Brian Jordan wrote on 13 Feb: > In article <9b5f51d953....@abbeypress.net>, > Jim Nagel <nets...@abbeypress.co.uk> wrote: >> Suggestion to the Netsurf team:
>> Please, could you include an extra "Readme-date" file in the download >> zipfile that would simply state in plain text the date of the last >> actual change and words to the effect that "If you have updated !Boot >> and !System since this date, there is no need to do it this time." >> It would save the chore of going to every machine and repepetititively >> performing the merge-boot and merge-system rigamarole when it isn't >> necessary. (The rest of the job of updating the !Netsurf application >> on all stations can be done over the network.) Thanks. > I work on the assumption that if a merge-boot or merge-system is required > that NetSurf will let me know with an appropriate message. Otherwise I > just let NetSurf get on with it. Am I under vigilant or are you over > vigilant? It seems to me that the NetSurf team have far bigger fish than > this to fry. Maybe I am being overpunctilious, but I'm just following the instructions in the existing&unchanging Readme that comes as part of the download. >From what you say, I can see that Netsurf might give a warning about a module being out of date. But the Unicode stuff is not modules: would Netsurf warn if any Unicode files are missing or outdated? -- Jim Nagel www.archivemag.co.uk || See you at the SW show? March 1 www.riscos-swshow.co.uk
