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                 Complete History of Arachne WWW browser
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| 1st secion of this file (v1.89 - v1.73) written and maintained by glennmcc  |
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Changes since release 1.71;UE01
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1.89;GPL,386+ stable for DOS
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Release date: Nov 27, 2005

I must take this time to apologize to Joe da Silva.

v1.87 and now v1.89 include many of his code changes for which I did not even
mention that the credit must go to him. 

His hard work and dedication are what made v1.87 (and now v1.89), possible.

Without Joe's code, there would have been nothing more than the very
superficial changes that I made.

My apologies to Joe, to the rest of the members of the Arachne
development team and to all Arachne users for not saying this sooner.

The following is a list of Joe's changes.
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1.73J2 :
* Minor XSWAP optimization for low-end CPU's.
* Comment bug fixes & additions in 'inetstr.c' & 'ie_bin.c'.

1.73J3 :
* Extensive changes for improved stability & safety
  (buffer overrun vulnerabilities and the like).

1.73J4 :
* Full-size cookie support (half size if memory is low),
  including safety check for old format cookie file.
(note from glennmcc:
 IMO, Joe's full-size/half-size cookie code is some of
 the best work I have ever seen)
* Optimization of memory usage (saved about 5K, despite
  the full-size cookie support).

1.77J1 :
* Fixed Borland's "ctype.h" bugs, with help from MHT,
  and added a check in 'posix.h' to ensure the updated
  "ctype.h" was being used.
(note from glennmcc: posix.h not in v1.87... but is in v1.89)

1.83J1 :
* Esc key enhancement (final version) which, if you
  use the "Esc key = previous page" option, allows
  you to also use the Esc key to stop a web page loading,
  similar to the "X" button, otherwise it performs the
  go-back function.
* Emergency Exit feature (enabled via AltKeys option
  keyword, which supersedes the AltTab keyword) which
  allows you to terminate Arachne if stuck in an infinite
  loop but aren't actually locked-up, using the key
  sequence Ctrl-Alt-Esc. For safety reasons, the
  "emergency exit" request is ignored if DOS indicates
  it is busy, in which case it may be necessary to issue
  the key sequence again.
* Provision for adding image/icon web page hyperlinks to
  the hotlist, not just textural web page hyperlinks.
  Right-clicking an image will still display this on a
  page by itself, but if this had an associated hyperlink,
  "You can add selected link to Hotlist" will be displayed
  on the status line. If you actually wanted to add the
  URL of the image to your hotlist instead, just right-
  -click again, then you can.
(note: feature only partially implemented in 1.87/1.89)
* Added persistence feature for the "You can add selected
  link to Hotlist" status message, so you are reminded when
  you have a link available to add to the hotlist.
* Re-enabled "httpstub" feature for operation as Windoze
  client (ala 1.83 code, but with additional code re-enabled,
  experimental).
(note from glennmcc: I have not tested this one as-of-yet)
* Fixed nasty little PrintScreen interrupt vector bug.
* Fixed numerous minor bugs in 'arachne.cfg' parsing.
* An explicit "abnormal" error exit code, to distinguish
  this from an inadvertent exit (for improved bug tracking).
* Replaced many literal constants with macro identifiers
  for improved code clarity, particularly in the GUI code.

1.85J1 :
* Eight-fold increase of the number of JPG/PNG images
  that can be displayed on a web page. Arachne is supposed
  to support web pages with up to 255 images, yet although
  previous versions took the time and trouble to download
  them all, they were unable to display but a fraction of
  this, particularly if the Arachne and Temporary directories
  had long path names.

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glennmcc changes in this version.......

Nov 18, 2005
Mime.cfg lines will now retain case sensitivity.
(previous versions converted to all lowercase)

Nov 22, 2005
The auto-load the CSS files did not work correctly
therefore it has been removed.
My undocumented experiment to auto-clear Xswap memory
also did not work correctly and has been removed as-well.

Nov 22, 2005
Modified insight.exe and wwwman.exe to display this message...
(now being maintained by the Arachne Development team)
Also a couple of small aesthetic changes to insight.
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1.87;GPL,386+ stable for DOS
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Release date: Oct 30, 2005 (updated on Nov 02 and Nov 11, 2005)
(8th GPL version released since the release of v1.71;UE01 in Aug of 2002)

Aug 20, 2005
'Cleaned-up' the download progress indicator
and made the bytes/sec indicator optional.

Aug 22, 2005
Fixed some major problems with fontshift

Aug 25, 2005
Created an actual usable 'Address book'

Aug 28, 2005
New option added to always download an entire page before beginning to display.

Sep 15, 2005
Fixed a problem with Insight.exe in which an extra 'null byte' was being
appended to files attached to emails.

Sep 27, 2005
Modified Insight.exe so that 'finger', 'gopher', 'https' and 'telnet'
will now be 'clickable links' in displayed email messages.
(previous versions only did this for 'http', 'ftp' and email addresses)

Sep 27, 2005
'Melded' into my code, these advancements made by Joe da Silva
* Added "ShortestRefresh" option (default = 2 sec)
* Fixed the useless "Local IP  0.0.0.0" info. display

Sep 29, 2005
Small mod to the SPAM freeze-up stopper code.
(old code was causing some undesirable aborted pop3 downloads)

Sep 30, 2005
Moved 'Up one level' feature to URL instead of the Arachne version number.

Oct 09, 2005
Added the new hotkey Alt+V to 'validate'
the current page via http://validator.w3.org/

Oct 16, 2005
Added the ability to request a return receipt from email clients
capable of returning them.
'Return-Receipt-To:' and 'Disposition-Notification-To:' will now be placed
into the headers of outgoing mail messages for which we choose to do so.

Oct 18, 2005
Small modification to insight.exe so that it will also recognize
'User-Agent:' in addition to the "standard" 'X-Mailer:'

Oct 19, 2005
Arachne will now check disk space on the 'mail drive' instead of the
'current drive' for sufficient space to save incoming mail messages.
If available space is too low for a particular message, that fact will
be written into a .CNM in our inbox.
--- example ---
Subject: Skipping message #1, too big for disk space available

 Available disk space on mail drive: 294912
 Required disk space for this message: 1212994
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Oct 25, 2005
Changing video settings via hgcgevga.htm will now leave the screen layout
the way it was before the change was made instead of resetting to the
default layout of 2 bars across the top of the screen.

Oct. 25, 2005
Thanks to Vladimir, one of our newest development team members.
Insight.exe now has 'multi-lingual' capability.
Both English and Russian compiles are now available.

Oct 29, 2005
We can now choose whether or not to display HTML backgrounds
with this new selection on the 'Preferences & Performance' setup page.
_ Display HTML background images 

Nov 02, 2005
Now the stylesheet will automatically load when we have CSS enabled but
autoload of images disabled.
No more need for loading all of the images just to get the stylesheet
we need to get CSS to work correctly.

Nov 11, 2005
Two bug fixes... re-uploaded package.

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1.85;GPL,386+ stable for DOS
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Release date: Jul 27, 2005

Mar 06, 2005
Fixed a problem with the & symbol contained in URLs
http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/testing_&_symbol/&-amp-bug.htm
All 7 links now work perfectly.

Mar 06-14, 2005
Ray and I fixed a few more glitches with CSS link hover
when used within a framed page.

Mar 23, 2005
Fixed yet another glitch with CSS link hover.

Apr 08, 2005
Fixed the problem with 'broken FTP dir listings' at such places
as ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/.2/simtelnet/

Apr 21, 2005
Thanks to Joe da Silva and the new build of WATTCPLG.LIB with his
modifications, a major problem with DNS access has now been fixed. 

May 11, 2005
Fixed a small problem with anonymous FTP access.

May 21, 2005
Fixed a problem with POP3 downloads 'freezing-up'
with a particular format of malformed SPAM messages.

May 24, 2005
Added this new option on the "Options/Internet settings" setup page.
X Ignore the "Refresh" tag. 

May 25, 2005
Added this new option on the "Options/Internet settings" setup page.
X Lengthen short refresh times to 60sec.

Jul 16, 2005
Fixed an intermittent problem with posting of forms on some web pages.
(postings and deletions of messages at mail.yahoo.com now work perfectly)

Jul 20, 2005
Fixed a problem in Insight.exe
Multiple files attached to emails with like-named LFNs will now be renamed
to have unique 8.3 filenames such-as... 'file_n01.txt' and 'file_n02.txt'
instead of the original LFNs of 'file number 1.txt' and 'file number 2.txt'

Jul 27, 2005 
Thanks go to 'un-named SRC' for an alternate 'cross cursor'. 
A very big 'THANK YOU !' also goes-out to UNS for helping me to fix a very 
bad bug in my code from last Feb. 

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1.83;GPL,386+ stable for DOS
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Release date: Mar 06, 2005

Feb 17, 2005
Crashes due to attempting to use the '+' key to increase resolution to a
level that is too high for your video card to handle should now be eliminated.
The initial video setup will now set the variable 'MaxRes' in arachne.cfg
The fresh compile of core.exe (Feb 17, 2005), will not go higher than 'MaxRes'
when the '+' key is pressed. 1==640x480, 2==800x600, 3==1024x768
(crashes will still occur if a "MaxRes" setting is chosen
 on the setup screen which your card can't handle)

Feb 18, 2005
Thanks to Glenn Gilbreath (aka Wizzy),
A bug in the <SELECT> tag has been squashed.

Feb 27, 2005
The 'Mail2Hist feature' caused more problems than it solved.
Therefore, all code pertaining to it has been removed.

Mar 02, 2005
Ray Andrews and I are prodding each other along.
We refined my Jan 26 fix of the left/right frames
CSS linkhover bug so that it works even better.
And we have the top/bottom bug almost fixed.
(works 90% correctly)
Mar 05, 2005
Ray finished fixing this bug. It is now 100% dead. :)

Mar 05, 2005
Fixed one more small problem in CSS
Linkhover will no longer default to black. Instead it will now use
a contrasting color from both inactive link color and page BGcolor.

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1.81;GPL,386+ stable for DOS
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Release date: Feb 16, 2005

Dec 29, 2004 - Jan 05, 2005
Several changes for supporting 'Unicode punctuation'.

Jan 05, 2005
To prevent the unintentional sending of an incomplete email.
(when an error occurred during attachment process)
And to prevent the unintentional downloading of email again.
"smtp:" and "pop3:" will no longer be written into history.lst

Jan 09, 2005
'nonfatal.ah' will now be used strictly for memory errors.
'err_mail.ah' will now be used for errors occurring during email attachments.

Jan 11, 2005
Recompiled core.exe to use the new version of the graphics library file
built by Joe da Silva. This new library has better support for an even
larger variety of video cards.

Jan 12, 2005
Wwwman.exe will now handle directory listings of 1536 items.
(old limit was 1024 items)
Also, it will no-longer lockup or crash when there are more items
than the limit. When a dir listing is attempted on a dir containing
more than 1536 items, those first 1536 will be shown.

Jan 13, 2005
Small change to insight.exe
selected.dat will no longer be changed when the archive button is used.

Jan 13-16, 2005
In further keeping with 'cleaning up' of history.lst 
Several more mail related files will no longer be written into history.
Jan 29, 2005
Made it configurable via 'Save reference to mail files into History'
on the Options/Prefs. & Perf. setup page.

Jan 22, 2005
Insight.exe will now handle listing over 1500 messages

Jan 24-26, 2005
Https2Http and IgnoreJS can now be toggled on and off.
Jan 26, 2005
The current status of both will now be shown in the Atl+M status box.

Jan 26, 2005
Fixed a long-standing bug with CSS/Frames
Links in the right and left frames that use CSS will now work correctly.
(still working on top/bottom bug)

Feb 02, 2005
Implemented a combination of my Mail2Hist options
working along with Ray's goback() alterations.

Feb 03, 2005
Linking to the Arachne version number at the top of the screen will
now take us 'Up one level' when we are viewing a remote file.
(will still go to 'about.htm' if we are currently local)

Feb 06, 2005 
Fixed another long-standing bug in which all links on a page were 'dead' 
after doing a Cntrl+Enter 'background download' of one of those links. 

Feb 11, 2005
Thanks to Andrej Cuckov we now have our option of 3 different cursors.
The original 'Hand', an 'Arrow' courtesy of Andrej and a 'Cross'
which I (quite accidentally), stumbled upon in the SRC code.

Feb 15, 2005
Fixed 'stuck pointer' and pointer colors.
(thank you Ray)

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1.79;GPL,386+ stable for DOS
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Release date: Dec 25, 2004

Oct 17, 2004
Re-enabled HTTPSTUB which allows Arachne to use the Windows DUN
instead of a DOS packet driver. This makes it possible to run
Arachne on machines which have WinModems which simply refuse to
work with a DOS packet driver.
Thanks to Glenn Gilbreath (aka Wizzy), for making this suggestion.

Oct. 26, 2004
Fixed my mistakes from v1.77 in which I had not included all of
the new cookie code written by Joe da Silva.

Joe,
Thank you very much for all of the help you gave me in fixing this.
(and for not biting my head off)<g>

Nov 10/11, 2004
Changed the numeric file naming convention for received emails
from decimal format to hexadecimal format beginning at Annnnnnn.CNM
This will prevent old saved emails from being overwritten by new ones
with the same filename.
The DEC format resets to all zeros every 3yrs 2mo.
HEX format beginning at Annnnnnn.CNM gives us over 50 yrs.
(many thanks to L.D. Best for suggesting this one and for all the help
 she gave during its implementation)

Nov 17, 2004
Added bytes/sec download rate to the progress indicator.

Nov 23, 2004
Added 'time remaining' to the download progress indicator.

