On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 00:24:07 -0400, Glenn McCorkle wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 01:38:51 +00, Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ wrote:

>> Hi Glenn,
>>      I think you did not understand my question...
>> I just want back my cache, not a temp cache which will be erased any
>> time by leaving Arachne, but a cache that stays and can be deleted by F8
>> if I want to.

<snip>

> Ok,
> Does  the directory pointed to by this line in arachne.cfg exist?

> CachePath .\cache\
No, the first dot and \ were not there, I changed it to the above.
(Is this a typo in 1.71?)
Also set Cache2TEMP to NO.

Now this is working well.

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I have .JPG not converted to bmp but to .GIF and virtual screen enabled.
Converting to BMP does not give a vertical scroll (x-axis) of the image
but a JPG image does... and now the GIF is stored in the cache too.

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There is a problem with black and white BMP-images => red box.
This problem exists in all Arachne versions as far as I know.

Would it be possible to convert BMP to GIF in Arachne... without an
external program? Than this problem would also been solved.

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>>> Cache2Temp Yes
>>> is only used for "local" files.
Cache2TEMP No sends the files to cache dir

************** I will look into the next matter now **************

>>> When we exit Arachne... that arachne.tmp sub-directory will be
>>> automatically emptied and removed.

>>> --- from the bottom of arachne.bat ---

I rem'ed out something do prevent deleting the cache in TEMP when I quit
Arachne ... no luck. (No idea what $roura$ means)
Would be nice to have the temp cache deleted at a (new) start of Arachne
and I think that could be done by placing the delete codes to the start
of Arachne.bat and not at the end.
The files are indeed in the C:\TEMP\Arachne.tmp, I looked with F10.

:end
rem if exist $roura?.bat del $roura?.bat
rem if exist %ARACHNETEMP%\$roura$.bat del %ARACHNETEMP%\$roura$.bat
rem if exist %TEMP%\$roura$.bat del %TEMP%\$roura$.bat
if exist *._$b del *._$b
REM if exist %ARACHNETEMP%\*._$b del %ARACHNETEMP%\*._$b
REM if exist %TEMP%\*._$b del %TEMP%\*._$b
if exist ip-up.bat del ip-up.bat
if exist ppp.log echo Type 'arachne -u' to terminate SLIP/PPP connection.
if exist lock del lock
if not exist %TEMP%\ARACHNE.TMP\*.* goto done
for %%f in (%TEMP%\arachne.tmp\*.*) do del %%f
rd %TEMP%\arachne.tmp>NUL
:done
echo.

>>> And of-coarse if all else fails. There's always RTFM. ;-)
>>> file://doc/tempdir.htm
This would be a good help for newbies to setup temp dir... but no
details how to change or switch off caching to temp dir.

Regards, Bastiaan

BTW what means RTFM?

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