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%


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