Re: New Features (was " What's important for Arachne's future?")

2002-12-30 Thread Glenn McCorkle
On Mon, 30 Dec 2002 23:21:20 -0500 (EST), Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Ron Clarke wrote: >>As an example: >>http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4838549.htm >> did not display the story text, although WizLynx was able to show it, so >> it isn't jav

Re: WWWMAN bug

2002-12-30 Thread Glenn McCorkle
Thank you, thank you, thank you It works PERFECTLY !!! Please, Everyone with the W9x 'your computer' lockup problem grab the fixed version of wwwman.exe and run it through the paces. http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/wwwman.htm On Mon, 30 Dec 2002 15:41:09 +0100, Michal H. Tyc wrote:

Re: External use of Insight

2002-12-30 Thread Glenn McCorkle
On Mon, 30 Dec 2002 19:28:54 +0200, Or Botton wrote: > A pretty silly question, but... > How do I get insight to pull all the mail in my POP3 mailbox without having to > load Arachne first? I'd like to do it by command line or batch file instead. > (Tried to figure it out by myself, gave up after

Re: New Features (was " What's important for Arachne's future?")

2002-12-30 Thread Steve
On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Ron Clarke wrote: >As an example: >http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4838549.htm > did not display the story text, although WizLynx was able to show it, so > it isn't javascript per se in this instance. Nope, it's not JS, since it displays fine in l

Re: bootmanager sbminst.exe :-((

2002-12-30 Thread Glenn McCorkle
On Mon, 30 Dec 2002 03:19:49 -0500, Sojun Sunborn wrote: > Interesting, I have installed "sbm" on three computers without problems. The > only problem that I have found is that sbm might not boot older FreeDOS > kernels. I thought the FreeDOS problem was isolated to my computer because > the next

Re: ..is JAVAPC from legacy to http://cjos.sourceforge.net?

2002-12-30 Thread Glenn McCorkle
On Mon, 30 Dec 2002 01:36:37 -0300, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > **The good: to hear about the existence of a JVM for DOS :-) > Python is a cross-platform language that can be used within DOS with > same-style bytecode interpreter as Java does (even using JPython for > being used within Ja

Re: New Features (was " What's important for Arachne's future?")

2002-12-30 Thread Ron Clarke
Hi Folks, Florian, On Mon, 30 Dec 2002 15:25:58 +0100, flox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > btw: I am using www.textcounter.org for a counter for my webpage! > Arachne is listed as "other browser". Is there or would ther be a way to > detect Arachne for such a service? I rather doubt it. I

Re: External use of Insight

2002-12-30 Thread Ron Clarke
Hi Or, On Tue, 31 Dec 2002 01:50:30 +0200, Or Botton wrote: > At 2002-12-29, 20:27:00 Joerg Dietze wrote: >> pop3 is done by core.exe. > And thats the problem, I guess. I was trying to use insight without Arachne, > since I cant load CORE > due to conventional memory problems. (need to get the m

Re: now, DOS is JAVA

2002-12-30 Thread Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ
Thanks for clearing up... Bastiaan On Mon, 30 Dec 2002 07:49:22 +1000 (E. Australia Standard Time), Ronald Bleckendorf wrote: > > Yes, Java is indeed different from JavaScript. > > java is also an operating system in its own right. However, there are onl > y a > few dozen Java PCs in the worl

Re: HTML Programming

2002-12-30 Thread Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ
On Wed, 25 Dec 2002 05:22:31 +, Laurie L Proud wrote: I played a little with HTML TOY but for *learning* HTML programming I prefer the 'examples' directory in Arachne. > When I renewed my APM's after upgrading to 1.71UE01 I got the other > HTML Editor > "HTML Editor for Arachne" > Copy

Re: External use of Insight

2002-12-30 Thread Or Botton
At 2002-12-29, 20:27:00 Joerg Dietze wrote: >pop3 is done by core.exe. And thats the problem, I guess. I was trying to use insight without Arachne, since I cant load CORE due to conventional memory problems. (need to get the mail downloaded into CNM files while loads of drivers are working in th

Re: New Features (was " What's important for Arachne's future?")

