Neil,
I use DOS 5.0 & QEMM [7.???]
I haven't had this problem you detail at all, or if I did I didn't see
it when it happened -- but don't think that is the case. Whatever it
is, I doubt it is QEMM related.
l.d.
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On Wed, 26 Jan 2000 23:35:50, Neil Parks wrote:
> I have 1.60 beta 1 running on my home computer and one at work. The home
> computer uses MS-DOS 6.20 and QEMM 7.5 patch 3.
> The one at work uses MS-DOS 6.20's own memory management.
> Both are using the same MIME.CFG and the same ARACHNE.CFG. Both have the
> same new DOSSHELL.BAT in the "system\dgi" subdirectory. Both have the
> COMSPEC environment variable equal to C:\DOS\COMMAND.COM .
> In many cases, when Arachne on the home computer (the one with QEMM) shells
> out to DOS to run an external process, it displays the msg "Bad command or
> file name", but then it runs the pgm anyway.
> I noticed it at first when I pressed Alt-E to shell to dos. I thought
> maybe something DOSSHELL.BAT was looking for was missing, so used "echo
> on" and "pause" to find out what that might be. Turns out to be nothing.
> The "bad command or file name" msg actually appears before the first
> line of DOSSHELL.BAT runs.
> Then it happened on a page with JPG graphics. The msg appears before
> Arachne calls the external pgm that prepares those graphics (djpeg.exe?),
> but then the pgm runs and the graphics are properly displayed.
> The hot list mgr does it also. This is true whether called from the
> Utilities page or from the hotlist itself. (One calls
> "hotlistmgr.dgi" and the other calls "edithotlist.dgi". In mime.cfg
> they seem to be exactly the same thing.) The "bad command or file
> name msg" appears, and then the hot list mgr runs normally.
> This odd behavior did not happen with previous versions of Arachne,
> and it still does not happen on the computer that uses only
> HIMEM/EMM386 for memory management.
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