On Tue, 16 Jan 2001 07:36:08 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am still trying to get Arachne 169 to finish connecting.
> I notice that in Arachne.cfg, that one line reads:
> ;Connection READY ...connection is permanent, packet driver in AUTOEXEC...
> I haven't noticed any Arachne related f
On Sun, 14 Jan 2001 20:59:50 -0500 (EST), Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
>> In WWII the military conducted a special recruitment effort to sign up
>> some Native Ameicans of the Navaho Tribe.
> Navajo is spelled with a "j" not an "h."
There was
On Sat, 13 Jan 2001 13:15:03, Dale Mentzer wrote:
> Hi listers,
> I've gotten LSPPP (v0.7 IIRC) dialing and connecting with my ISP.
> How do I get Arachne (v1.69) to recognize there is already a PPP
> connection? TIA.
Have Arachne use bootp. Then (this is the fun part)
echo>\(arachne directory)
heh.
Small correction. ppp.log should be gone. Send pppfail.log .
Bob
Starts April 1, 2001
-- Arachne V1.69, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
You have plenty or upper memory to load epppd, so try this one:
copy arachne.cfg arconfig.bak
Start arachne, press s, choose manual setup, then external dialup
driver.
Leave the name of the configuration file as it is. On the left side,
choose "Try to do bootp". Your nameserver info is probably
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001 15:21:18 +0100 (CET), Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Clarence wrote:
>> While messing about tonite I copied the default .bashrc from Pygmy06
>> to Pygmy07. Why copy ? I couldn't figure out how to create a new file
>> with either mcedit or pico. :(
> You can use "echo" to
On Tue, 02 Jan 2001 10:48:48 +0200, Or Botton wrote:
> Robert Deering wrote:
>> DOS is dead. Live with it. Having a rough time with the fact, myself.
> For the mass home user market, yes.
> For the private user who just want to get a job done fast, or in
> buisness, or in t
On Mon, 1 Jan 2001 18:13:53 -0700 (MST), Steve Linux User wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Jan 2001, Howard Schwartz wrote:
>> 3) Is the software for hearing radio ported to Linux, or must I use
>> windows? I take it dos is hopeless in this regard?
> For Linux, the biggie is xmms, which plays all the format
On Wed, 27 Dec 2000 20:44:48 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote:
> BTW, does anyone have a Bcc: in the header of this message?
> (hit F6 if viewing with Arachne)
Nope - seems to work fine.
Bob
Starts April 1, 2001
-- Arachne V1.69, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
On Sat, 23 Dec 2000 20:59:38 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
(It's Sam that's quoted from earlier here)
>> "Once I
>> transfer the DOS operating system to the HDD, will I be able to recover
>> my
>> original WIN 95 installation by booting to a WIN 95 system floppy and
>> then
>> transferring the
On Sat, 23 Dec 2000 13:08:35 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
> Hello Arachnids:
> One of the major problems I have in trying to accomplish very meaningful
> and important tasks with a machine running Windows 95 and above is that
> the machine doesn't behave very well with the version of DOS that
On Tue, 19 Dec 2000 18:59:47 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Dec 2000 18:18:47 -0500, Robert Deering wrote:
>> See if installing shtml.apm helps any.
> Hello Bob:
> I just went to the Arachne downloads page and got SHTML.APM and
> installed it. What is this
On Tue, 19 Dec 2000 06:36:11 -0400, Clarence Verge wrote:
> Robert Deering wrote:
> Hi Bob;
> Where is the CC checked by default ? I can't even find a CC checkbox.
> Maybe it's in a recent version. I don't have 1.69 handy here.
1.69. Box appears if there's a
bin
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit
On Tue, 19 Dec 2000 17:55:11 -0500, L.D. Best wrote:
> 2Fpersonals%2Fads%2Ecgi%3Faction%3Dedit
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
> Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit
> V
I've just discovered one reason for some of the multiple postings we've
been seeing lately. Just when I've gotten used to "from" being the
default for reply rather than "reply to", I now notice that "CC" is
checked by default.
