page or two can't be seen with Arachne. Don't >give in to the big browser crowd and eliminate an HTML alternative.

Linux Arachne, step-by-step

2001-01-12 Thread Steve
Clarence Verge wrote: > Thanks for the "env" command. I learned a lot there. > One thing was that the path for root doesn't specifically state /root. > The other was my path was all possible variations on usr/local/bin & > sbin, and nothing else. Yes, this is as it should be. > Typing "which

update, Arachne169 setup help

2001-01-12 Thread Edward_Krug
Hello Clarence and Bernie, and anyone else who has an idea on why I can't get Arachne to connect to the Internet. I tried all the steps to increase the amount of free memory. I also have tried a second ISP that I use daily in Win98, with the correct DNS username and numbers. Since I have 64 me

Re: OT ? (was Using Linux Arachne and Re: DOS footprints?)

2001-01-12 Thread Bernie
Bob wrote: > The very last thing I am is a linux expert, but I think pico [newfile] > works, too. Normally yes, but I had assumed Clarence had tried that already and that his Linux version somehow had a diffrent version of pico. Besides "echo" to create the file works on almost all systems. Proba

OT ? (was Using Linux Arachne and Re: DOS footprints?)

2001-01-12 Thread Richard Menedetter
Hi 12 Jan 2001, Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> While messing about tonite I copied the default .bashrc from Pygmy06 >> to Pygmy07. Why copy ? I couldn't figure out how to create a new >> file with either mcedit or pico. :( B> You can use "echo" to create a file. Wouldn't it be easier

Re: OT ? (was Using Linux Arachne and Re: DOS footprints?)

2001-01-12 Thread Robert Deering
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001 15:21:18 +0100 (CET), Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Clarence wrote: >> While messing about tonite I copied the default .bashrc from Pygmy06 >> to Pygmy07. Why copy ? I couldn't figure out how to create a new file >> with either mcedit or pico. :( > You can use "echo" to

Re: OT ? (was Using Linux Arachne and Re: DOS footprints?)

2001-01-12 Thread Bernie
Clarence wrote: > While messing about tonite I copied the default .bashrc from Pygmy06 > to Pygmy07. Why copy ? I couldn't figure out how to create a new file > with either mcedit or pico. :( You can use "echo" to create a file. //Bernie http://bernie.arachne.cz/

Re: More OT Re: Using Linux Arachne

2001-01-12 Thread JoergBartels
On 12 Jan, Clarence Verge wrote: > > Any ideas ? I'm not installing RedHat. > > > - Clarence Verge > - Still using Arachne V1.62 Hello Clarence, Please, better install RedHat or SuSE or an other "big" Linux. I think a miro-Linux is nothing for real Unix testing. Try to downsize a big Li

Re: Heads up Linux lovers

2001-01-12 Thread Klaus Hameyer
Clarence Verge wrote: >It appears that PYGMYLinux v0.7 has what it takes to run Arachne !! >The Pygmy install was a lot less painful than the download and it >has some new stuff vs v0.6. >Arachne installed without complaint but I could NOT run it because >I had NO idea what to do once it was load

Re: OT ? (was Using Linux Arachne and Re: DOS footprints?)

2001-01-12 Thread Clarence Verge
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 20:22:20 -0500, Clarence Verge wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > I also TRY to alias ls -la to dir and it IGNORES me. >> In BASH, this should work: >> -- >> alias dir='ls -al' >> -- > Most likely it is a problem with recall. I may recal

More OT Re: Using Linux Arachne

2001-01-12 Thread Clarence Verge
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 22:47:28 -0700, "Steve" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You should have a default path set to at least /usr/bin, > /usr/local/bin and /bin. Check with the 'env' command. The saga continues... Thanks for the "env" command. I learned a lot there. One thing was that the path for

Re: SV: Speaking of EPPPD

2001-01-12 Thread Lars Wigrell
* Picking up an old thread (probably off-topic too)... :-) - Original Message - From: "Bernie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 8:03 PM Subject: Re: SV: Speaking of EPPPD > > Aha, so I assume your BBS (IIRC you had one) is still up? Yes, it'