[arachne] I found it!!! (was Re: Missing configuration options)

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Hi Glenn, and all others!

I finally managed to find the reason for the aborted installation of
Arachne 1.90! During the installation, I noticed something red flying
by, too fast on my 3.06 GHz machine to identify it, so I used every
trick I know to slow the machine down so that I could pause it and read
the error message "file create error".

As it turned out, the offending file was a read-only file named
"formfeed" in the main Arachne dir that is dated March the 21th 1999.
Some version of Arachne that was released in late 2004 must have set
this file to read-only, thereby preventing the installer from
overwriting it and causing it to abort. It still reported "installed
successfully", so I did not notice this before.

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.

Regards,

Udo

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