[arachne] Here we go again . . . .

[Mel Evans <arachne4dos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!

Hi Guys 'n gals,

Here we go once again. I wish I knew more about DOS than I do.=
 The 
scenario follows!

Machine is a 386/486 with 128Meg ram running W98. It has two hard=
 
drives, total around 6Gb, the second (D) runs almost entirely DOS=
 
programs of various types to do with ham radio, and the first (C)=
 
drive runs W98 with BOTH a winmodem and a real (external) hard=
 modem,
both of which can be used to dial up on IE and/or the Pocomail 
e-mailer I use under W98.

The (E) drive is a CD re-write, but does not have DVD play. The=
 (A) 
drive is a conventional 3.5 floppy.

D/loaded 175 gpl from Glenn's site and unpacked it onto the (D)=
 drive
into it's own directory. Plugged in the various info without any=
 
problems, and only had to change ATZ to AT&F in the dial-up to=
 get 
full squeaks on connect.

After install I get an error type message that says something=
 like:-

out of conventional (low) DOS memory: (8584 bytes missing)

but goes on to say "enter arachne" to start the program. When you=
 do 
this. it all starts up and I get Glenn's dialler screen for the 
386PC, it all works fine and a click on dial gets the modem into=
 
operation, it all appears to handshake and then stalls, dead!

Using the terminal mode, it just sits there and does nothing else=
 
until it decides to give me the "PPP driver down or not installed=
 
message" and "arachne will fly to dialler in x seconds" when it=
 goes 
through the whole thing again - - and again - - and again - -=
 and

well you get the idea.

At the side of the screen in the advice panel I get

DOS memory Kb 81(+)
Used XMS           1683
FreeXswap           1948
Used Xswap           113
Disc Space Mb     1104
hTTP Cache Items      3
37 HTML atoms

The full cfg file is next, this is what it looks like:-

**********************************************

;This is ARACHNE.CFG for Arachne version 1.6+
;If you want to use Arachne on PC with CPU 386 or less than 8 MB=
 RAM,
;you should start here.
;This configuration file can be completely controlled from=
 Arachne 
setup.
;Run "setup" if you are not sure what to change in configuration=
 
file.

[profile]
Profile 386PC.ACF
Connection @epppd.exe>>PPP.LOG
Hangup @termin.com 0x60>NUL

;Connection @cmd    ... command cmd will estabilish connection
;Connection READY   ... connection is permanent, packet driver in=
 
AUTOEXEC...
;Connection NUL     ... do not start TCP/IP (run "arachne -c" to=
 
force this)

[dialer]
DialPage file:pppglenn.htm
Dialer @MINITERM.EXE>PPP.LOG
TerminalWindow @MINITERM.EXE
UseTerminal No
Port 1
Irq 4
Base 0x3f8
Mode 8N1
Speed 115200
InitString AT&F
DialString ATDT
PhoneNumber 147008089933151
Autologin No
WaitFor1 name:
Response1 \u
WaitFor2 sword:
Response2 \p
WaitFor3 >
Response3 ppp
PPPusername arachne4dos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
PPPpassword 88888

;Port values: 0=3Dnon-standard serial (COM) port, 1-4 standard=
 ports
;Base values: 0x??? (eg. 0x3e8) - Base and Irq are used for "Port=
 0"
;Mode values: databits/parity/stopbits (eg. 8N1)

[tcp/ip]
IP_Address PPP
IP_Grab IP address set to
NameServer 212.74.112.66
AltNameServer 212.74.112.67
Gateway 0.0.0.0
AltGateway 0.0.0.0
Netmask 0.0.0.0
TCPconfig PPPTCP.CFG

;IP_Address n.n.n.n  ... fixed IP address
;IP_Address PPP      ... for PPP.EXE and PPPD.EXE (get address=
 from 
PPP.LOG)
;IP_Address BOOTP    ... WatTcp attepmts to use BOOTP protocol
;IP_Address %enviro% ... Minuet style (enviroment variable, like=
 
