>Bart,
>Thanks for the generous post. That's quite a feat of batch gymnastics. As
>you said, it probably won't help my situation, since I can connect and start
>up Arachne. I have never had trouble connecting to Compuserve with a
>terminal emulator (ie. Procomm). And I do get a successful login using
>Arachne's dialer, both Compuserve and Freewwweb. I don't think phone lines
>are the problem. Remember, the "Arachne load error" is the skull 'n
>crossbones screen I get AFTER successfully logging on, SOMETIMES
>successfully loading the start page. It stalls mid-load or I try going to a
>2nd URL and I get the message "Cannot locate computer . . .", then the
>"Arachne load error" screen.
>
>I do think it's time I try to uncompress the drive and re-install Arachne.
>However, the 386 machine's drive is NOT compressed, and I have the same
>troubles on that.
>
Maybe, but just to test wether it's memory or connection trouble: try
telnet.exe. In fact it should work when you enter miniterm, epppd and
telnet from the dos prompt without redirecting the output to ppp.log, since
telnet automatically starts sending bootp's (arachne.bat would then act as
if offline, but core.exe -r should connect if bootp is activated in
arachne.cfg).
Do you use different modems on both systems?
Bart
