On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 17:52:05 -0400, L.D. Best wrote: > The mention of WWWMAN is misleading; the "tests" done aren't valid. From > the results given by some users, it is obvious the problem is *NOT* in > Arachne, or WWWman ...
> This is the message received when you enter WWWMAN at the DOS prompt: > WWWman, Arachne cache and directory maintenance tool > (G)1997 New Wave Microtechnology Ltd. Portions (G)1998,1999 Arachne Labs > Portions (G)1999 Bernhard "Bernie" Eriksson > WWWman -c <cache_index> converts cache index to HTML > WWWman -d file:fullpathname DOS directory, table, icons from WWWman.cfg > WWWman -l file:fullpathname DOS directory, text only > Program writes to STDOUT; syntax is WWWMAN [options] > file , Mi-�` > ------------------------- > The line below >> cd \arachne >> wwwman -l file:@:*.* >\temp\yourpc.htm > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > when entered at the DOS prompt, will of course cause problems! > The "@" is an instruction to Arachne to use maximum memory. I'm pretty > darned certain that is filtered out before the "command line" gets to > WWWman... but wwwman is capable of ignoring it if it *is* placed on the > command line. Not in the case of wwwman.exe The "@" character tells wwwman.exe to analize and list the drivetypes. The attached is the resulting .HTM from this command line. wwwman -l file:@:*.*>\atsymbol.htm > I know that because wwwman will write the information, using the > yourpc.htm code (if it resides in the same directory as wwwman.exe) as > a framework, to screen if the output to file ">" is omitted ( which, > of course, means the subsequent path to any location is ignored). The ">" is the standard Dos redirect to send the output to yourpc.htm instead of to the screen. > This type of test, using internal codes as command line items, isn't > valid. What *appears* to be a path statement -- like the above -- > *inside* Arachne is *NOT* ... that "temp" is a VARIABLE containing the > actual path to the ARACHNE.TMP directory. You misunderstand. It is not "internal code" for core.exe It *is* an "internal code" for wwwman.exe <snip> > And if Billy Gates don't like it, he can kiss my ASCII Well said. I agree with that one 100% -- Glenn http://arachne.cz/ http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/download.htm http://www.thispagecannotbedisplayed.com/
