First post, by mike_canada
Arachne 1.70 is a graphical web browser for DOS.
I made myself a bootable CD that is basically an emulated hard disk.
I put the CD into a new external CD/DVD drive attached to my (old) dell wyse thin client.
Booting is OK, and the file contents are shown on drive C which is also OK. I also see that drive C is read-only which I could understand since CDs are normally not-writable.
But now, I run arachne. I can setup my network configuration OK, but I noticed that the image processing plugins (arachne APM files) behave very strange and I can confirm this on the DOS commandline itself.
The two files meant for image processing that come with Arachne are DJPEG32.EXE and PNG2BMP.EXE. Regardless of whatever program arguments I use, if I execute either of those files, I get this message:
Write protect error writing drive C
Abort, Retry, Fail?
If I press "F" for DJPEG32.EXE then I see a list of parameters I could use but they don't change how the program starts up.
If I press "F" for PNG2BMP.EXE then I get this message:
Warning: cannot open swap file c:\cwsdpmi.swp
The memory situation is as follows after the core drivers (xmsdsk, mouse, fetpkt) are loaded:
XMS memory:
64MB total accessible by system. (thin client actually has 256MB)
32MB is used for a ramdrive. XMSDSK is a handy utility for this.
32MB is free
514KB conventional memory is free.
Is there a way I can make the programs above not attempt to write to the C drive?