Dec 19, 2004
Changed the default setting of RightMouseGoesBack to 'Yes'
(it will now be the same as before but can be disabled with 'No')
[note: disabling RtMsGB also disables Shft+Enter for going back]

Dec 22, 2004
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1.77;GPL,386+ stable for DOS
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Release date: Oct 01, 2004

May 14, 2004
All of these files which are the culmination of many many hours
of pains-taking work by L.D. Best are now in this 'package'

ARACHNE_MAIN\EDITHELP.HTM
ARACHNE_MAIN\EDRESHLP.HTM
ARACHNE_MAIN\REPLY.HTP
ARACHNE_MAIN\RESEND.HTP
ARACHNE_MAIN\SYSTEM\GUI\COPY.AH
ARACHNE_MAIN\SYSTEM\GUI\MAKELIST.AH
ARACHNE_MAIN\SYSTEM\GUI\OPT_MISC.AH
ARACHNE_MAIN\SYSTEM\GUI\SAVEAS.AH
ARACHNE_MAIN\SYSTEM\GUI\SENDFILE.AH
ARACHNE_MAIN\SYSTEM\GUI\SENDMAIL.AH
ARACHNE_MAIN\SYSTEM\GUI\TEXTEDIT.AH

Thank you L.D. ....... You do GREAT work. :))

May 17, 2004
To goback or not to goback... _that_ is the question. ;-)

At the suggestion of Greg Mayman.......

We now have the option to either 'goback' or not
when we 'rightclick' the mouse on the body of a page.
(when not over a link, a graphic or a frame)

Jun 02, 2004
Incorporated the completely new cookie handling routines written by Joe da Silva
(we can now handle cookies 4096 bytes in size)

Jun 02, 2004
Compiled CORE.EXE for 386+ processors.
386+ will now be 'the standard' for this and all future releases.
(286- compile available upon request)

Jun 26, 2004
Insight.exe v3.85.5 re-compiled to include this fix.....

---- in base64.c ----
   flushdecoder(fo);
   fclose(fi);
//!!glennmcc: begin June 26, 2004
//credit to L.D. Best and Michal H. Tyc  
//added to fix the problem of only 12
//base64 encoded attachments being decoded   
   fclose(fo);
//!!glennmcc: end
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July 06, 2004
toolbar.tb will now be toolbar.cfg
(all needed changes made in init.c and edittb.ah)

July 24, 2004
Recompiled Insight.exe to include another 'fix' by Michal H. Tyc
v3.85.7 no longer 'garbles' the names of attached files with LFNs

July 25, 2004
Recompiled Insight.exe for 386+ CPUs (other optimizations as-well) 
Michal, Thank you for that suggestion.

July 25, 2004
Recompiled wwwman.exe (a few small changes and optimizations)

Sep 06, 2004
At the suggestion of Sam Ewalt, the default 'homepage' in the distribution
package will no longer be (the out of date), http://home.arachne.cz/
It will now be Michael Poláks new page... http://arachne.cz/

Sep 17, 2004
Made a small change to Authenticated SMTP so that
it now works with even more servers than before.

Sep 30, 2004
Built the packages and uploaded them to my site.
(will announce them tomorrow)
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To-do list........

Same as before............ Too many things to list. ;-)
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1.75;GPL stable for DOS
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Release date: May 08, 2004

Nov 09, 2003
Added 'Authenticated SMTP'
(still in 'beta' stage at this time)
Apr 30, 2004...... no longer 'beta' (see below)

Nov 14, 2003
Wwwman.exe was updated to work with the new core.exe cacheindex listing.
(both now have URLSIZE 512 instead of 256)

Nov 17, 2003
New update to wwwman.exe to include this fix by Michal Tyc

//By the way, I found an error in my old WWWMAN patch (DRVTYPES.CPP):
//new routine by Michal H. Tyc (eMail message at the end of this file)
  push bp;                // I didn't test whether MS-DOS 7.10 trashes bp...
  int 0x25;               // read logical sector
  pop si;                 // throw away the flags saved by INT
  pop bp;                 // bp points to the local variables on the stack
  lea si, [boot + 0x1f0]; // this doesn't modify any flags
//**BEGIN mht 2003-11-17
//sub al, al;
  mov al, 0;
//**END   mht 2003-11-17
  jc q;                   // an error occured during int 0x25
//I missed the fact that 'sub al, al' (left from original code)
//will modify flags anyway, so an error will never be detected.
//Shame on me!
//Please add this to your cleaned WWWMAN code.


Mar 17, 2004
Updated insight.exe to include fix of 
'delete' button on 'trashed' messages. 

Apr 08, 2004
Updated insight.exe again to include this 'bug fix'. 

-- clipped from hdrout.c --- 
//!!glennmcc: begin Apr 08, 2004 -- fix 'bug' where part of the
// subject line ends-up-as text 'hidden' behind the move button
// when a < symbol is in the subject line.

Apr 11, 2004
And one more 'bug fix' in insight.exe

//!!glennmcc: Apr 11, 2004 -- changed the 'testhttp' parameter to 0 
// this prevents the same type of problem from happening when an 
// email address is in the subject line 
// if((*hdr).subj)putformathtmlstr((*hdr).subj,1,1,0); 
 if((*hdr).subj)putformathtmlstr((*hdr).subj,1,0,0); 

Apr 22, 2004
Fixed the problem with a space or a dot at the start of a URL

Apr 27, 2004
Another bug fix for Insight.exe
-- clipped from insight.c ---
     if(aq)if(!strncmpi(sp1,"subject:",8))if(strstr(sp1,"?Q?"))........
//      -->^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^<--
//!!glennmcc: Apr 27, 2002
//added to fix the problem of "no subject" when subject line contains ?Q?
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Apr 27, 2004
One more for Insight.exe

There were 6 places where I had to do this..........

-- in hdrout.c --
    if((*hdr).cc)
    {
     puts("&nbsp;<INPUT TYPE=CHECKBOX NAME=\"cc\" CHECKED>CC");
     puts("&nbsp;<INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN NAME=\"cccheck\" VALUE=\"on\">");
//!!glennmcc: Apr 27, 2004 -- placed 'hidden' after 'visible'
// to fix a problem of the checkbox being 'unchecked' not working
// to actually disable that option
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Insight v3.85.4 is now ready to go. :))

Apr 30, 2004
Finally decided to finish Authenticated SMTP ;-)

May 06, 2004
Fixed the 'F4/external editor/autodial' bug

May 07, 2004
Incorporated Joe da Silva's changes to ADIAL.C and ATCPIP.C
so that the online timer will work with 'IPaddress BOOTP'

May 07, 2004
--- clipped from HDRAWBMP.C ---
 if(type==4)
 {
  k=bmp->size_x%8;
//!!glennmcc: May 07, 2004 -- Michal Tyc pointed out this error
// in rounding which causes some BMPs to be 'skewed' when displayed
  linebytes=(bmp->size_x+k)/2;
//  linebytes=bmp->size_x/2;
 }
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To-do list........

Too many things to list. ;-)
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1.73;GPL stable for DOS
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Release date: Nov 8, 2003
[changes listed by date along with credit to the person suggesting that change]

Jan 1, 2003
Credit to: Christof Lange,
The version number in the upper-right corner of a page created using the
'P' hotkey is now correctly aligned.

Jan 4, 2003
Credit to: Clarence Verge,
Both 'Cookie length' and 'URL length' are now "maxed-out" to the largest
possible setting. (without doing a complete re-write of the routines)
[in addition... 3D text on the GUI screen is now raised instead of indented]

Jan 19, 2003 
Credit to: Bill Weller,
Since 'EMBED' was already re-enabled in v1.71;UE01....
'BGSOUND' is now supported as-well.
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1.71 stable for DOS (*First co-op compilation!*)
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Release date: Oct 30, 2002
   This is the first release of an Arachne version with changes and fixes
   wholly supplied by the Arachne-Development Team. Michael Polak has made
   this possible by setting up an ftp system accessable by anyone wishing
   to contribute, rewarding contributors with free registration keys, and
   giving his stamp of approval to one of the many possible compilations.
   When reading the following please remember that these minor changes
   to a great piece of work could not be possible without the existence
   of Arachne in the first place. Thank you, Michael !

   All coding changes to core.exe are solely the result of many hours of
   love and unpaid effort on the part of Glenn McCorkle, without whom DOS
   Arachne might as well be dead.
   He has given us the long awaited user selectable https2http patch that
   gives us access to most https sites if we don't actually need the https
   service.
   He has given us a fix for the runaway download bug present in the last
   versions.
   He has provided an IgnoreJS function which the user can enable to cause
   Arachne to ignore ALL content inside <script> tags - something we thought
   she already did !   Valid HTML inside the tags will also be ignored.
   He has made it just as easy to use LSPPP as EPPPD with Arachne, and
   either of them may now be loaded low or high without problem.
   He has modified Arachne to provide both upper and lower case commands
   to LSPPP and other programs which need them.
   He has fixed the incorrect rendering of CSS colors pointed out to us
   by David Gunnells.
   He has incorporated several fixes suggested by Sergey Sokoloff - known
   as Mithgol the Webmaster.

   For users of the keyboard cursor, at my suggestion Glenn has changed
   the cursor step size to 8 pixels from 10 - giving 80 positions across
   the screen now in 640 mode.
   He has also modified the horizontal panning step size for us keyboard
   users (shiftHome/End) from 1/2 screen width to 1/8 screen width.
   And he has made it possible to pass ANY arachne.cfg keyword thru the DGI
   using the new mime.cfg variable $k as a prefix - obsoleting $j (and
   really a lot more).
   And I also got Glenn to change the default filename for file insert (the
   cntrl+R function) to Quickpad.txt from textarea.txt.  Paste that page of
   text as easily as the single line afforded by cntrl+V !
   Finally, at my suggestion and with critical help from Bernie, Glenn has
   re-instated the textarea.tmp save - allowing us to implement a more
   friendly mail compose function.  You can now exit and return to compose
   without losing your work ! The "CC" and "Subject" lines will still need
   to be re-entered, but we will fix that in the next release. ;-)

   Glenn has also modifed Insight to pre-select the Reply-to option when
   answering a "list" posting and provided automatic "CC" and "BCC" field
   fill-in when editing and/or resending a previously composed message.
   Glenn has fixed the problem the old WWWman had with the new cache index
   format.

Changes:
   Veteran users will notice a number of cosmetic changes, mostly minor
   color shifts, added to mark the expansion of the development effort to
   a team. We hope you like them. Some spelling errors have been fixed and
   options added to several setup files. You can now choose to use the very
   fast older style dialpage for instance. You can now change video modes,
   e.g. color depth, resolution and VESA / card-specific VGA on the fly.
   We have added a "Force Binary" switch to Arachne's internal FTP upload.
   We have added a new directory for "Exported" materials.
   You won't see the "lock" screen anymore if you accidentally restart
   Arachne while shelled out.
   You now have a choice of four different dial pages. See conf_ext.ah.
   ZBMs are now officially part of Arachne's bag of tricks, but you must
   make sure PKzip is in your path. ;-)
   For debugging new .DGIs, arachne.bat now will write TRACE.log if the
   environment variable TRACE=on is set.
   You now have the option of clearing the history list when you clean the
   cache. This will prevent the last page from re-loading. See opt_misc.ah
   to set DelHistory Yes in arachne.cfg.  Anything else will disable it.
   Glenn has insisted that I take the credit or blame (as case may be) for
   these changes, so send problem reports to:caverge@arachne.cz. Thank you.

   A total of 65 files have been modifed to some extent, with 11 new files
   added and 1 deleted.
   Fixmem.exe has been replaced by fixmem.com.

   A fair amount of effort has gone into making all the changes compatible
   with previous versions back as far as possible.
   For example, everything but ClearCache is compatible with Arachne 1.62.

   Management and suggestions by the Minimalist - Clarence Verge.
   Much thanks to Bernie Eriksson for his assistance at the end.

Known BUGs remaining:
   Pulldown menus don't work if the screen is shifted sideways, and if a
   pulldown overlaps the scrollbar, activation will crash Arachne. There
   may be other old bugs left, but we don't think there are any new ones.

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| Everything that follows was written by Michael Polak, xChaos software       |
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History of Arachne WWW browser
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1.70 stable for DOS (CSS release) revision 3
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Release date: 22th January 2001
   Bug fixes: user interface, HTML table and frameset rendering, and
              memory allocation

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1.70 stable for DOS (CSS release)
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Release date: 20th January 2001
   Bug fixes: Certain malformed URLs were able to crash Arachne - fixed.
              Table layout bug fix - multiple right-aligned tables were
              overlapping each other. Fixed, together with some other
              object alignment problems.
              Animations are disabled when pop-up input field is active.
              Various bugs related to image download were fixed.
     Changes: Default icon layout for 640x480 and 800x600 modes changed.
              Yet another slight change in cookie handling (still not finaly)
Improvements: Implementation of "Proxy-connection: keep-alive" magicaly
              accelerates loading of frequently accessed pages with many
              images if you are behind HTTP proxy on fast local network.
              (I thought "Connection: keep-alive" works for proxies too,
              but proxies always must have something special...)
              "Page Information" Page (= hotkey) now tries to provide
              list of embeded objects (like stylesheets, images, etc.)
              Experimental Cascading Style Sheets (CSS-1) implementation
              - see examples/css.htm (<LINK REL="stylesheet">, <STYLE> ).
              Stylesheets are damned Microsoft's invention and I started
              playing with them only because I needed to test certain
              mechanism with will be shared by JavaScript engine. After
              playing with JavaScript, I have noticed, that many Opera
              or MSIE enhanced pages implement many nasty CSS tricks, which
              are maybe good for testing, but which are extremely hard
              to implement if I want to keep css implementation under 2 KB.
              Aaaaghhrrrr !!!!! Anyway, CSS is controled by arachne.cfg
              variable CSS Yes|No, and it is default only for two sample
              Arachne profiles for faster PCs - other users have to turn
              them on manualy using Options | Preferences.
              New small icon based layout, simillar to original small
              icon GUI layout, was added - so you can now choose from
              four layouts with icons and one fullscreen layout.
              Clarence Verge and L.D. Best contributed to documentation.


