somebody wrote: > Iain, I've been pointing this one out for at least (iSTR) two years > now!
> Of course, lotsa people can't reproduce it, so nothing seems to get > done about it. The gurus have got a workaround, but that doesn't work > for me either. well, maybe its a machine thing, I have here a laptop, 486DX2/50 with 12Mb RAM, using I think a 4Mb Ramdisk and smartdrv. Oh, ms-dos something or other not sure and with this non-multitasking machine I cant check without losing my editing of this digest file.. it has Win3.11 too which I dont use. I think the things one has resident can also affect the way programs run under ms-dos but I dont have much. then Roger Turk, wrote: > I assume that when you get the xSwap error that you have to reboot, as I have > to do. Instead of deleting the arachne.pck file, have you tried going to the > Arachne directory and entering the command, "arachne -u"? (without the > quotes, of course.) This is what I do and it seems to work just fine. IIRC, > deleting the arachne.pck file means that you have to reconfigure and I would > hate to do that every time I get the xSwap error. not sure if I have to reboot or not, I dont recall doing so - deleting the .pck file is not too bad - you just say yes to xms and yes to the other question then click on the graphics mode, then quit and restart and it has all your configs loaded from wherever it saved them to before. arachne -u sounds easier though, its true - what is that supposed to do? on BasicLinux, I did think of a killer app that all unix should have, and I think its called term - this gives you multiple shells on the one terminal but then I recalled that linux has something similar to this built in anyway (alt-f1, alt-f2, alt-f3 on BasicLinux gives you different ttys) - maybe some ms-dos types who are trying out linux for the first time might not appreciate this, but once you learn to multitask its very difficult to do without (I learned on my Amiga, could run 20+ small programs independently in 512K ram a LONG time ago..) anyway, iain.. -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
