Sounds like a conservative anti-virus strategy is to avoid using
any products and/or turn off any options that automatically allow
something on your PC to `process'' any incoming data from the internet -
be it from a web page, email, ftp, news, etc. That is, stay away from
auto - java, javascr
Or Botton wrote:
> I've been reviewing Mozilla for awhile now, and I have to say that
> its quite impressive. Then I got reminded of Michael's Flowerpot
> project, and I got into thinking
I tried the windows version of the Mozilla browser (Release 1),
and, as usual with newer creations, it is
Steve wrote:
>I use Netscape 3.04 as my default browser. I use Arachne
> as my "launch from e-mail" browser.
For whatever it is worth, I use Netscape Navigator 4.8 when I
need to deal with complex forms, https, java, etc. I believe it was
the last version of navigator before netscape switch
> While online a few minutes ago, and while using Arachne Insight
> to compose an email message, I suddenly heard a click and then
> a dialtone on my modem. Then the modem started to dial, apparently
> all by itself. I know I wasn't doing anything to cause the modem
> to hangup and then go
I have noticed a decrease in posts to arachne, survpc, and other
``older'' software/hardware listservrs.
I wonder if this is a symptom of surrender to the everchanging
software/hardware times? For instance, given the lack of a new
version of arachne for some time, the increase of java, javascript
>If I have a legal W95 I also have IE 4. Text602 and Tab602 are made
>for users who cannot exist without Windows environment.
Not true. First, the OEM versions of win95, even for version 2
come with IE 3, not IE 4. Second, and more important, there is
that fellow I believe in Australia that has t
I find dramatic differences in browsing speed depending on
which packet driver, browser, combination of TSRs, etc. I am
running.
I realize that the actual download speed reported by a browser
(e.g., arachne) depends on net traffic, phone lines, etc.
Therefore, is there some reasonable way to ben
27; as a bug. If you wanted to ask a question or get support,
you had to join something and pay something. What a surprise.
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om most current email
viruses and trojans.
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Hi Sam,
Not that I am selling any alternatives to you or others but your mail
about Access-4-Free.com prompted these reflections:
A while ago I went looking for another ISP when my giant corporate Verio,
that had bought out what I originally subscribed to attempted to dumb all
its dial-up custom
I've been test driving LSPPP V. 7.64 for a month or so. The good news for
me is I got it to establish a connection after tweaking its timeouts,
compared to previous versions. The bad news is that internet applications
seem to perform badly compared to epppd, which I used for years with no
clear tr
ls -l filename
will tell you if filename has execute permission (x) which is somewhat
of a clue, although, of course, people can create a file with every
permission in sight for no reason at all when it is just a text file.
ls -F
helps a little, by telling you which files are links and direct
For many years I happily used Pagett Peterson's Disksecure II to protect
the Master Boot Record (MBR) of my disk from boot/stealth viruses. I am
now considering updating my partition table to FAT-32 to save space, and
eliminate the work of managing several different (logical) drive letters.
I su
windows, windows/system etc.
Would that suffice to restore a working windows? I have heard so many stories
of junk accumulating slowly in, for instance, the registry, and at some
break point -- only a complete clean reinstall will reproduce sanity.
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connection, and a tcp-ip connection already being present, you can load
a dos packet driver like one of these, assuming you boot from a dos
floppy. If so, the packet drivers will give you the IP address. I believe
windows includes the program, ipc
boot ``in dos mode'' (I guess
no IO.sys and msdos.sys). Did this occur at win98 or later?
Howard Schwartz
howardbschwartz "at" california.com
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Howard Schwartz
howardbschwartz "at" california.com
l mode and 16 bit processing? Do some of
the newer doses, such as the DPMI mode for Dr. Dos, Free Dos, etc over
come this limitation?a
Howard Schwartz
howardbschwartz "at" california.com
ava: Most binaries
of awk work well, and all its scripts are just text files.
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used to answer my emails
promptly, since I was a regular contributer and reviewer. My 4 or so
last emails to him all remain unanswered.
I wonder what happened to him? If he succumed to Linux I would at least
expect a final statement on his site.
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he next line), that
can handle much larger files efficiently than html and is generally
simpler, I find. You can do fonts, text and graphics and all the usual,
and the source files are pure ascii, like html files.
End of emotional rant
practical
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r to Linux and use netscape for the horrible
website, and then come back to dos for text-based tasks.
Reactions, thoughts, complaints?
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Alas, the bloat of win is matched in a different way for PC users by
another kind of bloat of Linux: Unix per se was intended for larger,
multiuser machines running servers and the like, and equipped with
lots of libraries and tools to help sysad types and developers.
