Terri,
Sounds like maybe Arachne.bat got contaminated somehow, or maybe the
shell dgi file.
Find some empty space on your drive and "install" 1.73r3 just long
enough to pull out Arachne.bat and /system/dgi/dosshell.bat and see if
replacing them fixes things.
l.d.
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On Tue, 20 Mar 2001 18:03:07 -0500, Terri FitzSimons wrote:
> Dear List:
> Arachne (1.7 r3) has begun to act strangely on me. While she
> has no problem surfing the web, she won't drop into DOS (<Alt>+E)
> -- or perform any other functions which require doing so, such as
> running MiniTerm, erasing the cache, or listing files in a
> directory.
> Every time I try to initiate any function that would require
> her to drop into DOS, Arachne flat quits. Two error messages
> are displayed: Bad command or file name and then Abnormal Arachne
> termination; please reboot your system and/or restart Arachne.
> This termination does not result in a lock-screen, however.
> I'm running on a 486 SX with 32M memory.
> Does anybody have any idea what's happening here and what to
> do about it?
