Politics and Poetry

2002-12-15 Thread bobdohse
> Previously, "L.D. Best" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (a bunch of stuff) ... Any disagreement I might have would be minor. All of this concern about independence and liberty makes for some great sources of alternative software - accompanied by a few alternative thoughts. I guess you can't have one

Re: Politics ....Re: Ephiphany re M$

2002-12-15 Thread bobdohse
> On Mon, 16 Dec 2002 Ron Clarke writes: > On Sat, 14 Dec 2002 L.D. Best wrote: > And my friends think ** I ** am a radical. ;-) I'm going to suggest that they join the list and get oriented - (but I'll wait until Majordomo is fixed) By the way, I know that your hearts are good ... becau

Re: Greetings (etc., etc.)

2002-12-15 Thread bobdohse
Hi Ronald, On Mon, 16 Dec 2002 "Ronald Bleckendorf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Nothing wrong with DOS, In fact, I have written > my own brand of DOS as part of a thesis ... Can I interest you in writing the CGI code for my long-hoped-for HTML-to-DBMS interface? > I lecture at one of

Re: WHOA..!!! CDROM IKN

2002-12-15 Thread G J Feig
On Sun, 15 Dec 2002, "Bastiaan Edelman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I will try to make a lock-up and wait for a long time just to see what > happens. Is there any known log-file so we can see/detect what is going > wrong at that lock-up??? Bastiaan, I don't think there is. When we think about

wwwman updated....

2002-12-15 Thread Glenn McCorkle
Hello list, http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/ara171ue01.htm has been updated as follows. Dec 15, 2002... A fresh compile of wwwmane.exe is now ready. Items deleted from the cache by use of either 'Shft+Enter/Delete' while in the cache index listing or the delete key while viewing the item it

jokes are in order, now

2002-12-15 Thread Thomas Tabler
Dear List: Thanks for the joke about Christmas, L.D. Really helps a lot. BTW, seems Arachne Chat crashed on me because my post contained HTML tags. Let's not blame the owner of the List for dumb user errors and inappropriate behaviour. In this season we must, to some degree, abstain f

Wiz wows us again with his knowledge of dos, and other things...

2002-12-15 Thread Thomas Tabler
Dear List {in regards to ARD-1981) Wow!! I am sometimes dumbfounded at the extent of the detailed knowledge of some of the List members! Anyway, that's all well and good, Wizzy, but could you tell us where we can, in the year 2002, procure or find an upgrade to a dos system {not a clean n

your mother's death

2002-12-15 Thread Thomas Tabler
Dear Bastiaan: Sorry to hear about your loss. My condolences. I remember what it was like to lose my mother years ago. I don't know about the "Your computer" bug that much, because I have too many other basic problems on my computer, like printing {which HP has somehow made inaccessib

Re: Greetings [Not necessarily Re: Fix the unsubscribe ....

2002-12-15 Thread Glenn McCorkle
On Mon, 16 Dec 2002 11:02:00 +1000 (E. Australia Standard Time), Ronald Bleckendorf wrote: > As > for everyday life, I am far too practical a person to use DOS in the year > 2002, unless it is for demonstration purposes. I refuse to be trapped in > a > time warp. I don't code programs in machin

Re: Greetings [Not necessarily Re: Fix the unsubscribe ....

2002-12-15 Thread Ronald Bleckendorf
Nothing wrong woth DOS, nothing wrong with Arachne. I've been using computers before there was a practicl operating system around, using on eof the first Altair kit computers at home, and working with main frames since the late 1960's. In fact, I have written my o

Re: Greetings [Not necessarily Re: Fix the unsubscribe ....

2002-12-15 Thread Glenn McCorkle
On Sun, 15 Dec 2002 18:56:58 -0400, L.D. Best wrote: > -- 2002 All right reserved, all wrong ignored, all smiles welcome ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) -- Glenn http://arachne.cz/ http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ http://www.angelfire.com/id

Re: Whoa..!!! now Pardners..!!!

2002-12-15 Thread Glenn McCorkle
On Sun, 15 Dec 2002 17:23:29 -0500, Sam Ewalt wrote: > On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 17:10:43 -0400, Glenn McCorkle wrote: >>> Thank you, Glenn. Incidently, the counter on your page does not >>> work with my Arachne 1.70r3. >> Did you load the images and get the attached ??? > I always load images. The c

Re: Want off the list

2002-12-15 Thread Glenn McCorkle
On Sun, 15 Dec 2002 17:24:11 -, Matt, Nic and Wilf wrote: > Brace yourselves for today's shocking expletive... > *Piffle* > Hope to be leaving you all soon. Thank you Matt, For being as patient as you already have been. And please be patient for a little while longer. Thanks also to Sky

Greetings [Not necessarily Re: Fix the unsubscribe ....

2002-12-15 Thread L.D. Best
Hey crew, SEASONS ... whatever };> T'was two weeks before Christmas, and all through the list hidden lurkers were stating that they got the gist Of the message one miscreant started to shout "I'm here by mistake, LET ME OUT, LET ME OUT!"

