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You are right, that Arachne's still noticabe slower than Netscape.
Paralell download of two images at once helped a lot, but Arachne now
needs "Keep alive" option.
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What is "keep alive" in this context?
Lots of little images mean one server call for each image, which makes the WWW
into the World Wide Wait.
Something also needs to be done about the cache directory overrun, or are we
just supposed to hit F8 to trash the cache every so often? I am up to 717 files
(including . and ..), 15177551 bytes, and no doubt need to F8.
I just viewed a news download file, offline, with Arachne 1.61, N0188.MSG, first
as text, then after renaming to N0188.MES. N0188.MES did better. N0188.MSG
display was truncated in the middle of the second message, apparently because of
an ASCII 26 character that showed as a little right arrow when viewed with
PLESS, which runs in DOS and is comparable to "less" in Linux/Unix. So that is
a bug that needs to be fixed. I want to be able to view the Tiny Editor
THELP.HLP file in Arachne to see what the upper ASCII characters look like, but
there is an ASCII 26 character that Arachne mistakes for an end of file. When I
open a file in C or C++, I always use binary mode because of that bug, never
text, even if it is really a text file.
