[arachne] No, not really "DGI"

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On Mon, 08 Mar 2004 15:22:35 -0500 (EST), Arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> From: "Leka" <yeremiya@xxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 21:10:44 +0100
> Subject: [arachne] Re: "File not found"

> On Sun, 07 Mar 2004 18:46:24 -0500, L.D. Best wrote:

>> "I" for Inbox is a hotkey, not a DGI.  Sounds like you've got a
>> corrupted install somewhere along the way.  Try reinstalling InSight.Exe
>> and see if that solves the problem.  Insight.exe should be 83,680 size,
>> date of file Dec 18, 2002.

> The "I" hotkey calls a dgi ('inbox.dgi'). I set my idxhead.htp and
> idxfast.htp not to be stored in cache (<arachne nocache>), so every time
> I go to any of the mail dirs one of the DGIs is called upon, but that's
> not the point. The point is that I have something that one might call
> "a very clean instalation" of arachne (including the newest insight) and
> I still get those annoying "arachne load error" messages (I've looked
> it up :p)! I only get those errs when I have DOS=HIGH,UBM line in
> 'config.sys'.

Actually, what "I" hotkey does (because Mime.Cfg tells it to) is call
Insight, and tell it to list all the *.cmn files in your preferred
manner, using designated gui.

As I said, if the line in Mime.Cfg hasn't been messed up, the problem
would seem to need to be in the Insight.Exe program you have.  THAT is
why I suggested you try replacing it.  But since you have changed a few
things around, maybe you need to review the entry in Mime.Cfg and
correct it if necessary?  ....

And "cache" or "no cache", every time you call for any of the mail
indexes (all the messages and indexes are in the same directory, except
those in archive directories) it is written from scratch. Haven't you
noticed how putting mail in the trash can, or moving it to an archive
directory ("folder") "counts down" the number of total messages?  Since
(<arachne nocache>) isn't helping you, try removing your modifications,
going back to the default backups you made.  Small changes in any Arachne
GUI can often mess up how the form acts/reacts (It is sooooooooooo easy to
do without realizing it; I have hours of practice at that!).

One other thing:  What do you have MinDiskSpace set for in Arachne.Cfg? 
Are you running everything on C:?  Do you have enough memory to set up a
RAM drive so cache is more quickly handled?  How many messages do you
normally have in Inbox, and does your system 'lug down' when Insight is
creating the index page (inbox screen)?

If the questions don't seem to make sense, that's because your "fixes"
don't seem to make sense -- like you said, why would Arachne run better
with *less* conventional memory??

With the modifications you've mentioned, and total changes you've made not
exactly clear, it's difficult to hunt bugs until you're back to a more
unaltered (but installed) Arachne setup.  Unless more obvious possible
trouble sources are eliminated, it can be hard to find the small stuff the
can really 'bug' you.

> Only way (I've found) to avoid these errs was to set higher values for
> the memory assigned to EVERY DGI (or, to run arachne with DOS=UBM only
> with 570 KB free conventional memory), manualy in the 'mime.cfg'. But, it
> seems pointless to run arachne with more memory (DOS=HIGH,UBM; 620KB free
> conventional memory this way) when every disk related operation requires
> more memory to be executed! I'm confused. Solution anybody?

l.d.

P.S.  What you 'assign' for every DGI (by hand) should have no effect on
how Insight runs to built the page indexes, and display the GUI ... unless
somehow you're running a few things in memory simultaneously.

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