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1.69 stable for DOS
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Release date: 11th December 2000
   Bug fixes: Setup now actually runs in fullscreen mode.
              Connection: keep-alive now actually works.
              Memory leaks on pages with forms were totally fixed (Arachne
              now doesn't allocate conventional memory for HTML page at all).
              Tables shouldn't grow incredibly wide any more (eg. CNN.com
              in Arachne 1.68).
              "+" is valid e-mail address character, so it is no longer
              allowed as separator on TO:, CC: or BCC: field.
              Opensource mail viewer Insight was upgraded to version 3.69.
              Insight 3.69 creates more intelligent DOS filenames for
              both named and unnamed attachments and handles CC: header
              field properly (includes it in replies and forwarded mails, etc)
              Arachne should be able to follow URLs with &amp; entity, as
              well as malformed URLs with URI (filename) starting with "../".
              find: pseudoprotocol was repaired.
Improvements: Arachne 1.69 requires 2 KB less DOS memory then 1.68.
              In new screen layout, you can see full document title on
              status bar if you move mouse over partial title.
              New Tips & Tricks box was added to PPP dialer setup screen
              (Clarence will definitely hate that option, I am sure ;-)
              <TABLE BACKGROUND> tag implemented (see new EXAMPLES\TABLES.HTM)
              (Unfinished: Table and cell backgrounds cannot be transparent
              yet - this will take slightly more time than <TABLE BACKGROUND>
              which took cca 3 minutes to implement, BTW it is still not
              supported in Opera 4.x ;-)
              <BLOCKQUOTE> rendering was improved to conform Netscape
              rendering (==empty line in front of blockquote).
              Arachne message composer is now able to insert Bcc: field
              to outgoing message (warning: it is not guaranteed, that Bcc:
              will be removed from message header - some SMTP relays are
              known to remove these fields automaticaly, some not).
              New ARACHNE.CFG variable Editor allows you to specify external
              HTML editor (external message editing is planned for future)
              It is not possible to search internet just by typing one or more
              words to URL input field (same as find: pseudoprotocol).
     Changes: Google.com was choosed as prefered search engine for Arachne.
              Maximum hostname length in URL was increased to 48 characters.

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1.68 stable for DOS
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Release date: 3th December 2000
Improvements: New "small icons" screen layout (use F5 to change layouts)
              Wheel mouse support via patched CTMOUSE 1.8 beta 8 (you have
              to load SYSTEM\DEVDRVRS\CTMOUSE.EXE instead of your mouse driver,
              and only Microsoft Intellimouse protocol is supported - works fine
              eg. with Genuus Netscroll+ mouse).
              Implementation of HTTP/1.0 "Connection: keep-alive".
              Faster image download (as result of main loop optimization).
   Bug fixes: Installation process now doesn't overwrite existing HOTLIST.HTM
     Changes: Setup now runs in fullscreen mode to avoid user confusion.

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1.67 stable for DOS
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Release date: 23th October 2000
   Bug fixes: Cookie support was changed to be more RFC-compliant; result
              is, that Arachne can access mail.yahoo.com without problems.
              Small layout, grammar and syntax bugs in documentation.
              Multiple e-mail recipients can be specified again, and
              addresses in To: and CC: fields can be separated either
              by ",", ";", "+" or ":" (it should be enough for everyone ;)
              PPP connection will work even if AltNameServer (2nd DNS)
              is not specified (no "namsrv (null)" in PPPDRC.CFG)
              PPPDRC.CFG will be created even for "Connection @LH EPPPD.EXE"
              which should help some Arachne users to get more DOS memory.
              Bug in passing query strings to DGI apps.
              Bug which was causing freezing when highlighting strings
              found in lines longer then 1024 characters.
              FTP upload bug was (probably) fixed (not verified, because
              I haven't experienced this bug myself, but I removed
              possible premature call to sock_abort() from FTP code).
     Changes: Arachne now doesn't use %TEMP% directory directly - it
              rather creates %TEMP%\ARACHNE.TMP subdirectory. This fixes
              problem with default setting of TEMP to be C:\DOS in MS-DOS
              version 5.0. For speed optimization, try to define ARACHNETEMP
              variable: eg. SET ARACHNETEMP=%TEMP% in your AUTOEXEC.BAT.
              Default MIME type for hyperlinks and user entered URLs
              is now text/html, and default MIME type for inline images
              is image/gif. It used to be undefined (text/plain), which
              resulted in improperly labeled HTML pages being displayed
              only as source code. Current behaviour is Netscape compliant.
Improvements: &middot; entity (interpreted as &#127;)
              Script system\pktdrvrs\ifconfig.bat
              Latest versions of DJPEG32 and PNG2BMP were included, thanks
              to effort ot Bernie from Sweden (bernie.arachne.cz).
Experimental: Proxy authentication support: This was not tested yet -
              please send me e-mail if it works for you (which would be
              surprising). I don't know which RFC number describes Proxy
              authentication, so I was just guessing from one .htt file
              which I received from one user behind authenticated proxy.
              Try to add 2 new variables to ARACHNE.CFG: ProxyUsername and
              ProxyPassword, and Arachne should be able to automagicaly
              access HTTP (and perhaps also FTP) proxy. If it works, I am
              going to add corresponging input fields to Internet options
              setup screen. Please let me know RFC number which describes
              Proxy authentication, if you know it.

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1.66 stable for DOS, beta for Linux/SVGAlib and Linux/GGI
----

Release date: 20th July 2000
   Bug fixes: Serious security hole in both DOS and Linux version was fixed.
              Detailed description of this hole won't be published until all
              Arachne users upgrade to version 1.66 or later.
              COM port documentation error on Arachne setup screens.
              clear-cache.dgi in DOS version was working only in DR-DOS only.
              Configuration wizard was experiencing serious troubles when
              TEMP directory setting was invalid. The same problem was with
              Insight mail manager - the problem should be fixed now. Insight
              is now going to use the TEMP setting only if Cache2TEMP us Yes.
              One inch is now guaranteed to be 2.54 milimeters ;-)
Improvements: Even if <NOBR>, <PRE> or <TABLE> sections exceed default right
              edge of document, rest of page is still formated to  original
              width of page, which should make lot of pages more readable.
              This was added only to DOS version so far, thanks to delay
              of 1.66 stable for DOS. It fixed eg. oversized www.yahoo.com
        Note: 1.65 beta for Linux was skipped because of known bugs

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1.65 stable for DOS
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Release date: 18th July 2000
   Bug fixes: Serious crash of DOS version, when <FRAMESET> formated like eg.
              "800,*" was resulting in frame sizes smaller then zero in
              modes like 640x480 or 800x600 with sidebar. Totaly fixed, and
              as a side effect, all zero-sized frames are now made invisble
              to speed up page loading process.
              Serious crash of DOS version on pages with GIF images wider
              than 2048 pixels was fixed (eg. table background on Goto.com)
              Table layout was improved (pes.eunet.cz, www.freeuk.com, etc.).
              Unterminated HTML entity hack: "something & something" won't
              be formated like "something &something" any longer. Now GIF
              width is limited to 1200 pixels, but Arachne won't crash on
              wider GIFs.
              Memory model problems with DOS version were resolved, so
              images shouldn't disappear when DOS memory is running low.
     Changes: As requested by long-time Arachne users, modem configuration
              dialogues and ARACHNE.CFG variables were changed. Accepted values
              for ARACHNE.CFG variable "Port" are now 0 to 4, where
              1 to 4 are very standard serial ports (see PPP configuration
              page for details), while "Port 0" is any non-standard serial
              device, like "COM 3/IRQ 5" internal modems, etc. Base address
              must be always specified for those non-standard devices.
              Arachne now never writes "COMx" to PPPDRC.CFG file used
              by EPPPD.EXE, but always writes IRQ/Base address co
              ARACHNE.CFG variables "IRQ" and "Base" are now ignored for
              ARACHNE.CFG variable "Port" values 1 to 4, and accepted
              only for ARACHNE.CFG variable "Port 0".
              Another important incompatibility with older versions of
              Arachne is change in binary format of arachne.pck and
              cache.idx (in Linux, these are files stored in ~/.arachne).
              ASCII codes 128 to 159 are no longer hidden, so users will
              see whatever is located on these positions in font set (this
              range is not standard part of ISO-8859-x character sets, IMHO).
              ISO-8859-1 and ISO-8859-2 fonts of size 1 (all styles) were
              somewhat "squeezed" to get more Netscape/MSIE-like layout of
              resizable tables.
              Process of cleaning cache was now separated from main executable
              to script file (in DOS version, it is SYSTEM\DGI\CLR.BAT) so it
              can be customized.
Improvements: <SELECT> tag (pulldown menu) now can be controled comfortably
              even without mouse, using arrows, PgUp, PgDn, Enter and Esc.
              DOS version should be somewhat faster, because dependencies
              between overlaid modules were reduced - pages with JPEG images
              should load faster now.
              Setup of DOS version now should run correctly on any machine
              with at least 500 KB of DOS memory. Users have to manualy
              enter individual setup steps, if they don't have at least
              560 KB of memory available.
              Linux Arachne is now available in two versions, with graphics
              output using either SVGAlib or GGI - see GGI installation
              notes in file doc/arachne/README and on Arachne homepage.
              Both executables are included in Arachne package because of
              their small size. Arachne installation script creates
              special startup command /usr/bin/arachne, which launches
              SVGAlib version if $TERM=linux (linux console), and GGI version
              in other cases (like when arachne is started from xterm).
              Additionaly, users who have KDE installed in "/usr" hierarchy
              will get two nice Arachne icons (GGI for everyone, and SVGAlib
              for root, as only root can launch SVGAlib applicaions from X11)
              in their start menu. GNOME users must open KDE submenu; somehow,
              I haven' figured out where global GNOME menu configuration is
              stored - any help would be appreciated !

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1.64 stable for DOS, beta for Linux
----

Release date: 6th July 2000
   Bug fixes: Numerous memory leaks, buffer overruns, etc. in both DOS and
              Linux version were fixed.
              More sizeof(int)!=2 related bugs were fixed in 32bit
              (currently only Linux) version.
              Bug fixes and optimizatons contributed by Emmanuel Marty from
              Suntech, France were merged with Arachne Labs codebase.
              Arachne now correcty displayes lists embeded in table cells.
              Linux version of Arachne now correctly displayes transparent
              GIFs - this problem was related to (char) != (unsigned char)...
     Changes: Arachne adjusts table sizes if you abort image download, which
              is important when browsing websites which include temporarily
              inaccessible images (remote hit counters, etc.)
              Handling of redirection, cookies and HTTP referer was slightly
              modified, which should increase Arachne compatibility with
              various sites which use cookies and with Microsot IIS websites.
              DOS Arache now won't write COM port number to PPPDRC.CFG file,
              which should help DOSPPPD to work better (not really tested...)
              Directory structure of Linux version of Arachne was changed
              to conform Unix traditions (bin/, share/arachne, doc/arachne).
              Configuration file for Linux Arachne is now expected to be
              ~/.arachne/arachne.conf. Arachne creates ~/.arachne/ directory
              structure when user launches it for the first time.
              Linux Arachne won't use APM packaging system, because of
              generally smaller size of entire package, and because there
              are numerous well-knon utilies available in most distributions
              Linux. Linux Arachne is distributed with both iso-8859-1 and
              iso-8859-2; charset can be changed using arachne.conf variable
              "FontPathSuffix".
Improvements: Arachne should render and display pages with tables generaly
              faster and in more usable manner, but also more Netscape-like,
              ie. tables won't be displayed until they are adjusted. This
              behaviour is user-cofigurable by hidden ARACHNE.CFG variable
              "QADT Yes" (Quick And Dirty Tables), which forces old-style
              approach to page preview.
              Arachne now correctly displayes ordered lists (<OL> .. </OL>).
              Linux Arachne can now use three HiColor resulutions using
              arachne.conf variable "GraphicsMode" - values are currently
              HI.I, HI.J, and HI.K.
              Linux Arachne is now distributed with relatively comfortable
              installation script, which is trying to check for system
              components which are required to sucessfuly run Arachne.

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1.63 alpha
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       Notes: Internal alpha-version. Never released to public, because
              number "3" looks ugly using Arachne 3D fonts ;-)

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1.62 stable for DOS, alpha for Linux
----

Release date: 7th June 2000
   Bug fixes: Link from "Utilities" page to "Quickpad" was fixed.
              When attaching files, Arachne will return to correct page.
              Small cosmetical bugs when highlighting small icons.
              Correct error message is displayed when cache is full
              or incorrectly specified in ARACHNE.CFG
              Many serious bugs were found and fixed while working on
              Linux port, because Linux is much more strick about memory
              exceptions then even QEMM memory manager for DOS. DOS version
              now seems to be more stable than before, but maybe it is only
              my feeling...
     Changes: 16bit DOS, Linux and other versions of Arachne now share
              the same code base. Since now, all filenames in Arachne
              package will be related to as lowercase, with slash-separated
              directories.
              More enviroment space is available in Dos Shell (Alt+E)
              More news from Canadian front: Clarence Verge has designed
              "seriously looking Arachne Logo". Together with "seriously
              looking icons", it is now available as 1st alternative "skin
              APM" on Arachne download page. "Seriously looking icons" are
              no longer default part of Arachne WWW browser, which reduces
              size of basic Arachne package.
              Arachne now recognized charset name even when it is sent in
              HTTP header, and charset found in HTTP header has higher
              priority than charset found it <META HTTP-EQUIV...> tag.
              New miniterm.exe was included,  with modem timeout increased
              from 1 to 2 minutes - some 56kbps modes are handshaking fore
              more than minute (!) at least on low quality lines. Timeout
              should be in fact configurable as arachne.cfg variable called
              "Timeout", but this was not tested.
              Sample ACF profiles in package now shouldn't include
              meaningless sample login scripts.
Improvements: For the first time, both Linux and DOS builds of Arachne were
              released ! It requires SVGAlib to run, more details in
              separate README.Linux file.
              Arachne has new 88x31 icon (examples/arachne.gif).
              Arrachne 1.62 requires 9 KB less conventional DOS memory than
              version 1.61, as a result of quite careful code-optimizing
              diet; this size reduction should continue in future, as there
              is always some bloat to be removed...
     Warning: Linux version is alpha, preview, demo, simply dysfunctional!!!
              It violates segmentation all the time, it's extremely unstable
              and unusable. It's not intended to be useful, it's just
              technology demonstration!

