Why didn't I think of this simple solution myself... thanks! Bastiaan
On Sun, 03 Feb 2002 16:18:24 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote: > 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 -- Arachne V1.61, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
