Did I mention that after the endless loop of download/convert I could no longer get Arachne to run further than a few ragged blue lines across the top of a black screen? No? Well, that's what happened. Did I mention it locked the system up tighter than a drum ... well, not *quite* that tight -- 3-finger salute worked. It was time to try again. I decided that I should change Arachne.cfg so that cache was back on the HDD instead of on that 30Mb RAMdrive. So it was boot up to a different config than dear ol' Mom's and do a little work. Exited 1.66 [the kids use the proven version; only me on the experimental stuff] and open my editor. Pull up my acf file and open it to do mods ... low and behold, it looks like cache.idx and no text at all. It also required a 3-finger, just from *looking* at the durned thing!! ARGHH!! Back to kid's configuration & exit to DOS. Go to 1.67 installation and go into directory where backups of acf files are kept; I hadn't moved them over. Call up NC, bingo the 3 files on J: and go to move them to O: where 1.67 is. DISK FULL Huh? I should have 40 Mbs available. Exit NC and chkdsk. What shock! 0 bytes available But the rest of the message [which scrolled off the screen the 1st time] was quite interesting ... 899 lost allocation unites found in 2 chains [1,841,152 bytes would be freed] Firle _4PRT.BMP Allocation error, size adjusted [file was 5,494,784] CACHE.IDX crosslinked at 59328 CABLE3.ACF crosslinked at 59328 -- so first I stuck the chains into files. file0000 looked like cache.idx or arachne.pck; file0001 looked like a fragment of a BMP file and was 1,779,712 bytes in size. I deleted the scurilous baddies, deleted cache.idx, arachne.pck, and cable3.acf. I then ran Norton Disk Doctor to check both drive surface and file integrity. Everything checked out. I replaced cable3.acf, and booted in 1.67 which brought up basic setup to create arachne.pck again. I then moved the entire installation over to a HDD where I have 172Mbytes available after installation. Hopefully I won't run into a DISK FULL message now. I'm beginning to feel like I'm at pre-1.48 stage again. <G> l.d. -- Join B'FOR - B'mothers For Open Records <a href="http://www.b-for.org">B'FOR web site</A> [Associate members of triad also welcome; membership confidential.] Every member counts! We need numbers to produce valid statistics. ******* A proud member of <A HREF="http://www.phenomenalwomen.com/"> Phenomenal Women Of The Web</a> -- Arachne V1.67, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
