Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! Hi! To Glenn: > So, to sum-it-all-up. > You would like to continue to use DOS and Arachne... but, you would like > to have some more of the 'features' which exist in Netscape. Yes, of course. > Here's just one simple promise to you and all Arachne users..... > I will try. Thank you. I know that you are working hard and no one could ask or expect more of you than this. To Steve: > You should take your own advice, only extend it. Do without Windows for a > year, i.e., use a *nix instead. Once your year is up, you'll wonder how > you ever managed to tolerate Windows in the first place. If you would have read my next post, you would know my answer. I have used Linux long enough to realise that it is *not* the glorious next-generation OS that some people proclaim it. In fact, I regard it as old-fashioned and awkward as any kind of Unix I have encountered so far. IMO, it is an OS of the past, not of the future, and while I will probably continue to use it once in a while for some time to use software that only exists on Unix, I will stop using it once this software has been ported to DOS. To Jason: > Did you switch or added Arachne to the list of browsers you > use? I just assumed everyone was like me and uses Arachne on > their DOS machine and other browsers on their other machines. Like I said, I continued to use the Netscape Navigator for three months while I was evaluating Arachne, then I stopped using Netscape altogether. I use DR-DOS on all of my machines, from a 486 DX4/33 with 32MB to my current 'flagship', a Pentium4/3066 with 256 MB. I have one machine where I have Win98 installed for the sole purpose of performing compatibility tests with MS-DOS 7 and the Windows DOSbox, but I do not use this machine for anything else. I also use DOSLinux to run Bochs, which I need to debug the Protected Mode software I write for Enhanced DR-DOS. To Eric: > I just want you to know that there are some users > of Arachne who are glad or who don't really want Arachne > to do some of those functions that you mentioned. I don't > have any love for a "mouse" and my DOS machine does > not install the mouse connected to it. I am looking at that > mouse right now and it is covered with dust. So how do you use Arachne then? Would not Lynx be a better alternative for you? > So, all those > clicky things you want, I don't want because they will make > the Arachne core bigger. So I assume that you use a very old and/or low-powered machine to connect to the Internet. Well, I have the opposite problem - I have a shiny new machine with lots of megabytes, most of which have nothing to do when Arachne is running. That would not be a problem for me if Arachne would not run out of memory every now and then, and that is definetely not because core.exe is too big. But do not worry, a new download file requester could be made an option, and I am sure that using conditional compilation there could be a poor man's version of Arachne for machines that are short on conventional memory. :-) > I do wish that I could do secure transactions with Arachne, > and if it could do Javascript then life would be easier. Well, at least that is something we agree on. Regards, Udo -- The DR-DOS/OpenDOS Enhancement Project - http://www.drdosprojects.de -- This mail was written by a user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/ Arachne at FreeLists -- Arachne, The Web Browser/Suite for DOS and Linux --