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1.61 stable release
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Release date: 27th March 2000
   Bug fixes: Arachne won't crash when illegal <TD BACKGROUND=""> or tag
              <BODY BACKGROUND=""> (with empty argument) occurs.
              Arachne now correctly detects missinig local files
              of unknown type, so error screen is displayed instead of
              "save as" dialogue.
              Small bug fix in HTML layout (necessary to correctly display
              new HTML layout of www.wired.com ;-)
              APM package manager works again.
              More than 4 files/e-mails can be now marked for deletion ;)
     Changes: Source code of UNARJ.EXE was linked with APM.EXE, so modified
              UNARJ binary is no longer included in main Arachne package.
              When pressing Enter inside block, block is unmarked.
              File "about.htm" was corrected: Clarence Verge, author of
              file "keywords.txt", is from Canada, not from USA ;-)
              (like Terrance and Philip ;-)
Improvements: Newer version of ODIPKT.COM was included to Arachne package,
              together with some documentation - running Arachne on top
              of Novell networks should be easier now.
              Little speed improvement thanks to more overlay and cache
              directory optimization (.htt files with HTTP headers has
              moved to separate CACHE\HEADERS\ subdirectory, which
              increased loading of pages from full cache by 25-50% percent).
              Additional, ARACHNE.CFG variable "KeepHTT No" optionaly disables
              writing .htt files at all, which can improve performance of
              Arachne especialy on systems, where internet connection is
              faster than performance of file systen. (GUI control can
              be found on "Desktop | Options | Internet")

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1.60 STABLE RELEASE
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Release date: 17th March 2000
   Bug fixes: Setup screen VGA.HTM was badly designed so it hasn't worked
              when line with resolution was located above line with card
              type... (sorry ;-)
              mailto: style URLs in clipboard can be added to Hotlist
              without problems again.
              Link to hotlist manager works again (MIME.CFG was broken).
              Ugly block highlighting in single line windows was fixed.
              Broken pasting of blocks to single-line windows works again.
Improvements: New ARACHNE.CFG variable "VFAT Yes|No" (also Desktop | Options
              | Local settings) allows viewing of localy stored websites
              using Win 9x long filenames, but only in Windows DOS box.
              File extension .eml (M$ Outlook mail messages) is now treated
              the same way as .cnm (Pegasus Mail for DOS, Novell, Arachne).

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1.60 beta 2
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Release date: 16th March 2000
   Bug fixes: Small bugs and typos in local HTML files and in MIME.CFG
              Scroll history for all types cached pages works again.
              Mouse initialization and Tab/Shift+Tab navigation when
              no mouse driver is loaded.
              Broken 16-color-VGA/EGA/experimental-CGA support was fixed.
              AltSysFont (needed eg. for Cyrillic support) works again.
              Missing background images on certain table or frames based
              pages were fixed. It was happening when width of table
              cell of frame was EXACTLY identical to with of background
              image. Side effect of this bug fix is speed improvemnt.
              Detection of corrupted GIFs was adjusted to be more tolerant,
              so certain 16 color GIFs which used to be ignored are now
              being displayed correctly.
              Certain problems with multiple <TD ROWSPAN>1> cells were fixed.
              Some minor problems with mouse initialization were (probably)
              fixed.
     Changes: ARACHNE.CFG variable FastJPEGs and pseudo-MIME-type
              fastimage/jpeg are obsolete. They were replaced by MIME.CFG
              macro "$j", which expands into optional "-colors 256" string +
              content of ARACHNE.CFG variable JPEGargs.
              Thanks to Bernie, Arachne is now shipped with 32bit version
              of DJPEG by default. Alternative package with 16bit version
              is available (with no-HiColor version of CORE.EXE)
              The same stands for fastfile/* and LocalIcons; were replaced
              by ARACHNE.CFG variable FILEargs and MIME.CFG macro "$f".
              MIME.CFG should be more readable and logical now.
              WWWMAN.EXE was changed because of that.
              Different Cookie handling while redirection - not sure if
              it will help or not, it is still not compatible with
              certain sites.
              Arachne now ignores all spaces at the end of URL, which
              is what other browser do too. However, it is not documented
              anywhere and it should be consider to be one of "dirty tricks"..
              Mouse clicks in text fields are now used to mark and
              manipulate blocks. See editor help and Arachne Hotkeys page.
              Now you can select multiple e-mail messages or local files
              with right mouse buton and then delete them using Del key.
Improvements: Slightly extended documentation of certain features.
              Higher quality of JPEG conversion in "FastJPEGs" mode, and
              higher speed of JPEG conversion even in HiColor modes (DJPEG.EXE
              is same, but Arachne provides it with better command line
              arguments). Arachne Packet Driver Wizard was finished - TCP/IP
              setup was made more easy to understand for newbies.
              Arachne now recognizes <FRAMESET [FRAME]BORDER="false"|"no"|"0">
              tag for disabling borders of all frames.
              Copy & paste in text input fields (<TEXTAREA> tag) was
              finaly implemented.

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1.60 beta 1 - "millenium pre-release"
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Release date: 16th January 2000
       Notes: 1.50 stable release was skipped due to release of new version of
              WATTCP library.
   Bug fixes: Installation utility was completely rewritten once again and
              it should be more stable and usable now.
              Many types of table rendering bugs were fixed - including
              nested tables, multicolumn cells and table alignent.
              (see new examples\tables.htm file).
              Insight was upgraded to version 3.5, which fixes certain bugs
              with attaching files and "Cannot create index file" bug.
              (It was caused by TEMP variable finished by "\", which is
              illegal. Both INSIGHT.EXE and CORE.EXE can handle this now,
              but there is still some garbage screen output from ARACHNE.BAT)
              Some of "infinite cycling" problems should be solved now (two
              of them - one was "cycling in frames" bug, second was caused
              by strange behaviour of some mouse drivers after initialization).
              Table rendering should be faster (after removal of certain
              unnecsary loops I found in my code) and more stable (after
              finding that one global variable should be rather strictly
              local in every function ;-).
              Target for <META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" ...> tag is "_parent",
              not "_top" (this is not realy bug-fix, but rather "Netscapism" ;)
              <META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" ...> now works even in fullscreen
              mode, as well as screensaver timer.
              Another Netscapism: underscore ('_') mustn't be converted
              to hexa code in CGI query strings (why ???)
              Mouse shouldn't be jerky any more, even on huge pages with
              frames and table... at least if download was already finished.
              There was error when accessing http servers on other port than
              80 via proxy - it is fixed now.
              Little bug in INSIGHT.EXE quoted-printable encoding was
              fixed: ASCII codes <32 are no longer converted to "_".
              If you leave "Organization" field in Personal Settings
              empty, it will be completely omitted from outgoing e-mails
              (no more "Organization: (null)" lines ;-).
              "NoProxy4all" and "NoFTPProxy4all" ARACHNE.CFG variables
              (substrings of host names for which proxy shouldn't be used,
              eg. ".myprovider.com") were finaly enabled.
              Bug in Tab/Shift+Tab navigation in frames was fixed.
              Security was improved - Arachne's extensions to <INPUT> tag
              (see AEXTHTML.TXT) are now allowed only in local documents.
              Arachne now generates PPPDRC.CFG file for EPPPD.EXE in format
              which allows spaces in usernames and passwords.
              Quality of truecolor bitmap (BMP, "Fast JPEGs") rendering
              in 256 color and 16 color modes (SVGA, VGA, EGA) was improved.
              Output fields (INPUT TYPE="OUTPUT"> are no longer editable.
              When HTML page contains "<OPTION>blah blah\n<OPTION>blah2..."
              bug, the end of line is no longer converted to extra space.
     Changes: Default target frame for mailto: HREFs is now always "_top".
              Font for <INPUT TYPE="SUBMIT"|"RESET"|"BUTTON"|"OUTPUT"> was
              changed to get more Netscape-like look'n'feel. System font
              (fixed width) is now used only for text input boxes.
              Some design changes, and quite radical changes in HTML rendering.
              EMBED tag was restricted to local files (will be reimplemented
              later).
              ASCII printing was made more usable - maximum number of
              characters on one line is now strictly accepted.
              Extra XSWAP optimization was enabled (see '?' hotkey).
              Internal editor is now able to load virtualy any HTML file,
              because long lines are wrapped at position of first space
              which is found over 2/3 of maximum line length, which is
              1024 characters. It means that HTML code of edited page
              should be always compatible, because in HTML, line break is
              treated the same way as standard space character.
              Small Hotlist manager modification.
Improvements: Arachne 1.60 beta is based on WATTCP release "9911" which
              should be faster, more stable, and it which supports DHCP.
              <TD VALIGN="TOP"|"MIDDLE" (or "CENTER")|"BOTTOM"> was
              implemented; default vertical alignment is now "MIDDLE".
              Better frame implementation - <FRAME SCROLLING="No"> and
              <FRAME BORDER="false" | FRAMEBORDER="0"> is now valid.
              Optimization of overlays (improves performance if Arachne
              is used without any disk caching).
              F3 key (URL input prompt) can be used even in fullscreen mode.
              When mail download or upload is invoked when user is offline,
              simple floppy-mail exchange is possible (small MIME.CFG patch).
              Form Feed (ASCII 12) character is appended to exported ASCII.
              Insight 3.5 sorts folders in alphabetical order and it remembers
              last used folder.
              Mail message can be displayed either in Desktop page style
              (often unreadable, because of background image) or as
              Default HTML page style (readable - usualt black on gray)
              ARACHNE.CFG variable is "MailIsDesktop Yes|No".
              New extension to <INPUT TYPE=TEXT> and <TEXATAREA> tags:
              <TEXTAREA ..ACTIVE> and <INPUT .. ACTIVE> will cause
              the atom to get keyboard focus when page is loaded (useful
              for mail composer, internal editor, Quick notepad...)
              Optional PrintScreen handler is capable of saving screenshot
              to BMP file. Works only in 256 colors and Hicolor modes.
              Arachne is also able to print page to BMP (Ctrl+P hotkey)
              and print-file dialogues were improved.
              New screensaver-related surprises were added ;-)
              Local file listings now use variable number of columns
              (up to 8 columns in 1024*768 - use Reload button to synchronize
              when you return back to 800x600 or 640x???)
              New hotkey '?' dumps XSWAP debug information to screen
              (ugly, but useful when complaining about speed, etc. - see
              file xswap.txt). This is related to better XSWAP crash
              diagnostics: please report full text of enhanced XSWAP
              crash message to me (xchaos@arachne.cz).
              Speed improvement: button animation is not complete - Arachne
              doesn't wait for user to release mouse to start operation,
              eg. submit HTML form.
              <INPUT TYPE="RESET"> was finaly implemented - the page is
              reloaded from disk, which resets all forms.
              Number of HTML tables Arachne can handle is no longer fixed,
              tables are now allocated dynamicaly and you can have as
              many tables as you can stack in XSWAP memory manager (up to
              several hundereds tables).

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1.50 "release candidate"
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Release date: 20th June 1999
   Bug fixes: WWWMAN.EXE. Downgrade of APM.EXE. Pallette of tiny icons.
              Cache management (better full disk diagnostics, etc.)
              <SELECT> tag uses proportional font -> HTML layout bugfix.
              Symlinks in FTP directories should be always resolved.
Improvements: New installation utility with many new features (machine
              speed auto-detection, AUTOEXEC.BAT/CONFIG.SYS updating, Windows
              program group creation, etc.), written by Vitex software
              in TurboPascal, using TurboVision.
              New graphics mode 800x600x16 colors can be interesting option
              for users of some 256 KB VGA cards - includes grayscale mode.
              Optional expiration of cached documents (ARACHNE.CFG variables
              ExpireStatic <seconds>, ExpireDynamic <seconds>).
              New screensavers (rectangles, circles - ARACHNE.CFG variables
              ScreenSaverStyle L|R|C, ScreenSaverColors 0|1)
              ARACHNE.CFG variable SearchEngine is now used by find: protocol;
              Search Engine/Alt+F7 icon now treats "find:" URL user-friendly.
              New MIME.CFG macros: $w...DownloadPath, $t...path for temporary
              files (CachePath or %TEMP%, see Cache2TEMP), $r - X resolution
              You can now view local directories not only as image galleries
              also as Audio Playlists (WWWMAN.EXE generates ASF scripts).
              Fullscreen mode can be now easily toggled using middle mouse
              button web page anywhere else than on link, while right
              mouse button can be used instead of "Back" icon.
              Speed improvement due to faster seeking of images in cache
              (without verifying presence of the file - saving one DOS call).
              Toolbars are now not only customizable, but user can switch
              between various toolbars easily, so Arachne toolbars are
              now in fact hybrids between pull-down menus and toolbars
              (who likes windows-style pulldown menus anywat ? With "Find"
              item in "Edit" menu and "Exit" item under "File" ? ;-)
              New hotkeys Q - request all links in page, V - verify links.
              Also available via new customizable Toolbar.
     Changes: !!! Errorlevels of CORE.EXE were completely re-designed !!!
              ! Setup was now moved to TurboVision-based SYSTEM\SETUP.EXE !
              You have to use new arachne.bat and setup.bat with new CORE.EXE!
              !!! Major changes in directory structure of installation !!!
              New directories are: DOC\ (for the less important parts of
              documentation), SYSTEM\GUI (for ALL *.ah files), SYSTEM\IKONS
              (for ALL *.ikn files) and SYSTEM\DGI (for those executables,
              which are not intended to be run standalone and which do not
              need to be located in Arachne root directory)
              TOOLBAR.CFG was renamed to TOOLBAR.TB - traditional Arachne
              toolbar will be stored in file OLDSTYLE.TB (in future releases).

