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All,

Just letting you guys know that I've been pursuing a very interesting
project for the last few days.  We've most of us known the frustration
of trying to figure out what's wrong with Arachne when she won't start
or won't behave properly for one reason or another, and we all know
that sometimes the problem is buried somewhere in 'arachne.cfg'.

I've created an experimental core.exe that creates 'config.log' after
it has read 'arachne.cfg' and records therein the values that Arachne
is *actually* using -- which are often not the values you think she is
using.  

Besides the understandable problems like misspelled options, or double
instances of an option or incorrectly entered values, there are lots
of other things that can baffle one about arachne.cfg. Arachne sets
defaults for some configuration options but not others.  she also
ignores some options that are out of range but sometimes she *fixes*
values that are out of range and sometimes she changes the value of
one option depending on the value of another.

By checking config.log after something has gone wrong, I'm hoping
that users might very quickly find configuration errors.  You also get
a very revealing picture of what Arachne is up to.  Every
configuration option is listed, whether you've set a value for it or
not.  I've already discovered two or three things were certain
defaults were not what I expected.

Hours of fun for the whole family!

Ray Andrews

-- Arachne V1.75++/B~5


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