On Mon, 1 Mar 2004 at 13:55, Chris Hawks wrote:

> > First, I'd recommend a couple of changes:
> >
> > 1.  suggest particular values for the default directories.  like
> > c:\plucker\pluck-comics\list or whatever...
>
>     Normally 'configure' fills in the defaults. @COMICS_DIR@ 's default is
> '/var/spool/netcomics' and @COMICSLIST_DIR@ 'a default is
> '/usr/local/share/plucker/comics'.

Right, but the document I'm referring to is a "HowTo" for Windows users.
Default values would be nice.

> > After following the instructions, I get none of them saved on my pc.
> >
> > So here's what I did:
> >
> >  1. Put the pluck-comics in c:\program files\plucker\tools\pluck-comics
> >  2. Set the destination to c:\misc\pluck-comics\comics (which I created)
> >  3. Put the .list files into c:\misc\pluck-comics\lib (which I created)
> >  4. Created the pc.bat batch file, adding @echo off at the top (otherwise,
> >     it's unchanged from the sample.
> >  5. ran the batch file from the command line or through the explorer
> >  6. checked the output:
> >     it created c:\...comics\index.html which has no comics in it.
> >
> > Hints?  I don't think I did anything wrong....
>
>     Try setting (pluck-comics.py) to verbose mode. (add -v to the command
> line) It will let you know if if can't fetch the comics.

Fetching Page http://www.ucomics.com/calvinandhobbes/viewch.htm
Comic calvinandhobbes failed!
Fetching Page http://www.ucomics.com/ziggy/viewzi.htm
Comic ziggy failed!
Creating Home Page c:\....



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