Not a bad idea, really. I think that action _should_ be the default
(u
On Tue, 19 Dec 2000 19:48:31 +, Mel Evans, Registered Arachne User wrote:
> As you all know, I'm definitely not a DOS person, I struggle along with
> it, so, just for the hell of it [VBG 8>} ], could someone tell me if QNX
> could be put onto the HDD in some way so that you can call it up wit
On Tue, 19 Dec 2000 13:01:58 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Dec 2000 03:41:59 -0500, Robert Deering wrote:
>> On Tue, 19 Dec 2000 01:16:39 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
>>> The problem with unsafe email clients can be cured simply by legislation
>>&
On Tue, 19 Dec 2000 09:27:22 +0200, Or Botton wrote:
> A rather more easier course of action:
> E-Mail microsoft with a plea for including better security features,
> such as not having "ActiveX", Java and Javascript turned on as
> default, better attachment handling, etc'.
> However, it is likl
On Tue, 19 Dec 2000 01:16:39 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
> The problem with unsafe email clients can be cured simply by legislation
> mandating the standards. They have passed laws prescribing certain safety
> standards for cars, electric appliances, firearms, kerosene heaters, crash
> helme
On Mon, 18 Dec 2000 21:44:40 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
> Designers and manufacturers of products that can easily be proven to be
> defective and capable of causing great damage and harm can be sued big
> time and the lawyers can make a pile of money. Why aren't they suing the
> designers,
Sorry for the triple posting.
My use of "..." at the beginning of a line on another mail (/me slaps
forehead) caused an upload abort. So, two sends later
No idea why it's sending so late, tho.
Bob
Starts April 1, 2001
-- Arachne V1.69, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000 17:49:25 -0500, L.D. Best wrote:
> I couldn't find anywhere that told me how precisely to set up the call
> to an external editor ... so I entered a bit of dummy info into the
> field and exited to take a look at ARACHNE.CFG
> All it showed was Editor [dummy data]
Edito
On Mon, 18 Dec 2000 17:11:00 -0800 (PST), Howard Schwartz wrote:
> One of the, at best, annoying, and at worst down right difficult parts
> of installing an arachne upgrade, is retaining those files, and parts
> of files from the older version that you want to keep.
> Typically, for instance, on
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000 17:49:25 -0500, L.D. Best wrote:
> I couldn't find anywhere that told me how precisely to set up the call
> to an external editor ... so I entered a bit of dummy info into the
> field and exited to take a look at ARACHNE.CFG
> All it showed was Editor [dummy data]
Edito
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000 17:49:25 -0500, L.D. Best wrote:
> I couldn't find anywhere that told me how precisely to set up the call
> to an external editor ... so I entered a bit of dummy info into the
> field and exited to take a look at ARACHNE.CFG
> All it showed was Editor [dummy data]
Edito
On Fri, 15 Dec 2000 08:07:30 -0700, Gregory J. Feig wrote:
> These ACFs seem to work fineand they switch me between my different
> ISPs, POP3s, etc.BUTsomehow, even though the changes are being
> made "on-the-fly" so to speak, the info shown in my DialerPage boxes
> never changes. I
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000 19:56:41 -0500, L.D. Best wrote:
> Tom,
> The virus only affects certain people using windows. It was attached to
> a message you probably didn't even get.
> The nice thing about Arachne is that it runs in DOS, and no one yet has
> found a way to force a DOS program to be r
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000 09:01:01 -, Curtis Matthiesen wrote:
> I tried turning on terminal window (Autologin off) but it didn't work,
> however when I did turn it on and tried to connect I could enter my login
> name but not my password, the cursor wouldn't even move, I called my ISP and
> they t
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000 08:25:21 +, "Edenyard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Dec 2000 16:12:54 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote:
>> First you'll need a "laplink cable".
>> This is the one I use. Belkin #F3D508-10 http://www.belkin.com/
> If it's of any interest, I made up a small adaptor
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000 17:04:17 +--05-0500, "Neil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Greetings all
> I will be going away for the Christmas Holidays for about 10 days and
> wonder how I postpone the digest?
> tnx- NEIL
Hmmm. The help I got from Majordomo says nothing about this. Here's what
works el
On Sun, 10 Dec 2000 22:23:30 -0500 (EST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric S. Emerson)
wrote:
> Hi Sam, et al,
>Sam Heywood wrote:
>> ---snip---<
>> Oh, I didn't know our Sheriff was a female woman.
>> ---snip---<
> Is there any other kind of woman??