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1.50 beta 2
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Release date: 16th May 1999
   Bug fixes: WWWMAN.EXE, TOOLBAR.CFG
Improvements: Vitex's installator, Bernie's updates to APM.EXE, more animated
              GIFs (32 instead of 8), find: pseudoprotocol (generates Altavista
              query).
     Changes: <EMBED> tag was disabled for online pages because it was broken
              - it will be re-implemented later.

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1.50 beta
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Release date: 15th May 1999
   Bug fixes: Memory deallocation bug in virtual screen constructor was fixed.
              Various layout and table rendering bugs were fixed.
              The "%20" bug in online forms was fixed.
     Changes: Lot of design changes in Arachne documentation - see welcome.htm
              and about: pages ;-)
              Arachne scripting and Arachnomania hotkeys are now available
              even for unregistered users.
              Query string passed to DGI scripts now include coversion to %XX
              hexa codes.
Improvements: Animated GIFs were improved to be compatible with latest
              animated GIF specifications (delays between frames, frame
              transparency, etc. are same as in Netscape/MSIE compliant)
              Deleting of files and e-mails using right mouse button click
              and <Del> key was improved and works even for "MailPath MAIL\"
              (which is default setting anyway).
              Arachne toolbar is now customizable via file TOOLBAR.CFG (there
              can be more configurations for various users - use ARACHNE.CFG
              variable called Toolbar). There are 4 toolbars defined in this
              file: offline and online versions of both vertical and horizontal.
              WWWMAN was improved.

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1.5a "alpha"
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        Note: This is alpha version - it's experimental and really "only
              for testers". Some changes were not finished, and many features
              are likely to not work at all. 1.50 beta should follow as soon
              as possible, and our goal is to really release 1.50 stable
              version within one month.
Improvements: New HTML 4.0 attribute <TABLE FRAME="void"> allowed much
              more advanced table design - see eg. "Save As" page...
              Rendering of nested tables was generally improved and made
              more Netscape-compliant (check eg. http://slashdot.org/
              with older versions and with 1.50 alpha)
              SMTP delay bug was fixed (=all IDENT requests at our port 113
              are immediately aborted by Arachne).
              Arachne won't waste time connecting to SMTP server if OUTBOX
              is empty - I found out that it can reduce my phone bill ;)
   Bug fixes: Many - but not all! - animated GIF bugs were fixed.

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1.49 beta
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Release date: 12th March 1999
Improvements: Animated GIFs! Controled via ARACHNE.CFG variables XMS4allgifs
              (value in KBytes, 0=disable animation) and XMS4onegif (value in
              bytes). The code is still very experimental, there are problems
              with 16 color modes and with transparency of GIFs.
              In 256 color and HiColor modes, all JPEGs (converted to BMPs)
              and GIFs are now scalable.

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1.48 beta 2
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Release date: 24th February 1999
   Bug fixes: One SMTP bug was fixed, multi-line responses are now accepted.
              Bug when processing files with "jpeg" in it's name was fixed.
              Bug when closing HTTP connection for pages with undefined
              "Content-length" was was fixed - this should prevent Arachne
              from "falling asleep" in some situations.

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1.48 beta
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Release date: 7th February 1999
   Bug fixes: FTP download bug was fixed.
              Low DOS memory management bug was fixed.
Improvements: Index for INBOX mail folder is now located in TEMP directory
              (it can speed mail reading when TEMP points to RAM disk).
              ARACHNETEMP enviroment variable is scanned before TEMP.
              Mail message is now being displayed much faster due to
              usage of <ARACHNE NORESIZE> tag.

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1.47 beta
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Release date: 2nd February 1999
   Bug fixes: Insufficient memory was allocated for icons in HiColor modes
              Arachne scripts were not working correctly for pop3: and smtp:
              type of URLs (which was quite serious bug!)
              Fixed keyboard map bug (in opt_loc.htm) - once again ;-)
              In the list of accessible drives, 5.25" drives should be
              displayed correctly (fix of bug in WWWMAN.EXE).
              One specific type of "scroll right" crashing bug was fixed.
Improvements: !! Atachne is now downloading two images at the same time !!
              This Netcape-like feature can be controled using ARACHNE.CFG
              variable "Multitasking Yes|No|Safe" (probably for slow PCs ?)
              "Safe" will allow downloading only 1 image, but it will be
              downloaded while searching for the next missing image.
              New ARACHNE.CFG variables "ESC Exit|Back|Ignore", "Autodial
              Yes|No" and "EditHotlistEntry Yes|No" are self-explaining.
              (Autodial will cause Arachne to dial-on-demand; it's very beta
              feature - after connecting, images won't be loaded...)
              Mail reader was improved - new "Archive" button was added to
              incoming messages, resending of messages was improved, etc.
              CACHE management was improved - if cache is full, largest
              files stored in cache are overwritten (this makes RAM disk
              really suitable place for local caching - see
              also ARACHNE.CFG variable "MinDiskSpace"....)
              It is possible to delete files pointed by URLs
              stored in Clipboard: eg. right click link in directory listing
              or mail folder to highlight. Link must be defined using
              <A HREF="..." REMOVABLE> </A>, which is used in output of
              WWWMAN.EXE and INSIGHT.EXE.
              It is possible to add URLs stored in clipboard (use right click
              or Shift+Enter on link) to Arachne Hotlist using "Add to
              hotlist" icon or "A" key.
              Spaces in "http://..." type URLs are converted to "%20".
              New HTML/4.0 tag <BUTTON> was implemented (see "mailto:" screen).
     Changes: ARACHNE.CFG variable "ESCexits Yes|No" was obsoleted by "ESC".
              "Options | Preferences" screen was completely re-designed.

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1.46 beta
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Release date: 26th January 1999 (2 days after 1.45 ;-)
   Bug fixes: !! Bug in the implementation of cookies was finally fixed !!
              Serious InSight 3.0 bugs from 1.45 release (completely
              broken mail attachments, broken mail deleting) were fixed.
              FTP directory listing bug from 1.45 release was fixed.
Improvements: Mail charsets are now correctly converted to <META HTTP-EQUIV..>
              Trash folder was added, so you can easily undelete your mail
              (it's interesting, that while implementing Trash folder I almost
              lost all data on my hard disk :-(
              tag by InSight, so if you have corresponding conversion table
              in your SYSTEM\CODEPAGE\ directory, you'll be able to see
              correct characters - see help file "charsets.htm".
              Documentation was updated (I found some mail I copied to file
              "isdn.htm").

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1.45 beta
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Release date: 24th January 1999
   Bug fixes: Small text layout bug (<BODY>sometext<P> sequence....)
              Small table rendering bug was fixed (when <TD COLSPAN>1>)
              Pseudo URL "reload:" works again (inbox sorting, etc.)
              Hotlist manager bug was fixed (file hot_mgr.htm is now ok)
              Mail manager now works with real cache path defined in
              ARACHNE.CFG and doesn't force .TXT extension to all
              attachments with "text/plain" extension.
              EGA palette now uses all 16 possible colours and 16 color VGA
              palette was slightly optimized... cca 25% of Arachne user still
              use 16 color modes, so this is very important.
Improvements: Mail reader was improved and it now includes folders. It was
              renamed from "MAILMAN" to "InSight".
              <TD> tags (table cells) now recognize BACKGROUND attribute.
              Arachne Packages now can be searched using online CGI script -
              try "Find APM" button in "Save downloaded file" and "Copy file"
              dialogue boxes.
              Cooperation with DGI components is now generally faster,
              especially when you enable "Cache2TEMP Yes" in ARACHNE.CFG and
              if your %TEMP% enviroment variable points to your RAM disk.
              It is possible to configure minimum disk space which should
              be left on device with Cache or %TEMP% directories.
              "New" graphical mode - 16 color VGA with monochromatic
              palette, and new hotkey "!" to toggle color/mono VGA palette.
              Facelift of buttons in HiColor graphical modes.
              Better progress meter (always shows percents).
     Changes: *.MES files (received mail) are no longer stored in main
              mail directory, but in it's subdirectories ("folders") -
              you need to create at least one subdirectory in your mail
              directory and move your existing *.MES files to it!

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1.44 beta - Xmas release '98
----

Release date: 24th October 1998
Improvements: Better table layout - cells with ROWSPAN>1 are now rendered
              correctly, and more...
              Improved support for multiple character sets -
              <META HTTP-Equiv="Content-Type CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-2">
              tag. Codepage tables must be stored in SYSTEM\CODEPAGE\
              subdirectory. Name conventions: windows-1250 -> 1250.cp, etc.
              Scripting (for registered users only): Arachne can read
              list of URLs to visit from *.asf files - see acf_asf.htm!
              Help system was slightly improved.
              Optional screen refresh can be installed on Alt+Tab
              keyboard shortcut - ARACHNE.CFG variable: "AltTab Yes"
   Bug fixes: Problems with POP3 downloads were finaly fixed.
              Some minor layout bugs in PostScript output were fixed.
     Changes: ----------------------- IMPORTANT ------------------------
              | http://www.naf.cz/arachne/ won't work after 15.1.1998..|
              | Arachne homepage has moved to http://home.arachne.cz/ !|
              | My new eMail: xchaos@arachne.cz (no limits) or         |
              | michael.polak@sms.paegas.cz (up to 160 characters) ... |
              ----------------------------------------------------------

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1.43 beta 2
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Release date: 27th October 1998
Improvements: "Arachnomania" - user definable URLs on Shift+F1 ...Shift+F10
              keys is available to registered users.
   Bug fixes: Serious POP3 mail download bug was fixed (once again ;-)
              Serious keyboard navigation bug was fixed.
              Various small bugs in documentation and examples were fixed.
     Changes: ARACHNE.CFG keyword "Keymap" was splitted into two shorter
              keywords, "Keymap1" and "Keymap2", each 48 characters long.
              Variable "UseKeyMap" must be set to "Yes" to activate this map.

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1.43 beta 1
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Release date: 25th October 1998
Improvements: <EMBED SRC=...> tag was implemented, so sound files embeded
              to HTML pages will be downloaded and played, if there is
              correct player defined for their MIME type in MIME.CFG
              <FONT> (and other) tags now can be nested (it's maybe rather
              bug fix...)
              It is now possible to log POP3 activity to file POP3.LOG
              (ARACHNE.CFG variable "POP3log" must be set to "Yes" for this).
              Built in editor can now toggle Insert/Overwrite (Insert key)
              and do wordwrap (toggled by Ctrl+T key). Wordwrap is default
              for mail composer screens (can be forced to <TEXTAREA> tag
              using WRAP="Yes" argument)
              History list is now generated directly by CORE.EXE, so it
              will appear much faster than in the previous releases.
              Arachne now includes user definable keyboard layout
              for ISO-8859-1 and ISO-8859-2 accented characters even if
              your DOS keyboard driver supports different code page
              (ARACHNE.CFG variable "Keymap" contain keys for ASCII 161-255).
   Bug fixes: Serious POP3 mail download bug was fixed.
              Bug in opt_misc.ah page was fixed.
              Hicolor VESA mode 1024x768 pixels is now really working.
              <A NAME=#xxxx> form of <A NAME> tag is now recognized.
              Text inside <STYLE></STYLE> (stylesheet) will be ignored even
              if it not placed inside comments (like JavaScript source code).
              8bit (accented) characters can be used in WWW forms (?)
              Arachne PPP setup wizard should detect more modems (?)
              PostScript output is now more compatible with GhostScript.
     Changes: HISTORY.TXT was too long, so only CHANGES.TXT is included in
              the main distribution package. HISTORY.TXT is now available
              only as "http://www.naf.cz/arachne/history.txt".
              This release is better optimized, so it requires less DOS
              memory than the previous 1.42 beta release.


