rach now on tap!

Hi Gangue, I am gobsmacked! (British phrase to show complete and total astonishment)!!! Downloaded latest version onto machine, installed it and up and running with install wizard in less than 6 minutes! This is the way it should be! At long last. It's even working with the internal modem, convin

[no subject]

pentium 166 / 49Mb / 33.6 Boca ... DOS box from WIN98 Had to try the download from Glenn twice, 1st time I got "this is not a valid WIN32 prog" error?? 2nd download went fine & installed fine only a slight adjustment to .cfg ... didn't like "COM3" but worked with the weird setting routine :-)

test

testing ver. 1.7 on 486dx50/20mb/22.8. where do I get 1.71? later, rick -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/ -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/

file://cache\joe.

Dear List: Does anyone know how to decode this piece of win-garbage? It says that it is made with Photoshop version 3. Is that, was that a dos program? Yours, Thomas -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/ joe. Description: Mac BinHex archive

linux woes

Greetings- I seem to be having a problem booting RH 7.2. Normally when I boot, the screen unloads like its supposed to, then I would get to the GUI Login Screen where I would type in my "name" and "password" and finally wind up with KDEbut now after the page scrolls the usual info, instead of

Re: Win Me backup

Thomas- No I have not gone any further with the winMe and backup. Someone on the list had suggested looking on my Win Me disks thinking that there may be something there. I never thought about looking on the win98 disks. I think I have one. Thanks for the tip. Neil -- This mail was written by

arachne cd player

Greetings Before I had hd problems with my old PC, I had installed and running the little Arachne cd player. But I lost all of it when the HD went south. I would like to get it set up again. I have searched the Arachne digest archives, but have not had any luck. I am using drdos and notice

re: digest search

Greetings- I am digging into the digests and wonder what is the best way to search. An example is my search for messages about Arachne for linux. If I type in "arachne linux" I get things for arachne and things for linux...is there a way to narrow the search? Tnx Neil -- This mail was written by

re: Me

Bastiaan- I really don't understand how to set it up. I can get the menu up and it I don't do anything, the timer clocks down and restarts Me...but if during the countdown I hit "D", it does not do anything other then stop the countdown. I am a little confused when the talk about the "wininit.ex

re: basiclinux, X and Links

Steven Made the mods to the menu as you suggested and it works great. But wondering, why when in xterm and I type "links", I get- "bash: links: command not found" Not a big deal because I have it working when I go to applications, but just curious...? Thanks again for the tip Neil -- This mai

basiclinux and X screen size

Steven- My last message regarding Icewm was to you...I put Steve there by mistake although he may also have some info The monitor in X when using Ice is not filling the screen completely. I installed xfreecell and all of the cards aren't on the screen...not a big deal, I don't play the game a

Basiclinux and X browsers

Steve- In Icewm, there is under applications an editor and a www brower Lynx. When I click on Lynx, xterm comes up: "xterm: Can't execvp lynx" Is there a way to get Lynx or better yet, Links to work in x? Cheers- Neil -- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client -- Ar

Dos4Me translation

Bastiaan- tnx for the translation. I will have to try it again. I tried it yesterday not really knowing what to do. The dos "LILO" looking box came up but I was not quick enough or sure what or where to go next. I shut everything down and rebooted. I tried it again and the "LILO" thing never

re:pico log

Steve- Wow...is that all linux tips? I found the Linux Gazette has back issues online and they include some good ideas. I need to go there again and start taking notes! cheers- Neil -- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client -- Arachne V1.66, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, h

re: winMe

Thomas- I think it was backup and restore... I wonder why they would not carry this over to their next up(set)date? Cheers Neil -- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client -- Arachne V1.66, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/

re: dos4me

Greetings- Bastiaan (not sure if I got the spelling right) pointed me in the direction of a program that lets you boot winME to real dos. It is a German program called "dos4me". It looks pretty simple but when I let Google do the translation, it didn't describe the installation, or it didn't rea

re:pico and Log

Steve- I got it now...what I did wrong was create a directory called /log when instead I should have just did "pico log" and put the tips there. One thing is for sure...I need to really have that page filled with tips before the search for word control function is handy!! Thanks for the info- Che

win98/winMe

Howdy- (big temp drop here in SE Va) I still can't get my printer to work when using Linux. It goes so far as starting to make the test print, then it starts to make sounds like paper jamming. RH7.2 shows the Lexmark X22 so I am not sure what the problem is. My question is thissince I have

xswap stuff

Hi Clarence et al, (was that BIG AL or wee al?) Right Clarence, that's 1.70 re-installed on the machine and more or less working in a very basic mode. Tell me [again!, I know you've doen it before] about the setting the TEMP files please? My Goad, I'm not a newbie, just dumb I reckon, I should

test

test e-mail -- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client -- Arachne V1.69, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/

xswap againnnnnnnnn!

