v1.70r3 as always ....
I've been having problems with pages not showing up on my screen. i.e.
an error msg is generated by Arachne but the page on-screen doesn't
change, nor does the file listed on the URL line. It's a darned
nuisance, but that I can more or less live with.
Today I got a brand new [maybe?] hangup with Arachne.
I was reading Howard's mail which mentioned the site with the alternate
version of TelNet on it. Like any good geek, I clicked on the link. I
got some sort of action in the moving blue spark icon, but then nothing.
My mouse could move all over the screen, but clicking the scroll bar
didn't move the screen. Clicking on the embedded link again didn't
produce anything. Hitting the X for abort download didn't do anything.
The way I got out of the "frozen page" was to hit C to compose this
e-mail.
It is possible that this "frozen page" is yet one more example of
CORE.EXE going to an error message state of some sort, but failing to
write the screen with the page that matches that error message. That
would possibly explain why scroll bars don't work [there are none on the
error mssg pages], and why links on screen didn't work [the links don't
exist at that point of the screen on an error message].
Can it be duplicated? How the heck should I know?? And to Glenn:
You'd be a much better reference on non-duplicating errors if you'd
allow yourself a setup that does *not* use QEMM. You *know* that QEMM
is a far better memory manager than any DOS version, and that it doesn't
allow things to happen which the plain DOSes do allow.
l.d.
-- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
