On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Bernie wrote:
> >If you are interested in some more tight cooperation, ie. taking care
> >about what official version of something is, you are welcome ! I would
> >just download before new release ;)
>
> Do I get paid? ;-) (You did promise some payment when there was enough
> money... <G>)
Yes, actually, this would be possible now, but I am really afraid, that
the money would be very insignificant in your country. But I believe this
is better option than pure open source development.
> (Sounding exhausted) Here we go again...
> Do you remember the incorrect mime.cfg used for that version? (Apparently
> not...)
There was IMHO one more problen besides wrong command line, but I am not
sure... but anyway, this is problem of lack of release manager...
> I think I've been blaimed a little too much for that episode now since
> noone that changed mime.cfg (per my instructions - you forgot to make the
> changes to the mime.cfg that was shipped) had any problems. It _could_
> create problems but noone that actually had a correct mime.cfg reported of
> any - and only if you downloaded/installed from a very long URL/path (such
> as: M:\BACKUP\DOS\INTERNET\BROWSER\ARACHNE\PLUGINS\SOMEAPM.APM - although
Yes, I think the long pathnames were realy problem. Then I aded your
command line (in next release), and it ended in nonone being able to use
it, because full path toArachne was 4x on command line. Its not your
fault...
> my M: has moved to an, for me, unknown letter by now <G>)
> Still the APMs is one of the things that come up rather regulary, so it
> must be made better (most importantly backing things up and making a copy
> of the APM) - that's on my long-term to-do list (I can solve the second one
> safely already - just read the download directory from arachne.cfg).
Maybe APM should offer some pre-installation screen first, suggesting
backup copy location, etc., and asking user to confirm full installation
and backup...
> >I thought that compression is performed usually by modem ?
>
> That too, but it can be done in software as well (for instance Windows 9x
> has this option in it's TCP/IP settings). The header is already compressed
> in 0.6 (Van Jacobson CSLIP compression - used by PPP as well despite the
> name). However it will use more memory (I haven't tested it yet but I know
> it will), but as long as I get it down that shouldn't matter IMHO.
I think memory is more important then mote compression... it can be
optional APM for users with optimized DOS...
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