On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Clarence Verge wrote:
> There is some vague hope that a batch of URLs can be downloaded automatically
> with Arachne - but only because we have access to the ear of the author.
>
> Michael, would it be possible sometime to allow us to create a text file of
> sequential URLs and you would provide the means to download each and write
> each to an individual and recognizable file ? - as a batch operation ?
Half of it already works: the .asf scripting. See doc/acf_asf.htm
But they are stored in cache; how would you like to supply target filename
? Maybe I should always use just simple number (1...256) for filename in
cache ? or at least optionaly ?
> Yesterday, I actually HIRED someone and paid real cash money for them to sit
> and stare at the Netscape screen (I had set up another system - 100Mhz Pent)
> and for THREE HOURS they just waited and clicked, and clicked, and clicked -
> back and forth from screen to screen, printing 275 stock plots that I had
> saved on diskette from the last quarter of 1999. :-(((
>
> Help. ! There must be a way to get back the utility of DOS !!
Well, if you pay US (Arachne Labs), instead of these people, we can
definitely do a LOT of customizations specially for you, with higher
priority.
I don't want to sound rude about money, but there are tons of cool
features which you, me, and other people would like to see incorporated in
Arachne. I am trying to implement them all, but priority of various
improvements and customizations is different thing :-(
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