On 24 Jan 01 at 18:39, owner-arachne-digest@arachne wrote: >Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 05:28:11 -0500 (EST) >From: "Thomas Mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Arachne 1.70 for DOS Revision 3. > >> Ahhhh, nuts...!!! You mean I hafta go through all that again.....??? > >This is another reason why we need a .ZIP file, so we don't have to go through >the same danged installation "wizards" repeatedly. Fortunately I didn't get to >the installation yet for 1.70. I think my download was at about >Jan 22 10:00 GMT, which would be prior to Revision 3. Thomas and list, Michael seems to be busy, with the real problems. So it is up to you to create your own zip files: 1. Copy Arachne download file to hard disk or RAM disk 2. Create temporary directory md \tmpinst 3. Install Arachne with archn???.exe into temporary directory - confirm the start of the installation - change the proposed directory to \TMPINST - enter memory mode (press 0, 1 or 2) - enter screen mode (press 0, 1 or 2) - terminate the installing procedure with ESC 4. Pack files into \arachne.zip PKZIP \ARACHNE.ZIP \TMPINST\*.* -rp 5. Clean up deltree \tmpinst rd \tmpinst I tried to write a batch file that does everything with one command. Unfortunately Arachne download files does not work with this: echo yn\tmpinst|ARCHNXXX.EXE >It is also a nuisance to have to install APMs repeatedly for every >new Arachne revision. I would suggest putting APMs in a separate >directory and an APMPATH line in ARACHNE.CFG telling Arachne where >to find the APM directory. Of course, Arachne wouldn't recognize >this unless Michael enables it in the Arachne source code. You do not need environment variables for everything. The problem is that the configuration and path information for the add-ons is in more than one file. - arachne.cfg - mime.cfg - batchfiles *.ook (which are not in the download package) - files *.dgi (which are not in the download packgage) But if you keep these files, you can be quite sure that your APMs need not to be reinstalled. If you do not use the default fonts you should keep also the files in \SYSTEM directory. Reagards Christof Lange - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.volny.cz/christianpeace
