Re: Why can't you simply do FTP instead of doing "browser upload"?

2002-12-23 Thread Sam Ewalt
On Mon, 23 Dec 2002 19:59:11 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote: (first quoting Sam H.) >> Why can't you simply do FTP instead of doing "browser upload"? The >> techies say you can't do it, but they refuse to explain why. >> Isn't plain old ordinary FTP still the standard and normal and >> most univer

Re: The English Juggernaut

2002-12-23 Thread Alex Venn
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > There is limited value trying to go against the flow. English is the > major force in a lot of topical areas, including computing. If it wasn't > for English, none of us might have ever experienced Arachne. Or, at > least, been able to understand Michael

Re: Why can't you simply do FTP instead of doing "browser upload"?

2002-12-23 Thread Samuel W. Heywood
On Mon, 23 Dec 2002 19:59:11 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote: > Comments from Glenn below. > On Mon, 23 Dec 2002 04:40:09 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: >> Many websites which offer such services as file sharing and >> picture sharing and website hosting insist on the account holder's >> usin

Re: Why can't you simply do FTP instead of doing "browser upload"?

2002-12-23 Thread Samuel W. Heywood
On Mon, 23 Dec 2002 21:26:52 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote: >> Question: In using this method for doing FTP, does one have to use any >> special parameters if the file to be uploaded is a binary file? In >> using the FTP program that I normally use I have to indicate a parameter >> for specifyin

Re: WWWMAN and Win95: bug found!!! Gongrats !!!

2002-12-23 Thread Glenn McCorkle
On Tue, 24 Dec 2002 02:40:38 +00, Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ wrote: > Harry Potter, also known as Glenn, did it again ! > Just tested the new wwwman on one machine only (2:31 am local time now) > and it does not block anymore on \\ > Gongrats Glenn :*)) Gongrats ? ^___ http://www.webster.com

Re: Why can't you simply do FTP instead of doing "browser upload"?

2002-12-23 Thread Glenn McCorkle
On Mon, 23 Dec 2002 12:47:31 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: > On Mon, 23 Dec 2002 12:01:21 +0100, Michal H. Tyc wrote: >> (Arachne supports ftp upload as well, under [F2] key.) >> Michal > I just now tried that for the first time under Arachne by using the F2 > key. It worked. I uploaded a

Re: WWWMAN and Win95: bug found!!! Gongrats !!!

2002-12-23 Thread Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ
Harry Potter, also known as Glenn, did it again ! Just tested the new wwwman on one machine only (2:31 am local time now) and it does not block anymore on \\ Gongrats Glenn :*)) Regards, Bastiaan On Mon, 23 Dec 2002 19:42:29 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote: > On Mon, 23 Dec 2002 09:21:53 +0100,

Re: Why can't you simply do FTP instead of doing "browser upload"?

2002-12-23 Thread Glenn McCorkle
Comments from Glenn below. On Mon, 23 Dec 2002 04:40:09 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: > Dear List: > As most of you all know, Arachne and other normal internet browsers > do not come with the totally unecessary and undesireable feature of > having a "browser upload" function like the one t

Re: WWWMAN and Win95: bug found!!!

2002-12-23 Thread Glenn McCorkle
On Mon, 23 Dec 2002 09:21:53 +0100, Michal H. Tyc wrote: > Hi Glenn, Hi all, > On Thu, 19 Dec 2002 13:07:58 -0400, Glenn McCorkle wrote: >> Have a look at the part of the SRC code for wwwman.exe >> which then reads the info from there. >> drvtypes.cpp attached --- TcKz-œ` > The problem is

Re: HTML Programming (sidebar from Re: Glenn's W95 investigations)

2002-12-23 Thread Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ
On Sun, 22 Dec 2002 23:13:01 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Laurie, > The basics of HTML are so easy to learn - give it a try. Since pages on the web mostly use complicated M$ derived HTML why not start some experiments with Arachne? Arachne has specialy designed pages in Arachne\EXAMPLES

Comments on the DMCA and TPCA

2002-12-23 Thread Samuel W. Heywood
Hello Arachnids: As most of you have learned, some newly proposed US laws have erroneously defined all operating systems and computers not compliant with the DMCA and TPCA standards as being "copyright circumvention devices". They are seeking to outlaw even the mere possession and import and manu

Re: Why can't you simply do FTP instead of doing "browser upload"?