Re: Followup Re: Win9X DOS 7 Your Computer Bug

2002-12-15 Thread Laurie L Proud
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 19:44:33 -0600, you wrote: > I'm running in plain > DOS 7 (Windows 95 OSR1 "a" booted into plain DOS) Mine is Windows 95 OSR2 "b". I've just restarted in DOS mode. Rescued CTMOUSE and hit "Your Computer", it freezes the machine solid. CTRL-ALT-DEL has no effect so we have a N

Re: Whoa..!!! now Pardners..!!!

2002-12-15 Thread Glenn McCorkle
On Sun, 15 Dec 2002 11:15:14 +00, Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ wrote: >> now.to your replies: >>> Do you mean the removal of all entries in MIME.CFG, all entries not >>> functional in the basic package of Arachne? IMHO that would be wise >>> since the current situation is quite disturbing, ev

Re: Politics ....Re: Ephiphany re M$

2002-12-15 Thread Ron Clarke
Hi Folks, L.D., On Sat, 14 Dec 2002 22:23:20 -0400, L.D. Best wrote: > First, it must be understood that "illegal" and "unConstitutional" has > NEVER stopped the gov't of the USA. Or various governments in other countries. > George W Bush signed orders which allowed people to read your e-mai

Re: Whoa..!!! now Pardners..!!!

2002-12-15 Thread Glenn McCorkle
On Sun, 15 Dec 2002 03:14:12 -0700, G J Feig wrote: > On Sun, 15 Dec 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> However, IMHO Laurie hits the nail of the problem and apperently Arachne >> or pure DOS cannot handle the "@" in "file:@:*.*". Anyway the disks are >> not find on the computer and Arachne loc

Re: Whoa..!!! now Pardners..!!!

2002-12-15 Thread Sam Ewalt
On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 17:10:43 -0400, Glenn McCorkle wrote: >> Thank you, Glenn. Incidently, the counter on your page does not >> work with my Arachne 1.70r3. > Did you load the images and get the attached ??? I always load images. The counter doesn't show. So I reloaded the page and relaoded t

Re: Unsubscribing from Arachne

2002-12-15 Thread Glenn Gilbreath Jr.
OK, Matt or whomever, Look, I know it is frustrating, but hey...take a wild guess as to how many people YOU are inconveniencing with your pre-buscent actions...you've been told that Michael is out of his country at the moment and not able to manually fix majordomo, so why post all the attachments?

DOSEMUs

2002-12-15 Thread Kali McLaughlin
Dear list: All this discussion of Running Arachne in "various" environments prompts us to comment once again that OS/2 DOSEMU runs Arachne perfectly. DOSEMu for Monkeylinux was impressive, but as it rus on a DOS filesystem it is all a bit superfluous. What we were wondering is whether there are

Your Computer

2002-12-15 Thread Kali McLaughlin
Dear List: Looks like a fat 32 problem. I use DRDOS 6 and have never seen the problem. Kali http://www.nimnet.asn.au/~kali/

Re: Fix the unsubscribe function or I'll get more rude than you can handle...

2002-12-15 Thread Sam Ewalt
On Sat, 14 Dec 2002 21:36:30 -, Matt, Nic and Wilf wrote: > use such blasphemous prophanity that everyone will be begging to get me off > this damn list. > Brace yourselves people. You are in for a tsunami of degenerate, abusive > and profane language. > This is the *only* recourse left to

Re: Fix the unsubscribe function or I'll get more rude than you can handle...

2002-12-15 Thread Bart Buitinga
You are wrong if you think people should arm themselves against malfunctioning majordomo's using spamblockers. That is, unless you acknowledge tat this list has in fact become spam, in which case it's rather futile to threaten with whatever measures against ones internet account. So sorry for thos

Re: Booting Multiple DOSes on a Win9X Machine

2002-12-15 Thread Glenn Gilbreath Jr.
Hi List, Thought I would interject on this one...sorry, I did not quote any of the original message...but, the question was asked if the user could boot into a prior version of DOS on a computer with Win9X installed? YES!!! BUT---the installation of Win9X had to be an "upgrade" of an existing MS

Re: Ray's Poll

2002-12-15 Thread Ron Clarke
Hi Folks, >> Interesting, eh? There are those of us who *always* have the 'your computer' >> bug, and those of us who *never* have it. I think it has something to >> do with FAT32, myself; let's do a poll: all those who have the problem >> under FAT32 say 'aye'; all those who don't have the pro

Want off the list

2002-12-15 Thread Matt, Nic and Wilf
I've been using the Internet since 1994. I know, I know. This makes me a n00b. Suffice to say that this is the first list I've ever joined. And I swear on my mother's life it will also be the last. I joined because I'm a DOS user and I think Arachne is a fantastic program and I needed a little

Re: more "my Computer"

2002-12-15 Thread cce . zizkov
On 15 Dec 02 at 10:42, owner-arachne-digest@arachne wrote: >Reply to Sender: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Would it be possible to boot into DOS with eg DOS 5.0 and boot into >Win95 with its own internal DOS 7?? >Without conflicting OS'es? Bastiaan, IIRC the install CD of Win98 can recognize an exi

bug form

2002-12-15 Thread cce . zizkov
On 14 Dec 02 at 23:51, owner-arachne-digest@arachne wrote: >Michael implemented a sort of standardized "Bug Report"...which, we >were beginning to use, but without new versions, we got out of the >habit of using. Now we are having action, in and around Arachne, >and we need to implement some orga

