On Wed, 19 Jan 2000 18:37:11 -0400, L.D. Best wrote:
> Michael,
> Go to MIME.CFG and look for the lines external/SMTP external/POP3
> They're about 1/2 through the file {?} under External Internet
> Protocols.
> When you find those two lines, place a semicolon ; in front of each
> line. Do that and there will be no request for anything in drive A: and
> the "no network connect/Dial Now" screen will allow you to redial and
> send the mail with no problem.
> l.d.
> ====
> On Tue, 18 Jan 2000 19:13:50 +0000, Michael L. Dawley wrote:
>> Hello all,
>> I don't have a drive A on this box, and installed
>> Arachne 1.60 using Interlnk-Intersvr, transferring
>> the program from another computer with a null modem
>> cable.
>> I was connected when I wrote an email message, then
>> my connection timed out before I could upload it.
>> Soon, Arachne was asking me for my mail disk in
>> drive A. The Abort,Retry,Fail didn't work, I got
>> stuck in a loop, Arachne would show for a second,
>> then the Abort,Retry,Fail line. Had to Control-Alt-
>> delete to get out. My message was saved in the outbox
>> by Arachne, however, so I reconnected and sent it.
>> I have an old 2.88 MB drive that is useless, but
>> otherwise this old machine works ok with Arachne
>> 1.60.
L.D.,
I commented those lines out as you recommended.
Thanks. That ought to do it. I was also told to
just press control-c to break out of that loop,
but won't have to do that here. Saw another post
where someone had this problem, so I decided to
place the entire post on the list for others to see.
Michael L. Dawley
Pearl, Mississippi
-- IBM PS/2 486-33 8MB RAM --
-- Hayes Accura 14.4 Modem --
-- Arachne V1.60;b1, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
