On 1 Nov 01 at 9:55, owner-arachne-digest@arachne wrote:
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>But... after showing HTML or a picture in Arachne, Arachne is not
>going back correctly to the original working directory in Norton but
>stays in C:\Arachne. When looking at a series of images I have to
>search for the original directory and filename manualy... Norton is
>supposed to go back to the last entry and not to stay in Arachne
>directory.
>
>How can I correct that???
Hi Bastiaan,
one way to work around this problem would be defining an
additional drive letter with the subst command:
SUBST L: C:\ARACHNE
In this case you need not care about the current directory of
C:, but just change between different drive letters.
If you run Arachne from a RAM disk you probably have to change
the drive anyway.
The viewer.bat I have been using for quite some time from
e.g. Norton Commander looks basically :
**** beginning of viewer.bat ****
@echo off
rem sometimes it may be important to watch environment space:
call popenv.bat
cls
rem Check whether Arachne is already running
rem if you run e.g. Norton Commander from
rem Arachne and then start viewer.bat
if not exist l:\lock goto AraStart
echo
echo Warning! You can load Arachne only once at a time.
echo It seems as if there is already another copy of Arachne
running. echo Or last time Arachne was not terminated regularly.
echo.
choice Have you another copy of Arachne running just now /C:yn
if errorlevel 2 goto AraStart
goto AraEnd
:AraStart
rem Change drive to L:
getdrive >%temp%\drive.bat
L:
cd \
rem the copy and move lines are necessary if you run
rem Arachne from RAM disk and want to save changes in
rem configuration. It also makes sense to modify
rem arachne.cfg for offline use (eg. SHIFT FN keys)
copy nul L:\history.lst > nul
copy M:\OFFLINE.ACF L:\ARACHNE.CFG > NUL
copy M:\OFFLINE.PCK L:\ARACHNE.PCK > NUL
copy M:\MIME.CFG L:\MIME.CFG > NUL
call arachne.bat %1 %2 %3 %4
MOVE L:\ARACHNE.CFG M:\OFFLINE.ACF > NUL
MOVE L:\ARACHNE.PCK M:\OFFLINE.PCK > NUL
MOVE L:\MIME.CFG M:\MIME.CFG > NUL
rem Reset drive
call %temp%\drive.bat
:AraEnd
**** end of viewer.bat ****
If you do not like changing between virtual drives, here
is a batch file that saves and restores the current directory:
@echo off
echo @prompt cd $p$_$n:> %TEMP%\setback.bat
%comspec% /c %TEMP%\setback> %TEMP%\goback.bat
rem change to directories of your choice
rem and run programs
call %TEMP%\goback
if exist %TEMP%\setback.bat del %TEMP%\setback.bat
if exist %TEMP%\goback.bat del %TEMP%\goback.bat
Regards
Christof Lange
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