I thought there was "nothing new under the sun." I thought the sun set on DOS years ago. :o) Message In Reply From: lostcowboy ... DOS browser's, Arachne... http://home.arachne.cz I have not used it in years, so it must be better now.
Yes, as the message i got has today's date, as follows:
"Your Opera is fast - but is your OS fast enough too ? Check out Arachne+DOS solution for speed..."
Nice that they were able to detect that i used Opera, but i'am not yet up to speed what this is all about. I'll do a KEEP on your post and investigate this weekend and report back what i found. I'am guess that old software in eastern Europe has a longer shelf life than the fast moving we are use to. Maby my pc is not so old outside the USA :o)
Arachne Labs were founded in 1994 as xChaos software. "Arachne Labs" is network and software engeneering company located in Prague (Czech Republic, Europe). We focus on development of innovative client-server solutions - especially Internet applications....
...ERROR: Not enough memory (my first Arachne step)
and and i fell flat on my face.
ok, I'll Read The F[unny, ine, ragmented, urry] Manual :o)
Someplace i'll find a FAQ or user group(in English i hope) on their web site. I did try a quicky(below) but it didn't work.
Message In Reply To: ... DOS browser's, Arachne was the best one I ever tried. http://home.arachne.cz
Do you want to install Arachne WWW browser (version 1.70) y/n Install Arachne into "c:\arachne" directory (y/N)? No Please enter destination directory: Drive E: has 5486592 bytes available. Ok - using directory "E:\ARACHNE". Please wait while extracting 914 KB... Done. Please wait while unpacking files...ERROR: Not enough memory --- 655360 bytes total conventional memory 655360 bytes available to MS-DOS 627520 largest executable program size 32505856 bytes total contiguous extended memory 0 bytes available contiguous extended memory 7544832 bytes available XMS memory MS-DOS resident in High Memory Area --- ok, i gutted out my config.sys and autoexec.bat files 655360 bytes total conventional memory 655360 bytes available to MS-DOS 592080 largest executable program size 32505856 bytes total contiguous extended memory 32505856 bytes available contiguous extended memory but, and, still get above error --- Gosh its been too many years for me to relearn the stuff of the how and where to place stuff into memory.
That abandoned box i found and decided to give it a home next to my 486 is doing quite well in a slow motion way :o)
Really only has 2 Megs of memory.
Even if i got an old AOL running on top of Windows, it would be too close to slow to know if its just slow :o)
So, loaded Message In Reply To: ... DOS browser's, Arachne was the best one I ever tried. http://home.arachne.cz I have not used it in years, so it must be better now.
Ya'up, ARCHN170.EXE latest and greatest and easy to install.
But it needs during setup the IP address i'll use using AOL, but AOL creates it on-the-fly as i startup AOL, so i no have it.
Called AOL tech and man said that just released AOL 9.x that will use a static one versus dynamic mode now in use.
I'am not clear on what i just said since the DOS browser wants that IP number, which is available in an AOL version i can'r run under Windows 3.1, but all i want is the browser to gain access to the internet, not run any AOL software.
Like right now i'am running my Opera browser that obtained that IP number i got once AOL was running, and to me "here" no AOL software is being used, as i think i'am just running the Opera software directly into AOL's IP number that opens into the internet. I bet BobZ could teach me this stuff.
Guess i'am guessing that if i had AOL 9.x on Windows XP and as the man stated, i could get that IP number using a new feature in it that not in other AOLs, that if the DOS in Windows XP is supported by the Arachne DOS browser that i could install it using the current IP number in use, and i guess these asks a Question: Can you run more than one browser at the same time on the same machine. Like run IE and Opera both having windows open into the web? If yes then i can do it that way, but i really just want to get it on the 386 that can't even run AOL.
Maybe i'll try a free 2 week trial of an IP that has a static number, and just see what happens, then cancel the service. (Sleezy me)
Gosh. amazing the things one can ponder doing stuff that makes no sense or reason or needed :o)
Like climbing a mountain "because its there" :o)
Especially when i'll muddy the muddy water by saying that what i said above about AOL has a logic fault (i think) as i think i did not understand correctlt what the AOL tech man told me, in that i think each AOL login gets me a new IP number, not the same one to be used always on my account, and that the new feature is to allow me to obtain that number when running the AOL, and it changes each time i login, thus not static. But if it is static and my account is assigned an IP number that I can obtain using AOL 9.x, then i can take that to the 386.
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