http://arachne.browser.org/ http://www.naf.cz/arachne/ WWW browser for DOS and Linux Arachne is currently fullscreen graphical WWW browser which runs on DOS compatible operating systems. Version for POSIX-compliant systems like Linux is being developed. Arachne was designed by xChaos software. It supports subset of HTML/4.0 specification, including tables, frames, imagemaps, forms, and more. FTP and e-mail clients are incorporated. The distribution package includes freeware PPP dialer, WAV player, etc. Utilities like MPEG video player, AVI/Quicktime/MPEG3 multimedia player or TELNET client can be very easily downloaded as "Arachne packages" - installation process is fully automatical. Registration Arachne WWW browser is distributed as software package of various public domain and freeware utilites, free for non-commercial use. However, there are some restrictions in the package, and you have to register to remove them. You also have to register if you want to use Arachne for commercial purposes. Please contact sales@main.naf.cz for more information. Arachne for DOS is optimized to be used with DR-DOS (OpenDOS/NovellDOS) - 100% MS-DOS compatible operating system, free for non-commercial use. It is available for download at Caldera UK. You can of course use any other DOS compatible operating system. Arachne for DOS will run on i8086 compatible CPU with as little as 425 KB of DOS memory (490 KB if you want PPP connection) and EGA or VGA video card. However, recommended configuration is PC with 80386 or better CPU with 4 (or more) MB of memory, more than 600 KB od DOS memory, 512 (or more) KB VESA compatible SVGA card, with mouse, soundcard and color monitor. If you want dial-up access to internet, you of course need standard serial modem; for local networks, you can use any device with packet driver available for it (eg. Ethernet card). You will probably like to download Arachne self-extracting distribution package using some networked PC (for example at some Internet cafe, using Netscape or MSIE) and store it to single floppy disk, for example as file named A:ARCHN120.EXE. Here are simple instructions, how to install Arachne self-extracting package on your computer: create new directory eg. MKDIR \ARACHNE select it as current working directory eg. CD \ARACHNE copy the downloaded file to this directoryt eg. COPY A:ARCHN120.EXE execute self-extracting package eg. ARCHN120 setup Arachne (required) type SETUP