Re: BasicLinux: compatibility with DOS?

2002-01-24 Thread Clarence Verge
On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 22:55:31 -0500 (EST), Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matter of fact, if you write Assembly for a 586, > it very likely won't even run on a 386. But if you write it for a '386 it bloody well better run on a '586. - Clarence Verge - Back to using Arachne V1.62

More Re: BasicLinux - diving in.

2002-01-24 Thread Clarence Verge
On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 11:43:38 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Clarence Verge wrote: >> I'm not gonna restart it and chck them all out, but right off >> I can say Tab and shiftTAB totally screw with my browsing. > I've just run the links browser. Tab and shiftTAB do absolutely > nothing. That

Re: BasicLinux: compatibility with DOS?

2002-01-24 Thread Steve
On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ wrote: > On Wed, 23 Jan 2002 23:15:38 -0500 (EST), Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The advantage of C is that it's cross-platform. > > A C program isn't inherently "DOS" or Linux, or > > even x86, PPC, sparc, or 68xxx. > > Sure, take your "Hel

Re: third trial

2002-01-24 Thread Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ
Hi Sam, thanks for your reaction. All is OK now and I can see my own postings again. Changed my mailaddress. The old one seems to be boycotted (on Arachne list only). This started at the moment I had that terrorist name at the "subject" line. At first no mail from the list came through and apperen

Re: BasicLinux: compatibility with DOS?

2002-01-24 Thread Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ
On Wed, 23 Jan 2002 23:15:38 -0500 (EST), Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 23 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> 2. If you have the C source code for a very small DOS program, such as >> for the "Hello World" program, for example, can it be very easily >> modified and re-compiled on

Re: BasicLinux - diving in.

2002-01-24 Thread ichi
Clarence Verge wrote: > > Wellanyway, THIS version behaves VERY differently. This version appears to be correct. The version you were using before was faulty. > I found it accidentally. I would NEVER have found it > without mc. Perhaps. I reckon that by using d, you can find lots of stuff.

Re: Linux - diving in.

2002-01-24 Thread Cristian Burneci
On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ wrote: > Are there enough programs for Linux? > At least I need: Word > Something like adobe photo shop > Drawing electronic diagrams > Excell > Lots of... and most of them free, in comparison wit

Re: Is msn.com a pseudo ISP?

2002-01-24 Thread Matt Bahls
I don't know for sure, but I did hear a few weeks back that you can't download Netscape using the MSN Explorer or whatever they call their GUI. My sister has MSN, but I think she just got her computer and I think she runs everything as it came so I can't really help you there either. Matt >Hel

Re: Arachne vs. links

2002-01-24 Thread ichi
Clarence Verge wrote: > > I'm not gonna restart it and chck them all out, but right off > I can say Tab and shiftTAB totally screw with my browsing. I've just run the links browser. Tab and shiftTAB do absolutely nothing. > And about "Q" ? It gets me to that damned pulldown Pressing Q exit

Re: BasicLinux - diving in.

2002-01-24 Thread Glenn McCorkle
On Wed, 23 Jan 2002 23:20:49 -0400, Clarence Verge wrote: > On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 07:24:01 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Clarence Verge wrote: >>> > - >>> > Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on >>> > /dev/ram0

Re: (OT) NewDeal==BadDeal

2002-01-24 Thread Glenn McCorkle
On 23 Jan 2002 00:05:00 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hallo Glenn, > Hello Glenn, > Du meintest am 20.01.02 um 21:26 zum Thema "(OT) NewDeal==BadDeal": > You wrote: >> Well, I got fed-up with trying to D/L a newer version of NewDeal >> than the one I already had. >> So, I did a little diggi

Re: Arachne vs. links

2002-01-24 Thread Clarence Verge
On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 06:16:50 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Clarence Verge wrote: >> Links sucks. The keys are all wrong for me. >> just prefer Lynx. :) > I thought the Links keys were supposed to be modeled > on the Lynx keys. Which ones are bothering you? I'm not gonna restart it and chc

Re: PTS-DOS32 - Demo available

2002-01-24 Thread sheywood
On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 21:49:08 +0300 Casily wrote: > By the way, does anybody know how to run Rockwell HCF 56K DataFax PCI > under DOS ?;-) I don't know for certain if this true, but I have heard that there are no PCI modems that will work under DOS : ((( Sam Heywood -- This message sent by Basi

Prob with RTF is known feature?

