Hi L.D. and all,

On Thu, 06 Jun 2002 17:29:58 -0400, L.D. Best wrote:

> Joerg,

> If I attempted to do that -- depending upon how big "big" is -- I could
> very well crash my system, or at least loose the download.

"Big" is for me bigger than my ramdisk (12 MB). 

> why???  using "clip.tmp"

All stuff which You are right clicking on is saved to the file clip.tmp
in Arachne dir. For example (hitting CTRL-R and entering "clip.tmp"...
http://www.wavelenghts.com/tracks/80mm_2.p3m
... this is what's currently in this file on my HD)

> You see, on my system I have both TEMP & TMP  SET to a directory on the
> RAMdrive ... and the RAMdrive only holds so much.

wget saves d/led files to current dir by default and doesn't care for
DOS environment variables AFAIK.

> I say it may crash, because Arachne has always been bad at handling DOS
> error messages ... it's never been set up to allow things to filter
> through it from DOS, thus you can "save" a file to a non-existant
> directory, overwrite an existing file of the same name by accident, etc
> etc etc.

The d/l is handled by wget, not by Arachne.
I'll test this stuff more in next days.

Regards Joerg
-- Arachne V1.70, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/

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