Hi All,

System: 166Pentium/49MbRAM/WIN98SE ver. 4.10.2222

TEST 1: Arachne from DOS box (command line from "run box": arachne.bat ) ... Arachne functions fine, no lockups & mouse works.

TEST 2: From WIN98 shutdown menu > "reboot to DOS". Mouse works. Arachne loads fine, dials but when try "Your computer" she locks up (Processing 'file/@*.*' [HTM] Would you like to have some coffee? Ctrl/Alt/Del ...

Test 3: WIN98 F8 bootup menu "Command prompt only" > No mouse. Loads fine. Alt-F2 > locks up ... same as Test 2.

Repeated above testing on new puter (700Mhz Athlon/384MbRAM/WIN98SE) same results.

When I looked at changes Arachne setup made to Autoexec & Config files there was not the appropriate changes made but a long list of what must be every error message available (I can send to anyone interested). Note both these files were empty before I installed Arachne.

Conclusions: Arachne doesn't like FAT32. Somewhat pointless to use Arachne in a WIN98 Dox box, Mozilla is far superior. Arachne works great on all my 386/486 DOS machines & I will upgrade to latest ver on one of those to checkout ... sometime :-)

This 166 will get a Linux install somewhere along the line & I will try Arachne Linux when that occurs (no WinDoze, no DOS?).

HTH.

later,
rick




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