I installed Arachne 1.6 yesterday from the .ZIP option and it all
seemed to go quite well. I have found the following bugs, though and
would appreciate our resident experts' opinions. For reference, the
set-up is 486DX4, 16Mb RAM, 800x600 SVGA.
BUG 1: Try this web page:
http://www.open.gov.uk/lcd/civil/procrules_fin/cprocfr.htm
There should be a blue banner in one frame across the top and another
frame below with the rest of the page, which is several screenfuls long.
Download one of the .PDF files, click on the 'save to' box. Now - when
you return to the downloaded page, do you see TWO blue banner frames at
the top? I do! If I then download another file and come back, I get
THREE!! And so on. Why??
BUG 2: If I want to re-edit a message in OUTBOX, I find that the 'save
to outbox' and 'cancel' buttons have disappeared off the bottom of the
screen - presumably because of the 'Warning: You are resending...' line
appearing below the message heading lines. This seems a major
inconvenience!
BUG 3: After surfing for a while, I went to see if there were any new
messages. There weren't, so I clicked on the 'back' arrow to go back to
the page that I had downloaded. That's when I got the "Mail floppy in
A:" loop, which I could only get out of by Control+C, which dumped me
unceremoniously back at the C:\> prompt. Is this something that I can
disable in ARACHNE.CFG or somewhere?
BUG 4: I hate to say it, but I fear that the memory problems haven't
gone away.... When I start Arachne, I get 104+ on the DOS kB line. If I
write a few messages, read same or look at the Options page once or
twice and then come back to where I started from, then I've only got
90kB. Look at a few more messages or pages from cache, perhaps and
it's now at 77kB. Edit a message and it may go up slightly. It never
recovers to the 104kB that I had when I started. (This is
all without going on-line, by the way.) Should it be doing this?
BUG 5: (calling this a bug may be unfair!) The Page-up and Page-down
keys still work as always on pages, but the up and down arrows no
longer seem to move the page a line at at time. This is annoying when
I want to read to the end of a sentence and the last line is just off
the bottom of the screen! Does this bother anyone else?
Aside from these, I think that V1.6 was worth waiting for! Will
there be an add-on for 1.6 to work with an external text editor for
messages??
Thanks, Michael et al!
Ron.
