Sam Ewalt said:
>I've had the same problem with 167. I use MS-DOS 6.22. I can't get
>167 to install and after three or four tries I just gave up and went
>back to 166, which works just fine.
>I seem to have trouble installing every other version of Arachne. I'm
>tired of futzing with it, so I just use the one that works.
>Could be path name confusion or sunspots.
I had extreme problems getting a couple of versions of 1.50 to install; and
even after I did manage to install it on one unit, I was never actually able
to get to a web page....
By contrast, 1.67 installed fine for me. But I still had no luck getting to
a web page until I reread the docs and saw the trick about using DR-DOS 7.01
(and 7.02, as it turned out) with Arachne. After that, everything
functioned.
Sunspots is a definite possibility. I'm wondering about his modem init
string too. If he's connecting but then not getting a page, that can't be
improper modem initialization, right? I mean, if the unit is getting ATZ
when it needs AT&F0 or something, then he couldn't even connect in the first
place, right? And the same if he's got the indicated modem speed turned up
too high?
Currently, I'm doing all those "speedup" tweaks, like eliminating the
unnecessary backgrounds and getting what I need on Ramdisk. Arachne is
never going to be "fast" on my Compaq, given the slow modem, low-end 386
processor and the like. But there is a difference between putting up with
slowness and putting up with the Spanish Inquisition, and I seem to have at
least left the latter behind.
