[arachne] Re: roll call
- From: bobdohse@xxxxxxxx
- To: arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 15:42:33 -0700
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On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 16:20:16 -0500 "Quark Q. Quark" <quark87@xxxxxxxxxxx>
writes:
> I have a question.
> Will there be any 'worth while' traffic on this list ?
> Or is this just another place to 'sling the B.S.' ?
> If it is the latter,
> Then I might as well unsub from this list right now. :(((
We are transitioning from another site AND taking the first steps of
program development with Arachne GPL. It may take some time to get it all
together. If you're looking for perfection, this isn't the place.
The Arachne list is mostly of interest to people who use Arachne as their
web browser. A minority of us find value in some of Arachne's other
features. All of us have an interest in DOS, since Arachne is not a
Windows-compatible program. Our other (non-computer) interests are part
of our lives, so some of that naturally bleeds over into the list dialog.
That's what makes this a "community" and not just a periodic FAQ sheet
distribution from a computer software company.
What is "worthwhile", like beauty, is in the eyes of the beholder.
I'm forwarding part of a reply from Ron Clarke to another list member
(posted on the previous list) as an example of something which I consider
to be very "worthwhile".
Maybe you'll also consider stuff like this to be "worthwhile" and decide
to stick around. If so, welcome. If not, then obviously you'll leave. If
you stay, just delete the email that isn't of interest and keep the gems
that occasionally show up in the INBOX.
Bob ~
> Based around CCD.EXE, a command-line CD player by Johan Mattson
> (now living in Melbourne), for which I have written a graphic (DOS)
> front-end. I have permission from Johan Mattson to do so, and to
> distribute it together as freeware.
>
> Sizes:
> CCD.EXE 12,368 bytes
> CCD.TXT 1,097 bytes
> CDFE.EXE 43,203 bytes
> (wouldn't you know it, the graphic front end is bigger
> than the command-line bit.
>
> I use it with a volume-controller: SVC.COM
> 11,146 bytes (for SB16/AWE cards only) also freeware.
>
> The point being that none of this needs to be in memory except
> when actually telling the CD-ROM what to do. Once playing, it is
> all out of memory and doesn't interfere with anything else. Want to
> change something ? - call it up, change it, then unload it.
>
> I have a button on my HomePage linked to CDFE (Compact Disk
> Front End) that allows me to call this from Arachne via an .OOK.
>
> I'd be happy to zip all this up and post it somewhere if there's
> any interest.
>
> There is also the .APM CD Player for Arachne, put together by
> Witold back in 2001, for installation by the Arachne Package Manager,
> which also works just fine (for me, at least).
>
> Regards,
> Ron
>
> Ron Clarke
> AUSREG Consultancy http://www.valylink.net.au/~ausreg/index.html
> Tadpole Tunes http://tadpole.mytunebook.de/
> -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser -
> http://arachne.cz/
>
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