Found! Download site for many hundreds of DOS utilities!

2001-10-14 Thread Richard Menedetter
Hi 14 Oct 2001, "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: SH> http://sac-ftp.externet.hu/index.html SH> SAC FTP MIRROR Hungary likes SAC ... there is even a computer magazine, which gives out parts of SAC on the CD belonging to the magazine. http://www.sac.sk/ SH> Does anybody know wh

Re: Gopher

2001-10-14 Thread Clarence Verge
On Sun, 14 Oct 2001 18:17:50 -0400, Glenn McCorkle wrote: > How's this one look? (made after setting up in 256 color mode) > http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/better03.gif Very nice. The Arachne Title bar and frame seem to be the same color as mine now. You should be using my NEWVIDEO.zip to

Re: Fly Your Flag

2001-10-14 Thread Clarence Verge
On Sun, 14 Oct 2001 18:38:13 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: > On Sun, 14 Oct 2001 16:54:11 -0400, Glenn McCorkle wrote: >> On Sat, 13 Oct 2001 14:27:49 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: >>> ATTN: Sam Ewalt I understand the marine meaning of an upside down flag to be a signal of distress. Per

sac

2001-10-14 Thread neil
Doesn't SAC stand for Strategic Air Command? Neil T.

Re: sac

2001-10-14 Thread Samuel W. Heywood
On Sun, 14 Oct 2001 23:39:12 EDT, "neil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Doesn't SAC stand for Strategic Air Command? > Neil T. It used to. AFAIK there is no longer any military organization with that designation. Hasn't been for several decades. Sam Heywood -- This mail was written by user of T

Re: hp pavilion

2001-10-14 Thread Samuel W. Heywood
On Sun, 14 Oct 2001 18:36:57 -0700, Rick Orr wrote: > Am flying "Old Glory" most incorrectly in several instances ... > including a well-worn 48 star ver. It is never incorrect to display an outdated version of Old Glory. My grandfather was never ashamed to show off to his grandchildren his tato

Found! Download site for many hundreds of DOS utilities!

2001-10-14 Thread Samuel W. Heywood
Hey all you web-weaving Arachnids: Go here, and eat your heart out: http://sac-ftp.externet.hu/index.html SAC FTP MIRROR Does anybody know what "SAC" stands for? I used to know what it stands for, but that was back in days when the Air Force was still flying B-36's . It probably stands for some

Re: hp pavilion

2001-10-14 Thread Rick Orr
Hi Neil & all, I was given an HP Pavilion (stripped ... but I got a 300Mhz AMDK6 & a 56k modem out of it) that apparently had a MB prob ... not uncommon I guess. I got GreyCat Linux working from a ramdisk ... on all my puters 'cept the 8088 & 286 stuf . Arachne 1.65/386DX40/8mb/14.4 still my ba

hp pavilion

2001-10-14 Thread neil
Greetings all supposedly my Pavilion had a bad hard drive...the second bad one in 2 years and I went to Comp to deliver the recovery disk so they could make the final check, and now they tell me I also have a bad floppy drive! Am I the only person that ever has problems with hard drives?

Re: Downloading LHA

2001-10-14 Thread Samuel W. Heywood
On Sun, 14 Oct 2001 16:38:49 -0400, L.D. Best wrote: > Sam & others -- my apologies for not being able to read German. > Picky picky picky! The reason LHArc couldn't be found is that it was > replaced by LHA years ago I remember that now, after having memory > jogged by a few sites. > Try

Pegasus 3.5 for DOS and PCPINE

2001-10-14 Thread ANDY
I downloaded and 'tried' setting up Pegasus 3.5 for DOS on a zip disk, all in order to try to get it to read my unix PINE e-mailboxes/folders... it seems *extremely* complicated... too much un-aided for this night... I only want it to try to be able open/read my (downloaded from a digital tel.

Re: lharc ver 3.1x

2001-10-14 Thread Ken Martwick
In my experience, the only OS to use the "TTP" extension was TOS (Tramiel Operating System) for the Atari "ST" computers. There are still occasional programs with Atari versions by those of us who lament their passing Ken Martwick On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: > On Sat, 13 Oct 2

LHA LHARC English text

2001-10-14 Thread Bastiaan Edelman
To all concerned... LHA === LHA version 2.55b Copyright (c) Haruyasu Yoshizaki, 1988-92 === <<< A High-Performance File-Compression Program >>> 11/24/92 === Usage: LHA [/option[-+012|WDIR]] [DIR\] [filenames] -

Re: Fly Your Flag

2001-10-14 Thread Samuel W. Heywood
On Sun, 14 Oct 2001 16:54:11 -0400, Glenn McCorkle wrote: > On Sat, 13 Oct 2001 14:27:49 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: >> ATTN: Sam Ewalt >> To answer your question asking for specific information and >> details, the US Corporation that prohibited employees from >> displaying little American

Re: Gopher

2001-10-14 Thread Glenn McCorkle
On Sun, 14 Oct 2001 03:11:36 -0400, Clarence Verge wrote: > On Sat, 13 Oct 2001 16:55:50 -0400, Glenn McCorkle wrote: >> On Fri, 12 Oct 2001 02:32:25 -0400, Clarence Verge wrote: >>> Next time you should wipe the dust off the screen before taking your >>> screenshots. I assume you use .jpg due

Re: Opinion feedback collected by news sites

2001-10-14 Thread Samuel W. Heywood
On Sun, 14 Oct 2001 15:12:35 -0400 (EDT), Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: >> In a democracy the politician who can have the people >> believing that his opinions reflect those of the majority will >> win the election. Because of this, it is in th

Re: lharc ver 3.1x

2001-10-14 Thread Samuel W. Heywood
On Sun, 14 Oct 2001 13:31:27 -0400 (EDT), Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The manuals repeatedly refer to ST. This is the > "Atari ST." In perusing the manual I noticed that it referred to the Atari. Isn't Atari just the name of a long since defunct computer manufacturer? Did the Atari mach

Re: does anyone use PCPINE?