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1.42 beta (HiColor, PostScript and PPP setup Wizard release)
----

Release date: 7th October 1998
   Bug fixes: Various bugs when rendering nested tables.
              Unknown entities won't cause rest of line to disappear (it was
              bug!), instead of this, corresponding ASCII will be displayed
              ("&Aacute;" -> "A" if "Aacute" is not defined in fontinfo.bin).
              Various POP3 download bugs.
     Changes: ARACHNE.CFG variable "TextEncoding" was renamed to
              "MailBodyEncoding" to avoid interference with variable "Text".
              3 different versions of CORE.EXE are now available: default
              (overlaid/HiColor, slow and memory hungry), overlaid/no HiColor
              (slow and memory friendly) and staticaly linked/no HiColor/no
              PostScript (the fast and memory hungry one).
Improvements: Support for HiColor VESA modes (on 1 MB+ video cards).
              In HiColor mode, no palette mixing is required, which makes
              Arachne much faster. Also JPEGs decompress faster, because the
              palette doesn't have to be optimized to 256 colors.
              New Arachne PPP Wizard can autodetect some modems and generally
              makes configuring new connection much easier for beginner.
              Arachne can now print/export to PostScript (Alt+P hotkey).
              New ARACHNE.CFG variables for controling this PostScript output
              were added - PostScriptOut, PostScriptWidth and PostScriptHeight.
              In <INPUT TYPE=TEXT> fields and URL input field, cursor can
              be positioned by mouse.
              Maintanance of Arachne Packages (APM files) was improved
              (new items were added to apm.id -> see apm.txt)

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1.41 beta (Yes, I know this release is not yet stable...)
----

Release date: 7th July 1998
   Bug fixes: Up to 16 frames can be displayed at once - and the frames should
              be now much more stable and usable, they should be located
              on correct places and the URLs of sub frames should be correct.
              Frames seem to be as usable, that such thing as frames-based
              version of Arachne e-mail client is no possible. But prepare
              for many crashes on frame-based pages - I still recommend you
              to turn frames off if you want stable browsing.
              Another bug related to aligning tables to the left or right
              was fixed - tables shouldn't overlap now.
              Many bugs in rendering of pages with both <IMG ALIGN=...> and
              <TABLE ALIGN=...> tags were fixed.
              Fatal bugs in MAILMAN UUENCODE/UUDECODE were fixed.
              There was bug when deleting HTML files from cache.
              When you fail to connect with PPP and then exit Arachne, PPP.LOG
              will be deleted now (no more "Cannot initialize PPP" screens).
              Mouse cursor cannot be positioned beyond end of document in
              TEXTAREA fields.
              Several bugs concerning behaviour of search text input field
              were fixed.
              Arachne will correctly post data even to password-protected
              CGI scripts (or "active pages").
              Behaviour of &nbsp; (and also ASCII-160 character) entity
              and <NOBR> tag was improved dramaticaly, which will result in
              much better HTML rendering (in many cases, pages viewed by
              Arachne were too wide compared to Netscape's rendering...)
              Textarea using ARACHNEROWS argument now displays correctly
              even for other system font sizes (BigFont Yes or AltSysFont xxx).
              HTTP authentication information won't be lost when Arachne
              shells to DOS to execute some external plug-ins; however,
              authentication data are reset when user decides to exit (Esc).
              <META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh"...> tag now really reloads pages
              from net, if TCP/IP is active - this was original purpose
              of this tag.
              Some of problems with displaying background images were fixed.
     Changes: Default character set is now full ISO-8859-1 (ISO-Latin-1),
              including all HTML entities (West European accented characters).
              Pressing F8 won't take you to the homepage.
              Design of <INPUT TYPE=SUBMIT/RESET> buttons was changed, to
              make Arachne more compatible with today's web design.
              You don't have to care about many new configurable features,
              because APM packages which use them will auto-configure Arachne
              for you.
Improvements: Middle mouse button can be used to paste from clipboard.
              New arguments of <FRAME> tag - MARGINWIDTH, MARGINHEIGHT and
              SCROLLING=YES(AUTO)|NO were implemented.
              Both Arachne and MAILMAN now require less DOS memory, which
              means that users with 600+ KB of DOS memory will experience
              much faster e-mail processing.
              New ARACHNE.CFG variable Index determines default document
              to be searched in local directory - for example URL
              "file:somepath\" can be expanded to "file:somepath\*.htm",
              "file:somepath\index.htm" or "file:somepath\default.htm".
              "Send files" screen now allows you to enable/disable adding
              description and content-ID into MIME e-mails with attachments.
              Content-ID is important for sending multipart documents
              (eg. HTML page with background image) to MIME-compliant
              world - for example to Microsoft Outlook. See MIME.TXT for
              more details.
              ARACHNE.CFG variables MyCharset, AcceptCharset and
              TextEncoding allows better support for ISO-Latin-1 and
              mainly ISO-Latin-2 and Windows-1251 charset, which allows you
              to use accented characters in eMails - even for Central and
              East European languages (!). And as many programs using
              Windows-1250 charset are ISO-8859-2 compatible, you shouldn't
              experience problems communicating with people using Netscape
              Communicator or Microsoft Outlook as their eMail clients (!!!).
              AcceptCharset ISO-8859-2,* will force many servers for example
              in Czech Republic to send you pages in correct encoding.
              Variable AltSysFont allows you to use some of fixed-width HTML
              fonts instead of default system font (8x14.fnt).
              It is very useful for Cyrillic (Russian) character set.
              Password-protected FTP was improved - URL ftp://username@host
              is now valid, user is prompted for password.
              Mouse can change color on links.
        News: Development of Linux version (fully 32bit, or on demand even
              64bit :-) has started - first finished component is cache server
              which will allow more running copies of Arachne to share the
              same cached documents (no "/home/xchaos/.netscape/lock detected"
              messages while surfing web under Linux any more ;-).
              I plan to take advantage of my strong client-server approach to
              making programs and to show object-oriented crowd that they
              lost their way...

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1.40 beta 2 (once again "last_beta" ;-)
----

Release date: Monday 27th April 1998
   Bug fixes: Some general bugs (memory allocation, etc.) were fixed.
              <TABLE ALIGN=LEFT> and <TABLE ALIGN=RIGHT> tags should really
              work now. File TXTSETUP.AH was removed, because it had no
              effect: Arachne always writes ARACHNE.CFG to disk when exiting.
              Some constants were reduced (like maximum line length in
              built-in editor) were reduced, to save DOS memory and make
              Arachne faster.
              Some bugs when running on slower PCs were fixed - editor area
              won't be refreshed until keyboard buffer is empty, scrollbars
              of long files will be displayed properely, etc.
              Arachne won't loop on externaly viewed documents any longer.
              MINITERM in 1.40 "final beta" was completely unfinished; I hope
              this one will be better, but I haven't tested login script
              extensions (\u...username, \p...password \w...wait 1 second,
              \r...send ASCII 13 - Enter)
Improvements: <META HTTP-QUIV="REFRESH" CONTENT="timeout; URL=newurl">
              In editor, you can use new shortcuts <Ctrl+Left> and <Ctrl+Right>
              to skip to previous/next word.
              Navigation buttons won't be printed when printing mail message.
              Cache maintenance was improved.
              APM with staticaly linked CORE.EXE will be now available for
              all new releases.

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1.40 final_beta
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Release date: Friday, 24th April 1998
Version note: Version 1.2x stable release line was skipped, because there
              were too many bugs in beta releases with this number.
              All versions 1.3x were skipped, because it reminded me of
              unlucky number "13", and (more important) because digit "3"
              looked ugly in new Arachne screen layout. The changes are
              really dramatical, so I hope everyone will understand this
              decession.
   Important: Arachne status changed from slightly crippled shareware to
              almost uncrippled shareware, which is FREE FOR NON-COMMERCIAL
              USE ! Using unregistered Arachne is no longer illegal. The main
              difference in status of registered users is, that they
              will recieve as much support from autor as possible - yes,
              I will soon have printed list of registered users sticked on my
              monitor, and look at it before answering technical questions ;)
              Technical support will include analysis of DOS and Arachne
              configuration files and implementation of small improvements
              on demand - of course, WE DON'T PROMISE ANYTHING!!! We just
              anounce, that we would like to treat registered users this way,
              if it will be possible. Unregistered users will be now REALLY
              left alone, with no support from xChaos software (developer)
              or Network and Fiction (distributor). And well, yes, now you can
              change URL of homepage even in unregistered versions.
   Bug fixes: Arachne won't hang on tags like <BODY BACKGROUND=#xxxx">, such
              error in HTML will be simply ignored. This was caused by serious
              URL parsing bug, which was fixed. This bug probably also caused
              Arachne to hang occasionaly, when viewing History of visited URLs.
              <INPUT> tags of TYPE=RADIO and TYPE=CHECKBOX were modified, so
              they are now font-independent (important for ISO-Latin 2 fonts).
              Serious layout bug when rendering input fields of all types
              was also fixed - forms now should look much better when using
              large system font.
              "Cancel" buttons on Editor screen (F4) and Save/send screen (F2)
              now work as expected (they reload original page instead of
              going to previous document).
              <TABLE ALIGN=LEFT> and <TABLE ALIGN=RIGHT> tags now work
              as they are expected to - ie. same as <IMG ALIGN=...>, with.
              Many frame layout bugs were fixed - at least ALL typical
              three-frames pages now should work correctly, as well as most
              four- and five- frame pages. Back button will change only
              content of frame, instead of showing previous page in full
              browser window.
              Arachne now tries to deallocate xSwap and XMS on her "Fatal
              error" crashes - which means, that those crashes shouldn't
              as fatal as before. "Restart" button should be much safer
              option now.
     Changes: APMs version 2.0 are not compatible with version 1.0. APM
              packages are now simply ARJ archives. APM must be downloaded
              from host listed in SECURITY.CFG - see file APM.TXT for details.
              Alt+H won't take you to URL specified in DialPage variable -
              it was boring, wasn't it ? The same change was done to Alt+D -
              it won't take you to homepage, unless you pressed it on DialPage.
              F7 key is now used for searching in page - to go to your
              SearchPage, use Alt+F7 (compatibility: Norton Commander, etc.)
Improvements: There are really many of them. I hope it will make clear, why
              version number was boosted directly to 1.40 final beta ;-)
              New VESA mode 640x400x256 colors was implemented - it requires
              only 256 KB VGA card, so it should help users without SVGA...
              New screen layout and font scaling option were added. It should
              be useful especially for Arachne users with slow PCs, generic
              VGA cards and 14" VGA monitors (Note: next planned graphics
              library update will include support for HiColor mode on VESA
              cards and support for animated GIFs - not support for CGA or
              Hercules ;-) Please go outside and get some 10 years old 256 kB
              VGA card.... I doubt that they are more expensive than Herc ;)
              Arachne is now able to convert HTML to plain ASCII and print it.
              Users using IP_Address PPP (PPP.LOG) will see time spent online.
              FTP: <ARACHNE TARGET=...> tag can be used to specify target
              filename for FTP uplods. FTP proxy server option was added, but
              NOT TESTED !! There is also option to use "external/ftp", as
              any protocol can be now added as "external": MIME.CFG will
              be searched for pseudo-mime type "external/protocol_name".
              For example "external/irc", "external/https", etc. Protocols
              which cannot be made external are "file:", "pop3:", "smtp:",
              "mailto:", "http:", and of course "arachne:" and "about:".
              Inline images cannot be downloaded using external protocols.
              You can search displayed page using F7, Ctrl+Q or '/' key.
              To search next occurance of keyword, use Ctrl+L. Compatibility
              of these keystrokes: Norton, WordStar style editors, Lynx.
              Single line "clipboard" was implemented (but much usable
              editing interface will be implemented in later...) - interface
              is Windows compatible (Ctrl+X,Ctrl+C,Ctrl+V). But much more
              sofisticated editing commands will be implemented later...
              More system information (in resolutions lower than 1024x768)
              will be displayed after pressing Alt+M.
              Alt+F1 hotkey will take you to homepage (I found out, that
              this shortcut is used in DOS file managers to change disk; for
              example after inserting new floppy disk. As Arachne should
              help hardcore DOS users to get used to Internet enviroment,
              I thought that loading of homepage can be compared to inserting
              new floppy disk ;-) The same can be said about Alt+F2 - which
              will take you to the list of accesible drives.
              New bonus tag for Arachne Fans, who are optimizing their homepages
              for use with Arachne: <FONT 3D>...</FONT>. Check it ;-)

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1.20 beta 9
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Release date: Thursday, 5th March 1998
   Bug fixes: Numerous - memory management bugs, "disappearing icons", etc.
     Changes: TELNET and MPEG players now must be installed separately,
              as APM packages. This reduces the size of basic distribution
              package. See file APM.HTM for more details.
Improvements: Internal FTP upload and download was finally implemented (!)
              Faster virtual memory -> Arachne should be generally faster.
              Icons now should appear much faster.
              Arachne package manager -> easy way to add new components.
              Users with fast PCs can now use background image for Arachne
              desktops, local disk browsing, mail messages, etc.

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1.20 beta 8
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Release date: Saturday, 7th Februrary 1998
   Bug fixes: Redirection bug was fixed and improved.
              Problem with deleting mail during POP3 download was fixed.
              Disappearing mouse problem was fixed.
              Arachne will no longer hang on very long documents.
     Changes: PPP user using PPP.LOG to pass IP address to Arachne don't
              have to type arachne -r to return online.
Improvements: Basic WWW authentication.
              <SELECT> tag (pull down menu) can be larger than one screen.
              </SELECT> tag is now accepted.
              <CAPTION ALIGN=LEFT> was enabled.
              Client side imagemaps <IMG USEMAP="">, <MAP> tags...
              Cookies support was improved.
              Implementation of HTTP protocol was improved.

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1.20 beta 7
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Release date: Thursday, 15th January 1998
   Bug fixes: Various 16 color EGA/VGA modes bugs were fixed.
              Bug in "Save As" and "Save downloaded file" screens was fixed.
              Various image conversion bugs were fixed.
              Several bugs while surfing local disk were fixed.
              Big system font can be used again.
              Klos PPP dialer auto-instalation is works again.
     Changes: "Emtpy cache" icon ("F8" key) was replaced by "Page Information"
              icon ("=" key). "Empty cache" icon was moved to Utilities page.
              Mail manager is now doing word-wrap for long lines.
Improvements: Cookies (!). Controled by ARACHNE.CFG variables "Cookies Yes|No"
              = enable|disable, "CookieFile filename" = cookie jar to use.
              Logo animation can be disabled -> speed improvement. "Logo 0"
              Speed improvent (the one from xMas release).
              Arachne desktop was added - better access to Arachne functions.
              Useful "Picture Galery" function was added to file manager.
              New file icons were added.
              PPPD setup page and generic packet driver setup page were
              improved to cover all possibile combinations.

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1.20 xMas release
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Not documented

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1.20 beta 6.1
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Release date: Thursday, 20th November 1997
   Bug fixes: Many. Including XMS deallocation bug in preview relese.
              Probably the most important bug fix is submitting of
              CGI scripts with POST method - the trick was in sending
              Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded.
Improvements: Many. You will notice mainly new extension .AH - Arachne
              HTML (or maybe Advance HTML ;-). This increases security
              of Arachne. I don't want to mention security bugs here, as
              it may encourage someone to hunt for users of older Arachnes ;)
              New tags (HTML/4.0) were implemented: <BIG>, <SMALL>, <SUB>
              and <SUB>. Many new ARACHNE.CFG keywords were added, work
              on complete ARACHNE.CFG documentation just started.
              User and provider profiles (files with extension ACF)
              should allow creating of collection of usable configurations
              for different providers.
              Other improvements include: caching fonts in XMS, improved
              mail send and receive, improved frames, improved error
              messages (won't overwrite URL). New DJPEG.EXE can handle
              progressive JPEGs and can use BMP as output format (faster).
              Local JPEGs are now cached in CACHE subdirectory, which should
              allow you to view JPEGs on CD-ROM drives.
    New bugs: Probably many. However, there were so many bugs from preview
              beta releases, that I almost decided to make this beta the only
              publicly available release. With Frames variable set to No,
              it should be anyway more usable than any previous version
              of Arachne. Unfortunately, there appeared some bug in 16 color
              modes, so I recommend users of 16 color modes to use old Arachne.
              In final release, 16 color VGA support should be corrected.

