On 19 Jul 00 at 12:09, Neil Parks wrote:
>>Using a batch to clear the cache has its good points and its bad ones.
>>
>>On the plus side, it works without crashing. On the minus side, at least
>>under MS-DOS 6.2 it stops and asks (in teeny tiny letters squeezed into the
>>upper left corner of the screen) if you really want to del the files.
>>
>>Here is revised version of SYSTEM\DGI\CLR.BAT that will flush the cache
>>without stopping to ask permission. Asterisks indicate which lines I've
>>changed:
>>
>> @echo off
>> rem usage: clrcache.bat (cache.idx) (cache path) (TEMP path) (filemask)
>> rem I guess those "DOS forever!" freaks among Arachne users will like this
>> ;) if exist %1 del %1
>>* if exist %2*.??? for %%h in (%2*.???) do del %%h
>>* if exist %2headers\*.htt del %2headers\*.htt
>> if exist %3$ROURA$.BAT copy %3$ROURA$.BAT bat.tmp>NUL
>>* if exist %3*.??? for %%h in (%3*.???) do del %%h
>> if exist bat.tmp copy bat.tmp %3$ROURA$.BAT>NUL
>> if exist bat.tmp del bat.tmp
>>
An additional wrinkle to the clr.bat problem is that I keep the cache
on a RAMdisk for one of my ISPs, and after getting the prompt to
confirm the deletion, I get a BATCH FILE MISSING error that freezes
Arachne. CTRL-Pause does not return me to a DOS prompt, but if I
type in command.com and hit enter, I get the dos prompt (overwriting
the Arachne screen). I am using MSDOS 6.22.
Regards,
Dale Mentzer
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