To Roger Turk and Everyone,
Hello Roger, 5 AM EDT, 4 June
2001
Thanks for your prompt and comprehensive reply to my first posting on
this
"psuedo Arachne Forum".
I simply replaced that entire section of ARACHNE.CFG with your text and
then
changed the appropriate few lines as you indicated, and it worked the
first
time. As far as I can see with "preliminary testing", nothing else
in
ARACHNE.CFG needs changing.
Preliminarily, I believe I can say that all bugs have cleared up except
that
the screen still has several blacked-out rectangles that total perhaps
10
percent of the screen area. I'm guessing that's not caused by anything
in
ARACHNE.CFG.
My apologies for being slow with this reply; partly I was slow because I
had a
long weekend out of town for the holiday and partly I waited until I
had
installed your suggested "fix" and played with Arachne a few days.
Now some possibly "hot" news for you: I rcvd a ZIPped file from Brian
Murphy
yesterday (3 June) that provides some interesting capabilities. Actually
I
don't remember the exact detail of why this came to me although I
think I
probably requested it a week or so ago. It came by email but not from the
same
source (email address) that all the other "stuff" from the "Arachne
Forum"
comes from.
I suspect you already know all about this and have received it already but
if
you haven't, I think you'll definitely want it. It talks about
Compuserve
subscribers operating Arachne (1.70 and other recent versions) from a
RAM
disk. It includes a sample ARACHNE.CFX file and a sample PPPDRC.CFX file.
The ZIP file that contains all this has 297762 bytes; it's named
ARACCFG2.ZIP.
Like I said, I suspect you already have this but since I'm new to Arachne
and
specially new to the "Arachne Forum", I can't be confident that I
understand
how the "forum" works yet. Anyway, if you already have this ZIP file,
simply
ignore this. If you don't and would like me to send a copy, simply let
me
know.
Since I've already moved your note to me out of the "In Basket", I'm not
sure
I know how to easily directly reply to it. Thus I'll try to reply (with
this)
thru the "forum" but will also send this to your Compuserve email address.
Thanks again for your quick and comprehensive reply. It got me "operating"!
Jim Carroll
Retired EEngr in VA, USA
105417,2506 (Compuserve member ID number)