It was never intended for si
Came in in the middle of the movie on this topic. But here is my
solution to an arachne batch file that views html files. It uses
two freeware programs available at Rich Green's ``Freeware for Dos
not windows'' site: a PC magazine program called strings and a set
of pushdir and popdir programs, t
>I've been having troubles with uploads to my shell using FTP ... more
>precisely, the longer the file is the slower the upload.
>I don't mean "the longer it takes" ... I mean that a short file might go
>up to the server [these are examples to explain, not actual] at
>400Kbyt
Forgive my ignorance, but what exactly is a NIC? I assume it is an
acronym for something, and there has been much discussion about NICs.
But in my ignorance I do not know what they are.
Also, the program catdoc, which is freeware unlike view, does quite a
good job of converting MS Word docs into formatted, plain text. It may,
however, not do what view can with images, etc.
As of this time, I consider the main problem with different OS's and
desktops built on OS's etc. to be this:
For one reason or another, fairly large numbers of applications have been
built for or ported to, one OS (or 2 OS's) but not others. Whatever
your preferences, if you need certain applicat
So far I have read various ways to make dos accomodate more ram and
large hard disks. However, I heard that dos (maybe only the 6.x
versions?) do not support some of the newer hardware such as:
usb and firewire ports and devices, the PCL bus and therefore devices
that plug into PCL slots.
I exp
Did not CDRom in Walnut Creek used to sell their own CD collections of
the Simtel archives? Depending on their prices, if this is so, it may
be less painful to just buy the collection from them in CD form.
There might also be the chance that the CD have all the old files before
the current deleti
> Hi Folks,
>I know I'm going to regret this, but I am wondering what else the
> Arachne TELNET feature can do.
>There is mention somewhere of FTP in the
> screen messages, but does that include upload as well as download ?
>There is also a screen reference to "script". Could
> > How can an anti-virus program scan a file for viruses *before*
> > the file is downloaded? I have never heard of any virus scanning
> > software having such a feature.
L.D. Best replied:
> I have ... but it is run by the ISP at the POP3 server level.
> X-AntiVirus: scanned for viruses
> nor can I figure out why you want PKUNZIP to automatically unZIP files
> as they are downloaded
I find it a handy trick, when downloading a zipped file to define zip
as a MIME type and/or as a download option, in such a way that the
browser runs a zip utility like zview or aview, instead of
in a setup file
and used as your standard decider. For other mailers, save the entire
message somewhere like same does, and then run uudeview on it to
dispose of/read the parts as you see fit.
Howard Schwartz
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>> I'm searching for an editor that show me two files at the same time.
The freeware dos program, multi-edit handles huge files and includes
a multi window desktop much like windows. You can have multiple windows,
containing multiple files, resize/iconify/move the windows about etc. --
as if you
plain text?
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theo "at" ncal.verio.com
> Try (in that newer DOS version)
> "help nc" (for Norton Commander)
> "help pine" (for Pine)
> "help lynx" (for Lynx)
> Would you get anything
> Traditionally, in Linux every application has its own man page, at least as a
> starting point for the path towards finding the more extende
$15. ?
Howard Schwartz
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Sam wrote:
> To the Grammar Sheriff
> Please let me off with just a stern warning this time. Please
> do not publish a citation on the list advising everyone that you
> find proper and due cause to accuse me of violating the law
I do not recall the incident Sam, but I empathize greatly with
Actually I empathize a bit with the commercial company's situation.
I had occasion to work as a QA tester for a dot com or two that
made Web-based products. The Question before them, in part, was
how many of the following should their QA lab contain to test
their product:
a) Types of PCs and macs
> The download for Doug Kaufman's recent Lynx386 for DOS version is
> a zip file of 1,455,601 bytes. This is version 2.8.4, dev.14. It
> does SSL and it does https very nicely. Unarchived, this version will
> take up 2,399,066 bytes of HDD space. As you will not find any need
The hard dis
utilities that repair floppies.
It is not at all unusual for me to find bad clusters on ``brand new''
disks.
It would be nice to get some inside info. on who is still making
a decent attempt to produce decent floppies.
Howard Schwartz
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> I like Lynx a lot and if I never wanted to see a picture I would certainly
> use it. But that's not what most of us want or need. I'm not familiar with
> the new Lynxes you speak of.
The latest versions of lynx show images/pictures in on the screen
in one of several ways. If you double cl
I got a lot of responses to the following when I sent it to the survpc
list, so it seemed reasonable to send it to the original as well:
Do others have the feeling that arachne is starting its death stroll
these days, because of the frustration of one or 2 authors trying
Once recall a post that claimed, if an attachment is put on drive,
Q, opened and contained a virus - the virus could not migrate to
your other drives, such as C, D etc. and do damage to files there.