Hi gangue, xswap again. Tried to automate the mail get and send again. Now this is a different machine, so it's not that! Tried in stages this time. First let's go for the dialler! arachne:dialler works no probs dials up and does what it is supposed to, then let's do it some more! Add in the

Re: soundcard

On Fri, 07 Dec 2001 01:14:50 +, Bastiaan Edelman wrote: > Hi Neil, >I did had a soundcard installed in DOS... no problem until I > wanted to use this card under Win. > Because: I wanted to run some HAM programs and they are in Win only. > (PSK31) > PS: do you know of a PSK31 program for

Re: (OT) Hopscotch and butterscotch

On Thu, 06 Dec 2001 16:40:12 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: > Hello: > Maybe Mel Evans can answer these questions if he is out there. > I have always wondered if the formerly very popular children's game > known as "hopscotch" has its origins in Scotland. I used to play > this game when I was

GOBsmacked!

Hi Gangue, well then, that's arachne working on a win 98 machine with a PCI 56k modem? Followed up on the posts with Sam and others. Totalyy gobsmacked (speechless for non eng speakers) Still some fine tuning to do, but we'll see over next few days Regards mel POSTED with ARACNE, first for

DOS stuff?

Hi Gangue, I've rescued a 386 laptop out of the dumpster (two actually and made one good one out of the two) but I'v only got about an 80M HDD, so it will need to be loaded up with DOS stuff only I would think. What was the last version of Arachne that DID NOT!! have the x-swap problem, and wher

Sunday Salsa July 22nd

Hi guys 'n gals Sunday salsa time again, even if The Elks are protesting 8>) Not feeling very well to-day, suspect I have some kind of virus infection. During our trip to Bulgaria, I had to have treatment for an inflammation in the ear canal, and possibly this has not cleared up yet. In the UK

Sunday Salsa July 15th

Hi Gangue, Back from Bulgaria so time for a short SUNDAY SALSA. Weather was good, temp about 29 to 30C. Beer was good too! only about 30 Uk pence per pint, so I was forced to try some GRIN! 8>) On the Arachen front, I will be re-furbishing my Arachne website in the next few weeks so watch this s

Sunday Salsa 17th June 2001

Hi Gangue, Salsa left and Salsa right, let's keep dancing through the night! We (Ella and myself, she who is the light of my life) were out last night celebrating the 40th birthday of one of our Godchildren. Doesn't it make you seem old when the DJ announces a "Golden Oldie" from the 1980's? Onl

OT the Sunday Salsa

Hi Gangue, Guys 'n Gals Sunday Salsa time again. No caravanning this weekend, I'm actually sitting here on Standby and Callout for work, so we were'nt able to get away anywhere. So far no call-out yet, so things have been quiet over the weekend. For those who don't know, I work for ScottishPower,

Monday meanderings

Hi gangue, Been away caravanning, so that's why you all "missed" the Sunday Salsa! By popular demand, I'm back. We were down in Lancashire (north west of England) on a caravan rally organised by the Club for Lunar Caravan Owners. This was held at a fishery there which has a caravan site attached

Help the kid out!

Hi Gangue, and King of Padua. Can your machine handle 1.44 floppies? If it can, let me have your ordinary mail address and I could post you a 1.44 disc with the latest arachne on it if you can't get it any other way. Regards mel -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http:/

Sunday Salsa May 20th 2001

Hi Gangue, No politics here zone, despite the UK election campaign. Aside from the political bit, did most of you see our Deputy PM, John Prescott taking a swing at a protester who hit him with an egg? All "good" stuff that, eh? Of course, irrespective of the rights and wrongs of either side, th

CSS and Javascript support

Hi Gangue, I always check any pages I do with Arachne, if I think it's likely to attract loads of DOS users, then I make it more DOS friendly using 'rach as the editor. Try http://www.maresme.fsnet.co.uk and clicks on into the site. I fully expected this to be a NO NO because there's CSS and

Sunday Salsa May 13th (12a) 2001

Hi Gangue Yesterday and to-day absolutely glorious weather here in Edinburgh. Temperature up at 21 degrees, about 68 to 70 in real money (GRIN!). Spent the day yesterday with a paint brush in hand slapping wood preservative onto the front fence. The two or three beers helped pass the time a bit

