It made no sense, and it makes even less sense now.
I checked everything, including files & buffers. Files were set to 59
and buffers to 17. But InSight wouldn't work.
If you were a windoze victim, what I tell you next would probably seem
sensible. But as a DOS user, you ain't gonna believe this one!
1. As I'd previously written, the only change I'd made was to the path
statement, shortening it by removing the doze3.1 directory from path.
2. Previously I had used a called batch file to place the path statement
[including doz] in the environment. But when I shortened the path, I
simply put the path statement into the autexec segment for web crawling.
3. As I mentioned before, I thought maybe [why wasn't any
consideration] there was something in the doze directory that InSight
needed -- so I added that directory back onto the end of the path
statement in autexec. And, as previously mentioned, putting doze back
into path didn't make InSight run any better.
4. Today I solved the problem, and the solution makes even less sense
than the problem did in the first place. I went back to using the
called batch file for putting PATH statement in environment ...
BUT HERE'S THE KICKER: InSight didn't work until I put that call back
into autoexec at *exactly* the same line where I'd removed it!!!
At the end of this missive is that segment of autoexec.bat -- with
notes at the various path locations that were used/tried/etc.
If anyone can figure out WHY this should happen, please let all of us in
on the secret ... <sigh>
l.d.
P.S. I use DOS 5.0
----Web Crawl portion of autexec.bat--------[I use multi-boot config]
@ECHO OFF
CLS
SET COMSPEC=C:\DOS\COMMAND.COM
CALL C:\DOS\ROOTS.BAT
CALL C:\DOS\OLDPROMP.BAT
REM call c:\dos\repath 'This is where CALL was originally placed; if
'it is in *this* position, InSight works.
P:\QEMM\LOADHI /R:1 C:\MOUSE\MOUSE.COM/2 >NUL
P:\QEMM\LOADHI /R:2 FILES=59 >NUL
C:\DOS\BE SA BRIGHT CYAN ON BLUE
rem PATH=C:\DOS;P:\QEMM;P:\dv;P:\COBOL;e:\fax;C:\DBASE 'This was where I put
'shortened path; with
'path here, InSight
'won't work.
REM call c:\dos\repath 'When I replace path statement above with
'CALL to batch file in *this* position in
'autoexec, InSight won't work.
::Additional note -- If you look at the lines in this batch file, you'll
note that everything uses FULL PATH STATEMENTS so where
the path is set into environment should make no diff.
SET INFO=Spider Configuration
r:
MD\JUNK
MD\TEMP
SET TEMP=r:\TEMP
SET TMP=r:\TEMP
CD\JUNK
CALL C:\DOS\GSOUND.BAT
P:\QEMM\LOADHI /R:3 /LO P:\NORTON\NCACHE /EXT=2M,1M /block=2048
------end of autoexec segment--------------
