On Sun, 20 May 2001 12:45:58 -0500, L.D. Best wrote:
> Those smiley faces are back.
> I opened up Arachne today and almost immediately had problems. I have
> my inbox as "home page"; from there I clicked on the toolbar "little
> envelope" to get to the mail handling toolbar so I could find a specific
> tbs I wanted to work on.
> When I clicked, I suddenly had NO toolbar. It wasn't a matter of it
> being "there" but not written to screen; I carefully 'quartered' the
> entire area of the screen and there were no active anythings behind that
> blank grey surface.
> I went to toolbar.tb and it was fine ... hadn't been written to for ages
> [file dates do come in handy sometimes]. I went to check mime.cfg and
> it was fine -- not written for ages either.
> I was unhappy camper. Although the file downloading I do is minimal, I
> went to F-Prot and ran that; although outdated, it said everything was
> fine, virus-wize.
> I then went to the F-Prot ftp site, saw a number of new things, so went
> to F-Prot website to check out what was which/where/when ... I then
> downloaded everything necessary to bring F-Prot up to date -- a couple
> of things via html and a couple via ftp. With the new downloads, I
> closed down Arachne and then upgraded the HDD and 3-floppy installs of
> F-Prot.
> I then went back to Arachne, and the toolbar was back. Following a
> hunch, I once again [I've been doing it about once a week or so, because
> we've never been able to get a real handle on what overwrites the smiley
> faces] checked out Arachne.cfg.
> That's when I found the smiley faces were back.
> I immediately saved that version of arachne.cfg, and then saved
> history.lst [not that *that* is worth much, since it writes lines into
> the file in a rather random manner!]. I again checked toolbar.tb and
> mime.cfg, and they were both still pristine.
> So, if anyone listening might be able to pinpoint the source of the
> smiley faces based upon this more precise information, and the history
> list, and the flawed cfg file, let me know and I'll send you the two
> files.
Ah Ha!
This might also explain the problem with the "red boxes".
(if the "JPEGargs" and "FILEargs" lines in arachne.cfg were also trashed)
If so:
You may disregard my previous reply on that problem.
And please accept my apologies for not thinking of that possibility sooner.
--
Glenn
http://arachne.cz/
http://freedos-32.sourceforge.net/
http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/
http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/download.htm
