On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 01:15:26PM +0000, Jim Nagel wrote: > A typical item within this folder is filetyped as text but contains > gobbledygook.
"Text" is the default file type for files created using UnixLib. Given these files are not meant to be consumed by humans, I don't see a problem there. (The actual gobbledydook is the cached data and headers.) > What is supposed to control expiry? Can't find anything about expiry > within the !Cache application itself. !Cache is not NetSurf-specific. The control settings are in each application that uses it. > Ah, Netsurf choices--cache. Disc cache size is set at 1024M (which > I presume is meant as a max), and expiry at 28 days. Those figures > seem to be defaults, because I have never altered them. > > Don't recall any discussion or explanation when Netsurf adopted !Cache > -- when was that? Maybe it happened while I was away and I missed it. It happened when Vince implemented disc caching :) This was some time ago, perhaps even before our last stable release. If that's the case, the last release announcement would have included a mention. If it isn't, then it'll be mentioned via version control for our test builds. > !Cache, according to its helpfile, was written by Adam Richardson > ("Snowstone") in 2007. The current version 1.13 on his website has a > runfile dated 2007-june-14. The runfile of my active copy in Boot > Resources (which presumably came with a recent-ish version of Netsurf > inside its usual boot-update file) is dated 2014-09-16, but !Sidediff > shows it is identical to the 2007 runfile. Time stamps on files are advisory, not gospel. :) The 2014-09-16 is probably when you merged your first build of NetSurf that included it. B.