Re: 2nd Followup Re: Win9X DOS 7 Your Computer Bug

2002-12-15 Thread cce . zizkov
On 13 Dec 02 at 19:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >That's about all I can tell you at the moment. OK, any of >you users who experience this crash have your Arachne installed >on a secondary DOS partition? Or, do all of you have her on >your primary bootable partiton (usually C:)? I have not decid

Re: Glenn's W95 investigations

2002-12-15 Thread cce . zizkov
On 14 Dec 02 at 5:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Glenn I woulden't bother. Arachne isn't rearly meant to be run on >a windows system, and your time could be better spent. Please don't >get up to your elbows in assembler on our account. >Just my view guy's, but there's more pressing job's to do th

Re: Your Computer "Bug" on Win9X/DOS 7.X

2002-12-15 Thread cce . zizkov
On 13 Dec 02 at 19:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >However, if I run DFC in a "DOS box" under Win95, I do >not get this error...Win9X allows DFC to write part of >itself to disk. In DOS 7 this is blocked to protect >LFNs. So, what I think could be happening is a Win9X >machines VFAT is protecting

Re: An HTML Viewer and Database Interface

2002-12-15 Thread Alex Venn
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: ... > THE PROPOSED SOLUTIONS > > The Viewer - > It seems to me that it would be a simple matter to remove elements from > the Arachne code. Of course, it would no longer be Arachne (the web > traveller). But, the limited version could be a learning tool (

W, RIAA and $$$ the second

2002-12-15 Thread Richard Menedetter
Hi All! Great FAQ about the TCPA: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html CU, Ricsi PS: I wonder why people are so nasty to W ... http://ricsi.priv.at/w.jpg -- |~)o _ _o Richard Menedetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> {ICQ: 7659421} (PGP) |~\|(__\| -=> Trespassers will be shot;Survivors will be sh

W, RIAA and $$$$ (and M$ above all)

2002-12-15 Thread Richard Menedetter
Hi All! http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram-0208.html Here Bruce Schneier (US Crypto god) writes about M$'s implementation of the TCPA. (he doesn't mention the laws that will be pretty surely introduced) Palladium and the TCPA There's been more written about Microsoft's Palladium security in

Ephiphany re M$

2002-12-15 Thread Richard Menedetter
Hi Samuel! 14 Dec 2002, "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> And after the user notices that he can't play his&her MP3s for >> example it will be too late. Until than the wonderful and highly >> intelligent, but not at all lobby controlled (hahahahaha) US >> government, will make

Re: WHOA..!!! CDROM IKN

2002-12-15 Thread Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ
Hi Greggy, maybe you are right... in 2 computers their is a drive but no CD-ROM in the drive. The 3rd computer has not even a drive fitted and I did remove any reference to CD drivers... but did I realy remove all?? You never know how the partially Win system acts and what it hides? Las

Re: Whoa..!!! now Pardners..!!!

2002-12-15 Thread Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ
> now.to your replies: >> Do you mean the removal of all entries in MIME.CFG, all entries not >> functional in the basic package of Arachne? IMHO that would be wise >> since the current situation is quite disturbing, even to experienced >> users. > Æö! > maybeor maybe it would just

Re: more "my Computer"

2002-12-15 Thread Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ
> Bastiaan is running Arachne on a Win95 machine booted to DOS, and > has the problem. If I boot my machine into DOS I get the problem too. > So I can reproduce Bastiaans problem here. >>> d) And proberbly of most interest; If the machine is booted into W95 >>> quit to DOS prompt and Arachne sta

WHOA..!!! CDROM IKN

2002-12-15 Thread G J Feig
On Sun, 15 Dec 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> While I was experimenting with boot GUI=0 I did find I had the >>> famous "My computer IKN" problem with a hard lock up when I clicked the >>> IKN, and I haven't got a CD installed. WHOA...!!! podner..!!! hmmm...well, sheeesh..!!!...I have MISSE

Re: Whoa..!!! now Pardners..!!!

2002-12-15 Thread G J Feig
On Sun, 15 Dec 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: First, Bastiaan, please accept my condolences on the death of your mother. She is the one woman in the whole world that a man can not replace. ...now.to your replies: > Why not store some 'clean' version of mime.cfg with another name, incase >

Re: ArachneVIEWER (was... An HTML Viewer, etc)

2002-12-15 Thread G J Feig
On Sat, 14 Dec 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > As I've written off-list to Michael ... Then you will get a reply "direct from the horse's mouth... > There are places been on most of the continents of the worldknow these type problems well.. --snip- > where I'm head

Re: your computer

2002-12-15 Thread Cristian Burneci
I tried and did an install of arachne 1.71 under Linux using dosemu and MS-DOS 7.10 with partition access. The process went just fine up to the end of the install process. I risked and run Dosemu in "all shields down" mode (as root with "console video"). Arachne detected my external modem, can di