Clarence wrote:
>Michael has suggested starting Arachne with: Arachne -c (offline). I tried
>this here and it didn't work. It seems Arachne re-writes .pck on exit to
>REMOVE the fullscreen flag bit so that when it re-starts, it always comes
>on with title and status lines - at least.
As far as I can remember Arachne would remove this bit unless it was
registered. But I already have my arachne.key file on the laptop.
>The fix is to generate, or copy over, a new.pck before startup.
Aha, I thought that might be required.
>Exit Arachne from the setup condition and screen of your choice.
>With debug, edit the byte at :0110 by adding 04H to it. i.e., If it was 02H
>change it to 06H. Save the new .pck (W command). Rename it to Arachne.sav.
That doesn't work all that great for me, I never get fullscreen mode with
this modified arachne.pck :(
Now this is probably easier to do for most users.
Create a text file that has the following (call it file.txt for instance):
02
(that's a zero)
next change in arachne.bat so that core.exe is changed into "core -s<file.txt"
Now you can run Arachne as normally and always get full screen.
Change 02 into the answers that are correct for you in the setup for
XMS/EMS/Disk (0, 1 and 2) and VGA/EGA/CGA (0, 1 and 2).
Drawback: You can't write "arachne somefile.htm"
To fix that you need to add this to arachne.bat
copy %1 egacga.htm
And change the line "core -s<file.txt %1 %2" into "core -s<file.txt"
If you want a better looking approach then use something like this in
Arachne.Bat (untested)
set p=%prompt%
set prompt=$l
echo %prompt%>ega_cga.htm
echo META HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" CONTENT="0; URL=%1">>ega_cga.htm
set prompt=$g
echo %prompt%>>ega_cga.htm
set prompt=%p%
set p=
Thereby the file will not be copied at all, but the redirection in Arachne
will probably eat up all the gain you can get on a slow machine.
Notes: $l is a "<" and $g is a ">" This is the only way I know of, except
having them in other files, to redirect them.
