On Sat, 5 Feb 2000 15:22:40 +0100, Clarence Verge wrote:
> Finally, someone else has seen the problem I had with mail !
> That's the screen I got when I selected mail from the Inbox -
> BUT I had SET TEMP=C:\ARACHNE\TEMP.
> I can't recall if I ever tried it with a trailing "\" and I can't test it
> anymore because, since downloading new mail, I now get the "Cannot create
> ARACHNE\TEMP\$IDX$cnm.IDX" message with 127 [+] kb available offline.
> I tried removing the [130] for inbox.dgi but that didn't help.
>
I felt sure that I'd seen that message before, so I've just been away
to try a few things. Bingo! But I'd better explain the set-up first: I
have a RAM disk as H: and AUTOEXEC makedirs H:\TEMP and also does
SET TEMP=H:\TEMP. Offline I get 113 [+] kB and mail's fine.
Noe the interesting bit. I just went and did this:
Came out of Arachne to DOS.
DELETED the TEMP directory from H:\ (it had $IDX$CNM.IDX etc.)
Ran Arachne again.
Selected INBOX by pressing I.
*** Got "Cannot create H:\TEMP\$IDX$cnm.IDX" on grey background.
So then I did this:
Came out of Arachne to DOS.
Switched to H: and MD TEMP to put it back.
Ran Arachne again.
Selected I.
*** STILL GOT ERROR MESSAGE.
Rebooted and repeated previous 5 steps.
*** STILL GOT ERROR MESSAGE.
SO: When I got the error message, pressed DEL to remove it from CACHE.
NOW: Press I and BINGO!!! There's the message index, just like before.
Diagnosis: Arachne erroneously remembers an error message from cache,
even when the error condition has gone away.
Hope it works for you, Clarence.
All the best,
Ron.
