Re: SIS chopping pages...

[Tony Cianfaglione <ab616@chebucto.ns.ca>]

Hi Jeff,

On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Jeff Blakeney wrote:

> On Wed, 2 Jun 1999 03:02:03 -0300, Tony Cianfaglione
> <ab616@chebucto.ns.ca> wrote:
> 
> >  I was watching a friend's GS running Spectrum Internet Suite and it was
> >chopping the tops of the pages it was encountering on the Internet.  Is
> >there something wrong with it that would cause this?
> 
> Joe's suggestion for shift-booting before running SIS is a good one.
> Especially if you don't have a correctly wired hardware handshaking
> modem cable.

   We'll try that on the next SIS session and give you an update.  We had
to disable hardware handshaking although we have the proper cable.  With
HH enabled, the connection would instantly hang up each time upon login.
With it disabled and DCD enabled, we are able to connect and continue.

> Another thing that might be messing things up is if the pages you are
> trying to view are using frames.  SIS doesn't support frames so it
> might produce some weird results when trying to view them.  SIS also
> doesn't support tables properly which can result in some strange
> looking pages.

   The pages were created by me and are housed at a freenet running Lynx
so no frames or fancy html was used so that all of our club's pages would
be viewable with an Apple II computer running Lynx through a vt100
terminal connection.  I created all of the pages online using ProTerm 3.1
running on a IIc so they comply with Lynx.  SIS was chopping the pages
partway down.  I have specific examples if you're interested.

Tony