On Tue, 17 Dec 2002 04:51:27 +0000, Laurie L Proud wrote: <snip>
> I think it's pretty much nailed down as to what the problem is after > cross checking everyones emails. > It's the DOS contained in W95 that does not recognise the @ I think. > As mentioned before if you get to a DOS prompt after booting to windoze > you don't get the problem in a W95 system but I think you still do > with W98 which indicates another change in the DOS. > Glenn, regarding the (your) DOS versions in windoze, > My W95 is dated 26th August 1996 I think, it identifys as follows > In Windoze system properties: Windoze 95 4.00.950 B > At the DOS prompt, Ver command: Windoze 95 version 4.00.1111 4.00.1111 is the same version I have. And the problem is not with "@" The "@" symbol is simply part of the 2nd command line argument which is being sent to wwwman.exe (Dos itself does not try to do anything with the "@" other than pass it along to wwwman.exe) Proof of this assumption is in the fact that the command line shown below does in-fact begin to write the output from wwwman.exe And that the resulting output does in-fact contain the correct data for both of my diskette drives. The error ocures as soon as wwwman.exe attempts to read the drive type information for the first HDD partition. --- original message sent to L.D. on Dec 15 (forwarded by permisssion) --- ***** indosbox.gif which was attached to the original message. ***** Can be grabbed from http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/images.htm ----- Forwarded message begin ----- From: "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OK, here are the results of the tests. wwwman -l file:@:*.*>\temp\yourpc.htm 1st 5 tries... locked-up tight as a drum. :( Several more times it crashed the system and caused a spontaneous "cold reboot". (the system rebooted on its own without the pressing of the reset button) wwwman -l file:@:*.* \temp\yourpc.htm (no > for redirect, and of coarse \temp\yourpc.htm is ignored because wwwman.exe only accepts 2 command line arguments) Same as above.. several lock-ups, several cold reboots Once, and only once I was able to get this.... <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Accessible drives </TITLE></HEAD><BODY ARACHNE NORESIZE> <TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TD WIDTH=76%><FONT 3D SIZE=6>Accessible drives</FONT><TD WIDTH=24%> <TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TD NOWRAP><Form action="arachne:internal-config?reload:file:@:*.*"> <input type=hidden name="FILEargs" value="-d"><input type=submit value="Enable icons "> </TABLE> </TABLE><HR><UL> <LI><A HREF="A:\*.*">A: (Floppy)</A> <I>3.5" 1.44 MB</I> <LI><A HREF="B:\*.*">B: (Floppy)</A> <I>5.25" 1.2 MB</I> Divide Error There we have it. Just as soon as wwwman tried to analyze what type of drive C: might be. A Divide Error ocured. :((( As several others have confirmed. When we are inside of W9x there are different APIs which are loaded to do the drivetype assignments. The attached GIF is a screencap of wwwman run in a DosBox inside of W95. Would be OK with you if I forward this to the list ? [Attached file: indosbox.gif] (File "indosbox.gif" (type image/gif, size 21 KB)) --- Forwarded message end --- -- Glenn http://arachne.cz/ http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/download.htm http://www.thispagecannotbedisplayed.com/
