[arachne] Re: No, not really "DGI"

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Hi LD,
       this is a nice story that was published right on time because it
was very usefull in my "Atacked" problem.

Regards, Bastiaan



On Mon, 08 Mar 2004 21:01:37 -0500, L.D. Best wrote:

> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!

> 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.

> Arachne at FreeLists
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