On Sat, 02 Feb 2002 20:30:40 +0000, Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ wrote: > Hi Arachnoids
> The problem was in ARACHNE.CFG. It was changed! > Glad that I printed the ARACHNE.CFG to paper. > Under [profile] the first two lines were gone: > Profile 386PC.ACF and > Connection @epppd.exe>>PPP.LOG > How did this happen? This happens quite frequently and is a BUG. Arachne maintains a copy of Arachne.cfg in memory and more frequently than necessary writes this copy back to disk. Sometimes xSwap allocation gets confused and uses part of the memory space containing Arachne.cfg, thus corrupting it. > How to prevent Arachne carrying out some tasks when on line? > e.g. viewing PDF or executing .exe files. > The .exe execution does not realy happen, Arachne gives a text version. > I would prefer downloading to download directory without any > intervention or messing up when Arachne is on line. The action Arachne takes is controlled by mime.cfg. Find some line(s) in your mime.cfg specifying .PDF and change them to what you want or comment them out with a leading ";". - Clarence Verge. -- Using Arachne 1.66 on DSL.
