Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 07:42:36 +0000, Udo Kuhnt wrote: > Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! >>> Of course, the preferred solution would be to grant Arachne access to >>> the ample free memory that modern PCs possess. >> Today.... not possible due to the fact that core.exe >> is a 16bit program copiled with Borland. > But IIRC the Borland C compiler can also compile for the DPMI. >> Someday, >> this will become possible by doing a 32bit compile via the use of DJGPP >> which will then be able to use much, much more memory. >> So for now.... 2000 is the limit. > Which means that I will have to stay with Arachne 1.87/1.89 until this > happens since I can neither afford to lose the last 400 mails in my mail > directory, nor am I willing to search in different directories every > time I am looking for a particular mail I have written. :-( > Well, when will be "someday"? How long will we have to wait? Why is > keeping Arachne compatible with legacy 8088/86/286 machines so important > if it will run out of memory even on a 386? > And how come that Arachne compiles with GCC and runs in Protected Mode > in Linux but not in DOS? > For now, I would already be satisfied if Arachne would stay a Real Mode > program but could at least use a *little bit* more XMS memory so that it > would not run out of memory every now and then while trying to display > large web pages, downloading large text files or sorting through large > amounts of emails. :-/ > Sorry if this sounds like I am a bit annoyed - that is probably because > I am. > Regards, > Udo No problem Udo. Does this look better ? http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/ara-gpl/4000_snt.gif No need to change which version of Arachne nor of insight you are using to get this new higher capability. Just grab this zip file and unzip the contained 'idxfast.htp' http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/ara-gpl/4000_snt.zip Place the altered file into your Arachne_main directory in place of the existing idxfast.htp This will now give you the capability of a little more than 4000 Your suggestion of using DPMI is one of the best sugestions I have heard in a long, long time. Thank you !!! I will look into do just that. Until such time as I succeed in making a DPMI compile of core.exe this altered copy of idxfast.htp should 'help' the situation. Oh and by-the-way, There did not used to be a limit of any kind in indexes. Insight.exe would convert the entire dir listing into an HTML file regardless of the number of files residing there. The problem lies in the memory capabilties of core.exe to then display thet HTML file. Rest assured that I _will_ continue to work on fixing this in an even better way. -- Glenn http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/ http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.table.html Arachne at FreeLists -- Arachne, The Web Browser/Suite for DOS and Linux --