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1.20 pre-release
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Release date: Friday, 3th October 1997
   Bug fixes: Large image buttons will no longer hang Arachne during
              "push" animation. Small (but fatal) GIF bug was trapped.
              RefreshDelay variable was expected to be called LoadRefresh by
              mistake. Page is now being displayed more carefuly.
              Images with HEIGHT and WIDTH parameter equal to real size
              are now displayed correctly. Several problems with history
              of visited URLs and with submitting of fomrs were fixed.
     Changes: Command line switch "-c" now turns off TCP/IP even when
              ARACHNE.CFG contains line "Connection READY". This should
              allow offline mail reading to users who use "Connection READY"
              with SLIP or PPP dialer. BTW "-c" was originally shortcut for
              "continue browsing", now it is "continue online".
              "Use new settings" on SETUP.HTM and OPTIONS.HTM will restart
              browser in online mode if you pressed the button in online mode.
              (This may cause problem when trying to turn off TCP/IP using
              setup page. In this case, you have to restart manually).
Improvements: FRAMES IMPLEMENTED! BETTER MAIL MANAGER!
              MINITERM can use other COM port modes than 8N1 (variable Mode).
              Virtual screen behaviour is controled by variable
              ScreenMode. Value "Nice" is what was implemented in beta 5,
              value "Auto" means that virtual screens are generated only
              for pages which fit into size declared by VirtualScreen
              variable. Probably most useful setting of ScreenMode is "Smart".
              Virtual screen is generated only for the top of each
              page, so scrolling speed is optimized: very smooth for the
              top of the page, and normal screen refresh for the rest of the
              page. Useful virtual screen size depends on the speed of your
              CPU, value cca 2000 pixels should be usable on
              most systems (and also most online pages fit this size).
              OPTIONS.HTM page now offers button "Performance", which
              allows you to configure Arachne for specific hardware.
              Glen W. McCorkle sent me Thomas G. Lane's new 16 bit
              and 32 bit versions of DJPEG.EXE, so Arachne now decompress
              JPEG files to BMP file (we are less dependent on GIF file
              format now). See upgrade note for 386 and AT/XT release list.
              In <TEXTAREA> fields, you can use <F2> key to submit form
              (warning: this will work ONLY if you are inside TEXTAREA!)
              For your convenience, even <TEXTAREA> abandoned by mistake
              saves itself to file called "textarea.tmp".
              Mouse position is now saved in ARACHNE.PCK file.
              Hotkey K displays list of hotkeys (compatibility: Lynx)
              Hotkey <Alt>+<H> hangs phone (compatibility: Terminate & others)
              Hotkey <Alt>+<E> escapes to dos shell (compatibility: Telnet)
              Hotkey <Alt>+<Q> opens notepad (compatibility: Dos Navigator)
              Hotkey <Alt>+<D> dials directly (compatibility: Terminate)
Upgrade note: Hotkey H CHANGED meaning: now displays Hotlist (Hotlist variable)
              ARACHNE.PCK is not compatible. Please re-run SETUP.BAT,
              delete cache index and history files, etc.
              Arachne will automaticaly unload packet driver before dialing.
              Default release of Arachne is now guaranteed to run on
              following configuration: CPU 386+, 256 color SVGA card,
              4 MB of memory (1MB conventional, 1MB disk cache, 2 MB XMS).
              I think this is typical "cheap PC" configuration - if you
              run PC with less system resources, you have to download
              "Arachne light" patch (without smooth scrolling, virtual
              screens and with 16 color EGA/VGA modes) or "Arachne ultralight"
              (same as "light", but without mail, ftp, telnet, and many
              other features - just WWW browser, nothing more).
              New codes for distribution packages:
              archn???.exe ... Default release, for i386+ CPU and SVGA cards
              archm???.exe ... Same a archn???, but without PPP, telnet, etc.
              archl???.zip ... "downgrade" for i8086 and/or 16 color VGA cards
              archu???.zip ... "ultralight" edition (requires only 420 kB)
              arcz????.??? ... Czech language distribution
              arnl????.??? ... Dutch language distribution

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1.20 beta 5 (released only as a patch, for "hardcore" Arachne fans)
----

Release date: Friday, 19th Spetember 1997
   Bug fixes: Smooth scrolling and virtual screens now work much better.
Upgrade note: same as beta 4

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1.20 beta 4 (released only as a patch, for Arachne fans)
----

Release date: Friday, 19th Spetember 1997
   Bug fixes: 1.20 beta 3 was not able to read IP address from enviroment
              variable (eg. %MYIP%...).
              MINITERM included in beta 3 was still not able to connect
              faster than 9600, now this bug was reported to be really
              fixed. Also Autologin should work better. '\r' sequence can
              be used to type additional <Enter>.
Improvements: SMOOTH SCROLLING was implemeted! Thanks to Zdenek Harovnik
              (and of course thanks to money from Caldera, who helped us to
              concentrate on development and forget about "real life" ;-)
              (and of course thanks to hundereds of e-mails from Arachne
              fans ;-), X_LOPIF library now supports virtual screens, which
              enabled implementation of (almost) smooth scrolling (on
              machines wiht XMS memory and 256 color video card only....)
              Scrolling is controled by following ARACHNE.CFG variables:
              VirtualScreen <pixels> ... size of virtual screen (eg. 1800)
              SmoothScrolling Yes|No ... enables smooth scrolling
              ScrollStep 40 ... small values mean slower PageUp/PageDown
              If smooth scrolling is enabled, arrows can be used to scroll
              the document (like in Netscape or MSIE), while "keyboard-mouse"
              is still available when you hold <Shift> key.
     Problem: Smooth scrolling will be completely unusable on slow PCs.
              Please report me PC configurations where smooth scrolling had
              to be turned off.
       Plans: Virtual screen technology will allow creating snapshots
              of HTML pages in BMP file format and also printing (print engine
              from IBASE project will be licensed, which allows printing of
              images on 9 and 24 pin Epson compatible printers and on
              Hewlet Packard laser and ink printers (even with colours!).
Upgrade note: Just overwrite installation of 1.20 beta 3 with files from
              ptch12b4.zip. Warning: new executable requires 20 kB more of
              DOS memory (it should be last dramatic increase, as now
              there is staticaly linked even HiColor grahics library -
              not yet used).

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1.20 beta 3
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Release date: Monday, 15th Spetember 1997
   Bug fixes: 1.20 BETA 1 AND 2 WERE NOT ABLE TO WORK WITH FIXED IP ADDRESS!
              SMTP bug was finally fixed (?)
              MIME mail reader was slightly improved (name="xxx"...)
              MINITERM now connects faster than 9600 bps and can do autologin.
Upgrade note: Hotkey W was replaced by C ("compose message").
              Hotkey I now shows INBOX mail folder (document information
              is now available using "=" key). New hotkey mapping
              is trying to follow PINE and LYNX (popular text mode
              clients for Unix) key mapping.
Improvements: about: and arachne:dialpage URLs were added.
              <U> (underline) tag added. Modem setting "Base Default" or
              "Base 0x???" can be used in ARACHNE.CFG (it is passed to
              PPPD.EXE and to MINITERM; not to PPP.EXE)

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1.20 beta 2
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Release date: Friday, 12th Spetember 1997
   Bug fixes: SMTP e-mail now uses brackets <...> around e-mails.
              MAILMAN now correctly assembles MIME messages (tested in PINE).
              Some more bugs in mail manager and SMTP upload were fixed.
Improvements: Hotkey W ("write message") will display mailto: page.
     Warning: Autologin with script is still not implemented for DOSPPPD!
              Please wait for final release of 1.20 version (in three
              languages!) for better documentation and more bug-fixes.

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1.20 beta 1 (preview of first professional release)
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Release date: Friday, 12th Spetember 1997
Upgrade note: ARACHNE.PCK is not compatible. Please re-run SETUP.BAT,
              delete cache index and history files, etc.
              EtherPPP dialer is now slightly different. Automagic creation
              of DIAL.PPP from LOGIN.CFG is no longer supported. If you
              were using EtherPPP, you may encounter problems (not tested).
              Because author is not able to write his own PPP packet driver,
              but able to write modem dialer, Arachne now attempts to use
              MINITERM as universal dialer. As usually, 90% of Arachne users
              will report that MINITERM doesn't work with their modems ;-)
              BTW, default ARACHNE.CFG was completely rewritten to be more
              clear for those who prefere text setup.
   Bug fixes: Lowercase <hr> didn't work, while uppercase <HR> did - fixed.
              Some small icons vere interpreted as clicking on history list.
              In Lynx compatibility mode (while <Scroll Lock> is on), you can
              use arrows to switch among text input fields, like in real Lynx.
              Text input fields now should behave more normaly. "SavePasswords
              Yes" setting will remove passwords from ARACHNE.CFG while
              allowing you to define them for single Arachne session.
              After pressing F2, original version of document will be saved
              (eg. original JPG image, not a GIF copy, or source of mail
              message, not HTML version) - <INPUT .... ARACHNEDOC>.
              Mouse will move smothly even in *very* long HTML files with
              very large tables.
Improvements: Direct DOSPPPD dialer support integrated to Arachne !!!
              New ARACHNE.CFG variable "Dialer" and "UseTerminal".
              "Animated" icons added. Added special tag <ARACHNE MSG=message>,
              so Arachne fans can improve their pages by messages visible
              only to other Arachne users. Message appears on the status bar.
              More Lynx hotkeys were added: G - edit URL, = - info, same as I.
              You can use ~ (tilde) key to turn on immediate image ignoring.
              <EM> tag implemented (as equivalent to <B>).
              Help line is now being displayed even for small icons.
              If you have problems with SMTP, try to disable HELO protocol by
              setting "NoHELO" variable to "Yes" in ARACHNE.CFG.
              You can disable logo animation by setting "NoLogo Yes"
              Input fields color can be controled by variable "Color X Y",
              where X is foreground and Y background color index (0..15).
              New hotkey "~" (tilde) will toggle ignoring both local and
              remote images "on fly". Useful for very slow computers (AT/XT).
              New Arachne extension <TEXTAREA ... ARACHNEROWS> will adjust
              textarea size to screen size - see SENDMAIL.HTM or TEXTEDIT.HTM!
              MIME compatible mail reader and composer (!) - variable
              "MailEncoding" with values "MIME" and "UUENCODE".
              WWWMAN and MAILMAN now use tag <BODY ARACHNE>, which means
              BGCOLOR, TEXT and LINK colors are defined in ARACHNE.CFG.
     Special: Arachne is now available also as "Arachne Light" - archive
              archnXXXl.zip, which contains reduced CORE.EXE without mail,
              gopher, finger, dialer support, etc. For users of very old PCs
              who cannot get more than 430 kB free after connecting with PPP.
              To use this release, you have to download full or minimal
              distribution package firs.

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1.10 (Holiday release)
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Release date: Tuesday, 8th July 1997
Upgrade note: Due tu implementation of frames, ARACHNE.PCK is not compatible.
              Please re-run SETUP.BAT.
   Bug fixes: Hotlist addition repaired (was not working since last beta).
              Inside <TEXTAREA> tag, no other HTML tags are interpreted
              (I found out it is required for mail composer). Mouse should
              now move more smothly. Sometimes, documents or image(s) were not
              displayed at all in latest versions - fixed. Various scrollbar
              bugs fixed. Several fatal DGI and CGI bugs fixed. After sending
              mail from page with mailto: link, Arachne will return to this
              page and won't go to MAIL.HTM. JavaScripts were chased,
              trapped and comletely exterminated finaly (but it wasn't easy).
Improvements: Arachne now supports complete HTML/2.0 including <SELECT>
              and <OPTION> tags, and entities "&quot;" and "&szlig;" (the
              second one was necessary for pages in German language).
              Improved mail manager. Better documentation.
              History list can be viewed clicking on mini-icon on the right
              side of URL prompt. When mouse moves over big icons, help
              message line apperars.
     Changes: This release requires only 440 kB to run (without resident PPP).
              (this is because big fixed array of pointers to HTMLatoms,
              originaly situated in low memory, is now implemented as dynamic
              list situated in xSwap (memory pages in XMS/EMS/disk).
              Default setup now includes NextStep style scroll buttons;
              users who prefered 1.0x appearance of Arachne can easily
              switch back to it at Options -> Preferences setup screen.
       Plans: I am leaving for holiday, so there won't be any new release
              in next two months. I am planning to implement Netscpe FRAMES
              as soon as possible, better mail manager is being developped
              as well as faster and less screen-flashing icons.

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1.10 beta 2
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Release date: Wednesday, 2th July 1997
Upgrade note: ARACHNE.PCK is (again) not compatible (and it won't be in
              the future versions - sorry).
   Bug fixes: Download and local save now works. Memory allocation bugs
              fixed (once again ;-) - you should get MUCH less "Non-fatal
              error" screens and no red boxes instead of images (tested
              for low memory sizes from 450 to 610 kB with step cca 10 kB).
              Several bugs in SMTP upload and mail manager are fixed, but
              mail reader is still not very usable (but at least you can
              write replys and then delete/rename/archive messages from DOS).
     Changes: This beta requires 450 kB to run (without resident PPP).