You're either
On Sun, 10 Dec 2000 21:32:32 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
> P.S. Before sending this message I dutifully ran spell check. It passed
> with flying colors. Still I thought there was something wrong with the
> way I had spelled something. So I decided to change my spelling of
> "ordnance" to
On Sun, 10 Dec 2000 08:13:49 -0500 (EST), Sam Ewalt wrote:
> As I noted previously, you can download CP/M and it's documentation from
> Caldera/Lineo ftp site. Try either www.drdos.org or www.drdos.net
The CP/M files are now hard to find on Lineo's site. There is a "fan" or
"community" website
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000 02:24:11 +1000, Ben Hood wrote:
> I heard that it was still included up to 486's or something. I doubt it
> would still be. I did have a K6-2-400 IBM Aptiva (which is actually a
> fairly standard ATX case). Would there be any way of seeing if it's
> still there? Maybe a debug
On Sat, 09 Dec 2000 21:15:10 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
> On Sat, 09 Dec 2000 17:38:30 -0500, L.D. Best wrote:
>> Glenn,
>> On Fri, 08 Dec 2000 21:23:15 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote:
>>> As for the spelling, you can correct it yourself in reply.htp
>> and resend.htp
> With certain word se
On Fri, 08 Dec 2000 21:42:49 -0500, Clarence Verge wrote:
> Glenn McCorkle wrote:
>> "True programmers" use:
>> copy con newprog.exe
>> type-in machine code
>> ^z
>> newprog.exe
> That only works for REALLY high level languages.
> TRUE programmers use:
> debug newprog.com
> e [enter hex digits
On Fri, 08 Dec 2000 21:27:55 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote:
> "True programmers" use:
> copy con newprog.exe
> type-in machine code
> ^z
> newprog.exe
True DOS programmers know better. First you have to use a text editor
that will accept the ESC (as in ctrl-c, so on) character to write a new
comma
On Fri, 08 Dec 2000 23:06:06 +0200, Or Botton wrote:
> Clarence Verge wrote:
>> I still use CPM on one of my (7) computers. It still runs the accounting
>> software I wrote in Basic 18 yrs ago, now modified to suit the times.
> Which computer is that, and is it Y2K compatible? :)
> (curious)
Pr
On Thu, 07 Dec 2000 22:38:02 +0100, Sacha Menge wrote:
> Hi,
> Thu, 07 Dec 2000 01:08:55 -0500 schrieb Robert Deering:
>> With PTS-DOS 2000, its HIMEM.SYS, Uwe Sieber's UMBPCI.SYS, and Arachne
>What's that prog?^^^
UMBPCI.SYS simp
On Fri, 8 Dec 2000 02:16:40 -0500 (EST), Thomas Mueller wrote:
> What OS ran on the PC jr & early XTs? Anybody have experience with CP/M (just
> curiosity on my part, I never saw CP/M in action)? Didn't IBM computers have
> ROM BASIC? All this was long before the World Wide Web.
Shipped with
On Thu, 07 Dec 2000 19:11:20 -0500, L.D. Best wrote:
> I have my system defaulting to "delete succesfuly sent mail" [Would
> someone remind whomever is working on Arachne to correct the spelling?].
There are many spelling errors in Arachne. Even so, the English spelling
and grammar are 1000% (ma
On Thu, 07 Dec 2000 20:37:01 -0500, Clarence Verge wrote:
> L.D. Best wrote:
>> Dear Clarence,
>> On Thu, 07 Dec 2000 14:42:12 -0500, Clarence Verge wrote:
>> > The "C" programmers' philosophy: Just write until you can't think up any
>> > more crap and let the hardware people figure out how t
On Thu, 07 Dec 2000 00:11:47 -0400, Clarence Verge wrote:
> On Wed, 06 Dec 2000 17:21:39 +, Ron Clarke wrote:
>> One worry, though. My free memory (580 kb) is down to 102 kb off-line,
>> and 64 kb (red) when on-line.
>> With A 1.66 it is 104 kb off line and 74 (black) on-line.
>> I think we
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000 10:04:33 -0600, Gil Parrish wrote:
(note: from what's snipped, Gil has a B/W portable)
> The other day, somebody told me I could monitor Arachne memory information
> with Alt-M, and red letters meant one thing, and green another Oops.
> Well, I can always plug in an extern
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000 09:28:46 -0500 (EST), Sam Ewalt wrote:
> Listen, you guys can tie yourself in knots if you want to--but
> Lineo just doesn't care about single copy usage. The minimum they
> want to sell is fifty at a pop. Doesn't that tell you something?
I was trying to keep my mouth shut =D
On Tue, 05 Dec 2000 10:51:04 +0200, Or Botton wrote:
> maybe its my eyes, screen, or just my brain, but I do not seem to
> be able to find a diffrence between the interface between 1.66 and 1.68?..
