On 2002-11-08 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <Glenn McCorkle> said:

[Sorry to have overlooked e-mailing this to the Arachne list, folks...
the following picks up on the exchange between me and Glenn... and with
a different e-mail client...]

   >>> Do the directories named in arachne.cfg for all of following
   >>> exist ???
   >>> cache
   >>> mail
   >>> arachnetemp (if you use this feature)
   >>> Also, do you have TEMP dir set and does it exist?

   >> E:\TEMP is the DOS system setting for the good machine;
   >> C:\TEMP is the DOS system setting for the problem machine;
   >> E:\TEMP\ARACHNE.TMP is the Arachne temp. on this good machine;
   >> and C:\TEMP\ARACHNE.TMP is the Arachne temp. on the problem
   >> machine.
   >> The good machine has D:\ARACHNE\CACHE and D:\ARACHNE\MAIL, but the
   >> problem machine has C:\TELECOM\ARACHNE\MAIL and
   >> C:\TELECOM\ARACHNE\CACHE.
   >> In both machines, arachne.cfg has CachePath CACHE\ and MailPath
   >> MAIL\
   >> C:\TELECOM\ARACHNE is in the problem system's path at autoexec.
   >> bat.

   >OK,
   >That pretty-much elimionates a directory problem from being the
   >cause.
   >Shall we move on to memory ? <g>
   >What does Alt+M show for "Dos Memory (KB) nnn[+,?,!]green,black,red"
   >on each of the computers in question?
   >My current reading is 154[+]green
   >I have seen this same problem if I load something which "eats-up"
   >some memory and then try to do eMail.
   >BeRightBack
   >_____
   >There,
   >I caused a similar problem by loading univbe.exe (vesa graphics
   >driver). It eats-up 13kb of memory which dropped me to 141[+]green
   >Now I can't even create the inbox index.
   >http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/images.htm
   >(univbe.gif is a screen-cap of what just happened)
   >btw,
   >I hope you don't mind that a cc of this message is going to
   >the list so that all others will see this.

Hi, Glenn --

What appears to be the source for my problem is not memory, but directory
assignment difficulty for Arachne.  I've got Insight to work properly
*after* giving it the C:\ARACHNE directory installation, instead of
using C:\TELECOM\ARACHNE.  I couldn't seem to convince Arachne 1.71;UE01
that it could function from this latter directory, although the setup
routine accepted the assignment -- and everything else within Arachne
(outside of answering e-mail from Insight) worked fairly well.

My memory, by the way, is around 149[+] green and fluctuates some with
different things going on, but that doesn't seem to be the issue here.

I can live with Arachne functioning at C:\ARACHNE, but I had wished to
have it conveniently located in my C:\TELECOM directory with other
telecommunications programs.  Again, it's not that important, but on the
other hand, I don't recall (off hand) any documentation that requires
Arachne to be installed only from \ARACHNE, and not within a subdirectory.

Jerry...on his 486DX2/50 MHz/8MB RAM/DOS Navigator & Genesis Commander
*****   with IBM PC DOS 7 at the Computer Lab of Classic Systems, Ltd.

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