Hi Folks,
I wrote:
>> Which still doesn't tell me why I have never got " arachne.bat -r "
>> to work. Arachne has always given me the "no connection to internet"
>> screen.
>> What do I look at to find out what has gone wrong ?
Then I wrote:
> To my eternal embarrassment, I have been able to return to Arachne
> on-line in the last few days, and I don't know why things have changed.
> I have had a second hard drive installed (1.2 GB, of which I can use 500
> MB) and the young techie appears to have disconnected my CD drive while
> he did it. But I can't believe that this would affect Arachne being able
> to find an already-loaded packet driver, but what do I know.
>
> My theory is that someone has been pointing the bone at my machine,
> but has now forgiven me.
But now:
I have been able to repeat the failure to resume.
1. I have two Arachne installations - v. 1.66 in C:\ARACHNE, and
v. 1.67 in D:\ARACHNE
This is normal when I am running-in a new version.
I use only dial-up ISPs, and in this test - with PAP/CHAP log-in.
2. I fired up A1.66 by using A.BAT which has been modified to include
the booting up of a RAM disk and setting the TEMP=I:\TEMP (=RAM disk),
and then I went on-line. All was well. I exited Arachne (Alt+X) to DOS.
3. I changed drives to D:\
cd\arachne then typed arachne.bat -r
4. Arachne v.1.67 fired up and told me there was NO connection to the
internet and attempted to dial, even though my homepage is set to one on
my hard disk.
5. Each installation of Arachne is on a different hard disk and has
totally separate paths, each FULLY set, for cache, temp, hotlist,
cookies - the lot, so that they should run completely without reference
to the other installation.
5. Exiting from v1.67 and re-invoking c:\arachne\arachne.bat -r
returned to Arachne 1.66 still on-line with a fully-functioning live connection.
6. Typing SET gave the following:
COMSPEC=C:\DOS\COMMAND.COM
SOUND=C:\SB16
BLASTER=A220 I5 D0 H5 P330 T6
MIDI=SYNTH:1 MAP:G
PATH=C:\DOS;C:\WINDOWS;C:\NU;C:\PBPLUS;C:\NORTON;C:\DESKJET;C:\TRUMPET;C:\UTILITY;C:\SB16;D:\XING
SYMANTEC=C:\SYMANTEC
NU=C:\NORTON
TEMP=I:\temp
MYIP=203.109.243.91
REMIP=203.36.132.129
NETMASK=255.128.0.0
PEERMRU=1500
OLDPMT=$p$g
PROMPT=Type EXIT to return to Arachne$_$p$g
- while shelled out from A1.66.
Questions:
Is this what is supposed to happen ?
Isn't Arachne 1.67 supposed to find the packet driver that was loaded
by Arachne 1.66 ?
Is this caused by the two installations being on different hard disks ?
Or is this a bug ?
Notes: I have had the hard drive D: for about a fortnight, before that I
used a double-spaced partition as my second drive, on which I often
installed the second Arachne version.
My system is: 486DX2, 133 MHz, 32 Mb RAM, MS-DOS 6.20, both XMS
and EMS enabled, CuteMouse installed, 580 kb low memory before loading
Arachne.
Anybody ?
Regards,
Ron
Ron Clarke http://homepages.valylink.net.au/~ausreg/music.html
-- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client