> I'm curious. Whats the diffrence, exactly?
Press F5 a couple of times in each, Or; you'll
On Sat, 2 Dec 2000 19:19:49 -0500 (EST), Sam Ewalt wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, Glenn McCorkle wrote:
>> Watt-32 might get used in some future version of Arachne.
>> For now we must stay with the 16bit WATTCP or we would be saying
>> "goodbye" to those who are still using machines older than a 3
On Fri, 01 Dec 2000 05:53:50 +0200, Or Botton wrote:
> Dev Anand Teelucksingh wrote:
>> Yes Arachne works fine on FAT32 at work. However there is a DOS
>> that supports FAT32 :
>> PTS DOS 2000 Pro http://www.paragon-gmbh.com/
>> Supports FAT32, internal UMB and CDROM support
>> (no E
On Thu, 30 Nov 2000 15:42:41 -0700 (MST), Steve Linux User wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Richard Menedetter wrote:
>> QNX has now been release as free for noncommercial use.
>> (not only demo, but whole system ... but attention ... it's a bit larger
>> than 1 disk ;)))
> Hmmm... ~7 hour downlo
On Thu, 30 Nov 2000 19:50:49 +, Arachne4Dos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> I came across a site I think it was a couple of weeks ago which was
> www.qnx.com
> and this has what looks very, very much like a re-badged version of
> Web Spyder from Caldera. I have to say it looks like it has a m
On Mon, 27 Nov 2000 23:24:18 -0400, Clarence Verge wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Nov 2000 21:50:30 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
>> I am using the same hard drive as used on my 386. Only a 16 bit FAT, not
>> 32 bit. My OS is Caldera DR-DOS, v. 3.02. Does the 16 bit FAT cause it
>> to run much slower
On Sat, 25 Nov 2000 20:26:06 -000, Mike Millen wrote:
> TF>I have no such difficulty with 1.66 -- changing nothing else but CORE
> TF>.EXE. And 1.67 also tends to crash when I try to export the database
> TF>selection page of the above to a file when online ("P" hotkey).
> TF>Terri
> TF>Official
On Thu, 23 Nov 2000 14:02:51 -0600, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Any one know How To get Arachne To Display A Fill Screen
Might be too much of an assumption, but I figure you mean "full" screen.
Press a few times to cycle through various pre-set screen
configurations. An asterisk - "*" will tog
On Thu, 16 Nov 2000 22:40:20 -0500, Clarence Verge wrote:
> Ron Clarke wrote:
>>Which still doesn't tell me why I have never got " arachne.bat -r "
>> to work. Arachne has always given me the "no connection to internet"
>> screen.
>>What do I look at to find out what has gone wrong ?
C
On Thu, 16 Nov 2000 17:56:31 -0500, Clarence Verge wrote:
> Arachne4Dos wrote:
>> To the citizens of the United States of America:
>> In the light of your failure to elect a President of the USA
>> and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the
>> revocation of your independence, e
On Tue, 14 Nov 2000 21:24:21 -0500, Roger Turk wrote:
> Sam Heywood wrote:
> My point is simply this: A good voltage reading does not necessarily mean
> that a battery is good. You have to perform a load test. A voltmeter does
> not do this.
> Do not try the above experiment at home unless y
On Thu, 09 Nov 2000 08:18:39 +, Ron Clarke wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Nov 2000 19:29:54 -, Neil Smith wrote:
>>> since almost all
>>> vendors now have system requirements for their browsers that can only be
>>> considered astronomical.
> Ain't that the truth. I have been waging a one-man camp
On Mon, 6 Nov 2000 17:21:31, Christof Lange wrote:
> Dear list,
{Most of what is valuable here snipped, but I JUST COULDN'T put scissors
to:}
> 2. Take the low-resource approach deadly serious, because this
> will encourage people to be dissidents. Teach them to think in a way
> they were not u
On Sat, 4 Nov 2000 01:08:31 -0500 (EST), Thomas Mueller wrote:
> Now, does anybody know what is charset UTF-8?
Unicode Transformation Format, 8-bit encoded; as opposed to 16-bit is
the assumed default (rarely realized in practice) of the Unicode
standard. Start at http://www.unicode.org/
It's c
On Thu, 2 Nov 2000 18:32:43 -0500 (EST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric S. Emerson)
wrote:
> Hi All,
> Can someone get file mac.htm from:
> detroit.freenet.org/~at147/mac.htm
Didn't try to get the file, but it's a known problem with certain font
families, don't remember which or why.