If so, this sounds like a sensible thing to do with attachments and I
will impliment it. But I mus
is technique is obsolete and offers nothing extra to
> make it worth the trouble to use and take into account.
> //Bernie
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emulators used to give you this
auto-conversion option.
Howard Schwartz
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> On Tue, 10 Apr 2001 04:04:52 -0400, Clarence Verge wrote:
> > Does anyone know how to convert a document in the moronic MS word
> > format to something readable ?
Almost everyone mentioned View which costs a little money. Catdoc.zip
also does a pretty decent job and is freeware. There is als
for the ordinary ftp command found on Unix. On the latter,
any ftp command can be part of a script, if the script is executed by
an ftp macro, and there is a provision to run an initial script on a
specific remote host, automatically when you start ftp and direct it
to that host.
ompletely
free.
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Documentation on the ftp that comes with CUTE telnet can be found
as part of the NCSA telnet documentation from which CUTE telnet was
made -- tel23doc.zip
I do not know much about scripts from the dos side, but I happily
create ftp scripts from the Unix side of my shell command, but
using the mac
e seem religiously attached to their desktop publishers or editors.
Howard Schwartz
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I have found that some wattcp applications will parse the value of
DOS environment variables, if they appear in a wattcp.cfg file.
Thus if you put:
my_ip=%myip%
in a wattcp.cfg file - where %myip% is the variable set to your current
dynamic IP address when you run a file like ip-up.bat o
depend on and
enjoy.
Thanks for any input,
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I had a friend who had the same general problem discussed here:
He wanted to use one of those internet services that electronically
pay you monthy bills. But it used 128 bit encryption.
I solved his problem by finding where to download netscape 4.7
for windows 3.1. Strangely, as recently as a yea
> If you ever needed a little push to get you to install Arachne on a ramdisk,
> here it comes:
Later you say that putting arachne on a separate partition will not necessarily
save files on other partitions. Why will a ramdisk be safer? Logically,
a ramdisk is treated as another partition, i.e.
> Dear Listers,
> Has anyone tried the "New Improved" Simtel site? The old one worked
> well enough, I thought, but now try going to www.simtel.net and clicking
> on the MSDOS link.
I dislike the new site a lot, even when I get in. I find the new
categories the programs are categorized in
I do not know how interesting or useful this is for anyone but:
Long ago I used a hex editor or debug to patch my command.com
so that it always gave about 1k of environment space. Simtel has
a file with instructions on what to look for in the binary to do
this. You have to improvise a bit for diff
> and that authentication in SMTP is only necesarry if you don't use your
> ISPs SMTP server. (otherwise the IP should be checked)
>
> CU, Ricsi
Wrong Wrong Wrong!
I use my ISPs SMTP server, I dial into my ISP's
nameserver by phoning my ISP's digital access POP phone number.
I (that is my mai
e replies.zip
if not errorlevel 2 if errorlevel 1 del c:\qmd\outbox\replies.zip
set FDSMTPOPLOG=
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ISPs that it bought. It does not
care much about single users, and probably thinks its money with
in larger business accounts. I doubt they gave much thought to
individual users when installing their spam filter(s).
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r MS outlook.
(p.s., if 2 copies of this are sent, my new uqwk method of sending
mail worked. Promise, I wont do this again.)
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> On 2 Feb 01 at 23:39, owner-arachne-digest@arachne wrote:
> Christian, Clarence, all,
> I apologize, my quoted description did not apply to DOS Navigator
> (ND), but to the Russian Necromancer's DOS Navigator (NDN). I really
> recommend that one to everybody who wants to upgrade from No
rtunately, this upgrade will affect a lot of ``survpc'' software,
I am afraid. Had they upgraded differently by, for instance, including
an id/password in the HELO or MAIL From: command, we could configure
old software to authenticate. But of course, t
> On 2 Feb 01 at 23:39, owner-arachne-digest@arachne wrote:
> Christian, Clarence, all,
> I apologize, my quoted description did not apply to DOS Navigator
> (ND), but to the Russian Necromancer's DOS Navigator (NDN). I really
> recommend that one to everybody who wants to upgrade from Nor
k that your forwarding will not last. I have turned on more than
one friend to Yahoo.com's free email. They certainly are likely to be
here for a while and, unlike most providers, they give you free POP3 and
SMTP mail so you can process mail with a real mail cl
> old isa soundcards are really cheap
I tried to find one for my 486 75Mhz, 28 Megs of ram, PC with a
Vesa Local Bus. There were problems: You need a driver for the
cards, and the flea market type cards did not have the software
driver. I do not know if these drivers are generic or card
Unless I am missing something, disk compression and, indeed, ordinary
file compression (e.g., zip, arj etc.) solve the problem of wasting
disk space because of a minimum cluster size. How? They are ways
to make the OS treat a single file as if it were a directory.
