On Thu, 13 Jan 2000 07:41:21 +0000, Steven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Charles Boisvert and Catherine Clinton wrote:
>> I've got 2 questions about using Arachne in a win95 computer.
>> Maybe it sounds like a silly thing to do, but I'm trying to
>> show it to students, and the equipment at my college is
>> entirely Micro$oft.
> Have you considered booting DOS from a floppy and running
> Arachne from ramdisk? It shouldn't be too difficult to
> fit everything onto one floppy and automatically unzip
> and run Arachne from the autoexec.bat.
> Cheers,
> Steven
Where have I heard that before???<g>
Here are the config.sys and autoexec.bat files from the diskette which
will do just that.
---config.sys---
DEVICE=HIMEM.SYS
DOS=HIGH,UMB
DEVICE=VDISK.SYS /E 7168
BREAK=ON
BUFFERS=30
FILES=50
LASTDRIVE=Z
HISTORY=ON,512,ON
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---autoexec.bat---
@echo off
a:\drmouse
A:\VDRVCHNG 7168
if errorlevel 1 goto fail
echo Copying command.com to RamDrive
copy a:\command.com \
SET COMSPEC=\command.com
MD \TEMP
SET TEMP=\TEMP
echo Copying self-extracting archive file to RamDrive.
copy a:\!ar150rc.exe \
\!ar150rc -d \
del \!ar150rc.exe
copy a:\arachne\*.* \arachne\*.*
echo Ready to run Arachne.
pause
cd \arachne
if exist arachne.pck goto run
:setup
call setup.bat
goto done
:run
call arachne.bat
:done
rem Remark-out any of these "delete lines" pertaining to files
rem you'de like saved.
del cache.idx
del history.lst
del cookies.lst
del _4prt.txt
rem (I always use "!" as the first letter so that these files
rem will be at the top of the list in a sorted directory listing)
del !cache.idx
del !history.lst
del !cookies.txt
rem (renamed to .TXT for easy viewing from within Arachne)<g>
echo Please insert the original disk in drive a:
echo Any updated files in the Arachne directory will
echo be copied to this disk.
echo (make sure the disk is not write protected)
echo .
pause
a:\xcopy \arachne\*.* a:\arachne\*.* /D:08/28/1999
goto end
:fail
echo .
echo A problem has occurred while trying to create the RamDisk
:end
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Glenn McCorkle mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
North Jackson, Ohio, USA
Arachne, The Web Browser for DOS
Open the 'DOOR' to the WWW. Keep the 'windows' closed.
http://home.arachne.cz/ or http://arachne.browser.org/
