Come on, you've GOT to be kidding!
On Sat, 19 Aug 2000 15:42:19 -0500, Clarence Verge wrote:
> After reading your post, I immediately did a default re-install of MS-DOS 5
> and son of a B#%$&!! TEMP was set to C:\DOS !!
> This is absolutely _incredibly_ STUPID from so MANY points of view !!
The default install had a TEMP variable set? I've *never* seen that.
Of course I no longer know where my "install" diskette for 5.0 is;
that's been a long time and about 15 states.
> ARACHNE is NOT the problem here ! The default MS-DOS 5 install is !
> Michael. I don't think it is necessary to got to that extreme.
> Just eliminate the possibility of using a preexisting "TEMP" and use
> ARACHNETEMP only. If the user wants to point ARACHNETEMP to C:\DOS maybe
> you should let them - ONLY if they enter that themselves.
> This fixes the problem and makes the code shorter, NOT longer.
I still say Arachne can test for value of variable TEMP and if
== C:\DOS, Arachne can then do SET TEMP= and default to whatever Arachne
normally does with temp files. That way Arachne can't be blamed for
anything that happens to C:\DOS files and is actually doing user a
favor.
Has anyone checked with DOS versions higher than 5.0? Like I said, I
don't have any installation diskettes at all, except maybe 3.1 <G>
l.d.
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