Clarence, You offered a number of alternatives. For me a clearing of the cache from my startup batch file would work fine, because I'd be double darn sure of path statements and KILL commands. But I was thinking more in the line of a simple "add on" that would use Arachne's internal pathing to get to cache, and then take the individual to whatever startup location they normally use. So I guess the best bet is similar to your asf file? Thing is, I don't have a dial page ... nor does anyone who is attached to a LAN. Maybe a new page could be included in a "clear cache on startup" group, a nice clean htp page that had a message that "cache has cleared ... hit one of the following hotkeys to do what you want" ??? Maybe we can get some feedback from other persons ... including Kali? l.d. P.S. I haven't given *up* experimenting ... I'm simply involved in an on-going one right now and don't need to keep any more things straight in my mind than what's already stuff in there. <G> ==== On Fri, 26 Jan 2001 04:25:51 -0400, Clarence Verge wrote: > On Thu, 25 Jan 2001 21:52:30 -0500, L.D. Best wrote: <snip> >> So I'll ask all & sundry: Is there a way that "clearcache.dgi" can be >> made the home page? > LD, the following method(s) may be used as a template for doing ANYTHING > you might want at startup, as long as we all remember your last nasty > experience and forgive the messenger if it happens to bite you. <g> > You can start Arachne with clearcache.dgi (I will continue to use F8) > by changing DialPage in Arachne.cfg from WHATEVER you have now to: > DialPage file:clearcache.dgi > Two possibly unexpected things will happen. > First, if you have a valid history.lst (mine is deleted at startup) > Arachne will go to the last URL in the list after clearing the cache. > Second, if you have NO history.lst at startup, Arachne will go to your > online HOMEPAGE after clearing the cache. > These are basically the same things that happen if you hit F8 online. > If you don't like the above, then you can set: > DialPage file:startup.asf > and make startup.asf: > file:clearcache.dgi > file:ppp_init.htm (or whatever local page you want) > Or, you could just clear the cache yourself in the .bat with which > you start Arachne. > There are lots of interesting and possibly destructive mods we can all > make if we are up for experimenting (which you have given up for now). > Just remember to look out for the loops. <G> -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/ -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
