Michael Polak wrote:
>
> 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 ?
Hi Michael;
Yes, optionally would be nice - but 256 may be limiting.
If target filename was extracted from last part of url - maybe 8+3 centered on
the last dot if it exists, could make life easier for the user.(Not you tho)<g>
eg: http://ichart.yahoo.com/w?s=nnc.to
might become: _w_s_nnc.to
OR maybe s_nnc_to.999 would be better to allow for handling
files from similar URLs and still make them individual and recognizable.
Please understand that the previous and this are just suggestions for possible
future enhancements. Not a distraction from your current work, just a topic for
discussion.
>
> > 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 agree. We get a LOT of attention for our 30 bucks. I would love to pay
YOU but, even if you had some special paid subscription baby-sitting service,
it couldn't work because there are not enough hours in your day.
>
> 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 :-(
Discussing money is NOT rude in this context. I know you are not a starving
artist, but when time is limited, money does help one to assign priorities.
You and Arachne labs must survive first. Then comes making users happy and
the fun stuff. I hope you find the time to make yourself happy.<G>
- Clarence Verge
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