======= On 2003-06-04 at 20:54:00 Glenn McCorkle wrote: ======= >Since most of the images we encounter on the web are named in LFN format. > >It will be "next to imposible" to do it in DOS. > >That is why Arachne must save the files into the cache in 8.3 format. >8 numerical digits and a 3 character file extension.
Just FYI, the best known of the smaller current multi-platform (though not DOS) browsers uses 8.3 filenames in its cache. When a webpage is saved with images, the images are given 8.3 filenames based on their originals (not those in cache) and the page source is re-written using these names AND placing all the images in the same directory as the HTML. Before Arachne's cache indexing went wrong, I'd occasionally save the cache as a way to browse pages with images offline. A download manager (WGET?) might be an option, but I don't know how/if the LFNs are handled. Cheers, Jake Young