2002-12-30 Thread Steve
On Mon, 30 Dec 2002, flox wrote: > btw: I am using www.textcounter.org for a counter for my webpage! > Arachne is listed as "other browser". Is there or would ther be a way to > detect Arachne for such a service? You would have to get the textcounter.org people to list it. Arachne certainly

Flash stuff

2002-12-30 Thread Joerg Dietze
Hi folks, just found this: http://www.quiss.org/swftools/swfextract.html. Don't know much about C. Would a DOS port be possible? Regards Joerg -- Arachne V1.71;UE01, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/

Testing latest Arachne

2002-12-30 Thread Joerg Dietze
Hi folks, had a little more time during last days and played around a little with A.1.71UE01. Very good work, thanks to all who took part in this! IMHO, next should be a port to 32bit compiler to get rid of the memory monster which still resides at some pages (try http://www.darwinawards.com). Thi

Re: External use of Insight

2002-12-30 Thread Joerg Dietze
Hi Or, On Mon, 30 Dec 2002 19:28:54 +0200, Or Botton wrote: > A pretty silly question, but... > How do I get insight to pull all the mail in my POP3 mailbox without having to > load Arachne first? I'd like to do it by command line or batch file instead. > (Tried to figure it out by myself, gave

External use of Insight

2002-12-30 Thread Or Botton
A pretty silly question, but... How do I get insight to pull all the mail in my POP3 mailbox without having to load Arachne first? I'd like to do it by command line or batch file instead. (Tried to figure it out by myself, gave up after 15 minutes. Either i'm loosing my "touch" or I just got laz

New Features (was " What's important for Arachne's future?")

2002-12-30 Thread Richard Menedetter
Hi flox! 30 Dec 2002, flox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> And IMHO arachne has already veeery limited JS support built >> into her. f> Which? OK ... I was wrong ... it seems that the JavaScript engine is not yet included in the mainline arachne package. (I just remembered that I have r

Thanks for new Arachne!

2002-12-30 Thread Edenyard
Dear List, I downloaded V1.71ue01 on Christmas Eve and eventually got it to connect (I forgot to remove the 'lh' in the 'Connect...' line in the CFG file) I'm very impressed with all the improvements that I can detect over V1.70r3 and clearly there's been a lot of hard work going on to

WWWMAN bug

2002-12-30 Thread Michal H. Tyc
Hi Glenn, Hi all, On Mon, 23 Dec 2002 19:42:29 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote: > mov si,sp; > int 0x25; > cli;mov sp,si;sti; > pushf; > lea si,boot;add si,0x1f0;sub al,al; > popf;jc q; > Now. how do we re-write ths section of drvtypes.cpp so that > we CAN look for stacker drives WITHOUT l

Re: access denied

2002-12-30 Thread Michal H. Tyc
On Tue, 24 Dec 2002 19:44:08 +00, Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ wrote: > The new bug > *** > Click 'History', click 'file:c:\arachne\*.*' => access denied again > click 'file:@:*.*' => accessible drives = OK > access denied on file:c:\arachne\*.htm and file:c:\arachne\*.txt > Click

Re: Two or more OS's

2002-12-30 Thread Michal H. Tyc
Hi all, On Fri, 27 Dec 2002 15:52:07 -0500, Sam Ewalt wrote: >> Bastiaan asked if it is possible to have two or more operating systems >> on one computer. Yes, with System Commander or Partition Magic or there >> is hardware which allows you to switch between hard drives. I have a > I wonder i

Re: New Features (was " What's important for Arachne's future?")

2002-12-30 Thread flox
GF> 1. Javascript capability - NOT "built-in" to Arachne, but handled GF> the same way .JPGs, etc are handled. this is not possible. JS mainly alters browser specific stuff. This is not possible from outside the browser. And IMHO arachne has already veeery limited JS support built into h

now, DOS is JAVA

2002-12-30 Thread Richard Menedetter
Hi Bastiaan! 27 Dec 2002, "Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: BF> We had a discussion on the List, some time ago, and if I recall BF> correctly JAVA is totaly different to java-script. yes BF> Yes, it was mentioned that JAVA is running in every operating BF> system... No ..

