There's got to be another way. The current jpg to BMP conversion is the
single most guilty thing when it comes to slow speeds in Arachne. To
also be stuck with gif to BMP would be horrid!
Now, I may be way off base, but isn't the internal designation of
graphics files set at a specific place in those files? X number of
characters in from file start or whatever? And isn't it possible to
"read" a string from another file if you have an "address" for that
string? And whenever you can read a string you can then set a variable
value, right?
So if all the foregoing is true, why can't a simple "stand alone"
program be written with a decision tree be made that says something like
if %string%==G rename file.* file.gif else if %string%==J rename file.*
file.jpg etc etc etc? Can't that be done as the graphics files are
downloaded? Doesn't the htt[?] file rewrite the html anyway for
internal use of arachne, so any file changed could still be part of the
page?
Would that produce that much bloatware?
Am I being too simplistic here? Would this take a pile of code to do?
If it could be done, then everything else in Arachne could remain
untouched, right?
l.d.
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On Sun, 23 Apr 2000 22:36:26 +0200 (MET DST), Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dale Mentzer wrote:
>> I guess we need conversion programs sophisticated enough to check for
>> format before converting.
> It isn't that easy. In mime.cfg we specify what the output should be like
> and there's no way I can fix that by changing in djpeg. Only way would be
> to add a GIF2BMP program inside djpeg32.exe (or one that can be called by
> djpeg32.exe) but now we are talking bloatware again.
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