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1.10 beta 1
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Release date: Tuesday, 24th June 1997
Upgrade note: ARACHNE.PCK is not compatible, you have to run SETUP.BAT !
Improvements: In setup, you can select if you want to use XMS, EMS or disk
              for memory swapping. This should help users with less
              compatible systems to avoid Arachne crashing.
              Arachne can do e-mail ! Very simple at the moment, but it
              will be improved. New Arachne.cfg variable is "TimeZone".
              "KillSent", "UseSignature" and "Signature" variables are not
              yet implemented.
   Bug fixes: Plug-ins are now correctly executed for online documents.
              Small GIF scrolling bug fixed. Small bug in WWWMAN.EXE fixed.

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1.08 (Friday the 13th bug-free release)
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Release date: Friday, 13th June 1997
   Bug fixes: Aborted documents with unknown mime type can be reloaded.
              If backround bitmap is missing or corrupted, screen will
              be cleared before refreshing page. Internal editor won't append
              empty line at the end of the document after each modification.
              <BLOCKQUOTE> tag was implemented (as indented paragraph).
              JavaScripts between <SCRIPT> and </SCRIPT> tags are now
              completely invisible. Multiple JPEG or PNG images on one
              page will be converted only once per file. Unconvertable JPEG
              or PNG images will not be uselessly reloaded from server.
              Screen will not flash when refreshing page with many images.
              256 color BMP images (ussual result of PNG conversion) are now
              displayed properly (see http://www.w3.org). It means that
              Arachne is finaly independent on LZW algorithm in GIF files!
              It will decompress PNG images (perfect for net transfer) to
              local 256 color BMP files (perfect for fast page refreshing);
              Arachne is now ready for PNG, the future of the World Wide Web!
Improvements: HTML rendering is approximately 10 times faster because or
              more efficient algorithm (previous versions were applying
              cca 100 strcmp() calls on each HTML tag, while avarage
              page contains thousands of such tags and pages with tables
              must be rendered twice. Now Arachne uses only 1-5 strcmp() per
              tag).
Comming soon: There is already experimental build of Arachne with HiColor
              support, but there are still serious problems which prevented
              me from releasing it. And after all, HiColor support via VESA
              driver is on my AMD K5/133 much slower than using palette
              mixing and 256 color modes. Possible use of HiColor modes
              is on slower computers (386, 486) equipped with 1MB VESA cards.
              After HiColor implementation, there will be available also
              special builds of CORE.EXE without HiColor and/or EtherPPP
              support. Version 1.1 (with e-mail support) is already under
              construction and will be released before end of June.

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1.07
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Release date: 4th June 1997
   Bug fixes: Disabled zooming while document download (it caused Arachne to
              crash), some scrollbar bugs were fixed, F3 key disabled in
              fullscreen mode, 32 color palette freezing was finally fixed.
              On "Out of conventional memory" error now Arachne will not
              exit, it will only restart and show NONFATAL.HTM. You should
              generally get less screen flashing and offline and/or cached
              documents should be viewed with ultra-low screen flashing.
              Missing JPEGs and PNGs will not cause Arachne to cycle.
     Changes: Scroll buttons (ScrollBarStyle ...) now scroll only half-page.
Improvements: When viewing cached documents (online pages, dgi scripts output,
              etc.), Arachne now remembers last position in displayed
              document. Useful for example when browsing long directory
              listings and generaly for long HTML pages with many links.
              Clicking on black zone of vertical scrollbar is now equivalent
              to pressing <Page Down> or <Page Up>. Horizontaly it works
              as horizontal home/horizontal end.
     Preview: Send mail page (not functional)

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1.06 (first version believed to be without major bugs)
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Release date: 28th May 1997
   Bug fixes: You should get less "Illegal xSwap operation" and "Out of
              conventional memory" messages and less screen flashing when
              viewing pages with lot of images. You should be able to easily
              abort domain lookup. Many other small bugs were fixed.
Improvements: Login script for Compuserver was included. Experimental
              implementation of "TerminalWindow" ARACHNE.CFG variable should
              help those who cannot login with their provider. Experimental
              implementation of "NoProxy" variable - list of hosts which
              are unreachable using HTTP proxy server. Messages were separated
              to single "messages.h" file, which will allow to compile
              versions for various languages. Better WWWMAN.EXE

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1.05
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Release date: 19th May 1997
   Bug fixes: Downloading of documents which can be viewed by external viewer
Improvements: Faster tables, better Save As.../Download prompt, experimental
              EMS support (not tested)

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1.04
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Release date: 13th May 1997
   Bug fixes: Serious palette mixing bug, memory management bugs,
              <TEXTAREA> horizontal size bug.

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1.03
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Release date: 7th May 1997
   Bug fixes: Errors in distribution package, various HTML layout errors,
              various memory management errors, in HTML tag
              <INPUT TYPE=SUBMIT NAME=... VALUE=... > the VALUE is now
              being passed to CGI scripts, "password" editor bug, "page up"
              editor bug, mouse refresh bug, browser resize and refresh bugs,
              <TABLE BGCOLOR> and <TR BGCOLOR> tags are now implemented
              correctly, faster mixing of single color to long palette.
Improvements: Improved documentation, 3D-elements (<TABLE> and <HR>) are
              now colored differently on white (BGCOLOR=#FFFFFF) pages.
              Better italic fonts (sent by some Arachne fan).
              User definable scrollbar width, various scrollbar styles
              (Arachne, Windows, NextStep and experimental one), optional big
              system font (ARACHNE.CFG variables ScrollBarSize,
              ScrollBarWidth, BigFont), <TEXTAREA> tag (not tested online !),
              F4 key (editor), F2 key (save), renaming of downloaded files.

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1.02 (first official release)
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Release date: 30th April 1997
   Bug fixes: Netscape compatible comments <!-- xxx>, reload is enabled
              when using proxy server.

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1.01
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Release date: Never released for public use
   Bug fixes: Faster version of graphics library, table rendering bugs


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1.00
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Release date: Never released for public use
   Bug fixes: <INPUT TYPE=IMAGE>, CGA support, submitting of forms without
              submit button, HTML entities

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1.0 beta 9
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Release date: 2nd April 1997
   Bug fixes: *BIG* table rendering bug fixed
              (try http://browserwatch.iworld.com)
              Netscape image-resizing emulation.
Improvements: Handles virtual domains (HTTP keyword Host: implemented)

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1.0 beta 8
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Release date: 28th March 1997
   Bug fixes: Insufficient memory bug fix. Downgrade of EtherPPP.EXE
Improvements: New ARACHNE.CFG variables: CreateScript, WaitFor?, Response?,
              ExitOnHangup. Improved ARACHNE.BAT. Klos PPP support.
              After optimization, CORE.EXE is 60 kB shorter.
              Requires less memory. Faster graphics on VESA cards.
              More user-friendly setup.

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1.0 beta 7
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Release date: 13th March 1997
   Bug fixes: Stack overflow. Image loading and JPEG conversin bugs.
              Horizontal keyboard scroll bug (Shift+End).
      Change: Arachne now requires 460 kB of DOS memory (580 with PPP).
Improvements: New ARACHNE.CFG variables: F3key (you can replace 'file:*.*'
              default string), AutoF3key Yes/No ('file:*.*' when offline,
              'http://' when online), SearchPage (will appear after pressing
              F7). AltNameServer and AltGateway variables now allow you to
              add second nameserver and gateway directly to ARACHNE.CFG

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1.0 beta 6
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Release date: 5th March 1997
   Bug fixes: Proxy support was finally implemented !
              PPP.LOG file is now being opened by C sopen(), not open()
              function, so file sharing errors in Windows DOS box should
              disappear (but it was tested only with SHARE.EXE).
Improvements: 4 "Memory modes" implemented: "CRISIS","LOW","NORMAL","COOL".
              Arachne now requires only 450 kB offline and 570 kB with PPP,
              but users of QEMM, MEMMAKER or DR-DOS who have more
              than 600 kB available will see no difference ("COOL" mode).
              Palette mixing is now several times faster (better algorithm).
              Free utility PKTSTAT can be called from utilities page.
              Someone sent me newer version of EtherPPP (PPP.EXE); seems
              to work at least not worse than the old one. And the graphical
              PPP setup was changed to behave more functional.
 Bug reports: JPEGs do not always behave as they should. The bug is not
              yet fixed, because the other bug fixes had higher priority.
     Message: New Scientist called Arachne "browser for poor". But I don't
              think I am poor just because I don't want to buy new computer
              ever year! Good news: Arachne will be incorporated as native
              browser in Caldera OpenDOS operating system.

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1.0 beta 5
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Release date: 16th February 1997
   Bug fixes: some of image redraw bugs fixed
Improvements: images in 16 color VGA and EGA modes, <Scroll Lock> activates
              "Lynx mode" - surfing with cursor keys. <Backspace> = history,
              <Shift> + <Home>, <Shift> + <End> = horizontal scroll.
              Some HTML/2.0 entities. <A HREF="#..."> ... <A NAME="...">
              "Kill hotlist" icon in Utilities page - example of DGI
     Message: Number of visitors of Arachne homepage was increased hundered
              times after publishing of short article in PointCast.
              Many new mirror sites will be announced soon.
              Microsoft offered me to move to Redmond and work for them -
              really, I am not joking ;)
              Possible use of Arachne in a single-chip Net Computer.
              Arachne will be used in WebTyme - internet slot machine.
              In future, Arachne may be integrated into GEOS and OpenDos
              operating systems as native browser, if everything goes well.
              To Jan Patera: sorry, to vraceni grafickeho modu jsem zase
              nechal ve skole ;-)))
        Note: You would expect teen hackers to perfectly manage low level
              graphics or so, and senior programmers to be rather system
              administrators, etc. Reality: I am 23, my father is 50.
              If you like image viewing in 16 color VGA and EGA mode
              (as well as very good palette otimization),
              send credits to my father ;-)

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1.0 beta 4
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Release date: 27th January 1997
   Bug fixes: tables ("Netscape homepage bug" and others), hotkeys bugs,
              "yahoo search bug" (error in form submitting), "&gt;" entity,
              Linux POP3 download bug, conversion bugs, many other bugs.
              Cache size restricted to 256 files to reduce problems.
Improvements: 16 color VGA and EGA modes, registration key support,
              links to <FRAME> sources (!), query strings passed to DGIs,
              <Backspace> returns to previous document, <Shift>+<PgUp>,<PgDn>,
     Message: There are signals, that in future Arachne may be used in
              some slot-machines for public Internet access. This can mean
              that more people taking care about optimizing pages for Arachne
              and other "Other" browsers, like Lynx, Mosaic, etc.
              It can be important step forcing webmasters to keep
              high informational value of WWW and stop the latest "putting
              TV-shit online" trends. REGISTER NOW to keep Arachne project
              alive! Final release of 1.0 will appear until end of February.
     Warning: No more changing homepage with <F4> in Volkov commander!
              I take no responsibility for possible side effects of cracking
              CORE.EXE, remember, I am not so bad programer... <g>

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1.0 beta 3
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Release date: 6th January 1997
   Bug fixes: tables, documentation, miscelaneous bugs
Improvements: background download of HTML documents, slight speed improvement,
              1024x768 graphics mode, keyboard select <Tab>.
     Message: Author have new e-mail address - xchaos@main.naf.cz

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1.0 beta 2
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Release date: 22th December 1996
   Bug fixes: gopher, finger, jpeg conversion, DGI calls, some HTML entities
Improvements: EscExits and LoadImages variable in ARACHNE.CFG, Load images
              icon, Arachne now calls external telnet and ftp, public domain
              Clarkson Univesity telnet and ftp binaries added to package

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The way to 1.0 beta
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I first attempted to compile some DOS TCP/IP application at university in 1995.
It was based on NCSA Telnet sources, and for some strange reasons, the
attempt was complete failure. I didn't know much about TCP/IP at that time.

Then I started working as a webmaster for Video On Line, where I had
enought spare time to learn about TCP/IP protocols, to search WWW for
important software.... I started to hate Windows 95 as I was forced to
work with them. I started also with C programming for Unix, etc.

One day I tried to search Altavista for "WWW browser for DOS" - and I was
very surprised, that it found nothing! Well, there were about three or four
pseudo-browsers (Doslynx, Knots, Minuet and Open World Navigator), which
were so useless compared to Netscape, that I decided to try it on my own.
In fact, another DOS browser, SPIN, would probably discourage me from writing
Arachne, because the version I had oportunity to see last month was almost
usable. But it was also extremely unstable, and generaly, it could be compared
to Arachne somewhere in versions 0.91-0.92. And it was also much slower, at
least on my computer. (By the way, current betaversion of SPIN is now
comparable with latest release of Arachne...)

The reason why Arachne is so good is, that software included in Arachne
package is result of years of work of many good programers. Only few of
them are people I know... that's the cyberspace! My work can be best
described as "source code archeology" :-).

I only came, and linked it all together. Well, I also wrote HTML rendering
engine but compared to TCP/IP kernel, my HTML engine is children's toy.

Arachne is in fact based on "Popdump" aplication distributed
as example for using WatTcp TCP/IP library. I started work in April 1996
and I released several alfaversions (0.7, 0.8, etc...) for testing.
Then, when I made version about 0.9?? and started testing online homepage,
one of testers added my URL to Altavista, and it is the reason why
alfaversions 0.9?? ... 0.99 spreaded among people. When Arachne was once
"released", I simply had to fix the major bugs and publish at least
the most important updates.

In fact, my first official release was version 1.0 beta, and it
is also where the history list will start. I will not mention
any bug fixes from alfaversion, except of one: I succesfuly fixed the packet
driver interrupt crash (it was occuring in the moment when Arachne was
accessing XMS, which happens very often). It was most important event in
the alfaversion history. This bug is fixed cca since version 0.93 or so.

So - please DELETE ANY ARACHNE OLDER THAN VERSION 1.0 beta and upgrade !!!

 Michael Polak, xChaos software

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