On Wed, 19 Jan 2000 14:34:38 -0800, Clarence Verge wrote:
> Gregory J. Feig wrote:
>> Clarence and Glenn and Sergei.......yes, very good idea....I'm sure
>> you guys have thought of this, but haven't mentioned it, but when
>> I get around to doing this (I have a need for this technique) I will
>> do minimum, AND then flesh it out with a 2ND zipped set of files on
>> a 2nd disk, (or 3rd, 4th, however many disks)....it will still fit
>> in my pocket......<g>
> Hi Gregy;
> But, the real challenge is to get EVERYTHING you really need on one floppy.
> That's really the only reason I'm giving it any thought.
> And I must say, even after seeing Glenn's system, this is NOT a simple job.
> To make ONE diskmaker for ALL users is a real challenge. I would never make
> assumptions about the user's operating system or configuration or even their
> path, for instance. How do we create config.sys and autoexec.bat that takes
> into account the users' choices for memory managers and caching software ?
> Nor would I require the user to have some special software - like Norton
> Integrator. Glenn has it and I have it - but we can't assume everyone does
> and we cannot legally ship it to everyone. So if anything special IS needed
> we have to write it and provide it.
Norton's ds.exe isn't required.
If a particular user doesn't have it, the directories will simply not
get sorted before creating the .zip file.
And the ony other programs the user would need to get (if they don't
already have them), would be pkzip and pkunzip.
These are the config.sys and autoexec.bat files from the diskette...
No assumptions are made about the potential user's system.
All needed files are on a single 1.44mb floppy.
(!ar150rc.exe is simply the SFX file created for my example floppy.
You could just as easily use a copy of ARCN16B1.EXE instead).
---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
----------------
---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 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 will be at the
rem 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 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 Problem creating RamDisk
:end
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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/