2001-10-14 Thread Samuel W. Heywood
On Sun, 14 Oct 2001 14:33:00 -0400 (EDT), ANDY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > I am having difficulty getting PCPINE to recognize new folders... Very good questions, Andy. I see questions like yours asked and answered every day in the newsgroup "comp.mail.pine" The Pine newsgroup ha

Re: Fly Your Flag

2001-10-14 Thread Glenn McCorkle
On Sat, 13 Oct 2001 14:27:49 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: > ATTN: Sam Ewalt > To answer your question asking for specific information and > details, the US Corporation that prohibited employees from > displaying little American flags on their desks is NCII > Holdings, Inc., of Boca Raton, Flo

Re: connect to Internet via modem

2001-10-14 Thread L.D. Best
Cristian, Two things: Write down what the screen says at that 56K line, so you can attempt to get a new *valid* login script into Arachne.cfg ... Try setting up another ACF with the configuration to use BOOTP even though it would be a PPP connection; I think the PPP part goes into

Downloading LHA

2001-10-14 Thread L.D. Best
Sam & others -- my apologies for not being able to read German. Picky picky picky! The reason LHArc couldn't be found is that it was replaced by LHA years ago I remember that now, after having memory jogged by a few sites. Try here ... http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/pa3byz/LHA21

Re: Re[2]: Gopher

2001-10-14 Thread Glenn McCorkle
On Sat, 13 Oct 2001 09:33:59 -0400 (EDT), Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, sodjiin wrote: >> S> Hmmm... Did msie5 actually display the images, or >> S> did it just allow you to download them for later >> S> viewing? If msie can view them, I wonder why Arachne >> S> can

Re: connect to Internet via modem

2001-10-14 Thread Cristian Burneci
Hello everyone! (especially those experiencing difficulties connecting through a modem :-) Glenn McCorkle wrote: >Claus, > >Does this look familiar??? ;-) > >- -- screen cap of "manual login" -- >MINITERM 1.65 - external dialer for PPP/SLIP drivers. (c)2000 Arachne Labs. >

Re: Opinion feedback collected by news sites

2001-10-14 Thread Steve
On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: > In a democracy the politician who can have the people > believing that his opinions reflect those of the majority will > win the election. Because of this, it is in the best > interests of politicians to see to it that the public opinion > polls ar

does anyone use PCPINE?

2001-10-14 Thread ANDY
Hi all, I am having difficulty getting PCPINE to recognize new folders... I used to be able to simply download using sz -a my huge unix PINE Inbox, splitting it up into smaller chunks then simply renaming these chunks with a .MTX extension and moving them over to :\MAIL... at this point I

Re: lharc ver 3.1x

2001-10-14 Thread Steve
On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: > > http://www.stud.uni-hamburg.de/~in5y280/lharc.html Top of the page says Atari. > This version comes > with comprehensive manuals in German and English, but it is not > for DOS. The syntax explained in the manuals looks very unixish > to me.

Re: Opinion feedback collected by news sites

2001-10-14 Thread Samuel W. Heywood
On Sun, 14 Oct 2001 12:02:02 -0400 (EDT), Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: >> Of course it is to everyone's advantage to have it appear that his >> own opinion, whatever it may be, reflects the opinion of the >> majority. > I have voted, without m

Re: German translation of LHARC.DOC please

2001-10-14 Thread Samuel W. Heywood
On Sat, 13 Oct 2001 12:01:32 -0400, Roger Turk wrote: > Sam, > I found lha255b.exe on the following web site (searching on google for, > "lharc dos" w/o quotes): > www.cit.uws.edu.au/pub/pc/archivers/dos/ > There was also an english translation (lha255b.txt) of the manual at that > website: T

Re: lharc ver 3.1x

2001-10-14 Thread Samuel W. Heywood
On Sat, 13 Oct 2001 03:33:07 -0400, L.D. Best wrote: > Sam & all others interested, > Try this URL [just about the 1st listing on google search for 'lharc > download'] if you want lharc. It says it has a German/English version > and there's a direct download of the ZIP file. > http://www.stud

Re: Opinion feedback collected by news sites

2001-10-14 Thread Samuel W. Heywood
On Sun, 14 Oct 2001 10:59:07 +0200 (CEST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Menedetter) wrote: > Hi > 14 Oct 2001, "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > SH> Questions: Do these web pages designed for the purpose of collecting > SH> opinions from the public usually have some kind of mechan

Re: Opinion feedback collected by news sites

2001-10-14 Thread Steve
On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: > Of course it is to everyone's advantage to have it appear that his > own opinion, whatever it may be, reflects the opinion of the > majority. I have voted, without much regularity, over a period of a couple of years at vote.com. Once I vote, a

Opinion feedback collected by news sites

2001-10-14 Thread Richard Menedetter
Hi 14 Oct 2001, "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: SH> Questions: Do these web pages designed for the purpose of collecting SH> opinions from the public usually have some kind of mechanism to SH> collect only one vote per IP number per each site access on the same SH> site? usua

Integrity of voting sites?

2001-10-14 Thread Arachne4Dos
Hi Sam and gangue, This is kind of similar to the "Vote for my Site" charts, isn't it? I recall one where the lead site was using absolute positioning on their main web page for a floating frame, which was positioned to "capture" the mouse pointer when it came up, and then used an IE5 "OnMous