Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 12:23:23 +0930, Greg Mayman wrote: >> Error checking during startup with reports would certainly be useful. >> It's not unusual for for Arachne to crash and lockup for me during >> startup. SCANDISK almost always sets things right again after a reboot. >> The same bunch of Arachne files get damaged over and over. I've >> never been able to figure out why this happens. Actually, since >> I can fix things by running SCANDISK, I don't give it much thought. > I wasn't aware that SCANDISK could actually repair files, just > that it found and flagged broken files, orphan sectors, and so > on. > Which files get damaged? It has been mentioned that certain types > of connection will damage the ARACHNE.CFG. I forget the file names exactly. All of the startup files can get damaged if Arachne crashes on startup. Scandisk asks if it can fix them. I say yes and all is well. You should always run Scandisk if you're having trouble with Arachne. Try it. -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/ Arachne at FreeLists -- Arachne, The Web Browser/Suite for DOS and Linux --