Re: Where are the rest of the files???

2001-07-18 Thread Gregory J. Feig
On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, "L.D. Best" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm so furious at this @$!!! I won't reply to him any further. I *did* > try the search function, using the file names themselves, in my crippled > Win3.1 NetScape I have to use for javascripted sites. I got a blank > screen with in

Re: Very Serious Re: SIMTEL Re: Where are the rest of the files???

2001-07-18 Thread Clarence Verge
On Wed, 18 Jul 2001 21:51:21 -0400, Glenn McCorkle wrote: > Clarence, > I Don't know whether or not I'm the 3rd person you are reffering to. > (if not make that 4 interested parties) :))) You were. > FWIW, > I have decided not to wait for the time when I have "Road-Runner". > D/Ling of

Re: LETMIS

2001-07-18 Thread Clarence Verge
On Wed, 18 Jul 2001 01:45:21 -0700, Gregory J. Feig wrote: > PS...just so we don't really show up as using that name "SL" > too much on any webcrawler, let us use L.D.'s suggestion and > refer to it as Subject: LETMIS... I couldn't figure "letmis" - thot it was litmus misspelled. My suggest

Re: Very Serious Re: SIMTEL Re: Where are the rest of the files???

2001-07-18 Thread Clarence Verge
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001 10:44:32 +, Ron Clarke wrote: > Ya never know ! This could become rather important, and even start to > attract the stuff still being written. Remember, there is a heap of > stuff out there that has never been uploaded to any of the public > archives. Even my own freewar

Re: Questions

2001-07-18 Thread Glenn McCorkle
On Wed, 18 Jul 2001 00:53:01 -0400, Clarence Verge wrote: > On Tue, 17 Jul 2001 21:24:27 -0400, Glenn McCorkle wrote: >> On Sun, 15 Jul 2001 13:38:19 -0500, Clarence Verge wrote: >>> Try ECHO cntrlG >> Just tried that. >> It does not work on this machine. > Well now, I didn't mean to enter it

Re: Cluster size.

2001-07-18 Thread Roger Turk
Laurie, What Clarence says is correct, but I don't think that he said enough. If you use fdisk to reformat your HD, you will lose files on the drive. I would suggest a program like Partition Magic that will resize partitions on the fly and not require the partition be reformatted. I have a 5

Re: Very Serious Re: SIMTEL Re: Where are the rest of the files???

2001-07-18 Thread Clarence Verge
Bastiaan Edelman wrote: > > Hi Clarence, > > In (amateur) packet radio wget is used to download from a BBS. > Before you can use wget you need a file name and path from the BBS > directory... > The commands "DIR" and/or "LIST" will give you the details... path, > name, size, date. Excellent. Th

Re: Fw: Re: Where are the rest of the files???

2001-07-18 Thread Samuel W. Heywood
On Wed, 18 Jul 2001 15:25:15 -0500, L.D. Best wrote: > Anyone else want to take up his challenge and discover just where in the > hell their new index hides Win3.1 drivers??? > - Forwarded message begin - > From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > They certainly are. > I just di

Re: Cluster size.

2001-07-18 Thread Clarence Verge
Laurie L Proud wrote: > > Hi All, > > Clarence...I am presently stuck with 16K cluster size on this 800Mb HD. > > When I Format C:/u apart from several logical drives is there another > way to to reduce cluster size when I switch to 6.3 First, a question: What is 6.3 ? Second, the only ways I

Re: Very Serious Re: SIMTEL Re: Where are the rest of the files???

2001-07-18 Thread Glenn McCorkle
On Tue, 17 Jul 2001 20:21:44 -0500, Clarence Verge wrote: > Once again, I will suggest we accept the fact that Simtel is GONE for us > and do something about it ourselves. > It's fine to talk a bit at first, but no one is talking. > Does that mean that only LD and I are seriously concerned ? >

Cluster size.

2001-07-18 Thread Laurie L Proud
Hi All, Clarence...I am presently stuck with 16K cluster size on this 800Mb HD. When I Format C:/u apart from several logical drives is there another way to to reduce cluster size when I switch to 6.3 Thank-you Laurie -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/

Re: Very Serious Re: SIMTEL Re: Where are the rest of the files???

2001-07-18 Thread Ron Clarke
Hi Folks, Clarence Verge wrote: > Once again, I will suggest we accept the fact that Simtel is GONE for us > and do something about it ourselves. I think you are absolutely right. > It's fine to talk a bit at first, but no one is talking. > Does that mean that only LD and I are seriously co

Re: Very Serious Re: SIMTEL Re: Where are the rest of the files???

2001-07-18 Thread Bastiaan Edelman
On Wed, 18 Jul 2001 01:02:36 -0400, Clarence Verge wrote: > Thanks, Sam; > Could some regular user of wget tell me if there is a way to know in > advance just how big each yank is going to be ? > - Clarence Verge > - Back to using Arachne V1.62 Hi Clarence, In (amateur) packet radio wget

Re: Printers for DOS [was Re: Questions]

2001-07-18 Thread Bastiaan Edelman
On Wed, 18 Jul 2001 15:21:3 +0800, J. J. Young wrote: >> Lars wrote: >>> Next time you buy a printer, make sure there is a set-up program for DOS >>> included. ;-) Best instruction book I ever got with a printer was the NEC P2200, all aspects and tricks are covered... 12 years ago. Now using a

Re: Questions [beep]

2001-07-18 Thread Bastiaan Edelman
On Tue, 17 Jul 2001 22:26:34 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: > On Tue, 17 Jul 2001 21:24:27 -0400, Glenn McCorkle wrote: >> On Sun, 15 Jul 2001 13:38:19 -0500, Clarence Verge wrote: >>> What kind of beer makes defrag look like a good beep source ? >>> Try ECHO cntrlG > I have a program named

Re: POP3 - Can anyone deal

2001-07-18 Thread Samuel W. Heywood
On Wed, 18 Jul 2001 17:14:9 +0800, J. J. Young wrote: > Sam H wrote: >> Merely filtering out HTML email would not stop the KAK worm from getting >> through and infecting your machine if you open the message by using >> Outlook Express and with JavaScript enabled. > Are you saying OE leaps into a

Fw: Re: Where are the rest of the files???

