On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 00:33:06 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
> I have a very disconcerting experience to report.
(description deleted)
> ran Norton Disk Doctor. Everything OK. Then I ran F-PROT to
> scan my memory and my entire hard drive. No viruses. I have
> never had a problem like this before. I have an all DOS system
> and my modem has always been very well-behaved. What happened?
> Has anyone else on this list ever experienced a similar
> problem? Any recommendations as to what I should do if this
> should ever happen again?
Sam. this happens to me frequently when I am composing email with
the Arachne editor while online. The modem will disconnect. (I can
hear it hangup) but Arahcne continues to indicate that I am online.
When I finish composing my message it will not send because Arachne
can't find the mail server. Attempts to surf elsewhere will fail
because there is no DNS lookup if I am actually offline.
Pressing Alt-H will convince Arachne that it should hang up and
then I can reconnect in the normal fashion.
This "unknown hangup" doesn't happen with short messages, only if I
spend a long time in the editor composing or reviewing existing
messages.
Arachne never hangs up if I am surfing, only if I spend a protracted
time in the editor.
This happens fairly consistently, but not all of the time. I
don't know why.
It seems like an obvious bug to me.
Don't panic, you are not alone.
Sam Ewalt
Croswell, Michigan, USA
-- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
