Fetching NetSurf
Last October, John Williams created Fetch_NS, a tool to check for and fetch the latest development build of NetSurf for RISC OS. I added a couple of features and put it on my website (with John's consent), but I seem to have forgotten to announce it... As the development builds of NetSurf now come in two versions - with or without JavaScript support - I added functionality to choose between the two (no fancy GUI or anything like that - just setting a variable in an Obey script). Go to http://aconet.org/tools#fetchns to download. Please do not respond to this message on this list! === This is just an announcement for the benefit of NetSurf users who want an easy way to check for, download and install the latest development version. Discussions about Fetch_NS should be held elsewhere. Please use comp.sys.acorn.apps or archive-online for that. Regards, Frank
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On 14 Oct at 20:02, Alan Leighton alan.leight...@ntlworld.com wrote: In message 52dea12cebch...@chris-johnson.org.uk cj ch...@chris-johnson.org.uk wrote: In article 52de9a64e1ris...@gotadsl.co.uk, Richard Ashbery ris...@gotadsl.co.uk wrote: Peter - what I didn't clarify is that John's utility and curl works correctly on the Iyonix (RISC OS 5.18) but not on BB (RISC OS 5.19). I get the same segmentation fault you highlighted earlier. The current version of cURL will not run on the BB. As mentioned by Frank, use wget instead - that works fine on the BB (ARMini). I guess cURL simply needs a recompile with ARMv7 friendly flags. I run an Iyonix 5.18 and I hope one day some one will make sense of all this fetching stuff and how people like me can make use of it. Well at the end all I did was: 1. Make a new Directory 2. Put Curl in it 3. Put Fetch_NS in it 4. Double click on Curl 5. Double click on Fetch_NS and after quite a few nano seconds, an archive appeared in that Directory with a name such as 463/zip and containing a new Netsurf, with installation instructions in the Readme file: Basically just run the Netsurf within. This was on a VRPC. Totally lost from Middlesbrough, I see your MP has just died, you must be bereft. -- Tim Powys-Lybbe t...@powys.org for a miscellany of bygones: http://powys.org/
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And Netsurf 3.0 (Dev C1 #463) now works well, so more thanks. Ditto here. Thanks for #463 Fetch_NS Excellent utility John - great time saver - many thanks Richard
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On 14 Oct 2012 Richard Ashbery ris...@gotadsl.co.uk wrote: And Netsurf 3.0 (Dev C1 #463) now works well, so more thanks. Ditto here. Thanks for #463 Fetch_NS Excellent utility John - great time saver - many thanks Bewilderment continues here, I'm afraid. It seems that my previous download was corrupted somehow, and there's potential for it working on the ARMini, but it does nothing at all on VRPC running RISC OS 4.02. On the ARMini it's evident that cURL doesn't work, and falls over with the error message I posted upthread, but there are two oddities. Even though cURL is in Boot.Library, Fetch_NS reports: 14 Oct 13:48:25 000 00D6: Error from Fetch latest NetSurf: File 'curl' not found unless I open the library so that cURL is booted. Then I get the error message when cURL doesn't work, then a very odd message: 4 Oct 14:28:59 000 00CC: Error from (unknown): File name '.' not recognise, in spite of: *show Fetch$Dir Fetch$Dir : SCSI::armini.$.Internet.!Fetch_NS and if I do a Filer_OpenDir on SCSI::armini.$.Internet.!Fetch_NS.^ (without the trailing dot) the correct directory opens, but not if it does have the trailing dot. Has anyone found an ARMini-compatible cURL yet? And why should I get the above two error messages? Or is it just not something that will work with an ARMini? With best wishes, Peter (a.k.a. puzzled of Cheltenham). -- Peter \ / zfc Ta \ Prestbury, Cheltenham, Glos. GL52 and \/ ____ \ England. family / / \ | | |\ | / _ \ http://pnyoung.orpheusweb.co.uk / \__/ \_/ | \| \__/ \__ pnyo...@ormail.co.uk