Bob
Starts
On Wed, 01 Nov 2000 21:37:23 -0500, Clarence Verge wrote:
> Robert Deering wrote:
>> Does [EMAIL PROTECTED] do "refcard"? In other words, how do I get a
>> list of possible commands?
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> help
> end
Thanks much!
Bob
Starts April 1, 200
On Wed, 01 Nov 2000 20:17:43 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote:
> You can do that by sending these 3 lines to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> unsubscribe arachne-digest [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> subscribe arachne-digest [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> end
Whilst playing one of my favorite computer games, "fdisk extreme" (the
obje
On Tue, 31 Oct 2000 05:11:07 +0200, Or Botton wrote:
> Any attempt to go to http://www.allegro.cc/files/ results in an
> immidiate freeze right when trying to download the page. (Note that
> I said "download", not "load".)
Responses from a plain old htget are:
./files : 404, with html 404 erro
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000 22:12:14 -0500, Clarence Verge wrote:
> L.D. Best wrote:
>> Did anyone else on the list receive e-mail from me supposedly about UBE
>> but with an attachment of "irs_mail.jpg" ??
> Yes. Nice cartoon.
Yep
> I'll check later to see if it was personal or on the list, but I th
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000 07:52:22 +0200, Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Terri wrote:
>>I have changed nothing from 1.66, where clr.bat worked. What
>> command or file is it looking for that I don't have? Why is
>> Arachne terminating? I can't figure out what it's looking for
>> from the
How do I do this? When Arachne encouters the mime type "foo/x-bar" I
want it to visit the URL http://foo.bar.org/sound.wav .
I just can't figure how to do it from inside Arachne. If I leave Arachne
and do "arachne http:foo.bar.org/sound.wav", it tells me it's offline;
adding "-r" is no better, as
On Sun, 22 Oct 2000 22:58:38 -0400, L.D. Best wrote:
> What system do you run Arachne on, what video settings do you have, etc
> etc etc ???
> For once *I* get to say, "Hey, I can't duplicate it so it must be your
> setup."
Only way I can think of that my setup might make a difference here is
On Sun, 22 Oct 2000 06:49:18 +0200, Or Botton wrote:
> Shockwave and PDF should be open.. unfortunatly, they're not, and yet
> they've become a dominating 'standard' on the internet. So its a
> problem.
Postscript and PDF gained popularity because of the Adobe tools used to
produce them. These d
On Sun, 22 Oct 2000 02:58:21 -0400 (EDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric S. Emerson)
wrote:
> Hi Neil,
> Just as Jim Palmer has suggested in a previous
> e-mail I have BootGUI=0 in my MSDOS.SYS. I am running Win95.
> When I turn on my computer it boots to DOS. If I want to start
> Windoze I type W
Surely I'm not the only one who observes the following problem. It may
have been discussed here before; in that case, please pardon me, I came
in late.
http://browser.arachne.cz/text_index.shtml
It just doesn't display correctly in Arachne. I've tried 1.61, 1.66, and
1.50 src. "Arachne News" dis
On Sat, 21 Oct 2000 12:30:40 +0800, Joerg Bartels wrote:
> Please people do not start a flamewar now, I realy need
> some help.
> For me it looks like the mbr on that disk is shot.
> What can I realy do to fix it?
Try fdisk /mbr . Some versions use fdisk /m instead. If it's a linux
boot floppy,
On Sat, 21 Oct 2000 02:49:52 -0400, Clarence Verge wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Oct 2000 00:20:23 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote:
>> Black is the default color when the body tag has no text="some color"
> Not so.
> Maybe Arachne, but IE and NS default to white unless the user overrides.
"Sand" seems to g
On Fri, 20 Oct 2000 04:30:10 -0400, Clarence Verge wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Oct 2000 22:46:39 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
>> You will never be able to pile it higher and deeper if you can't even
>> begin to plumb the depths of the profound. You will need to procure some
>> very good hip wade
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000 08:13:33 +, Ron Clarke wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> I writted:
> Subject: notice of violation
>> From: Ron Clarke
>>> Subject: Re: notice of violation - its getting sillier
>>> Hi Folks,
>>> Nah, Arachne needs its spelling and grammar checked
>>> properly.<
> Terri FitzSimons
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000 22:07:32 +0200, Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Originally you would change the bits by hand (switches, punch cards).
Not only that, but reading data erased that cell of the magnetic core
memory. The programmer had to include a loop-back that would restore the
data after
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