Clarence,
I really must disagree with your "anything except aesthetics." Those
files, when I highlighted them to delete them, added up to 2.6MEGABYTES
I didn't need on my HDD.
If they were zero byte files that Arachne needed for reference, that
wouldn't bother me. But more goes into those files than you apparently
realize. And with them staying on the HDD, they're taking up storage
space that could be better used for other things.
I know *I* can delete them, because I'm fairly competent with BATch
files; the point is that you, and I, and "not so capable DOS user"
should not *HAVE* to delete them to clean up after Arachne.
l.d.
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On Mon, 16 Apr 2001 16:44:52 -0500, Clarence Verge wrote:
> L.D. Best wrote:
>> These are the files I found cluttering my HDD, in the main Arachne
>> directory:
>> File Name Date
>> --------- ----------
>> clip.tmp 15 April
>> mail.tmp 15 April
>> textarea.tmp 11 April
>> _4prt.txt 13 April
>> _4prt.bmp 9 April
>> uue0.log 24 January
>> I can think of no valid reason for these files to be left behind upon
>> exit from Arachne ... So why doesn't ARACHNE.BAT clean up after
>> itself?
> Because it really doesn't help anything except aesthetics. <G>
> You can delete them by adding to the end of the .bat you start Arachne with,
> in the same way I clean out all that MYIP xxx crap in the environment.
> If you don't clean them out, Arachne will just overwrite them the next time
> she needs them anyway.
-- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
