On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 16:55:02 -0800 (PST), Doak Snead wrote:

> I haven't read the rest of the mails about this, but
> does he mean clicking on "my computer" on the windoze
> desktop whilst running arachne in a dos console?
> just curious.

No, I believe he's refering to "Your Computer" on the Arachne
Desktop while running just DOS.


> --- G J Feig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, "Bastiaan Edelman
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> wrote:

>> > IMHO the "My Computer" should be fixed too... I
>> use 3 computers, 2 with
>> > 1.61 and 1 with 1.71UE and they all lock-up on
>> this.

>> Bastiaan,

>> I have stayed out of this discussion, mostly,
>> because I cannot, ever,
>> get ANY of my 3 computers (at various times, running
>> 1.61 thru 1.71)
>> to lockup.

>> I just checked, now, with the 1.69 and the 1.71 that
>> I currently have
>> running on this minimal-box and neither of them did
>> it.

>> I poked F10, clicked on "Your Computer" (you always
>> mention "My
>> Computer" but I can only find "Your Computer" so I
>> assume you mean
>> that)....I then get "Accessible Drives"....I click
>> on my F: and get
>> a directory listing (with that "\\" in the upper
>> left)....click on
>> that "\\" at upper left...and it takes me back to
>> "Accessible Drives"
>> ...and I then "I" to return to my Inbox from which I
>> started.  I do
>> the alternate entry to that sequence, using ALT-F2,
>> which takes me
>> directly to "Accessible Drives" and go through the
>> sequence again.
>> Never, not EVER, have I been able to reproduce your
>> description of
>> your problem on any Arachne version (1.61 thru 1.71)
>> on any of my
>> computers.

>> Now, this is NOT written to try to deny the presense
>> of your problem,
>> nor to minimalize it, but, I ask the other
>> listmembers, now, if anyone
>> has been able to duplicate this...???  I believe
>> Bastiaan, about his
>> problem, but...since I can never get it to bomb,
>> does anyone know how
>> I can tweak my setup so that I CAN get it to bomb,
>> like Bastiaan's
>> computers do.

>> The reason I ask, is that, since it never once does
>> it on my boxes,
>> and ALWAYS does it on his boxes, there is something
>> basic, here, that
>> is different between the equipment/setup on his
>> boxes and that on my
>> boxes...and this difference may be something
>> important that we need to
>> make provision for, for when some newbie happens
>> upon it...or to cure
>> it once and for all, so the newbies DON'T run into
>> it.

>> Can anyone tell me how to set up my boxes
>> (equipment/setup) so that
>> I can get mine to lockup like Bastiaan's boxes
>> do....???

>> .....gregy

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Sam Ewalt
Croswell, Michigan, USA
-- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/

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