Excuse? Moi?
To paraphrase a rotten chain gang boss, in a Steve McQueen movies
somewhere back in the dark ages of my past, What we have here is a
failure to communicate!
I think somebody here must work for the government. Where I grew up
"item" inferred one, not a set signifying one. <G>
And a file is a file is a file, unless you're in windoze and then I
won't guarantee a darned thing.
If I'd read this message before I just cleaned my cache -- and yes, there
were a whole bunch of images since I'm trying to plan a trip to
Washington DC and that involves maps and other goodies like that -- I'll
bet I could have come up with more than 256 "items" in the cache.
Note later inserted: Just for the fish [that's "hallibut"] I saved this
to outbox, shelled out and did DIR on CACHE directory. I had 1,064
files in it, not counting the directory dots. I don't know that it's
possible, since 256 x 3 permutations is still less than 1,064 files.
Well, it was possible but ... After having spent more than 8 hours in
the planning of my July trip to my nation's capital to march for a new
civil rights issue, I had nothing better to do [while waiting for my
errant youngest child to decide to come home] than to spend a few hours
removubg "duplicates."
These are the "rules" I followed:
* Every HTT file which had a "matched" file was deleted, leaving only the
HTM or appropriate graphics file.
* Every JPG file which had a 'matched' BMP file was deleted.
That left a total of 558 items which were in cache. Of these items,
* There were 9 orphan HTT files -- no "matched" file of any sort.
* There were 8 HTM files which lacked 'matched' HTT file.
* There were 90 GIF files which lacked 'matched' HTT file.
* There were 67 JPG files which had neither BMP nor HTT 'matched' files.
[Note: If you notice those figures, it would seem to indicate that
Arachne isn't too good at clearing out graphics files; I could
understand the jpg getting "lost" but not the GIF files.]
Even subtracting the 174 "abberant files" above, that leaves 384 "items"
which were in the cache.
Now, before anyone "goes off" on this, I decided to screw around with it
because I *was* tired of all the web work I'd been doing and I figured
it was as good a diversion as the Bridge game I usually play on the
computer. Anyone who wants the file and feels masochistic can have it,
but others *might* doubt your sanity. <G>
However, I think all that work did point out a weakness -- the
inability to properly clear graphic files from cache for some reason.
[And many of the loose chains I find on my I:nternet drive start out with
GIF code ... and yes I routinely check my drives, and the only one
where I have to gather chains into files for screening & disposal is the
I: drive, 1 out of 16 logical drives].
Of course, all this may be moot, if Michael can't find a way to take a
computer with him into the military [except during basic training where
one would be rather in the way].
l.d.
P.S. I do have a heart ... I decided this message was long enough all
by itself, so I didn't quote *any* of the message from Bernie.
I just now almost burst out laughing. Here we are, talking about what
could amount to well over 2Mbytes of HDD space taken up by cache items
which may well be inaccessible, and I ran my first business on a computer
that had two 320K FDDs and 256K total memory. <G>
How things have changed .... };>
l.d.
