On Sun, 28 Jan 2001 13:14:04 +, Ron Clarke wrote:
> Hi Folks, Clarence, L.D., Glenn,
> I wrote:
>> When viewing a directory list ([drive]:\directory\*.* ), the "Right Click
>> on a file then press DELETE" doesn't work any more. The file name
>> disappears, but re-loading the screen shows it
This is an even longer list of entitities, and after scanning
through it multiple times, I can only see one entity not rendered by
Arachne ... something called cedilla
Not bad for a slapped together DOS browser, eh??
l.d.
P.S. This page got saved to my personal html directory for future
refer
I've noticed, in digging through the innards of Arachne, that some
type of gopher support is [supposed to be?] implemented. I've
never, until now, had any reason to know one way or another.
The above page uses gopher on almost all its links, and Arachne
belches up the "hey, I dunno what to do" s
I read the message ref Arachne not handling entity names correctly,
and decided to visit the link given. From there I linked to the
above URL. With a quick scan of the 120+ entities listed, it
appeared that Arachne correctly portrayed at least 90% of them ...
and two of the items in the list wer
Hello:
I now have version 1.70 installed on two machines. The setup and
installation seems perfect on one machine but I have a minor problem
with the other. When I am viewing the utilities screen (UTILS.HTM)
and click on the "List of installed packages" I get the Arachne Load
Error page. I hav
Hi Folks, Glenn,
> Heres a test:
> http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/download.htm#1
> Yep, that's it. Non-existant "anchors".
Well, A1.70 beeped for me. Once.
Regards,
Ron
Ron Clarke http://homepages.valylink.net.au/~ausreg/music.html
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Hi Folks, Bernie, Jake,
Bernie wrote:
> Netscape have had the exact same capability a very long time (about:cache)
> so I guess Michael "stole" the idea from Netscape. I don't know about Opera
> and IE so perhaps someone can enlighten us on those?
Yes, but Netscape's about:cache does not seem
Hi Folks, Clarence, L.D., Glenn,
I wrote:
> When viewing a directory list ([drive]:\directory\*.* ), the "Right Click
> on a file then press DELETE" doesn't work any more. The file name
> disappears, but re-loading the screen shows it is still there.
> Anybody else confirm ?
Clarence wrote:
Clarence,
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001 19:27:05 -0500, Clarence Verge wrote:
> Hi LD;
> Jeez. Are you complaining about the quality of the help or just that
> you really don't know about shiftENTER ?
> Type "K" for hotkeys and browse.
First, I didn't know about shiftENTER. Second, I had browsed the
Ho
Hello Michael, all,
Last night while I surf in Internet I need to see one ASCII number.Anyway
I go to google.com and search for "ASCII table" - the first link that it
gives me was :
http://www.bbsinc.com/iso8859.html
I saw what I need, but I also saw how many entity names there are.
Hones
Hello L.D.:
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001 18:33:50 -0500, you wrote:
> Sam,
> I found your problem:
Eureka! You found it!
> On Sat, 27 Jan 2001 03:41:40 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
>> In my AUTOEXEC.BAT I have the following two lines included:
>> SET TEMP=C:\ARACHNE\TEMP\ARACHNE.TMP
>
Glenn McCorkle wrote:
>
> On Sat, 27 Jan 2001 21:59:58 +0100 (CET), Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Clarence wrote:
> >> In what version of DOS did "DIREXIST" become a valid testable condition ?
>
> > That will only work in OpenDOS 7.x AFAIK.
>
> Close
> This feature first came-to
L.D. Best wrote:
>
> Clarence,
>
> I can get to the directory listing without a mouse, I can tab down to a
> file that I can then double check to know it's expendable, all without
> the rodent. But I can't highlight it without the mouse to test it.
>
> Why? Cuz a search of "hotkeys" in the help
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, L.D. Best wrote:
> I've had problems with this site for 3 or 4 versions now. The
> tables overwrite each other. Can someone determine why? could it
> be the use of dd tags ??
What's NOT wrong with it? For one thing, it seems to have
been written on a Mac for a Mac, clo
Thanks, Glenn!
I saved the report as a file, and attached it to the e-mail sent to the
address for "comments on this page."
l.d.