2002-01-24 Thread Vasily Zatsepin
Hi all, a week ago I've encountered new for me "feature" of Insight - corruption of attached RFT-file. May be it's not worth to note that using Arachne on dayly basis more then 4 years I was just little shocked (I've never sent RTF to someone by email). Regards, - -- Vasily Zatsepin |

PTS-DOS32 Demo available

2002-01-24 Thread Vasily Zatsepin
Hi all arachnophils/arachnids/arachnoids/arachnians, you can make an attempt to play with subj: http://www.phystechsoft.com/free/ptsds32r.zip (size is about 750K). The Demo is with 1 minute load delay (announced as full functional). It's pity but this stuff (installation instruction) is in Russ

Re: Linux and Netscape

2002-01-24 Thread Samuel W. Heywood
On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 07:51:36 -0500, Sam Ewalt wrote: > On Wed, 23 Jan 2002 10:10:28 -0500 (EST), Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Anyway, most webpages are using JS 1.2 these days. >> (I keep JS ON all the time in NS 4.79, and only use >> that browser when absolutely necessary.) > I'm going

Re: Arachne vs. links

2002-01-24 Thread ichi
Clarence Verge wrote: > > Links sucks. The keys are all wrong for me. > just prefer Lynx. :) I thought the Links keys were supposed to be modeled on the Lynx keys. Which ones are bothering you? Cheers, Steven

Re: Linux and Netscape

2002-01-24 Thread Steve
On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Sam Ewalt wrote: > On Wed, 23 Jan 2002 10:10:28 -0500 (EST), Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Anyway, most webpages are using JS 1.2 these days. > > (I keep JS ON all the time in NS 4.79, and only use > > that browser when absolutely necessary.) > > I'm going to ask a

Re: Fw: Re: Partition Magic for DOS?

2002-01-24 Thread Roger Turk
Thomas Mueller asked: . > When Partition Magic reduces the size of a big FAT16 partition, only a . > small percentage occupied, from 2 GB to 255 MB, would the allocation unit . > be reduced from 32768 bytes to 4096 bytes? Yes. In fact, you can even specify the size of the allocation (cluster

Re: Linux and Arachne

2002-01-24 Thread Sam Ewalt
On Wed, 23 Jan 2002 13:45:50 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: > I'm surprised at the lack of a very large and well organized consumer > interest group to protest the modern developments on the web. The On the whole the general public prefers flashy show to efficient substance. In other words,

Re: Linux and Netscape

2002-01-24 Thread Sam Ewalt
On Wed, 23 Jan 2002 10:10:28 -0500 (EST), Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyway, most webpages are using JS 1.2 these days. > (I keep JS ON all the time in NS 4.79, and only use > that browser when absolutely necessary.) I'm going to ask a naive question for the sake of discussion. Why not

Re: Linux and Arachne

2002-01-24 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Sam Ewalt: > I'm not up on my Netscape versions. Why 3.04? Was that the one before it expanded to Communicator? > Aren't they up to 6 or 7 by now? For everyday web browsing are you giving up much functionality with 3.04? I'm not sure what's the latest Netscape, but they get more bloat

Re: Fw: Re: Partition Magic for DOS?

2002-01-24 Thread Thomas Mueller
> I have found that with Partition Magic I can make another partition on my drive, either for DOS or for Linux, without having to re-format the whole thing and erase all the data that is already on it. I can't do that with DOS FDISK. I never tried FDISK for Linux. I'm still to much of a

Re: dosemu

2002-01-24 Thread Thomas Mueller
> The hdimage.first is the image containing your dos files like command.com, io.sys, etc. if you're using the included FreeDOS kernel. Without a /var/lib/dosemu/hdimage.first, you basically don't have a virtual C drive. You *can* set it up to use an existing DOS partition, but it'