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On 14 Oct 2012 Peter Young pnyo...@ormail.co.uk wrote: On 14 Oct 2012 Richard Ashbery ris...@gotadsl.co.uk wrote: And Netsurf 3.0 (Dev C1 #463) now works well, so more thanks. Ditto here. Thanks for #463 Fetch_NS Excellent utility John - great time saver - many thanks Bewilderment continues here, I'm afraid. But no longer! I took up Frank's suggestion of replacing cURL with wget, and it now works, very fast too; sorry to have wittered on so much! Also, I had been expecting task windows to open, which added to the mystification. If I can get a round tuit (or preferably someone who understands things better could get one of those), would there be interest in adding bits to the program, similar to the bits I had in my old script? What these did is: 1) Copy the old NetSurf as Old_NS (note the lack of pling) and then delete the old app. 2) Do sequential deletes and copies so that the last three zips are kept for backup. 3) Open the new zip and copy out the app to the directory in which the script is. With best wishes, Peter. -- Peter \ / zfc Ta \ Prestbury, Cheltenham, Glos. GL52 and \/ ____ \ England. family / / \ | | |\ | / _ \ http://pnyoung.orpheusweb.co.uk / \__/ \_/ | \| \__/ \__ pnyo...@ormail.co.uk
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In article a64c8dde52.pnyo...@pnyoung.ormail.co.uk, Peter Young pnyo...@ormail.co.uk wrote: unless I open the library so that cURL is booted. Are you putting the curl *binary* in to Boot:Library? If you are putting the !cURL *application* in Boot:Library it will not work because nothing in Boot:Library is booted at boot time. Either extract the cURL binary from the app and put in to Library or put the !cURL application in to eg Boot:Resources, where the app will be booted. -- Chris Johnson
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In article 8ff38ede52.pnyo...@pnyoung.ormail.co.uk, Peter Young pnyo...@ormail.co.uk wrote: would there be interest in adding bits to the program, similar to the bits I had in my old script? I have a script that does that and more, although I need to extend it to deal with the case when the latest version hasn't changed. Contact me privately in a day or so - I may have a round tuit by then. -- Chris Johnson
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On 14 Oct 2012 cj ch...@chris-johnson.org.uk wrote: In article 8ff38ede52.pnyo...@pnyoung.ormail.co.uk, Peter Young pnyo...@ormail.co.uk wrote: would there be interest in adding bits to the program, similar to the bits I had in my old script? I have a script that does that and more, although I need to extend it to deal with the case when the latest version hasn't changed. Contact me privately in a day or so - I may have a round tuit by then. That sounds interesting, and I will do that. I was tempted to fiddle with my script, but you know what you're doing and I don't! That all assumes, though, that the other problems get sorted by then. With best wishes, Peter. -- Peter \ / zfc Ta \ Prestbury, Cheltenham, Glos. GL52 and \/ ____ \ England. family / / \ | | |\ | / _ \ http://pnyoung.orpheusweb.co.uk / \__/ \_/ | \| \__/ \__ pnyo...@ormail.co.uk