Sunday Salsa

Hi Gangue, Bad news is I'm back! and so is the Sunday Salsa. When we went off to Spain we were in the thick of the Foot and Mouth thing. We are still there I'm afraid, there does seem to be a slight slackening off in the numbers of reported and confirmed cases, but we are looking at over 2M anima

Test- Pls ignore

Sorry to waste the bandwidth. Need to see if this will work with the list server. Thanks John -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/ -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/

(late) Sunday Salsa 8th April

Hi there folks, Another week, another dollar nearer the pension! Here in the UK, now over 1000 cases sonfirmed of F & M and no real end in sight yet. The Government is now encouraging us back into the countryside with every sort of advertising, newspaper, tv, radio and spin doctoring from the pol

Sunday Salsa

Hi guys and gals, Sunday again! Weather here in Edinburgh sunny and around 14 degrees, so we've been out to one of the local Sunday Markets about 25km from the City. Got some socks and bits and pieces for our up-coming vacataion,. Foot and Mouth now running at 870 cases confirmed in the UK, and

Sunday Salsa 25th March

Hi there Gangue, Edinburgh is a cold and icy place this morning with sleet and hailstones all around, temperature below zero. It must be the start of Summer, well officially we changed out the clocks to British Summer time last night! All I can say is I am glad to be heading off to Spain in four

Sunday Salsa, 18th March 2001

Hi there guys and gals, Another week of life goes by! Arachne continues to "bug" me! Will I ever remember how to get the .asf script to work on just getting and receiving all mail thing? I thought I had a new ISP in "blueyonder.co.uk" from my Cable phone company. This promised unlimited access to

Sunday Salsa 11th March

Hi Gangue, Started off here in Edinburgh as a lovely sort of "spring" morning, bright sunshine and crocuses (crocii? or crocae?) pushing through in yellow, white and violet colours. Just enough to make you think winter might be coming to an end. We went off to collect the caravan from the dealer

Sunday Snowy Salsa

Hi Gangue, It's been snowing on and off sinec Thursday here, so we ended up with around a foot of snow (about 30 cms) in and around Central Scotland. We got the new Pajero (new to us) on Friday, never thought I was going to find out how it was in 4WD quite as quickly, but we were due to go away

Sunday Salsa

Good Morning Gangue, A touch more of snow here in Edinburgh this morning, just a centimetre or so, but still a bit cold outside, but a nice winter sun overhead, and of course it's dry which makes things feel better. Dreadful news for the UK farmer. Foot and Mouth disease has broken out in variou

css support

Hi guys 'n gals Anybody got a list of what css features arachne is supposed to support? in 170 that is? Regards Mel -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/

Test asf file

Hi gangue, Please excuse use of bandwidth, testing .asf file Regards mel -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/

Test

Hi there, No go with the xswap thing. Had to re-install arachne over the existing install to get it to come out of the xswap error and give me arachne back. The .asf script seems to work ok up untill it is asked to close down.That is, it accesses the pop3 server ok, then the smtp server but then

Sunday Salsa

Hi there gangue, Sunday again, the weeks go by as quickly as ever, don't they? On the vehicle scene, we've ordered a Pajero, the short wheel base three door one. This is to be ready 1st March. We've gone for the 2.5 Turbo Diesel. This will deal with our caravan without even worrying if it's ther

Re: Is anyone paying attention ???

Hi Guys, It may interest you to know that as well as the .gif format being "owned" by AOL following their acquisition of Cserve, that the hyperlink is owned by British Telecom! Apparently back in the days not long after Tim B did the whole thing and got the internet concept started, some bright

Sunday Salsa

Hi Gangue, Snowing here in Edinburgh, temperature in the minus figures and pretty damn cold with a high wind chill factor!. Still, the days are getting a bit longer, so we've turned the corner towards the spring and summer in the northern bit of the world. News here has been of Lockerbie and the

the xswap thing, Bernie!

Hi Gangue, and BERNIE That xswap thing is still around, and Bernie, you asked what needs to be fixed! This is definitely one thing that needs fixing in the download. There are over 130 people each week accessing my (badly needing updated) arachne4dos pages here in the UK. I suspect quite a few

Re: Arachne with Freeserve

On Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:44:18 -, David Marsden wrote: > Mel, > Many thanks for taking the time to respond to my enquiry. I've had a go at > arachne.cfg and commented out the lines that seem to do with manual login, > and in the process (accidentally) deleted and reinstated the file. I can >

Sunday Salsa

Hi Gangue, Well, Salsa is late today, but we've been out and about looking at new(er) cars than we have at present. Came across a Mitsubisihi Pajero 4x4 2.5TD which would be ideal for our other hobby of caravan touring. Big, mean machine to look at, seven seats, lots of goodies extras and a good

170 Chance!

Yeah Gangue! Had a brandy and took a chance, downloaded 170 and it seems to be working. This is honestly the first time any Arachne download has worked first time for me. I just hope things continue. Regards Mel

?behaviour with busy ISP's?

