On Tue, 22 Feb 2000 22:00:24 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Feb 2000 23:40:54 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
>> Hello Folks,
>> As I've mentioned before, I now have installed PC-Pine, v. 3.96 for
>> DOS, and I have her up and running just fine to access the free IMAP
>> email services offered by Subdimension and Telebot.
>> I have only one problem with PC-Pine: She doesn't like NWCACHE.
>> I like to have a line like this in my AUTOEXEC.BAT:
>> NWCACHE 1024 512 /LEND=ON /DELAY=OFF
>> With the above line in my AUTOEXEC.BAT, PC-Pine will always crash
>> whenever I attempt to compose a message. With the line remarked out,
>> never a problem with PC-Pine; however, my Arachne will run very slow
>> without NWCACHE. I have a 386sx 33 Mhz PC, 8 MB RAM.
>> Comments, suggestions anyone?
>> As this subject may be considered off-topic, it might be a good idea
>> to reply by private email.
>> I would appreciate very much any help on this problem.
> As this is _partly_ on-subject, I'll reply to the list.
> Since PC-Pine doesn't like Nwcache, but Arachne _does_....
> ---pcp.bat---
> nwcache /u
> cd\pc-pine
> pc-pine
> -------------
Thanks for the suggestion, Glenn.
The above would be very nice if it would work, but it won't. See the
screen-shot:
--------- begin screen-shot ---------
C:\>nwcache /u
NWCache R1.02 Disk Cache
Copyright (C) 1993, 1998 Caldera, Inc. All rights reserved.
Copyright (C) 1985, 1990, 1992, Golden Bow Systems.
Cannot unload NWCache - interrupts rehooked.
C:\>
-------- end screen-shot -------------
Do you suppose I might get different results if I placed the line
for loading NWCACHE in a different order in my AUTOEXEC.BAT? Should
I conduct some experiments along such lines? I don't really understand
at all the meaning of "interrupts re-hooked"
> ---ara.bat---
> nwcache 7670 1024 /lend=on /delay=on
> cd\arachne
> arachne
> -------------
When delay is set to "ON", I will invariably get non-identical copies
of the FAT whenever she crashes. I know. I've tried it. Also I've
tried increasing the size of the disk cache. Strangely enough, I cannot
speed up my Arachne by doing so.
> Problem solved.
Oh, I wish!
Sam Heywood
