Re: CLR.BAT -- mystery of missing files is solved

[Clarence Verge]

L.D. Best wrote:
> 
> P.P.S.  Any of you wondering why Arachne doesn't clean up after itself
> as well as it used to when you exited, might want to consider checking
> out the last few lines of Arachne.bat ....
> 
> :end
> if exist $roura?.bat del $roura?.bat
> if exist *._$b del *._$b
> if exist %ARACHNETEMP%\*._$b del %ARACHNETEMP%\*._$b
> if exist %TEMP%\ARACHNE.TMP\*._$b del %TEMP%\*._$b
>          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Do *you* see the problem?  It should read:
>
> if exist %TEMP%\ARACHNE.TMP\*._$b del %TEMP%\ARACHNE.TMP\*._$b

Good on you again, LD.
I'm not supporting the war here but that has been like that since A1.67
and we all missed it !

> Was that poor programming on Michael's part?  NO!  It was a mistake that
> he happened to miss because he has stared at the same code thousands of
> times and, as many of us do, he saw what he expected to see and not what
> was.

Exactly ! We see what we expect to see.

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