Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:54:38 -0800, Eric S. Emerson wrote: > Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! > Hi Greg M., > I agree with you that a new user > may not know how to do that.....and maybe... > some more experienced users might have > some difficulty with it...BUT...it is not recommended > that the new user should install Arachne in other > than the primary subdirectory of any drive. > Eg. x:\arachne where x can be d, e, f, etc. > And as I do, D: is a RAMdrive. > That note is meant as a warning to the user > and should maybe be headed "WARNING". > Any deviation from the default could cause > installation problems. I think any experienced > computer user should know that. I certainly > have experienced that phenomenon many times. > I sure don't want the wizard changed so that I > have to do special editing just to set Arachne > up in any drive besides C:. > I think that someone whose computer setup > is complicated enough to require installing > Arachne in other than X:\arachne should have > the knowhow to create the needed directories. > I have been using Arachne now for over 10 yrs. > on several computers and not yet have I found > it necessary to install in other that X:\arachne . ****** Well, I have about seven versions of Arachne installed, calling them all C:\Arachne will make a mess... so I use C:\190 C:\193 etc. Mails from all versions are directed (that's the plan) to C:\ALL-ARA\MAIL in order not to search for a special mail in what? version. But, a newbie will have only one version I suppose?? Regards, Bastiaan > Perhaps, providing a wizard to setup the needed > directory structure could be provided eventually..... > but...right now making the connection to the ISP/ > Internet more friendly is a priority issue. > Eric > On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 09:13:31 +0930 "Greg Mayman" <gmone@xxxxxxxxxx> > writes: >> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! >> On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:20:17 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote: >> > As the instruction on the setup page say...... >> > | All paths are pre-configured to the 'defaults'. >> | >> > | Alter as needed if you installed to any other >> | >> > | drive:\dirname\ than C:\ARACHNE\ Note: Paths must end >> | >> > | with '\' and must exist. Arachne will not create non >> | >> > | existing directories. See also using Arachne in LAN.. >> | >> IMO it is not reasonable to expect a new user to know how to do >> that. >> We have installation Wizards. Isn't this the kind of thing they are >> supposed to handle? >> Perhaps the option of selecting another directory name should be >> dropped >> from the installer. Then if the experienced user wants to move it to >> another directory, he can do it under DOS and edit the CFG files at >> the >> same time. >> ,-./\ >> / \ From Greg Mayman, in beautiful Adelaide, South Australia >> \_,-*_/ "Queen City of The South" 35d 01'44"S 138d 32'13"E >> v >> Arachne at FreeLists >> -- Arachne, The Premier GPL Web Browser/Suite for DOS -- > Arachne at FreeLists > -- Arachne, The Premier GPL Web Browser/Suite for DOS -- -- This mail was written by a user of the Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/ Arachne at FreeLists -- Arachne, The Premier GPL Web Browser/Suite for DOS --