Date: Sun, 20 Jul 1997 17:24:08 -0600 (MDT)
From: Scott Dowdle <dowdle AT icstech DOT com>
To: OpenDOS Mailing List <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: WebSpyder Install?
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Hello from Great Falls, Montana!

First a brief history and then onto my question. :)

My primary interest is with Linux and I've been using it almost
exclusively for 2.5 years now.  I keep up on all of the Caldera stuff and
went through the CND betas, CND 1.0, and now OpenLinux Standard.  Since I
keep up with Caldera stuff, I've been interested in OpenDOS as well.  Does
that sound familar?

Anyway, I'm mainly interested in OpenDOS because of WebSpyder.  I have
Linux on a laptop and that's what I use MOST of the time.  So... I thought
I'd give WebSpyder a shot on my wife's desktop 486.  She uses MS-DOS and
MS WGFW 3.11.  I don't dare try to install OpenDOS on HER machine because
if anything happens to it (as things usually do with Windows 3.x anyway)
it'll be my fault.

So, I decided to install WebSpyder on it... and it altered a few of the
system configuration files.  When I want to play with WebSpyder on her
machine, I just want to be able to cd to the dir it's in and run it by
hand.  I don't want it or any of the Novell PPP stuff to be part of the
bootup process... but it appears that it changed a few things and I tried
my best to clean things up but there is some reference somewhere to
NETWORK.DRV in some file that I can't find.  I cleaned up all of the .ini
files that are common, the autoexec.bat of course, but I'm still getting
some sort of bitch message when my wife runs MS Windows.  Upon startup, a
warning dialog says, NETWORK.DRV not found.  It doesn't appear to affect
anything but I'd like to get rid of the message so I can make my wife a
happy camper.

Anyone have any clue where the reference to NETWORK.DRV is that I might
have overlooked?  Trust me, I pruned all of the standard files (that come
up with the System Editor program) so I'm lost where Windows is finding
that reference.

Please help!

Otherwise, noting the given known bugs with WebSpyder, I'm fairly
impressed with it and look forward to the final release.  I've got my
parents using a WebTV right now because they are computer illiterate and I
wanted them to have basic Internet access without having to fight with
learning a computer.  WebSpyder looks like it might be a better
alternative in the not too distant future.

TYL, Scott Dowdle - Great Falls, Montana - Linux OS User
dowdle AT icstech DOT com