Hi Sam,
you wrote on 08.01.00 to "Re: My inbox is a blank screen":
SWH> On Sat, 8 Jan 2000 00:01:30 -0500, Mark David Roth wrote:
>> I'm sorry for repeating this message. I had the Arachne Fan Club
>> mailing list turned off by accident so I wasn't able to read any
>> relpies to it. I am using Arachne v1.50 SRC. I restored Arachne to
>> a different drive then it was on originally. I changed the drive
>> references in all my CFG and ACF files. When I go to Inbox I get a
>> blank screen.
SWH> The solution to your problem is to follow the advice found on a very
SWH> old posting to the list. I quote as follows:
[..]
> > Is there a way to get old messages from this mailing list sent to
> > me again? Windows crashed after I recieved about fifty messages
> > and I lost everything from the last day or so before reading it.
SWH> send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with these 2 lines in the body:
SWH> get arachne-digest v01.n625
SWH> end
I doubt that Mark wants to receive elder messages from this mailing
list, I'd rather think he gets the same error message from InSight that
I do saying: "Cannot create index file c:\arach150\mail\$idx$cnm.idx"
when he wants to take a look at his downloaded mails from the server.
I wrote a mail to Michael Polak some weeks ago, but due to his efforts
to get Arachne v.1.60 to work he did not answer (I suppose...). So for
you mailing listerers ;-) I will forward my mail to him, perhaps someone
knows the answer already:
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Empfaenger : /QWK/CCSBASE/E-MAILS (Michael Polak)
Absender : Hans-Juergen Bardenhagen@CCSBASE
Betreff : Inbox.dgi
Datum : Fr 03.12.99, 15:30
Groesse : 1994 Bytes
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Polak)
Hi Michael,
I think there is a problem with your "inbox.dgi" in Arachne v1.50 s.r.c.
I always get the error message "cannot create index file $idx$cnm.idx",
when I try to look at my received mails using the "Inbox"-button. I
tried to solve this problem in every way that seemed logical (and even
unlogical ones, too) for me, but wouldn't succeed. I know I can look at
my mails, if I use the "all files" option in Arachne desktop and just
click on the *.cnm in the mail directory. Another possibility is to
rename them to *.mes and move them in any subdirectory of \mail and open
the refering folder. But this is not very convenient and not the way it
should be, is it? ;-)
What puzzles me is that the "sentmail.dgi" and the "outbox.dgi" work
as they should - they *can* create their index files in the mail
directory and show all *.snt and *.tbs files correctly. I read a
message in the Arachne mailing list a while ago, where someone wrote
he had this problem fixed by copying "welcome.htm" to the mail
directory, but this doesn't work for me (and is somehow rather
unlogical to me, because I would rather expect "welcome.cnm" to be
the missing file...). So I elaborated on the files in the mail
directory a bit: emptied it completely, left only the *.snt files
in it, put "welcome.cnm" in it again - nothing worked.
I read about the path settings in the mailing list, so I made sure
that I filled in the full path statements in my local and personal
settings of the config file - didn't help, either. My path to the
mail directory is "c:\arach150\mail\" - is this the problem, because
"inbox.dgi" only knows "c:\arachne\mail\", perhaps? Is the last
slash too much, or what? %-)
Last idea: I let Arachne write her temporary files to my ramdisk D:,
so maybe "inbox.dgi" can't handle this and wants to create its index
file on C: instead of D:?
Hans-Juergen
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