Hi Gangue, Anybody got an explanation as to why Arachen can connect to a busy ISP in preference to a Windoze program such as Nanny Netscape or Exploder? My ISP in the Uk is Freeserve which can be very busy evenings, twnety or thirty tries with Exploder or Netscrape to get in, whereas Arachne se

Sunday Salsa

Hi Gangue, Here we go, 1 foot (30cms) of white stuff (snow) outside, and temperatures around minus 10 here in Scotland! On the Arachne front, 1.69 is at least consistent, it just shuts down any time I try to do anything on "auto-pilot" using scripts and or anything other than ALT D or normal co

CServe/AOL bits 'n pieces.

Hi gangue, A few years back, I started with an old DOS laptop and CServe (later taken over by AOL) using Doscim, their then current DOS browser/e-mailer using a variant of Minuet I seem to remember. However, someone mentioned their security might be lax. I had three accounts open with Cserve at

No Subject

Hi guys and gals, Does anyone have a site URL where you can still dload Webspyder? Caldera just don't mention it any more, and embrowser (the current offering) is too complicated for me to setup just to try out for fun. On the other hand, QNX is a lot of fun! It's easy to get into, and it suppor

xswap problem

Hi Gangue, Two problems/queries. 1) I've loaded 169 into a separate directory. The load is fine, and the ppp wizard takes in all the info and puts it in the right places, and there is a connect and surf and e-mail facilities FIRST TIME! This is absolutely superb compared with earlier versions o

Sunday Salsa

Hi Gangue, Here we go, another week rolling on. On the Arachne front, version 1.69 is sitting here on the machine looking perfectly stable till I try to run the .asf script, or modify it to run another .asf script. Then it crashes with the xswap bug! Never mind, I'm going to do md arachne169a and

Re: Western Union (was Registration of Arachne)

On Sun, 17 Dec 2000 11:26:12 +, Ron Clarke wrote: > I am starting to feel that there may be some merit in the > international networking of people who trust each other, at least some > of which can handle credit card transactions. > Steve Linux User wrote: >> Back when Arachne registrati

Ray Andrews, Trash?

Hi Ray, The TAB key always cycles (AFAIK) between the options avialable on screen. When the pointer comes to rest . . . . Just try it on the INBOX page. Use TAB to get to the TRASH icon and then go for "Enter" It should delete into trash and then empty trash. Hope this helps. B the way, I tak

169 stuck

Ok guys, had to re-install 169 after deltree\arachne. I will leave it for now and wait for a report 169a version which doesn't have the xswap clunk. Regards Mel -- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client

DOS stuff

Hi Gangue, The clear out continues . . . . See last e-mail on subject. I've now found a 3.5 disk with the Timeworks program on it, I must have had this done when I upgraded from 5.25 to 3.5 floppies. Again, I'll put it in with the 5.25 version after anyone else has had a copy. This does NOT ha

DOS programs

Hi Gangue, I have come across the following DOS programs in boxed sets. Timeworks Publisher Lite DTP with page layout, typeset, text processor and graphics support, runs only in DOS, has sort of WYSIWYG. Uses mouse, needs AT IBM PC, also claims Amstrad PC 512, PC1640 or compatible 1512k compute

169 stuff- LONGISH but FUN??

Hi gangue, The continuing saga of 1.44 plus. . . . Well, here it is, Monday afternoon. So I've gotten the cheapo modem from the local charity sale, and like I said, I've got it fired up and it's connecting to rach just fine. Sooh, let's go for it and get the latest version, at 1.67. Downlo

setup of Arachne Software

From: tomst4 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Status: New May 4, 2000 Dear Reuben: Finally, one from my neck of the woods after all! I almost thought I had fallen off the end of the world, to use an analogy. I had a similiar problem with my install of Arachne and I have a similiar

mouse drivers for Dos internet clients

F Hello Reuben: Since you live in my area I thought I would write you first. Thanks for the link to the CTMOUSE driver download from the internet. I am still using the Mindspring {they changed their name to Earthlink} for an ISP, but I don't use the IE ver. 3.0 or the Eudora Lite

Memory optimising tips for IBM PCDOS 7 and MSDOS 6.X

To load EPPD high, one needs a 69K free UMB block. So optimising memory is crucial. Here is my my CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT to show certain steps one can take to maximise their conventional memory and UMB. I use IBM PCDOS 7 but I note the exceptions for MSDOS users. DR-DOS users should also ben

Modem Nodem!

