On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Clarence Verge wrote:
> Michael Polak wrote:
> >
> > I think grey screen instead of select profile directory is result of
> > incorrectly configured TEMP directory.
>
> YES !.
> I had TEMP=I:\TEMP in my environment, but I initialized my install by
> loading A1.62 to ramdisk and then WIPING the disk. This WIPED the dir.
I fixed this in 1.66. It will work even with invalid TEMP, and it will
work in all situations, even with Cache2TEMP enable and invalid TEMP.
> I re-installed A1.65 but this time I re-created the TEMP dir first and
> I did NOT get the blank gray screen.
What a surprise ;-)
> I think it is a good idea to include a test for temp in the install.
> But some users will have ARACHNETEMP instead of TEMP so setup.bat
> should SET TEMP=%ARACHNETEMP% if it exists but complain if neither
> exist.
All Arachne components (CORE.EXe, INSIGHT.EXE, CFGWIZ.EXE) are now
going to rather silently ignore invalid TEMP directory... that was
easiest...
> The MORE excellent part is that this time I once again forgot to switch to
> VGA and setup dumped me to DOS with the message: "Cannot initialize video".
> That's PERFECT !. Thanks Michael.
It was always intended to work like that, but there was some unexpected
behaviour in previous versions, probably.
> This time I got to see stuff in setup that I never saw before:
> First, the little dialog thing that suggests:
> Increase files to 50 ?
> Add Arachne dir to autoexec ?
> Update quik start ? has GARBAGE like this in the textarea: *4$y!
Many people report that... it may be related to no PATH statement fond in
AUTOEXEC, which is very rare,...
> And, this screen and all following, will not let me use the cursor keys.
> TAB does work tho.
????
> I let it auto detect my modem (COM 4 - nothing on COM3) and it WORKED !
Yes, previous versions were stupid.
> I already mentioned that the text on modem install has some base #s
> and IRQs wrong.
Fixed in 1.66. But 1.66 was not yet released, mainly because of sustained
problem with lost clusters. I would need confirmation that there are now
lost clustoers unless clr.bat is called from inside Arachne using F8 key.
BTW... about the current page reload... this is really something which has
to be done, because it is impossible to keep on displaying latest page, if
cache is no longer consistant. Do you think it would be possible for you
to learn to skip to some local page before hitting F8 ? Or would you mind
id some bried message is displayed on screen instead of reloading page -
like Cache is now empty - or something like that ?
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