I downloaded ARCN16B1.EXE. I ran it to install ON D:\ARACHNE. I selected 0 for XMS and 0 for VGA then it took me to the Arachne Video Setup scxreen. It had preselected VESA 800x600 so I tried it. I got the error message: Unable to initialize videomode please run setup.bat. It returned me to the Video Setup screen so I select ed TAMARAC (Tamarack TDVGS-3588, Cirrus, Paradise, AST-PLUS) because I do have a Paradise VGA card. That worked fine. I have a question. Why does it test the processor and hard dtrive speeds? The next screen it went to was setup-os.dgi. Slow PC or not optimized PC was preselected. I do have a 386SX that only has a speed of 16Mhz with 16 Megs of ram, but I selected 386 class (33-40 Mhz, 2-4MBXMS). It seemed to accept that. It took me to the next screen, cfgwiz.dgi. There it had Update quick start command. In the text box was the caracters t op, the o had an accent mark. I changed it to A.BAT. Then it took me to setup.htm. Where I selected Manual Setup. Then to system\gui\tcpsetup.ah, where I selected Internal PP support. Then to system\gui\conf_ppp.ah, where it had preselected COM3 and IRQ4, which I had to change to COM2 and IRG3. I have a 36600 modem but I selected 115200, show terminal window and Changed the Modem init string from ATZ to AT&F&C1&D2S95=3 which is recommended by the Zoltrix people. Then back to system\gui\tcpsetup.ah where I selected more options. Then to system\gui\opt_loc.ah page, where I selected never expire static pages, cache local objects, cache path C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\, Mail path M:\mail\, download path S:\, History file C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\HISTORY.LST, Cache index C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\CACHE.IDX, Cooki database D:\ARACHNE\COOKIES.LST. Then it took me to thge dial screen, where I clicked on the connect button. MINITERM 1.40 connected at 115200 and the following message appeared: Terminal mode, Press <Alt+P> or <F7> to exit and try PPP (SLIP). After 2 minutes I got a NO CARRIER message. The same thing happened on all my previous installations of versions of 2Arachne. After 17 minutes I pressed <F7> and got the same message I always do: PPP link is down driver not installed. then it took me to the error screen system\gui\err-ppp.ah. So I did what I always did before I copied the multiple Arachne configuration files and dialup programs I used before. I use CALLOUT.BAT. The text is as follows: @ECHO OFF CLS IF "%STATUS%"=="CONNECTED" GOTO END if _%1==_ goto DIALER if %1==h goto HANGUP if %1==H goto HANGUP goto SYNTERR :HANGUP ECHO Disconnecting termin 0x60 >>termin.log SET STATUS= SET MYIP= SET REMIP= SET NETMASK= SET PEERMRU= echo Connection closed goto END :SYNTERR CLS echo Syntax error, call as CALLOUT or CALLOUT H goto END :DIALER CLS echo Establishing PPP connection with CompuServe TYPE STATUS.TXT if exist ip-up.bat del ip-up.bat LH pppd >>pppd.log if errorlevel 255 goto HANGUP if errorlevel 1 goto CONNERR if errorlevel 0 goto OK if not exist ip-up.bat goto CONNERR call ip-up.bat >>ip-up.log goto END :CONNERR CLS echo Connection failed GOTO END :OK SET STATUS=CONNECTED :END I use HANGUP.BAT for disconnecting. Text as follows: @ECHO OFF CLS ECHO Executing HANGUP.BAT ECHO Disconnecting termin 0x60 >>termin.log SET STATUS= SET MYIP= SET REMIP= SET NETMASK= SET PEERMRU= I also use NUMBERS.BAT to select different phone numbers. @ECHO OFF CLS ECHO Executing NUMBERS.BAT IF "%1"=="" GOTO HELP IF "%1"=="/?" GOTO HELP IF "%1"=="/H" GOTO HELP IF "%1"=="/h" GOTO HELP FOR %%A IN (SD1 SD2 CV SD3 POWAY1 POWAY2 sd1 sd2 cv sd3 poway1 poway2) DO IF %1==%%A GOTO %1 ECHO %1 won't work, :HELP ECHO Syntax: NUMBERS [SD1, SD2, CV, SD3, POWAY1 or POWAY2] ECHO SD1 & SD2 use 56K modems ECHO CV & SD3 use 3.66K modems ECHO POWAY1 & POWAY2 use 22.8K modems ECHO I think GOTO END :sd1 :SD1 COPY 268-0415 CHATSCR >NUL COPY 268-0415.ACF ARACHNE.CFG >NUL ECHO Arachne will now be connected through the San Diego 1 number 1-858-268-0415 >STATUS.TXT GOTO END :sd2 :SD2 COPY 338-9222 CHATSCR >NUL COPY 338-9222.ACF ARACHNE.CFG >NUL ECHO Arachne will now be connected through the San Diego 2 number 338-9222 >STATUS.TXT GOTO END :cv :CV COPY 585-0309 CHATSCR >NUL COPY 585-0309.ACF ARACHNE.CFG >NUL ECHO Arachne will now be connected through the Chula Vista number 585-0309 >STATUS.TXT GOTO END :sd3 :SD3 COPY 467-9508 CHATSCR >NUL COPY 467-9508.ACF ARACHNE.CFG >NUL ECHO Arachne will now be connected through the San Diego 3 number 1-858-467-9508 >STATUS.TXT GOTO END :poway1 :POWAY1 COPY 697-0200 CHATSCR >NUL COPY 697-0200.ACF ARACHNE.CFG >NUL ECHO Arachne will now be connected through the Poway 1 number 697-0200 >STATUS.TXT GOTO END :poway2 :POWAY2 COPY 697-2024 CHATSCR >NUL COPY 697-2024.ACF ARACHNE.CFG >NUL ECHO Arachne will now be connected through the Poway 2 number 697-2024 >STATUS.TXT :END TYPE STATUS.TXT TYPE MYPOINTS.TXT This time things didn't work as smoothly as all the previous installations did. It dialed up, connected, and loaded the packet driver OK. But when it went to return to the Arachne Home page I selected (a local page, START.HTM), on the bottom bar instead of showing BOOTP it showed BOOTP/DHCP. It hugupp there for a while, then took me to the error page where it told me the PPP connection failed and would redial in 10 seconds. It did redial wiyth the same results. So I tried changing the IP_Address and NameServer to compuServe's nameserver1 address 149.174.213.5. I set the AltNameServer to compuServe's nameserver2 address 147.174.211.5. I left Gateway 0.0.0.0, AltGateway 0.0.0.0, Netmask 0.0.0.0. This time the dialup worked and it took me to my home page. But when I clicked on anything it would say it was looking for those addresses but wouldn't do anything. When I clicked on them again it took me to the error page where it said those addresses didn't exist. I noted that another setting that was different from my original was instead of TCPconfig PPPTCP.CFG it was set to WATTCP.CFG. So I checked it out and it had a setting that I thought might need reset, hostname=arachne which I changed to CISPPP. It still didn't work. I did a search on all the files for the text DHCP it showed up in two files CORE.EXE and CHANGES.TXT. I ended up replacing CORE.EXE with version 1.50rc. Everything worked again. Except for a few other problems I've been having. Blank inbox, outbox and folders screens. Not deleting messages I've already downloaded and breaking connection before I get them all.
