<snip> > We need to clarify this...
>> It does seem to confirm that post booting into W95, "My Computer" >> remains under the evil influence, as previously mentioned >> on the list. > If this is confirmed, on Bastiaan's machine, and on your machine, then > it looks like an incompatibility in the DOS, or at least a difference > between the Win9x internalDOS, and the DOS being used outside Win9x > What clicking on "Your Computer" or clicking on "\\" or doing an > ALT-F2 does is tells Arachne to do a "shell-out-to-DOS" operation. > If it fails, that indicates that the underlieing DOS is not accepting > the command from Arachne. It does not like the special character > used as a command character, or the command is not formatted correctly. The "@" character I suppose... used by Arachne to call the drives on the computer... Your computer ;-) Bastiaan > But...most DOSes fail "gracefully"...that is, they do not lockup the > whole computer/Arachne...they just refuse to do the command, fail, and > kick you back into Arachne, or, at worst, to a command prompt with the > "Command or filename not recognized" ERROR message... > In Bastiaan's case...the underlieing DOS is locking up...no graceful > failure.. > ........gregy > -- This mail was sent by a user of Arachne - The Ultimate Internet Client
