FreeLists / arachne / [arachne] Re: I need a favor!!

[Bart Buitinga <bartbuitinga@xxxxxxxxx>]

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L.D. Best wrote:

> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
> 
> I'm working with a Nettamer user I've known for a number of years; he
> lives in the hinterlands of South Africa -- hinterlands equates to
> Internet Yes, World Wide Web NO.  He's limited to e-mail and snail mail. 
> Thanks to glennmcc I will soon be sending a number of CDs to South
> Africa.


I guess we're on a BBS then; Newsgroups might also be available, as may 
be the WWW through lynx if shell access provides it. It would be nice to 
know a bit more here (and there: Of course the net grows "on demand", so 
maybe it won't take too long)
Anyway: Maybe Waffle would be the revolution in communications it once 
was to me. It does UUCP and may be able to call a viewer...

> 
> One of the projects he asked for help on was learning assembly.  No, I
> don't know assembly but I Google well. <g>  I am in the process of
> douwnloading a 25 chapter course on Assembly Language; each chapter has
> three to ten parts; each chapter has illustrations I want to include
> also -- with the hope that his wife may be able to explain them in such
> a way that he can better understand what they are supposed to
> illustrate.  Thus, I'll be putting together a CD filled with html pages,
> all nicely linked together.
> 
> But he can't use Nettamer to read it and see graphics.
> 
> The favor:  He now has a pentium machine, so machine speed isn't an
> aspect. But I'm rather tied up right now, and I'd really appreciate
> someone being willing to volunteer to put together an Arachne 1.73 reader,
> no need for tcp/ip, no need for e-mail, no need for the web ... need to be
> able to easily navigate to the CD drive, and there be able to use the html
> TOC and all the entire 'text book'.  It should be a "boot disk & run"
> configuration.  There should be adequate memory for a RAMdrive.


No problem, but how would you want it: Easiest would be to send a 
(preconfigured if has to be; Arachne hardly needs config to not use the 
web...) zipped arachne package with a suitable config and autoexec, so 
you can burn it on a CD from where it should be copied to a bootable 
diskette (Alternatively mail a diskette image for rawrite, but that's 
not standard here). OR if the guy has enough DOS experience: Just burn 
distro packages of Arachne and Xmsdsk (But why not install on the HDD? 
Is there anything present on this pentium system?)


> 
> If anyone is willing to volunteer for this grunge job, please let me
> know.  Then if you have questions I can pass then on and get your
> answers for you.  The end result of all the sweat & strain should be a
> bootable diskette that loads the Arachne interface plus the CD I will
> burn that contains the many chapter sections and graphics all set to the
> almost original [I'll be removing frames & all javascripting] on-line
> text.



Does the bios support booting from the CD or do we need to configure it 
in DOS as well?


> 
> Think of it as being something few people in the world can do, and you
> are one of the few.
> 
> Please get back to me private e-mail ...


Maybe next time; if this guy has e-mail he could join the list (Which 
one) as well...

Bart Buitinga,
Arnhem, Netherlands


> 
> Can't stay and chat -- have a whole bunch of work sitting in front of me
> demanding my attention!! <G>
> 
> l.d.
> 
> DOSasaur since 1980
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