Re: Arachne as viewer & push/pop

2001-12-03 Thread Howard Schwartz
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

Re: Arachne as "Viewer" for HTML Pages

2001-11-21 Thread Joerg Dietze
Hi Thomas, On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 17:20:15 -0500 (EST), Thomas Mueller wrote: > On Mon, 19 Nov 2001 14:58:32 +, Bastiaan Edelman wrote: >> PS: Joerg would it be possible to make gostscript convert to GIF in stead >> of BMP? > What about JPG or PNG, to avoid the copyright problems associated w

Re: Arachne as "Viewer" for HTML Pages

2001-11-21 Thread Thomas Mueller
On Mon, 19 Nov 2001 14:58:32 +, Bastiaan Edelman wrote: > PS: Joerg would it be possible to make gostscript convert to GIF in stead > of BMP? What about JPG or PNG, to avoid the copyright problems associated with GIF?

Re: Arachne as viewer & push/pop

2001-11-20 Thread Clarence Verge
On Mon, 19 Nov 2001 15:03:42 +, Bastiaan Edelman wrote: > JPG, PS and PDF are converted to BMP and following what happened in > viewer.bat = abt mime.cfg there is a difference in executing > : execute > and : fastexecute > files using execute are returning OK > files using fastexecute are not

Re: Arachne as viewer & push/pop

2001-11-19 Thread Clarence Verge
Bastiaan Edelman wrote: > > Resending to the list! > > Hello All... > I did a lot of figuring out and it came out that the problem is in the > conversion to BMP. > JPG, PS and PDF are converted to BMP and following what happened in > viewer.bat = abt mime.cfg there is a difference in executing

Re: Arachne as "Viewer" for HTML Pages

2001-11-19 Thread Joerg Dietze
Hi Bastiaan, On Mon, 19 Nov 2001 14:58:32 +, Bastiaan Edelman wrote: > PS: Joerg would it be possible to make gostscript convert to GIF in stead > of BMP? at least in my version of GS there is no driver for GIF output (license problems ?). What You can do is converting the BMPs to GIFs and

Re: Arachne as "Viewer" for HTML Pages

2001-11-19 Thread Bastiaan Edelman
lutions? > John > -Original Message- > From: Glenn Gilbreath, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sunday, November 11, 2001 9:29 PM > Subject: Re: Arachne as "Viewer" for HTML Pages >> Hi Gang! >> L

Re: Arachne as viewer & push/pop

2001-11-19 Thread Bastiaan Edelman
Resending to the list! On Mon, 12 Nov 2001 03:31:52 -0400, Clarence Verge wrote: > On Sun, 11 Nov 2001 22:55:53 +, Bastiaan Edelman wrote: >> Norton is now returning to original file... but... >> If Arachne has some complicated task to perform there is no returning. >> BMP returning OK >

Re: Arachne as "Viewer" for HTML Pages

2001-11-19 Thread John C Sparks
TECTED]> Date: Sunday, November 11, 2001 9:29 PM Subject: Re: Arachne as "Viewer" for HTML Pages >Hi Gang! >LD hit upon the notion, so I'll explain a bit to "HowTo" for a batch file for using >Arachne as offline web page/HTML viewer > >First,

Re: Arachne as viewer & push/pop

2001-11-12 Thread Alex Venn
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > Norton is now returning to original file... but... > > If Arachne has some complicated task to perform there is no returning. > > BMP returning OK > HTM returning OK > GIF OK > JPG not OK stays in Arachne > PDF not OK > PS not OK > > The viewing of

Re: Arachne as viewer & push/pop

2001-11-12 Thread Clarence Verge
On Sun, 11 Nov 2001 22:55:53 +, Bastiaan Edelman wrote: > Norton is now returning to original file... but... > If Arachne has some complicated task to perform there is no returning. > BMP returning OK > HTM returning OK > GIF OK > JPG not OK stays in Arachne > PDF not OK > PS not OK > The

Re: ??? Arachne as viewer

2001-11-10 Thread Samuel W. Heywood
On Sat, 10 Nov 2001 01:56:28 -0400, L.D. Best wrote: > On Fri, 09 Nov 2001 19:50:30 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: >> I used to have a little freeware program called RETURNTO.EXE, >> or maybe it was RETURNTO.COM, that you could put at the end of >> a batch file so that upon exiting it would r

Re: ??? Arachne as viewer

2001-11-10 Thread Clarence Verge
On Fri, 09 Nov 2001 21:38:55 +, Bastiaan Edelman wrote: > On Fri, 9 Nov 01 14:34:40 +8, Neo Sze Wee wrote: >> What about using pop.com and push.com? >> Put push.com at the front of the batch file and pop.com at the end. If you >> want I can send you the programs. > Yes, please Bastiaa