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On 14 Oct 2012 cj ch...@chris-johnson.org.uk wrote: In article a64c8dde52.pnyo...@pnyoung.ormail.co.uk, Peter Young pnyo...@ormail.co.uk wrote: unless I open the library so that cURL is booted. Are you putting the curl *binary* in to Boot:Library? If you are putting the !cURL *application* in Boot:Library it will not work because nothing in Boot:Library is booted at boot time. Either extract the cURL binary from the app and put in to Library or put the !cURL application in to eg Boot:Resources, where the app will be booted. Yes, I wondered about that, and tried both ways; neither of them worked on the ARMini. Has anyone got cURL working on a similar machine? Even odder: I was able to make Fetch_NS work using wget before I had to go out. After coming back and re-starting the machine, it now fails again with the File name 'SCSI::armini.$.Internet.!Fetch_NS.^.. (I managed to garble this message upthread.) Please, someone, tell me what I'm doing wrong! I'll have to go out again later this evening, so won't have time for more experiments today. With best wishes, Peter. -- Peter \ / zfc Ta \ Prestbury, Cheltenham, Glos. GL52 and \/ ____ \ England. family / / \ | | |\ | / _ \ http://pnyoung.orpheusweb.co.uk / \__/ \_/ | \| \__/ \__ pnyo...@ormail.co.uk
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In article a64c8dde52.pnyo...@pnyoung.ormail.co.uk, Peter Young pnyo...@ormail.co.uk wrote: On 14 Oct 2012 Richard Ashbery ris...@gotadsl.co.uk wrote: And Netsurf 3.0 (Dev C1 #463) now works well, so more thanks. Ditto here. Thanks for #463 Fetch_NS Excellent utility John - great time saver - many thanks Bewilderment continues here, I'm afraid. It seems that my previous download was corrupted somehow, and there's potential for it working on the ARMini, but it does nothing at all on VRPC running RISC OS 4.02. Peter - what I didn't clarify is that John's utility and curl works correctly on the Iyonix (RISC OS 5.18) but not on BB (RISC OS 5.19). I get the same segmentation fault you highlighted earlier. Would be nice to see curl work on ARMv7. Richard
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In article 52de8f9e88ch...@chris-johnson.org.uk, cj ch...@chris-johnson.org.uk wrote: In article a64c8dde52.pnyo...@pnyoung.ormail.co.uk, Peter Young pnyo...@ormail.co.uk wrote: unless I open the library so that cURL is booted. Are you putting the curl *binary* in to Boot:Library? If you are putting the !cURL *application* in Boot:Library it will not work because nothing in Boot:Library is booted at boot time. Either extract the cURL binary from the app and put in to Library or put the !cURL application in to eg Boot:Resources, where the app will be booted. Confirmed - !cURL application must be in Boot:Resources Excuse me butting in but on BB -xM (RISC OS 5.19) with !cURL application in Boot:Resources segmentation fault occurs as described in Peter's earlier posting. On my Iyonix (RISC OS 5.18) !cURL is in Boot:Resources and in conjunction with !Fetch_NS all works correctly without error. Regards Richard
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On 14 Oct 2012 Peter Young pnyo...@ormail.co.uk wrote: [snip] Even odder: I was able to make Fetch_NS work using wget before I had to go out. After coming back and re-starting the machine, it now fails again with the File name 'SCSI::armini.$.Internet.!Fetch_NS.^.. (I managed to garble this message upthread.) Please, someone, tell me what I'm doing wrong! The strangeness continues! I did a re-start, and now it works again! I would have a stiff drink if I didn't have to drive later :-) A friend insists that computers are full of fairy dust, and I'm beginning to believe her! With best wishes, Peter. -- Peter \ / zfc Ta \ Prestbury, Cheltenham, Glos. GL52 and \/ ____ \ England. family / / \ | | |\ | / _ \ http://pnyoung.orpheusweb.co.uk / \__/ \_/ | \| \__/ \__ pnyo...@ormail.co.uk
