Arachne Minimalist - Vol 2 Num 2

2001-02-27 Thread Christof Lange
> The Arachne Minimalist - Vol 2 Num 2 > by Clarence Verge ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > I can't delay any longer. I'll have to try to > answer some questions. But first, something for > those that would like a clean, more conservative > appearance for their favorite browser. Did you > 640x480 users n

Re: (OT) the funniest 404.....

2001-02-27 Thread L.D. Best
Hey, that sounds familiar ... On Tue, 27 Feb 2001 08:29:56 -000, Mike Millen wrote: > As a aid to understanding the confusion I might point out that THHGTTG > was first written as a Radio Play for the BBC. > The books, TV series, LPs and T-shirts of the same thing all came later, > when it beca

OT hitch hikers guide

2001-02-27 Thread Neil Smith
Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Must be something to do with the british sense of humour hehehe I think if you read some of douglas adams' work you'd be ROFL! http://www.geocities.com/Area51/8418/ try this - "here i am, brain the size of a planet and all they do is ask me to open door

Dir2Htm for Arachne

2001-02-27 Thread Christof Lange
Hi list, I corrected two bugs in my dir2htm utility and adapted its HTML layout to Arachne's directory listing. If you want to try it you can download it at: http://www.volny.cz/lange/dir2htm.zip Regards Christof Lange Dir2Htm for Arachne === An external program lists all f

Re: (OT) the funniest 404.....

2001-02-27 Thread Glenn McCorkle
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001 08:26:38 +0100 (CET), Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Glenn asked: >> Not to be picky... but how can one have a "four book trilogy". ;-) > Actually it's a five book trilogy. The last one is called "Mostly > Harmless (Hitchhiker's Trilogy, No 5)". I think the reason for th

Hangups about ASFs

2001-02-27 Thread Clarence Verge
Bernie wrote: > > Mel wrote: > >The .asf script seems to work ok up untill it is asked to close > >down.That is, it accesses the pop3 server ok, then the smtp server but > >then things go xswap shaped there on in. > > And do you have a history list before you run the ASF? As I said (over one > wee

Re: New version of ADSL driver

2001-02-27 Thread Bernie
Joerg wrote: >the author of pepa.exe just sent me the new version of pepa.exe (1.6). The >package contains two executables, one with all functions implemented, >and a smaller one which doesn't support IP mascarading (not needed on a >single machine). This gives me 24kB more free mem 'cuz transmit

Re: environment space

2001-02-27 Thread Christof Lange
On 26 Feb 01 at 10:20, owner-arachne-digest@arachne wrote: >Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 15:12:06 -0500 >From: Clarence Verge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: environment space >Let's try to get some REAL info the only way that ever works. Experiment. Clarence and victims of limited environment spa

Re: Test

2001-02-27 Thread Bernie
Mel wrote: >The .asf script seems to work ok up untill it is asked to close >down.That is, it accesses the pop3 server ok, then the smtp server but >then things go xswap shaped there on in. And do you have a history list before you run the ASF? As I said (over one week ago) I think I know what th

Re: (OT) Re: Unisys & GIF

2001-02-27 Thread Bernie
Clarence wrote: >No, I don't think that is the first step, because, as you point out, a lot >of servers send EVERYTHING as text/plain. :(( >I have asked Michael to consider allowing the extension to take priority >over mime type so we can get around these server problems in many areas. >His respo

Re: (OT) Re: Unisys & GIF

2001-02-27 Thread Bernie
Glenn wrote: > So if I understand correctly, what Arachne would need to do is to >disregard "content-type" when "content-encoding" is sent. No we can't disregard it, Arachne must still remember it so it knows what kind of plugin to use. However it needs to uncompress the file. And as I mentioned

Re: regarding suppposed threat of new Juno TOS

2001-02-27 Thread Bernie
Binky quoted from Wall Street Journal: >In >distributed computing, third-party computer users, often >scientific researchers engaged in large-scale projects, access >the hard drive space of individual users when their computers >would otherwise not be on. Once again, it is NOT the hard drive they

Re: (OT) Re: Unisys & GIF

2001-02-27 Thread Bernie
Glenn wrote: >If Arachne were to treat "embed src=" exactly the same as if it was >"img src=".. everything would work fine in both NS and Arachne. > >Michael and Bernie, > >Do you think that would be possible ??? We can't treat it the same, but we must treat it similar. I can't remember why M

Re: Use Arachne's connection to run other DOS internet apps.

2001-02-27 Thread Samuel W. Heywood
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001 08:06:12 -0500 (EST) Howard Eisenberger wrote: On Mon, 26 Feb 2001 09:55:31, "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Quoting Howard Eisenberger: > > I normally load the packet driver before running Arachne (see > > Alejandro's message), so this is something I overlook

Re: Is this an A1.70 BUG ? (wasRe: LSPPP)

2001-02-27 Thread Sam Ewalt
Oh, so that's what Glenn and Clarence were talking about. Yep, that's what it does for me too. I had *no idea* what they meant. On Tue, 27 Feb 2001 09:53:26 +, Ron Clarke wrote: > Hi Folks, >>> After hitting , move your cursor off of "Arachne 1.70" >> It's a feature. > It works for A1.

New version of ADSL driver

2001-02-27 Thread Joerg Dietze
Hi folks, the author of pepa.exe just sent me the new version of pepa.exe (1.6). The package contains two executables, one with all functions implemented, and a smaller one which doesn't support IP mascarading (not needed on a single machine). This gives me 24kB more free mem 'cuz transmit buffer

Re: Use Arachne's connection to run other DOS internet apps.

2001-02-27 Thread Howard Eisenberger
On Mon, 26 Feb 2001 09:55:31, "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I normally load the packet driver before running Arachne (see > > Alejandro's message), so this is something I overlooked. > > If you load the packet driver *before* loading Arachne, then you > can easily produce

Re: Use Arachne's connection to run other DOS internet apps

2001-02-27 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Sam Heywood: >I have had the experience of finding that WATTCP.CFG in some DOS internet >apps require that the location of PATH.CFG be specified as a relative >pathname instead of as an absolue pathname. This means that >"include=C:\ARACHNE\PATH.CFG" would not work in WATTCP.CFG in some app

Re: Use Arachne's connection to run other DOS internet apps

2001-02-27 Thread Alejandro Lieber
On 25 Feb 01 at 15:44, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: > Your batch file will work fine as long as your WATTCP.CFG file is the > same for all of your apps. Some of my applications have different > requirements for entries in WATTCP.CFG, but all of them must include > PATH.CFG. > Sam Heywood As I expl

Arachne 1.62,1.66,1.67,1.70 - animation bug.

2001-02-27 Thread Clarence Verge
Hi Michael, All; I don't normally care about animation, so this is the first time I have encountered this bug. I have read reports before that sometimes reducing the memory allocated as XMS for All, fixes some animation problems. I, also, have found a strangness associated with the value "XMS for

Re: (OT) the funniest 404.....

2001-02-27 Thread Mike Millen
>Glenn asked: >> Not to be picky... but how can one have a "four book trilogy". ;-) >Actually it's a five book trilogy. The last one is called "Mostly >Harmless (Hitchhiker's Trilogy, No 5)". I think the reason for the >naming is that it started out as a trilogy that expanded. >//Ber

Re: environment space

2001-02-27 Thread Howard Schwartz
I do not know how interesting or useful this is for anyone but: Long ago I used a hex editor or debug to patch my command.com so that it always gave about 1k of environment space. Simtel has a file with instructions on what to look for in the binary to do this. You have to improvise a bit for diff