[arachne] Re: Global fixup for accessing "inaccessible" drives without prompt

Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!

Hello all

First I have to apologise that I blindly released some code that is not very
well tested, but it was in the heat of my enthusiasm.

I found one such problem with this code, and that is to try to load a CD-Rom
driver *after* you issue the noint24.
I know he background of this problem, and I will explain why, the cure is
(if you want to use the noint24) you should load it after all drives are
"declared".
Now about the reason:
DOS *will* use it's own int-24 handler in occasions when it wants to "add"
you a new drive as a rudimentary check if the drive is accessible.
As we have taken over the dos's int24h, the behavioral that the "internal"
(and at that point) int24 is not what dos had in mind when adding more
drives.

As far as your request Eric, I must say that the noint24 i wrote for arachne
use only, and to "enhance" it to other levels would require significant
amount of time that I do not have at all.

In fact, the noint24.exe that I posted the other day, with a proper rework
to a .com program, can use as little as 128 bytes of RAM instead of 1kB
right now, but that I plan to do on the next weekend

now I gotta work, the boss will kill me.

regards
andrej



"Eric S. Emerson" wrote:

> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
>
> Hi Andrej,
>                      Thanks, Andrej, I tried it and it seems to
> work. <ggg>  Now, how about one for:
>          "Current drive is no longer valid>"
> when there is no floppy disk in A:
> and which returns us to the location where we entered
> the  A:   command.
>
> Eric
>
> On Mon, 07 Nov 2005 15:22:43 +0000 Andrej Cuckov <andrej@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> writes:
> >
> >
> > Hello from andrej
> >
> > I made something even better:
> > a TSR program that you can install (eats 912 byte RAM) with your
> > DOS, say in autoexec.bat.
> >
> > it is NOINT24.EXE, code included.
> > Takes no parameters.
> > It will kill the prompting (and pause) for abort retry ignore.
> >
> > So you dont need to modify Arachne with the solution in my previous
> > email.
> >
> > Source I will publish soon.
> >
> > regards
> > andrej
> >
>
> Arachne at FreeLists
> -- Arachne, The Web Browser/Suite for DOS and Linux --


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