On 11 Feb 00 at 4:14, L.D. Best wrote:
>>I was curious, so went to see what was in my arachne.pck file. I had a bit
>>of trouble, since when viewed as text by Arachne it was one single long
>>line; trying to edit with Arachne gave the famous "long line blank screen."
>>So I went to my personal editor, and found that the lines were too long for
>>it also, and it didn't matter anyway cuz I couldn't find a first string that
>>said VGA or VGA.something.
The first thing in my arachne.pck file is the name of the driver I
use (Trident). I used the viewer in Desktop2 and viewed it in HEX.
You might want to try another HEX viewer/editor, L.D.
>>If I remember correctly, that file is supposedly created when we set up
>>Arachne. Should it have lists of html sites on the web I've visited???
>>
>>I'll save what I've got to a backup, in case it changes again, and if
>>you want to take a look at it Michael, I'll send it to you.
>>
>>Someone ... can I just eliminate arachne.pck and start over, or what?? Maybe
>>all the apparent trash in there could be causing some of my problems??
Yes, if you delete or rename arachne.pck and start Arachne, it calls
the setup and creates another one after you answer the prompts for
memory, video, etc. I remember somebody once (might have been Boanne)
saying they thought that deleting arachne.pck occasionally helped
there installation run better. This was some several versions ago and
I think this was when we had the Arachne "sleeping" problems. HTH.
Regards,
Dale Mentzer
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