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On 14 Oct 2012 Richard Ashbery ris...@gotadsl.co.uk wrote: In article a64c8dde52.pnyo...@pnyoung.ormail.co.uk, Peter Young pnyo...@ormail.co.uk wrote: On 14 Oct 2012 Richard Ashbery ris...@gotadsl.co.uk wrote: And Netsurf 3.0 (Dev C1 #463) now works well, so more thanks. Ditto here. Thanks for #463 Fetch_NS Excellent utility John - great time saver - many thanks Bewilderment continues here, I'm afraid. It seems that my previous download was corrupted somehow, and there's potential for it working on the ARMini, but it does nothing at all on VRPC running RISC OS 4.02. Peter - what I didn't clarify is that John's utility and curl works correctly on the Iyonix (RISC OS 5.18) but not on BB (RISC OS 5.19). I get the same segmentation fault you highlighted earlier. Would be nice to see curl work on ARMv7. Thanks, and agreed, but wget is doing the business for me now, at least some of the time! If I felt stronger, I might have tried cURL under Aemulor. With best wishes, Peter. -- Peter \ / zfc Ta \ Prestbury, Cheltenham, Glos. GL52 and \/ ____ \ England. family / / \ | | |\ | / _ \ http://pnyoung.orpheusweb.co.uk / \__/ \_/ | \| \__/ \__ pnyo...@ormail.co.uk
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In article 52de9a64e1ris...@gotadsl.co.uk, Richard Ashbery ris...@gotadsl.co.uk wrote: Peter - what I didn't clarify is that John's utility and curl works correctly on the Iyonix (RISC OS 5.18) but not on BB (RISC OS 5.19). I get the same segmentation fault you highlighted earlier. The current version of cURL will not run on the BB. As mentioned by Frank, use wget instead - that works fine on the BB (ARMini). I guess cURL simply needs a recompile with ARMv7 friendly flags. -- Chris Johnson
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In message 52dea12cebch...@chris-johnson.org.uk cj ch...@chris-johnson.org.uk wrote: In article 52de9a64e1ris...@gotadsl.co.uk, Richard Ashbery ris...@gotadsl.co.uk wrote: Peter - what I didn't clarify is that John's utility and curl works correctly on the Iyonix (RISC OS 5.18) but not on BB (RISC OS 5.19). I get the same segmentation fault you highlighted earlier. The current version of cURL will not run on the BB. As mentioned by Frank, use wget instead - that works fine on the BB (ARMini). I guess cURL simply needs a recompile with ARMv7 friendly flags. I run an Iyonix 5.18 and I hope one day some one will make sense of all this fetching stuff and how people like me can make use of it. Totally lost from Middlesbrough, Alan --
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In article 52dea1b6e3ch...@chris-johnson.org.uk, cj ch...@chris-johnson.org.uk wrote: Well, I now have a modified version of 'Fetch_NS' that works fine on the ARMini. In addition to actually fetching the latest release (if there is one) it will quit NetSurf, rotate the 4 previous backup versions I like to keep many recent versions so I can retrospectively pinpoint when a change in behaviour occured - between version ? and ?. This is because one may not always immediately find a problem - only when one visits a particular site. Being able to specify a last version which worked may be useful to the developers in isolating a change which caused it. Just my opinion! John
Fetching NetSurf
If anyone RISC OS-side has a need for a new downloading app, I've put mine at: http://petit.four.free.fr/FetchNS.zip It saves the latest version, if not already downloaded, in the directory where you put it. It uses the LATEST file the developers have thoughtfully provided. My old version had to parse the old Builds page! John --- To alter your preferences or leave the group, visit http://www.freelists.org/list/iyonix-support Other info via http://www.freelists.org/webpage/iyonix-support List-related queries to iyonix-support-moderat...@freelists.org
