Re: Netscape and its cache

1999-10-12 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 12:35:04PM +0200, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote: > When I tried to use wwwoffle the only thing I noticed was a continuous > stream of errors: > Error writing to client [Broken pipe]; client disconnected?. > Oct 12 12:33:33 duckman wwwoffles[24568]: Timed out reading the reply.

Re: Netscape and its cache

1999-10-12 Thread Wouter Hanegraaff
> I'm using netscape with wwwoffle (www offline explorer, a personal http > proxy), > and it works very well. If you install this package, then you can switch off > the netscape cache, and the wwwoffle will keep the size of the cache below > the > configured limit. This solution has other advant

Re: Netscape and its cache

1999-10-11 Thread Bob Nielsen
w3m is available as a Debian package (included in potato, at least). On Mon, Oct 11, 1999 at 04:47:57PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > If you're looking for a better lynx than lynx, try w3m, found at > > http://ei5nazha.yz.yamagata-u.ac.jp/~aito/w3m/eng/. I've been playing with > > it > > r

Re: Netscape and its cache

1999-10-11 Thread iehrenwald
> I saw this mentioned on slashdot so I look a look at it and am very WHoops. took a look :P

Re: Netscape and its cache

1999-10-11 Thread iehrenwald
> If you're looking for a better lynx than lynx, try w3m, found at > http://ei5nazha.yz.yamagata-u.ac.jp/~aito/w3m/eng/. I've been playing with it > recently and it's not perfect, but I'm very impressed. I saw this mentioned on slashdot so I look a look at it and am very impressed with how it han

Re: Netscape and its cache

1999-10-11 Thread Robert Jones
Quoth Arcady Genkin on 11 Oct, 1999: > So, is there a viable alternative? I tried Mosaic, but it lacks some > important features. I use lynx quite often, but it's only good when > one wants to read some text pages. Emacs/W3 eats memory like crasy, > and is slow and lacks features even more... If

Re: Netscape and its cache

1999-10-11 Thread Thomas Keusch
On Mon, Oct 11, 1999 at 09:36:34AM +0200, E.L. Meijer Eric" wrote: > I noticed the same thing. It is broken as far as I can see. I added > the following line to my crontab: > > 50 ** 0/bin/rm -rf /home/tgakem/.netscape/cache You might want to try this instead: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Netscape and its cache

1999-10-11 Thread Art Lemasters
Netscape does not remove all cache through the browser preferences, as far as I've seen. Just do rm -r /home/yourusername/.netscape/cache (careful, and include /home/username/.netscape/cache in your path to avoid deleting other important directories!) then mkdir /home/yourusername/.netscape/

Re: Netscape and its cache

1999-10-11 Thread Bart Szyszka
> So, is there a viable alternative? I tried Mosaic, but it lacks some > important features. I use lynx quite often, but it's only good when > one wants to read some text pages. Emacs/W3 eats memory like crasy, > and is slow and lacks features even more... I like the browser in KDE's K File Manage

RE: Netscape and its cache

1999-10-11 Thread simka
Hello, On 11-Oct-99 Arcady Genkin wrote: > And this is because I deleted its contents manually several days ago. . > So it only cleared 700K. This pisses me off. Any ideas, anyone? I'm using netscape with wwwoffle (www offline explorer, a personal http proxy), and it works very well. If you in

Re: Netscape and its cache

1999-10-11 Thread aphro
i for one love netscape. mainly for it's roaming abilities. i setup mod_roaming on my main www server an can get my bookmarks and cookies and history files from any machine at any time. at home i use squid for my cache and i set my cache in netscape to 0. dont remember if netscape still caches th

Re: Netscape and its cache

1999-10-11 Thread Gerardo Mauricio Sarria
I've heard about Jazilla. Maybe... On Mon, 11 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > So, is there a viable alternative? I tried Mosaic, but it lacks some > > important features. I use lynx quite often, but it's only good when > > one wants to read some text pages. Emacs/W3 eats memory like crasy,

Re: Netscape and its cache

1999-10-11 Thread iehrenwald
> So, is there a viable alternative? I tried Mosaic, but it lacks some > important features. I use lynx quite often, but it's only good when > one wants to read some text pages. Emacs/W3 eats memory like crasy, > and is slow and lacks features even more... Heh. Nope. No alternative. You learn t

Re: Netscape and its cache

1999-10-11 Thread Arcady Genkin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > So it only cleared 700K. This pisses me off. Any ideas, anyone? > > Netscape's cache features never worked right. Netscape is a stupid and > terrible browser. So, is there a viable alternative? I tried Mosaic, but it lacks some important features. I use lynx quit

Re: Netscape and its cache

1999-10-11 Thread iehrenwald
> So it only cleared 700K. This pisses me off. Any ideas, anyone? Netscape's cache features never worked right. Netscape is a stupid and terrible browser. --Ian Ehrenwald

Re: Netscape and its cache

1999-10-11 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
On Mon, Oct 11, 1999 at 03:22:12AM -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote: > Hi all: > > I specified in Netscape's preferences disk cache of > 1000kBytes. However, whenever I go and "du ~/.netscape/cache", I > invariably get some huge number: > > 3,5Mcache > > And this is because I deleted its contents

Netscape and its cache

1999-10-11 Thread Arcady Genkin
Hi all: I specified in Netscape's preferences disk cache of 1000kBytes. However, whenever I go and "du ~/.netscape/cache", I invariably get some huge number: 3,5Mcache And this is because I deleted its contents manually several days ago. Now, even funnier. When I do "Clear Disk Cache" from