What's important for Arachne's future?

2002-12-30 Thread Richard Menedetter
Hi Sam! 26 Dec 2002, "Sam Ewalt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: SE> I don't use Windows myself-- although I may start any day now because SE> of Javascript and secure transactions on the web. Sam ... you know that there are many OSes which support programs which support JS and SSL ?? So why starti

New Features (was " What's important for Arachne's future?")

2002-12-30 Thread Richard Menedetter
Hi G! 26 Dec 2002, "G J Feig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: GF> 1. Javascript capability - NOT "built-in" to Arachne, but handled GF> the same way .JPGs, etc are handled. this is not possible. JS mainly alters browser specific stuff. This is not possible from outside the browser. And IMHO arachne

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

2002-12-30 Thread Richard Menedetter
Hi Bastiaan! 24 Dec 2002, "Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: BF> Until a year ago my provider behaved likewise and only HTTP upload was BF> possible. HTTP upload could not be done with Arachne since you had BF> first to call a special page with a lot of WIZARDS... java scrip

What's important for Arachne's future?

2002-12-30 Thread Richard Menedetter
Hi Bastiaan! 26 Dec 2002, "Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: BF> Old computer users laugh at you... DOS is very obsolete to them this is true ... isn't it ? BF> Just a handfull of experienced users are using DOS... Hmmm ... IMNSHO experienced users with 486+ are too limited

arachne-digest V1 #1993

2002-12-30 Thread Richard Menedetter
Hi Roger! 24 Dec 2002, Roger Turk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: RT> Edge Model D (~1986) used long file names and the same technique that RT> M$ uses, the alias file. M$ doesn't use an alias file. (4dos does) M$ uses something much worse ... it stores the filenames as many name entries and gives t

arachne-digest V1 #1988

2002-12-30 Thread Richard Menedetter
Hi Michal! 23 Dec 2002, "Michal H. Tyc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: MT> Long filenames are not supported, because Micros**t has some patent MT> on it. How did the linux folk evade that patent. Linux FAT driver supports LFNs and if there were any patent issues than M$ would sure have sued the aut

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

2002-12-30 Thread Richard Menedetter
Hi Samuel! 23 Dec 2002, "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: SH> Is it just a mechanism for calling a routine compiled into the main SH> browser program? yes SH> Is this routine nothing more than a quite ordinary FTP SH> program that Bill Gates probably stole from somebody else? FT

Comments on the DMCA and TPCA

2002-12-30 Thread Richard Menedetter
Hi Samuel! 23 Dec 2002, "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: SH> It is believed that the law will be passed and that even President SH> Bush will sign his approval of it. Sam ... I really like your sense of humour !!! Have litterally been laughing out loud for many minutes ... that EV

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

2002-12-30 Thread Richard Menedetter
Hi Samuel! 23 Dec 2002, "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: SH> As most of you all know, Arachne and other normal internet browsers SH> do not come with the totally unecessary and undesireable feature of SH> having a "browser upload" function like the one that is incorporated SH> i

I built me a miniLAN but...

2002-12-30 Thread Richard Menedetter
Hi Bart! 20 Dec 2002, Bart Buitinga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: BB> Routing is still completely obscure to me. It must be possible to put BB> up some table on Hoppla, passing the modems tcp-ip connection on to BB> the eth0 as long as the ISP delivers ip addresses, but no luck so far. routing is

Re: bootmanager sbminst.exe :-((

2002-12-30 Thread Sojun Sunborn
Interesting, I have installed "sbm" on three computers without problems. The only problem that I have found is that sbm might not boot older FreeDOS kernels. I thought the FreeDOS problem was isolated to my computer because the next build of FreeDOS I downloaded worked perfectly. Sometimes you g