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On 13 Oct 2012 John Williams joh...@ukgateway.net wrote: If anyone RISC OS-side has a need for a new downloading app, I've put mine at: http://petit.four.free.fr/FetchNS.zip It saves the latest version, if not already downloaded, in the directory where you put it. It uses the LATEST file the developers have thoughtfully provided. My old version had to parse the old Builds page! A great idea, but not working for me; ARMini, RISC OS 5.19. Initially, I get the unhelpful message: 13 Oct 17:46:20 000 0168: Error from (unknown): Unknown operand and have discovered that the only system variable needed by either Fetch_NS or cURL (yes, it's in Boot.Library) is Fetch$Dir. Flailing round wildly in my ignorance, I ran the SetLatest BASIC program, so as to set the Previous*** system variable, and Fetch_NS now runs but falls over with: pc:9da08 sp: 207f8c ^post_signal() pc:9dd14 sp: 207fa4 __unixlib_raise_signal() pc:f9ea4 sp: 206b54 __h_cback() pc:25008 sp: 206b70 strncasecmp() pc: ba3c sp: 206b80 ?() pc:32084 sp: 206e10 ?() pc:3368c sp: 206f60 ?() pc:b3950 sp: 206f78 _main() Termination signal received: Segmentation fault * Any ideas as to what is going on would be gratefully received! With best wishes, Peter. -- Peter \ / zfc Ta \ Prestbury, Cheltenham, Glos. GL52 and \/ ____ \ England. family / / \ | | |\ | / _ \ http://pnyoung.orpheusweb.co.uk / \__/ \_/ | \| \__/ \__ pnyo...@ormail.co.uk
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In article eee21ade52.pnyo...@pnyoung.ormail.co.uk, Peter Young pnyo...@ormail.co.uk wrote: Any ideas as to what is going on would be gratefully received! Try going in to !Fetch_NS.!Run and change the line If NetSurf$LatestVersion THEN Set NetSurf$PreviousVersion NetSurf$LatestVersion to If NetSurf$LatestVersion THEN Set NetSurf$PreviousVersion NetSurf$LatestVersion It then works OK. I have always had an automated way of upgrading NetSurf. It is possible to extend the !Run file to keep the previous version(s) and automatically copy !NetSurf out of the archive etc. Obey files can be very powerful! -- Chris Johnson
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In article eee21ade52.pnyo...@pnyoung.ormail.co.uk, Peter Young pnyo...@ormail.co.uk wrote: Fetch_NS now runs but falls over with: pc:9da08 sp: 207f8c ^post_signal() pc:9dd14 sp: 207fa4 __unixlib_raise_signal() pc:f9ea4 sp: 206b54 __h_cback() pc:25008 sp: 206b70 strncasecmp() pc: ba3c sp: 206b80 ?() pc:32084 sp: 206e10 ?() pc:3368c sp: 206f60 ?() pc:b3950 sp: 206f78 _main() Termination signal received: Segmentation fault This is cURL falling over. Is it ARMv7 compatible? I haven't tried yet on the ARMini. -- Chris Johnson
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On 13 Oct 2012 cj ch...@chris-johnson.org.uk wrote: In article eee21ade52.pnyo...@pnyoung.ormail.co.uk, Peter Young pnyo...@ormail.co.uk wrote: Any ideas as to what is going on would be gratefully received! Try going in to !Fetch_NS.!Run and change the line If NetSurf$LatestVersion THEN Set NetSurf$PreviousVersion NetSurf$LatestVersion to If NetSurf$LatestVersion THEN Set NetSurf$PreviousVersion NetSurf$LatestVersion It then works OK. Not here, I'm afraid. Made that change, and still get the Unknown operand error. Then I tried it on VRPC, RISC OS 4.02, and got the same error. I have always had an automated way of upgrading NetSurf. So did I, and of course it no longer works. It is possible to extend the !Run file to keep the previous version(s) and automatically copy !NetSurf out of the archive etc. Obey files can be very powerful! Yes. my script did that, and also kept the three previous zips as backups. With best wishes, Peter. -- Peter \ / zfc Ta \ Prestbury, Cheltenham, Glos. GL52 and \/ ____ \ England. family / / \ | | |\ | / _ \ http://pnyoung.orpheusweb.co.uk / \__/ \_/ | \| \__/ \__ pnyo...@ormail.co.uk
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On 13 Oct 2012 cj ch...@chris-johnson.org.uk wrote: In article eee21ade52.pnyo...@pnyoung.ormail.co.uk, Peter Young pnyo...@ormail.co.uk wrote: Fetch_NS now runs but falls over with: pc:9da08 sp: 207f8c ^post_signal() pc:9dd14 sp: 207fa4 __unixlib_raise_signal() pc:f9ea4 sp: 206b54 __h_cback() pc:25008 sp: 206b70 strncasecmp() pc: ba3c sp: 206b80 ?() pc:32084 sp: 206e10 ?() pc:3368c sp: 206f60 ?() pc:b3950 sp: 206f78 _main() Termination signal received: Segmentation fault This is cURL falling over. Is it ARMv7 compatible? I haven't tried yet on the ARMini. I suspect it isn't compatible; I'll be interested to see what you got on the ARMini. With best wishes, Peter. -- Peter \ / zfc Ta \ Prestbury, Cheltenham, Glos. GL52 and \/ ____ \ England. family / / \ | | |\ | / _ \ http://pnyoung.orpheusweb.co.uk / \__/ \_/ | \| \__/ \__ pnyo...@ormail.co.uk
