On Sat, 02 Feb 2002 18:58:13 -0400, Clarence Verge wrote: > 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 ";". Here's a temporary "fix" for that bug. Before starting Arachne.... attrib +r arachne.cfg<enter> Now it can't be changed until you remove the "read only" attribute. The only draw-back to this "fix" is that when you DO want to make changes, you will need to.... 1) Alt+E 2) attrib -r arachne.cfg<enter> 3) exit<enter> 4) make and save changes 5) Alt+E 6) attrib +r arachne.cfg<enter> 7) exit<enter> -- Glenn http://arachne.cz/ http://freedos-32.sourceforge.net/ http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/download.htm
