On 25 Feb 01 at 2:48, owner-arachne-digest@arachne wrote:
>Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 15:25:18 -0500
>From: Clarence Verge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: environment space - was Using LSPPP - was NO CONNECTION
>Gentlemen;
>The operation of loading another copy of command.com (shelling), will
>make a COPY of the contents of your current environment and set your
>SHELLED environment space to the default for your DOS (256 ?) *OR* one
>byte more than you already NEED, whichever is greater. :(
Very interesting, Clarence,
A. So there should be a general workaraound possible:
1. allocating as much as possible space for a dummy variable in
autoexec.bat:
set morespace=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (...)
2. Shelling to COMMAND or other shell application
3. deleting the dummy variable and use the space for real important
stuff:
set morespace=
set (...)
Right?
B. Then:
According to Arachne documentation I have to allocate a couple
of environment variables before, if I want to start Arachne from
MS-doshell task switcher:
SET ARACHNE=vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
SET ARACHNETEMP=D:\TEMP
SET MYIP=vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
SET REMIP=vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
SET NETMASK=vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
SET PEERMRU=vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
As everybody keeps telling, Arachne makes extensive use of
environment variables. Are there other ones I would need to
predefine or take into account?
C. Another related problem?
The above would explain why my dir2htm utility (I think, I posted it
at the site http://www.volny.cz/lange) does not work properly. I
put the current directory for file listing into an environment
variable d2h and predefined it as:
set d2h="X:\"
When I run the utility in Arachne, however, a DGI tries to change it,
e.g. to:
set d2h="X:\NEWS\DISARMAMENT"
And this works sometimes and sometimes not.
D. Does that explain everything?
And, please, Clarence, tell us just one more thing: Is it possible
that even the X-swap error of the mail.asf at 'reload:inbox.dgi'
could be due to environment space problems? When I tested it last
time with A.1.70r3, IIRC, it crashed only with running Arachne from
ms-dosshell.
Regards,
One of the gentlemen
(using technology that is more intelligent than they are)
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