Hi all 'your computer' devotees:

> Hi Bastiaan,

> So we have established:

> a) in straight DOS "My Computer" is broken.

> b) If Arachne is run from a DOS Window in W95 "My Computer" works fine.

> c) If the W95 Machine is booted into DOS MODE, and Arachne started
> from the command line, "My Computer" is broken.

> d) And proberbly of most interest; If the machine is booted into W95
> quit to DOS prompt and Arachne started from the command line
> "My Computer" works fine.

> It does seem to confirm that post booting into W95, "My Computer"
> remains under the evil influence, as previously mentioned
> on the list.

Points a,b, and c are correct on my machine (W98), but point d is not! I
thought 'your computer' worked fine after running widows, just as you suggest,
but there are still problems--try hitting the 'enable/disable icons' button
and I think your system will freeze; ditto if you hit the double arrow
'reload' ikon.  It seems that after arachne has been run under windows, she
somehow saves a snapshot of all drives; when you reboot to DOS, this existing
snapshot is accessed when you first hit 'your computer', so things look fine;
but when you ask her to reexamine the drives (as by hitting the reload ikon),
you find that she hangs exactly as before.  The reason I think this bug
should be easy to fix is that, even under DOS, *all* the drives on my machine
can be accessed one at a time--FAT32, CDROM, ... all of them.  They just
can't be *listed* all at the same time.  Can you guys/dolls confirm or
refute this?



Ray Andrews,
Vancouver, Canada



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