%MYIP%)
;IP_Address WATTCP   ... use ONLY values from TCPconfig (variable=
 
"my_ip")
;IP_Grab string      ... prefix of IP address in PPP.LOG ("IP=
 address
set to")
;TCPconfig filename  ... name of WatTcp configuration file (often=
 
WATTCP.CFG)

[mail]
SMTPserver mail.provider.com
POP3server mail.provider.com
POP3username user
POP3password xxxx
KeepOnServer No
eMail user@xxxxxxxxxxxx
PersonalName Arachne User
Organization Arachne Fan Club
TimeZone +0000
UseSignature Yes
SignatureFile SIGN.TXT
MailEncoding MIME
MailSortOrder DateSnt
NoHELO No
KillSent No
MailIdxTemplate idxfast.htp
ForwardString1 ----- Forwarded message begin -----
ForwardString2 ------ Forwarded message end ------
ReplyString On %s, %s wrote:
MyCharset US-ASCII
MailBodyEncoding 7bit

;MailSortOrder values: DateRcv|DateSnt|Address|Subject

[internet]
HTTPproxy proxy.provider.com:8080
UseProxy No
HomePage http://home.arachne.cz/
SearchPage http://search.arachne.cz/
SearchEngine http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?q=3D
FTPusername user
FTPpassword xxxxxx
FTPhost ftp.provider.com
FTPpath /home/user/
AcceptCharset ISO-8859-1,*

[system]
Hotlist .\HOTLIST.HTM
History .\HISTORY.LST
CookieFile .\COOKIES.LST
CacheIndex .\CACHE.IDX
CachePath .\CACHE\
Cache2TEMP Yes
MailPath .\MAIL\
DownloadPath .\DOWNLOAD\

[misc]
Logo 12000
LoadImages Yes
Frames Yes
JPEGargs -bmp -fast
FILEargs -l
RefreshDelay 20
ScreenSaver 10
ScreenSaverStyle R
ScreenSaverColors 0
ESC Exits
F3key file:*.htm
AutoF3key Yes
BigFont No
ScrollBarSize 14
ScrollBarStyle NextStep
Colors 11 0
MouseColors 15 15
VirtualScreen 0
ScreenMode Auto
SmoothScroll No
ScrollStep 1000
BgColor #000000
Text #F0F0F0
Link #00FF00
Background NUL
ExitOnHangup No
ASCIIwidth 78
HTMLtext #000000
HTMLbgColor #C4C4C4
HTMLlink #0000C4
;AfterPOP3 smtp:
;AfterSMTP file:mail.htm
ShiftF1 file://doc/howto.htm
ShiftF2 file://oops\*.*
ShiftF3 file:*.*
ShiftF4 file://examples\newfile.htm
ShiftF5 http://www.yahoo.com/
ShiftF6 http://www.wired.com/
ShiftF7 http://www.altavista.com/
ShiftF8 http://www.hotbot.com/
ShiftF9 http://www.slashdot.org/
ShiftF10 file://readmail.dgi
AltTab No
EditHotlistEntry Yes
Autodial No
UseCID No
UseCDescr No
AltSysFont 0
Index *.*
FontShift 0
Multitasking Yes
XMS4allGIFs 1024
XMS4oneGIF 270000
CSS No

;ScrollBarStyle values: NextStep|Windows|Arachne|X
;BgColor,Text,Link values: #RRGGBB (hexadecimal values of red,=
 green 
and blue)
;VirtualScreen value: vertical number of pixels, 0 disables=
 virtual 
screen.
;ScreenMode values: Auto|Smart|Nice
;BodyArachne values: System|Default|All
;Colors values are <ink 0..15> <paper 0..15>

[security]
SavePasswords Yes
Cookies Yes
HTTPreferer Yes
;FakeFTPeMail user@domain

[not-yet-implemeted]
NNTPserver news.provider.com
IRCserver irc.provider.com:6667
IRCchannel #arachne
IRCnick arachne_user

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*************************************************

Sorry for the size of this e-mail, but anyone out there in 
arachne-land got ideas on why this won't connect any further?

Regards

Mel






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