Re: ??? Arachne as viewer

2001-11-09 Thread L.D. Best
If you're working is BATch files, there is absolutely no need to use any executable program just to get you where you want to be when the batch program finishes what you have it doing. First, nothing in Arachne is set up to return you to anyplace outside of Arachne. You need to do that with your

Re: ??? Arachne as viewer

2001-11-09 Thread Samuel W. Heywood
On Fri, 09 Nov 2001 21:38:55 +, Bastiaan Edelman wrote: But... after showing HTML or a picture in Arachne, Arachne is not going back correctly to the original working directory in Norton but stays in C:\Arachne. When looking at a series of images I have to search for the o

Re: ??? Arachne as viewer

2001-11-09 Thread Bastiaan Edelman
On Fri, 9 Nov 01 14:34:40 +8, Neo Sze Wee wrote: > What about using pop.com and push.com? > Put push.com at the front of the batch file and pop.com at the end. If you > want I can send you the programs. Yes, please Bastiaan >> On 1 Nov 01 at 9:55, owner-arachne-digest@arachne wrote: >>>

Re: ??? Arachne as viewer

2001-11-09 Thread Neo Sze Wee
What about using pop.com and push.com? Put push.com at the front of the batch file and pop.com at the end. If you want I can send you the programs. >On 1 Nov 01 at 9:55, owner-arachne-digest@arachne wrote: >>Reply to Sender: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Reply to List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >

Re: ??? Arachne as viewer

2001-11-01 Thread cce . zizkov
On 1 Nov 01 at 9:55, owner-arachne-digest@arachne wrote: >Reply to Sender: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Reply to List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >But... after showing HTML or a picture in Arachne, Arachne is not >going back correctly to the original working directory in Norton but >stays in C:\Arac

Re: ??? Arachne as viewer

2001-11-01 Thread Alex Venn
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >> Ppd is just a directory pusher/popper and there are several others. > > So ppd must be some executable? Where to find it? Yes. On Simtelnet, in msdos\dirutl, there are several of these utils and most are free (ppd is the "simple" part of pppd301.zi

Re: ??? Arachne as viewer

2001-11-01 Thread Clarence Verge
On Wed, 31 Oct 2001 15:22:29 +, Bastiaan Edelman wrote: > So ppd must be some executable? Where to find it? Well, I don't have ppd and I'm pretty sure there must be a way to do this without installing a TSR - you could try the method suggested by Michael in his howto on using Arachne for a v

Re: ??? Arachne as viewer

2001-10-31 Thread Bastiaan Edelman
On Wed, 31 Oct 2001 03:53:39 -0400, Clarence Verge wrote: > On Wed, 31 Oct 2001 6:38:59 GMT, Alex Venn wrote: >> Here's how I do it with my version of viewer.bat: >> VIEWER.BAT >> ; VC driver >> ; Arachne expects it's cfg file in the cwd so we need to save the >> ; current one, change to the A

Re: ??? Arachne as viewer

2001-10-31 Thread Clarence Verge
On Wed, 31 Oct 2001 6:38:59 GMT, Alex Venn wrote: > Here's how I do it with my version of viewer.bat: > VIEWER.BAT > ; VC driver > ; Arachne expects it's cfg file in the cwd so we need to save the > ; current one, change to the Arachne dir and run it from there and > ; finally return to the ori

Re: ??? Arachne as viewer

2001-10-30 Thread Alex Venn
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > Dear List, > as stated one may use Arachne as an external viewer for HTML, > GIF, JPG, etc. to e.g. the Norton Commander. > > I made a viewer.bat by adding to the top of arachne.bat two lines: > > c: > cd \arachne > > And yes this is worki

Re: ??? Arachne as viewer

2001-10-30 Thread Clarence Verge
On Wed, 31 Oct 2001 02:10:42 +, Bastiaan Edelman wrote: > Dear List, > as stated one may use Arachne as an external viewer for HTML, > GIF, JPG, etc. to e.g. the Norton Commander. > I made a viewer.bat by adding to the top of arachne.bat two lines: > c: > cd \arachne > And yes this is

??? Arachne as viewer

2001-10-30 Thread Bastiaan Edelman
Dear List, as stated one may use Arachne as an external viewer for HTML, GIF, JPG, etc. to e.g. the Norton Commander. I made a viewer.bat by adding to the top of arachne.bat two lines: c: cd \arachne And yes this is working all right if the extensions in Norton point to viewer.bat B