On Sun, 16 Dec 2001 22:56:57 -0500, Clarence Verge wrote: > Thomas Tabler wrote:
>> Dear List: >> After much work at making an 8 meg ramdisk in extended memory >> to make enough disk space for Arachne 1.69, changing Arachnetemp to >> d=temp, and even renaming primary Arachne directory on "C:" hda1, as >> well as cache.idx to mask it from the setup routine, still no go. >> It says "error: invalid path". Now will you explain to me what this >> junk is? So unless I rename my Arachne directory to something else >> and just use it as a backup, I cannot even install two Arachne >> directories on my machine. > The answer must be something simple that you have overlooked. > I have four Arachnes installed on my machine at home. > The first one, which I use almost all the time, was there first and it > got to be installed in C:\ARACHNE. It is A1.62. > The next is in C:\A166. Guess what it is. <g> > The next is in C:\A167. > The last is in C:\A170. > They all share the same mail and download. > Arachne.cfg specifies the FULL pathname for each of the above. > e.g. C:\ARACHNE\MAIL even tho the .cfg is for A170. etc. > To operate the MAIN one I type SPIDER. > To operate a different one I manually CD \170 and type ARACHNE. You could also do it something like what I do in unzipping whichever version I want. (in your case: cd to the correct directory) --- a.bat --- c: cd %1 call arachne.bat cd \ @echo Done! _______________ The 4 possible command lines in your case: a.bat arachne<enter> a.bat a166<enter> a.bat a167<enter> a.bat a170<enter> In my case: arr.bat runs any version I choose 100% on RamDrive --- arr.bat --- @echo off if "%1"=="" goto err C: CD\ CALL \EMSDSK\XMSDSK 64000 l: /c1 %3 copy c:\command.com l:\ IF NOT EXIST l:\command.com goto delmail set comspec=l:\command.com md l:\temp set temp=l:\temp IF NOT EXIST l:\ARACHNE\ARACHNE.BAT PKUNZIP -d e:\ARACHNE\!AR%1.ZIP l:\ PKUNZIP -d -o e:\ARACHNE\MAIL\!AR!MDIR.ZIP l:\ if "%1"=="mail" PKUNZIP -d -o E:\ARACHNE\MAIL\!AR!MAIL.ZIP l:\ D: CD\AUDIO\CNDMIDI LH SBMIDI SBSIM CD\ l: CD \ARACHNE md c:\arachne md c:\arachne\mail xcopy c:\arachne\mail\*.* l:\arachne\mail\ /s IF EXIST PPP.LOG CALL ARACHNE.BAT -r %2 IF NOT EXIST PPP.LOG CALL ARACHNE.BAT %2 C: :delmail ? del l:\arachne\!*.* call deltree.bat c:\arachne\mail xcopy l:\arachne\mail\*.* c:\arachne\mail\ /s D: CD\AUDIO\CNDMIDI SBSIM /u SBMIDI /u CD\ C: set comspec=c:\command.com set temp=c:\temp goto end :err echo To run !ar150b2.zip --- arrm 150b2(enter) pause dir e:\arachne\!ar*.zip /p pause :end ___________________________________________________________ -- Glenn http://arachne.cz/ http://freedos-32.sourceforge.net/ http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/download.htm
