At 1:24AM 3/29/02, Clarence Verge wrote:
>Hi;
>
>I'm getting too attached to Arachne.
>I hardly use any other software these days, certainly not for web access
>or email. The next most important package I have is Sidekick, which I
>use as my text editor. Pretty primitive eh ?
>
>You'd think with all the dependance I put on Arachne, I'd back up my
>H.D. once in a while. But nooooo...
>
>So, I'm using cast iron bullet proof A1.62 and going thru my mail see ?
>I've downloaded from two sites and was culling duplicates and flipping
>back with the "ESC" key - which is my back button and I guess I went too
>far back cuz the damn thing tried to download mail again. I *HATE* that.
>
>But my ESC key is my ESCAPE key see ?
>So I hit it AGAIN to get out of the undesired download, and of course
>it doesn't work. I hate it when that happens too. :(
>It's just NOT possible for me to control my twitching finger bashing at
>the ESC key and Arachne goes into this loop of (maybe) attempted download
>followed by attempted download followed by ...
>
>Nothing to do but push the BigRedButton.
>
>Reboot.
>Invalid drive specification.
>Floppy boot.
>C:
>Invalid drive specification.
>NDD
>C:
>A bootable partition requires a 55AA signature (or some such nonsense)
>do you want to make this partion bootable ?
>Yes.
>A bootable drive requires a boot record in the first sector (whatever)
>do you want to make this drive bootable ?
>Yes.
>There are no partitions on this hard drive.
>Do you want to search for DOS partitions ?
>Yes.
>A possible 103Mb DOS partition has been found. Do you want to .....
>*
>
>It's not unbelievable that I could crash Arachne with the ESC key,
>and it's not THAT hard to believe that some part of what was going
>on wiped my partition table.
>
>What's unbelievable is that happened a few minutes ago and now this box
>is working PERFECTLY with no cross-linked files and no re-install and no
>lost data and only a single allocation unit misplaced in cache.idx.
>
>And my D: partition and my E: partition all unbelieveably OK. <G>
>
>Wow.
>
>- Clarence Verge
>- Back to using Arachne V1.62 ....
>
>
cool! Gruvey Dude<g>
Have a goody!
Dan
