On Sun, 16 Sep 2001 07:54:47 +0000, "Arac-Neil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Greetings-
> Well I got an old 486 set up for drdos and arachne. I thought the hd
> was shot. It was my first pc and had w95 but somewhere down the pike it
> quit. I was about to dump it when I decided to go where I have never
> ventured before. I formatted the hd and then loaded drdos. It was
> pretty painless. Now I am using it (testing basically) and whats cool
> is I don't have the mouse for it. Now I am learning the key commands!
> I know it is still pretty basic what I did, but I learned something
> new!!
> Now #2....there is a unpacking program that I got from the Arachne
> download page. It is supposed to unzip (I think). I am having a
> problem with it working. If I see something I want to download and it
> is in zipped form, I click on it and then the Unzip program kicks in. I
> didn't see much in the instructions, so I just sent it to the download
> site in arachne. I don't see anything happening except I see an error
> message. Not sure what or where to place the pk***.exe in path and
> which path??? Anybody know what I can do for this? Or how do I delete
> it so I can just download the zipped program and use another unzipper???
> Thanks---
> PS....Star Trek has a lot going for it....but it still is just a movie.
> Neil T.
Hello Neil:
Welcome to Arachne!
I see you are not using the latest version of Arachne. I would
suggest that you copy your downloaded archive of the new version
to a directory named C:\ARACHNE. The name of the download is
ARCHN170.EXE. It is not a pkzip file. It is a self-extracting
archive. To extract the files from the archive just type the name
of the file at the command line prompt. (You could install Arachne
in any directory you want, but C:\ARACHNE is the directory where
most people like to install it, especially those who are newbies.)
You can run Arachne just fine without a mouse, but it will be
difficult for you while you are still a newbie. I suggest you set
up your system with a mouse before trying to install the new version.
First use a mouse driver that you are familiar with. Next you will
want to set it up with a different mouse driver that will conserve
more memory for you. Most of us use the CuteMouse driver by Nagy
Daniel, which is available for free download at this URL:
http://www.vein.hu/~nagyd/
All the best,
Sam Heywood
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