Hi guys 'n gals, New (second hand, new to me!) 'puter today! 233, big Hard Drive 2.1G lots of room for software, fast on the html and so on.. It's got a Rockwell internal modem of some kind. Arachne detects it on com1, IRQ4 and inputs info into ppp dialler ok. When asked to dial, Arachne says it

Mail list

Hi Gangue Any one been able to make the mail list work in 1.6? and if so, how? Regards Mel Arachne, the Internet Suite and Browser for DOS, supports tables, graphics, animations, forms, HTML 4.0 Transitional Pages and more. Visit Mel's UK Arachne Pages for details and FREE Download. Kick-st

Re: CMOS battery

On Fri, 28 Jan 2000 09:01:04 +, "Edenyard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Mark, > You wrote recently about troubles with your CMOS battery and that it > only measured 3.6V when you thought that it should have been 6V. > Proceed with caution here. There are some that run on 3.6V > batteri

ACF's Guenter/Clarence

Hi guys, Thanks for help again. What I've ended up with is a combination of both answers, and I've created a new .acf that goes arachne:dialler file://no1.acf pop3: smtp: file://no2.acf and so on ending with arachne:hangup file://inbox.dgi This actually works better than the old one, and of

Guenter or Clarence as far as I remember

Hi Guys, Some months ago I asked for help in getting an asf done to make Arachne 1)dial 2)get new mail account "A" send mail account "A" 3)get new mail account "B" send mail account "B" and so on for as many accounts as needed in a session then 4)hangup I seem to remember either Clarence

Arachne 1.6b1

Hi Gangue, Well, I finally got all installed, did it the other way, installed 1.6b1 into the existing directory which overwote existing stuff where necessary. This now seems to be working ok both for browsing and e-mail. On the whole, I've no real complaints or problems, just the installation as

1.6b

Well, Got it loaded eventually by importing the various .acf files from 1.50b2/3. Seems to work ok on e-mail. Don't know if I like the surfing with it though. Page loads ok if I keep moving the mouse? and is definitely faster doing this, BUT some of my own pages which ARE HTML 4.0 certified now

1.6b

Well, Got it loaded eventually by importing the various .acf files from 1.50b2/3. Seems to work ok on e-mail. Don't know if I like the surfing with it though. Page loads ok if I keep moving the mouse? and is definitely faster doing this, BUT some of my own pages which ARE HTML 4.0 certified now

Re: Arachne on TV and arcademachine (!! Warning !!)

Hi Gangue, I have learned there is an equivalent in/out plug to SCART on some US tv sets. I have NO other details other than it exists. As a general caution, do NOT try to open the back of a tv set UNLESS you know what you are doing (or a monitor for that matter, the principles are the same) and

Re: Secure web sites

Hi Gangue, I beleive that most of the https:// sites are for SSL use by credit cards companies. In actual fact, you are probably relying on "Chase-Manhattan" or "Bank of Scotland" certifying they will not do anything naughty on such a site, or that they will refund anything that IS naughtily don

Test Time/date

Hi Gangue, Someone please confirm time/date settings are correct? I have re-set this machine to 8.36 p.m. (20.36 hrs) Sunday 9th January 2000 and in the process discovered the time rollover goes from 1980 to 2099! Somehow I don't think 2099 will worry me too much, I'd be a 158 years old if I

Re: Arachne on TV and arcademachine (please read)

Hi Greg, A SCART plug and socket are fitted (AFAIK) only to euro tv sets to enable direct connection of video recorder and camera outputs into the tv, but NOT at RF levels. Since the connection is direct and does not involve conversion to/from RF (radio frequency signals) then the quality of pic

wooooooooooow !!!!

Hi Michael and gangue, Sounds good V1.60! I like the idea of a "real" cut and paste in the text area if it can be done, even more if it would cut and paste between applications as well! and not just inside Arachne, but I suppose you can't have everything, not at once anyway. When Clarence and B

Re: stop all!!!

On Fri, 31 Dec 1999 18:59:39 -0500, Sam Ewalt wrote: > On Thu, 30 Dec 1999 06:22:31 -0800 (PST), Jorge Alex Ortega O. wrote: >> when i said thar arachne is faster than netsc... and >> MSIE, i said what i tested on the pc machines in the >> university(??).. i figure that almost every people >> th