2001-07-18 Thread L.D. Best
I'm so furious at this @$!!! I won't reply to him any further. I *did* try the search function, using the file names themselves, in my crippled Win3.1 NetScape I have to use for javascripted sites. I got a blank screen with instructions to simplify my search, or some such thing. Anyone else wan

LONG - The good ol' days (was: Using DOS internet app...)

2001-07-18 Thread Steve
On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Roger Turk wrote: > Compuserve started out as a bulletin board service (BBS) which > was accessible using *any* communications program as everything on Compuserve > was pure text and *fast*. . It developed into the most diverse BBS of all of > its competitors with a multi

Re: POP3 - Can anyone deal

2001-07-18 Thread Bernie
L.D wrote: >Like Ron, I have telnetted directly into an ISP to access my account; >the server *always* prompts for user & password. You connected to a telnet server. >I have also done a LOT of shell account accessing for FTP, and once >again the server *always* prompts for user & password. That

Re: Protocol droids (was: Re: Questions)

2001-07-18 Thread Bernie
Lars wrote: >Let me know if you want to borrow my Episode 1 DVD. Could be nice for me, >especially as you don't have a DVD player ;-) Yeah, yeah very funy. I'll buy a DVD player this fall. Do you know if there are programs to use it in DOS? I mean, to watch the content on it (not just to make a d

Re: The Elks?

2001-07-18 Thread Bernie
Mel wrote: >"The Elks are protesting"? A song? and you claim never to have sent >an e-mail to the list under the influence of intoxicating substances? Not that I can remember at this point ;-) >Surely such a song must have been written under the affluence of >incohal at the every least! 8>) hi

arachne-digest V1 #1587

2001-07-18 Thread Ray Andrews
Hi Sam H. I'd love to get a copy of your external editor APM so that I can use a text based editor from within Arachne. Not only do I find text based writing faster and better in almost every way, but my dual monitor TSR only works in text mode, and dual monitors is *very* addictive once your us

Re: POP3 - Can anyone deal

2001-07-18 Thread J. J. Young
Sam H wrote: >Merely filtering out HTML email would not stop the KAK worm from getting >through and infecting your machine if you open the message by using >Outlook Express and with JavaScript enabled. Are you saying OE leaps into action when it sees scripting it recognizes within the body of a p

Re: POP3 - Can anyone deal

2001-07-18 Thread Samuel W. Heywood
On Wed, 18 Jul 2001 15:20:59 +0800, J. J. Young wrote: > Answer: both. It's on a large list of people who are obviously PC users, but > very > few would claim any expertise. It's quite amusing/horrifying to hear some of > their > experiences; willingness to try M$IE6 etc. After problems with th

Re: COM/IP

2001-07-18 Thread J. J. Young
Dan wrote: >>I am one of those dedicated DOS users, with his favorite DOS games. I >>have a DOS game that plays well when shelled from arachne and can be >>played via modem or direct null modem. Here is the question. Is there >>a way to play the game live, via telnet, like com/ip allows in wind

Re: POP3 - Can anyone deal

2001-07-18 Thread J. J. Young
On 15/07/01 Thomas wrote: >>Now I wonder, has anybody hit a snag downloading mail with Outlook Express? > >>I hear of such problems frequently, and hence heard of http://www.mail2web.com > >Jake, > >Do those problems you hear of occur with Outlook Express as the sending >software, or as the receiv

Re: Using DOS internet applications with

2001-07-18 Thread Roger Turk
Sam, Perhaps a little further explanation on access to Compuserve would be appropriate. Compuserve started out as a bulletin board service (BBS) which was accessible using *any* communications program as everything on Compuserve was pure text and *fast*. . It developed into the most diverse

Printers for DOS [was Re: Questions]

2001-07-18 Thread J. J. Young
>Lars wrote: >>Next time you buy a printer, make sure there is a set-up program for DOS >>included. ;-) > >Hmm... somehow I doubt that there's one with new printers. I hope it's still the case with Brother laser printers. If not, the models from a few years ago are regularly advertised and the co

Re: Using DOS internet applications with pseudo-ISPs.

2001-07-18 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Bacchaus Anew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: AOL, CompuServe, and MSN are the only pseduo-ISPs I know of. Earthlink is not, however they do provide proprietary software, which is essentially wizards and front-ends to configuring your internet settings. Any software that assigns you an IP

Re: Saving downloaded pages [was Re: downloading

2001-07-18 Thread J. J. Young
Use an older version (1.64 or 1.66) with a *working* cache index, and save the cache contents. When you want to view the saved page(s), copy the saved files into the emptied cache. There are easier ways to accomplish this with Win3.1x software, but I'm not sure how "pure" you want to be :-) Jake

Re: LETMIS

2001-07-18 Thread Gregory J. Feig
On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, "Clarence Verge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks, Sam; ..and I would try to help...too > Could some regular user of wget tell me if there is a way to know in > advance just how big each yank is going to be ? ..I don't know if WGET can tell that, but maybe the w9x v