Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 18:29:03 +0100, Bastiaan T.Edelman wrote: > Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! > On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 10:37:14 +0000, Udo Kuhnt wrote: >> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! >> Hi Glenn, and all others! > <snip> >> With the file set to read/write, Arachne 1.90 completes the >> installation! >> So it *is* a bug in the installer - it cannot cope with the read-only >> file that the older version left and it also fails to report that it has >> aborted the installation. >> I think it is worth fixing; who knows which other bugs this might be >> hiding? At least the installer should be enhanced to handle read-only >> files that Arachne has created. > The "no dialing" thing had to do with an overwritten arachne.cfg, > unintentionaly overwritten and no back up created for this very > important Arachne file. > Would it be possible to make arachne.cfg (and other important files) > become the 'read only' label by default?? ************** Note to those who might be upgrading *************** | If you are upgrading an existing installation, existing files | | will be over-written with their new counterparts. | | However, existing configuration files will be saved into a | | backup directory. (also hotlist.htm and quickpad.txt) | | If you are not comfortable with this arrangement you may | | prefer to install this upgrade to a new different directory | | which will leave your present installation undisturbed. | | (examples of files that will be saved......... | | C:\arachne\backup\arachne.cfg, L:\ara\backup\hotlist.htm | ******************************************************************* As the installer tells us _before_ beginning the actual install. All of your previous *.CFG files are backed-up in arachne_main\backup\ -- Glenn http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/ http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.table.html Arachne at FreeLists -- Arachne, The Premier GPL Web Browser/Suite for DOS --