# Arachne and DOSSHELL

DOSSHELL is Microsoft's official GUI for MS-DOS versions cca 6.x and older. Arachne uses enviroment variables extensively, and DOSSHELL had problemms with that. This is solution of the problem:

    From: "Guido"
    Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 13:46:52 -0800
    To: xchaos@arachne.cz
    Subject: ARACHNE

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    You can boot ARACHNE within DOSSHELL, if the autoexec.bat file
    contains

    SET ARACHNE=vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
    SET ARACHNETEMP=vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
    SET MYIP=vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
    SET REMIP=vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
    SET NETMASK=vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
    SET PEERMRU=vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv

    This allocates environment space before entering DOSSHELL. Then all
    is fine. (But, do not use task swapper!)

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