[arachne] Re: Arachne used every day

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Many thanks.
You can't imagine so many people that are interested by arachne and
fredos. I will send your message to one of my friend that was
intoxiqued by windows. Some membre of my office are going in holiday
in your country or leave in your country. And they had meet M POLAK.
He could't imagine that his program was so interesting.
Can you tell me where I could find the conversion program utlity
 for  print or convert MS-Excel files

I have teathing in Romania, Bulgaria, MAROCO, ALGERIA, Indian OCEAN  etc 
and anywhere I
have spoken of the extraordinary arachne.
 
Sincerely
PATRICE LEMONNIER
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 11:42:25, Christof Lange wrote:

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> On 13 Jun 06 at 2:03, Arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

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>> Dear Friends of Arachne,

>> I would like to note that I use DOS and Arachne every day while writing art=
>> icles and books, sending and receiving e-mail, browsing and researching via=
>> the internet, doing my accounting, running my statistical analyses, creati=
>> ng graphics, maintaining my data bases, and generally doing everything that=
>> one can do on computers.

>> Yes, I also use Puppy Linux 2, a remarkably fast and efficient flavor of Li=

> [...]

> 1. In our office at at home I run DOS applications on different
> machines to do real work:

> - Word processing: MS-Word 6.0 for DOS

> - Databases: Foxbase 2.10 and Agenda

> - Spreadsheet: Quattro pro 5

> - Mail client: Pegasus 3.5 with quite a number of
> plug-ins for internationalization and MIME support
> (mail transport with Arachne and UKA-PPP)

> - WWW browser: Arachne with many customizations mainly
> concerning internationalization, link database, and
> mail transport

> - Edit web pages (local text editor and database application,
> awk-skripts and Arachne (with CSS support and SSI add-on)

> - Graphics: Neopaint, Imagick, GWS DOS

> - File manager: Norton Commander and Dos Navigator

> - Program manager: MS DOS Shell

> 2. These programs are accompanied by a large number of conversion
> utilities and scripts so that I do not need to start Linux or
> W98 more than once or twice a week to do the following:

> - print or convert MS-Excel files

> - burn multisession CDs

> - edit Music scores

> - look at websites that Arachne is not able to display properly

> 3. During the last 2-3 years I have realized two tendencies:

> - DOS software becomes very similar to Linux ;-) Conversion
> programs and a few Linux applications have been ported to
> DOS, GNU applications have become available for DOS. The DOS
> ports are sometimes even easier to use than the Linux version,
> because the hardware and configuration problems have alredy been
> solved by the programmers. So paradoxically I began to think
> more much more Linux-like, but use Linux less frequently
> than before.

> - Newer hardware can be helpful (USB memory sticks that can
> hold the complete set applications or any working files
> needed to be present), older laptops becoming affordable etc.
> More often, however, newer hardware tends to be fatal (mainly on
> laptops, where it you cannot be replaced). Eg. soundcards
> beyond the soundblaster compatibility are unusuable in DOS or
> in older Linux. But even this tendency will kill Linux much
> earlier than DOS, I suppose.

> 4. What about web browsing? Arachne is the _only_ graphical browser
> for DOS. If you want to run applications for real work in DOS,
> Arachne is crucially important. And thanks to the keyboard oriented
> interface and customization working with Arachne is still
> effective at present.

> I am afraid that in future working with Arachne will not be any
> more effective. Web design is undergoing some changes which afford
> more than debugging and maintaining:

> - Javascript: I have the impression (because I use only Arachne?)
> that this will not be the main issue. Web designers have alternatives
> for JS and use them.

> - CSS: The web databases and publishing systems make abundant use of
> style sheets. This is good, because Arachne supports CSS, but this
> turns out to be very bad, because Arachne's CSS support cannot cope
> with the bloat growing in that area. Already now, more than 50
> percent of websites I try to open ought be three columns, but
> Arachne displays them hardly better than Lynx. Arachne reads one
> linked style-sheet, whereas those websites contain two or three
> more, the result often being white text on white background etc.

> - Internationalization: UTF-8 encoding will be standard soon on all
> non-English websites.

> Christof Lange

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