Hi Glenn,

I tried that rename of cdrom.ikn fix for the 'your computer' hang problem
with no luck.  (I get exactly the same hang when I hit the "\\" button in
'all files').  But riddle me this:  I can access every drive on my computer
by typing the drive letter by hand up in the what-ever-you- call-it bar up
at the top of the screen.  If I do load my CD drivers, I can likewise
access these individually no problem by typing in their drive letters.
Arachne clearly can access CD's under DOS, but only one at a time, it
seems.

Also, there is something else that's funny:  My real drive letters end at
I:, and my subst'ed drives start at R:; all the subst'ed drives are
accessed no problem, but if I type in any drive letter between J: and Q:
(these letters are NOT in use remember), I get a phoney report--there is no
volume label shown, but there is a 'free space' figure shown which is
unlike that of any of my real drives.

The problems are identical under either command.com or 4dos.com, but they
disappear if I run Arachne under Win98 -- CD's are assessed just fine, and
'your computer' dosen't hang. But this is strange:  After I quit windows
back to dos (I know how to do this using the 'mark' & 'release' commands),
'your computer' will not hang the machine, and if I do try to access the
CD's (there is NO DRIVER LOADED remember) Arachne treats them the same as
the phantom drives mentioned above (no volume label, but a phoney 'free
space' number.

If I do load my CD drivers, then start win98, then quit win98,
*everything* is fine: 'your computer' dosen't hang, and I can assess my
CD's with no problem (using the DOS drivers, it seems).  So it seems that
starting then quitting win98 does something magical that makes the DOS
CD drivers work ok.  I get the feeling that this should be fixable.

Can you make anything of it?

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