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In article 52de1d213bch...@chris-johnson.org.uk, cj ch...@chris-johnson.org.uk wrote: Try going in to !Fetch_NS.!Run and change the line If NetSurf$LatestVersion THEN Set NetSurf$PreviousVersion NetSurf$LatestVersion to If NetSurf$LatestVersion THEN Set NetSurf$PreviousVersion NetSurf$LatestVersion It then works OK. That part does, yes. Unfortunately, the next hurdle is curl itself. I tried four different versions. The oldest one didn't know the -k switch and the other three reported they 'Failed writing header'. That's on an Iyonix, by the way. What's the most recent port of curl and where does one get it? Google directed me to 7.11.0 by James Bursa and that's one of the ones that fail. For the record, 7.10.8 and 7.16.4 have the same problem. Regards, Frank
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In article 52de202c94netsurf-...@aconet.nl, Frank de Bruijn netsurf-...@aconet.nl wrote: That part does, yes. Unfortunately, the next hurdle is curl itself. I tried four different versions. The oldest one didn't know the -k switch and the other three reported they 'Failed writing header'. That's on an Iyonix, by the way. Never mind. I switched to wget. Just changed the 'curl' bits to wget and the three options (-s -k -o) to the single -qO (that's an uppercase O by the way) and that works like a charm. Regards, Frank
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In article 52de202c94netsurf-...@aconet.nl, Frank de Bruijn netsurf-...@aconet.nl wrote: Google directed me to 7.11.0 by James Bursa and that's one of the ones that fail. That's the one I used (7.11.0) which did work on the Iyonix (RISC OS 5.19, 4-Oct-2012). -- Chris Johnson
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In article 52de2a7a21ch...@chris-johnson.org.uk, cj ch...@chris-johnson.org.uk wrote: In article 52de202c94netsurf-...@aconet.nl, Frank de Bruijn netsurf-...@aconet.nl wrote: Google directed me to 7.11.0 by James Bursa and that's one of the ones that fail. That's the one I used (7.11.0) which did work on the Iyonix (RISC OS 5.19, 4-Oct-2012). Thanks, but I've got it working now. Some completely forgotten rc file was interfering. Regards, Frank
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On 13 Oct 2012 Frank de Bruijn netsurf-...@aconet.nl wrote: In article 52de202c94netsurf-...@aconet.nl, Frank de Bruijn netsurf-...@aconet.nl wrote: That part does, yes. Unfortunately, the next hurdle is curl itself. I tried four different versions. The oldest one didn't know the -k switch and the other three reported they 'Failed writing header'. That's on an Iyonix, by the way. Never mind. I switched to wget. Just changed the 'curl' bits to wget and the three options (-s -k -o) to the single -qO (that's an uppercase O by the way) and that works like a charm. Done all that, as far as I can see, and still get the unknown operand error. wget 1.12 here. With best wishes, Peter. -- Peter \ / zfc Ta \ Prestbury, Cheltenham, Glos. GL52 and \/ ____ \ England. family / / \ | | |\ | / _ \ http://pnyoung.orpheusweb.co.uk / \__/ \_/ | \| \__/ \__ pnyo...@ormail.co.uk
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In article 52de1d213bch...@chris-johnson.org.uk, cj ch...@chris-johnson.org.uk wrote: to If NetSurf$LatestVersion Now changed in the download, thanks Chris. I really knew that - once! Must make a note somewhere! Sorry NetSurf team for taking up lots of your list! John