2002-12-23 Thread Sam Ewalt
On Mon, 23 Dec 2002 13:20:18 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: > I just now tried for the first time the FTP function which one can > call from Arachne with the F2 key. It worked fine and it was > perfectly intuitive to understand how to use it. I could have easily > figured out how to use it eve

Re: Why can't you simply do FTP instead of doing "browser upload"?

2002-12-23 Thread Samuel W. Heywood
On Mon, 23 Dec 2002 09:22:42 -0500, Sam Ewalt wrote: > On Mon, 23 Dec 2002 04:40:09 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: >> Another question: Why did the developers of MSIE and NetScape even >> ever want to incorporate a "browser upload" feature? This is >> certainly not a feature that any normal br

Re: Why can't you simply do FTP instead of doing "browser upload"?

2002-12-23 Thread Samuel W. Heywood
On Mon, 23 Dec 2002 12:01:21 +0100, Michal H. Tyc wrote: > Hi Sam, Hi all, > On Mon, 23 Dec 2002 04:40:09 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: >> Another question: Why did the developers of MSIE and NetScape even >> ever want to incorporate a "browser upload" feature? This is >> certainly not a fea

Re: WWWMAN and Win95: bug found!!!

2002-12-23 Thread Bart Buitinga
Of course I couldn't resist the bait, and did some testing, too. After posting my suspicions considering the bootsector, I tried on my system (containing a 16 bit c: and 32 bit d: partition each on a separate hdd) the effects of altF2 (with a reload of course). When the first attempt in real mode d

Re: Why can't you simply do FTP instead of doing "browser upload"?

2002-12-23 Thread Sam Ewalt
On Mon, 23 Dec 2002 04:40:09 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: > Another question: Why did the developers of MSIE and NetScape even > ever want to incorporate a "browser upload" feature? This is > certainly not a feature that any normal browser should have. This > kind of feature certainly is no

Re: Why can't you simply do FTP instead of doing "browser upload"?

2002-12-23 Thread Michal H. Tyc
Hi Sam, Hi all, On Mon, 23 Dec 2002 04:40:09 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: > Another question: Why did the developers of MSIE and NetScape even > ever want to incorporate a "browser upload" feature? This is > certainly not a feature that any normal browser should have. This > kind of feature

Why can't you simply do FTP instead of doing "browser upload"?

2002-12-23 Thread Samuel W. Heywood
Dear List: As most of you all know, Arachne and other normal internet browsers do not come with the totally unecessary and undesireable feature of having a "browser upload" function like the one that is incorporated into the bloatware browsers MSIE and NetScape. Many websites which offer such ser

Re: arachne-digest V1 #1988

2002-12-23 Thread Michal H. Tyc
Hi Ray, Hi all, On Fri, 20 Dec 2002 15:13:21 -0800, Ray Andrews wrote: > Michal, tell me more about DRFAT32, and freedos; will these support LFN's > as well? If so, it would be possible to mess around with a Winders > disk without actualy loading the monster! This could be very useful. DRFAT32

Re: xSwap error in asf

2002-12-23 Thread cce . zizkov
On 21 Dec 02 at 20:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Do not use an ASF to "call" any file which requires >an external program to be viewed. > >This includes >1) .SHT files if they are then 'parsed' with shtml.exe >2) .DGI lines in mime.cfg (they require a 'branch-out' to Dos) >3) do not attempt to vie

Re: VuHTML, Browse, Public Domain

2002-12-23 Thread cce . zizkov
On 22 Dec 02 at 7:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >> a problem with all these very nice offline html viewers >> is that they do not care about non-English texts with diacritical >> (8 bit) characters. If you wanted to read a Czech text you will have >> to

WWWMAN and Win95: bug found!!!

2002-12-23 Thread Michal H. Tyc
Hi Glenn, Hi all, On Thu, 19 Dec 2002 13:07:58 -0400, Glenn McCorkle wrote: > Have a look at the part of the SRC code for wwwman.exe > which then reads the info from there. > drvtypes.cpp attached --- The problem is with INT 25h called when checking for Stacker; Win95 set SI to 0, so the s