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001 18:03:19 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Jan 2001 16:15:35 -0500, L.D. Best wrote:
>> I've had problems with this site for 3 or
> ON ANOTHER NOTE: Has anyone, other than I, found that they are getting
> system beep during certain page & graphics processing? I didn't keep
> track before of which/where/when but will in future. If anyone else has
> experienced this, could you keep track also ... so we can compare notes?
Jake,
I pretty much figured out [after websearching the best resources I have
on FORMS & HTML] that the WRAP feature has to be set to width of
displayed field or *less* ...
So I'm in the process of rewriting the Arachne GUI which F-2 calls up,
for sending URLs &/or pages. The page really doesn'
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001 16:15:35 -0500, L.D. Best wrote:
> I've had problems with this site for 3 or 4 versions now. The
> tables overwrite each other. Can someone determine why? could it
> be the use of dd tags ??
Maybe you need to view this page with a browser and a monitor that
offers CinemaSc
Sam,
I found your problem:
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001 03:41:40 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
> In my AUTOEXEC.BAT I have the following two lines included:
> SET TEMP=C:\ARACHNE\TEMP\ARACHNE.TMP
^
1. Arachne creates it's OWN directory within any %TEMP% declared.
Arachne 1.70, version three, (previous ones as well) crashes every
time at http://www.newdealinc.com. Pretend you want to buy New Deal
Office online and click through"buy it now" to the online store and
you get a list of options such as "single use license" and "upgrade
from Geos". These options a
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001 15:40:56 -0500, Clarence Verge wrote:
> Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
>> In my AUTOEXEC.BAT I have the following two lines included:
>> SET TEMP=C:\ARACHNE\TEMP\ARACHNE.TMP
>> IF NOT DIREXIST %TEMP% MD %TEMP%
> In what version of DOS did "DIREXIST" become a valid testable condit
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001 16:15:35 -0500, L.D. Best wrote:
> I've had problems with this site for 3 or 4 versions now. The
> tables overwrite each other. Can someone determine why? could it
> be the use of dd tags ??
That is yet another one that cannot be blamed on Arachne.
http://www.angelfire.co
Thomas,
I don't think it's DOS. The quote you gave spoke specifically of PATHs
... In pulling an RTFM I find that "pathnames are limited to 63
characters." [That was with DOS 3.30]
The DOS delimiter on URLs would be the length of characters allowed in a
command line statement. I persisted in m
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001 21:59:58 +0100 (CET), Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Clarence wrote:
>> In what version of DOS did "DIREXIST" become a valid testable condition ?
> That will only work in OpenDOS 7.x AFAIK.
Close
This feature first came-to-be in DR-DOS v6.0
--- autoexec.bat from m
Clarence,
I can get to the directory listing without a mouse, I can tab down to a
file that I can then double check to know it's expendable, all without
the rodent. But I can't highlight it without the mouse to test it.
Why? Cuz a search of "hotkeys" in the help section gives a "not found"
for
On Fri, 26 Jan 2001 23:04:49 -0500, Clarence Verge wrote:
> Ron Clarke wrote:
>> Hi Folks,
>> I think I have stumbled across a bug in Arachne 1.70:
>> When viewing a directory list ([drive]:\directory\*.* ), the "Right Click
>> on a file then press DELETE" doesn't work any more. The file n
On Fri, 26 Jan 2001 19:22:18 -0500, L.D. Best wrote:
> The "beep" when I try to do something when Arachne is busy is fine with
> me; it tells me Arachne hasn't crashed even though it seems to have done
> so with some complex page renditions.
> The beeps I'm talking about have only been happenin
I've had problems with this site for 3 or 4 versions now. The
tables overwrite each other. Can someone determine why? could it
be the use of dd tags ??
l.d.
P.S. Word wrap on this message should now work correctly. This is
the revised [still under construction] saveas GUI. Hope to soon
have
Clarence wrote:
> In what version of DOS did "DIREXIST" become a valid testable condition ?
That will only work in OpenDOS 7.x AFAIK.
//Bernie
http://bernie.arachne.cz/
Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
>
> On Sat, 27 Jan 2001 04:45:03 -0400, Clarence Verge wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 27 Jan 2001 03:45:01 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
>
> >> BTW, the BANG.GIF you sent to the list was not displayed correctly within
> >> InSight, but when accessed by Arachne as a local file i
Sam wrote:
> With Lynx386 I apparently failed to connect and I got an error
> "HTTP 1.1 302 Found" and my application locked up solid. This happened
> twice. Both times I was able to exit only by "CTRL + C". No problem
> with Arachne. BTW, does anyone know what the aforementioned error message
J. J. Young wrote:
>
> Site owners afraid of white space - and seeing their web-logs
> reporting a smaller percentage of VGA users - are using fixed
> width tables of 700 pixels and up more frequently. We don't
> see long line lengths from the more mature (in some respects)
> newspaper industry.
Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
>
> In my AUTOEXEC.BAT I have the following two lines included:
>
> SET TEMP=C:\ARACHNE\TEMP\ARACHNE.TMP
> IF NOT DIREXIST %TEMP% MD %TEMP%
In what version of DOS did "DIREXIST" become a valid testable condition ?
- Clarence Verge
--
- Help stamp out FATWARE. As a s
L.D. wondered:
>Is there a way to set the point where a line wraps, if
>you want it to extend past the entry field size??
Not quite the solution you seek, but there's the "wrap"
attribute for , indicated as Netscape only.
The most useful way to use it is wrap=physical -- the
text is wrapped with
Hello,
I knew it'd be appreciated, to start dos from the harddisk (but I really
sent this solution two years ago, too). Yet I can't figure a couple of
things about this backward compatibility feature: If you press f8 during
startup (also with the menu-containing config.sys) and choose option 5:
i
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001 03:23:22 -0500 (EST), Thomas Mueller wrote:
>> I'm getting even with you guys for disparaging one of my favorite mailers
>> by insinuating that NetMail cannot be set up so as to integrate very nicely
>> with external programs such as mpack for encoding attachments and insertin
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001 04:45:03 -0400, Clarence Verge wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Jan 2001 03:45:01 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
>> BTW, the BANG.GIF you sent to the list was not displayed correctly within
>> InSight, but when accessed by Arachne as a local file in CACHE I was
>> able to see it with all
Bernie wrote:
>Netscape have had the exact same capability a very long time (about:cache)
>so I guess Michael "stole" the idea from Netscape. I don't know about Opera
>and IE so perhaps someone can enlighten us on those?
16-bit Opera has some of these capabilities, but is improved by the
freewar
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001 03:45:01 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
> BTW, the BANG.GIF you sent to the list was not displayed correctly within
> InSight, but when accessed by Arachne as a local file in CACHE I was
> able to see it with all it's sparkling splendor. I have noticed that
> JPG images are
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001 02:08:08 -0500 (EST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Howard Eisenberger) wrote:
> Nothing wrong with NetMail, but as far as I know, MIME is handled
> by the mailreader, not the mailer. In this case, OLIM calls the
> external program pointed to by the "mencoder" line in olim.rc to
> encode
Ron wrote:
> But one of the really good features of Arachne (one that I brag about
>when talking to Win9x users - including my wife) is the built-in cache
>index that not only gives access to what has been collected in the
>cache, but also gives the original URL that each file came from, and
>al
>I can't remember whether the following observation cropped
>up in the maximum-URL-length discussion. It may save some
>head-scratching for some of you some time.
(snip)
Yes, this is a known problem. There's little we can do to fix it (anyone
else that's up to rewriting command.com is welcome to
On Fri, 26 Jan 2001 19:48:10 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Jan 2001 4:56:14 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Samuel W. Heywood)
wrote:
>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Howard Schwartz
wrote:
>>> With regard to the suggestion that metamail or mpack can be used as
>>> external programs to i
Hello Arachnids:
Under options, local settings, there is a box you may check to enable
the caching of local objects. The default setting is on. I disabled
this bug by unchecking it and now my version 1.70 is a lot more stable
than it ever was before. The recommendation is for this bug to be
en
>I'm getting even with you guys for disparaging one of my favorite mailers
>by insinuating that NetMail cannot be set up so as to integrate very nicely
>with external programs such as mpack for encoding attachments and inserting
>MIME headers. Behold, I send you an example:
>
>Sam Heywood
Does O
(from Jake Young):
>I've found that JPEGs in rather deeply nested directories
>weren't displaying after converting. It's a URL-length limit
>rather than going "too deep". Below shows how far (or long)
>I've been able to go -- it roughly corresponds to all but the
>file-extension showing in the UR
>With regard to the suggestion that metamail or mpack can be used as
>external programs to insert MIME headers in a mail message. It appears to
>me that metamail will only help read incoming mail sent to me from
>someone else. Am I missing something? Mpack apparently will encode
>outgoing mail, b
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