To the compression program, a c
mong these is Partition Manager, which does
most of the things Partition Magic does for free(!) and more precisely.
http://www.users.intercom.com/~ranish/part/partbeta.zip
Also look at Rich Green's freeware boot managers for more choices:
http://geocities.com/SiliconValley/L
ns to taste, etc. --
using other mark up tags. Groff produces a formatted-file that is either
plain text, or, if desired, a postscript print file.
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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, one must reinter the same data in arachne.cfg
for the new distribution.
In
Clarence,
You might try the freware program, Partition Manager, at:
http://www.users.intercom.com/~ranish/part/
It lets you enter partition sizes, by number, explicitly in the MBR and
FAT -- a little more precise than partition magic.
> Hi All;
> I need to TEMPORARILY change the s
I'm surprised, in the ``whereis'' discussion, nobody mentioned a very
recent flavor of whereis called locate, that has been under active
development for a few years: long file name support, goto to file
found, execute macros or command(s) on found file, search through
multiple drives, runs on mos
m (e.g., arachne) ends, the freeware
program restores win 3.1 automatically, including any open windows with
word processors or whatever that were going in your session.
Perhaps if one just had to initially boot to win 3.1, such methods would
be of interest.
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this program in the pmpop110.zip archive for the program, written by
David Harris, that smtpop was designed as a substitute for. This program
is not widely known, and it saves you the trouble of writing you own
script to convert mail to glue format. Pegasus mail, of course, will write
messages i
Well, so far, arachne's insight has been the only transport agent that
reliably sends mail to my smtp server (I've recently tried x_mailn.exe
and smtpop12.exe; they did not work).
However, I prefer to receive/read mail with other software. So I
wonder: How do I use insight.exe as a standalone pro
Throughout my arachne history of use, I never had cause to use the
insight mailer or the alternative mailer for arachne whose name escapes
me. I had a viable shell account, and was happy with my offline mail
processors.
Well the ISP mega-takeover specialist took over my ISP, turned the shell
int
rchive). Alas, it
does not seem to work. Michael seems to swap core out of memory when you
hit T from within arachne to start telnet. So I expect he has a swap like
function built into core.exe.
I did come across a version of PC elm that included shroom version 1.1,
without mentioning that it was
Glenn wrote:
Didn't find tcapnn.zip but I did find
http://www.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/keyboard/encore.zip
Dont know why you did not find tcap: tcap31.zip can be found just where
I indicated at:
http://www.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/sysutl/tcap31
> I have only one problem with PC-Pine: She doesn't like NWCACHE.
> I like to have a line like this in my AUTOEXEC.BAT:
> NWCACHE 1024 512 /LEND=ON /DELAY=OFF
> With the above line in my AUTOEXEC.BAT, PC-Pine will always crash
> whenever I attempt to compose a message. With the line rema
www.simtel.net) and look for a file called
something like tcapnn.zip where the nn are some version number or other
like tcap12.zip etc. This is a TSR that records all keyboard input and/or
all characters that appear on the screen and puts the results in a file.
Howard Schwartz
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I think I just realized a fact perhaps well known to the rest of you.
Ever so often I send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], but I never
see my own message on the digest which I get.
There are at least 2 possibilities: [EMAIL PROTECTED] is not
just sets of messages from the arachne listserv, as no
Try uudvd05d.zip as a decoder. it seems to be smarter than both mpack
and metamail and lets you pic viewers of your choice on the fly if you
want to.
ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/decode/uudvd05d.zip
If you like markup languages (which I do), there is a wonderful word processor
for dos available as groff:
http://oak.oakland.edu/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/gro110b.zip
This is the GNU version of the unix desktop publisher, troff. You
mark up a plain text file with commands that start with a
Howard Wrote:
>Independently of what cut/paste facilities Michael builds into arachne,
>you can usually, pretty easily get cut and paste ability within and between
>virtually any dos applications but installing one of the several freeware
>programs designed to do this, for instance:
>
>dosclip
>sn
mousebuf
See Rich Green's site for a list of them with evaluations:
For applications like arachne that use a mouse, you need a program
that does not conflict with the internal mouse program such as mousebuf
or dosclip.
Howard Schwartz
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Now that we know there are versions of HIMEM.SYS that take up less
disk space and/or memory, does anyone have a clue whether the later
and larger versions of the software actually manage memory better?
In theory, the extra bytes are not there for nothing, although I
would not bet on this since w
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