On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Alexander R. Pruss wrote:
> Tim Wentworth had made a local change to his PyPlucker to put in a marker
> in the reserved byte in the record header to indicate whether the record
> is continued by the next one.
>
> I propose this become official. Specifically, I propose that bit 0 should
> be 0 if the current record is not continued and 1 if it is continued by
> the next record in the database. This will let one amalgamate all the
> fragments. I don't know how these kinds of changes to the format are
> made. Do we vote?
So this is just to combine fragments? Then it seems reasonable.
OTH some people have already asked about a more general mechanism
to link a sequence of pages into a stream (supposedly e.g. lynx does
this via some standard HTML mechanism). In that case it could become
awkward to force the parser to output all those pages in the correct
sequence (and then put images etc. at the end )... Maybe for that it
would be better to somewhere store an integer. I don't remember the
record format, but I assume it is not extensible enough to add something
like this?
Holger
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