Re: Fetching NetSurf

2012-10-14 Thread John Williams
In article <52dea1b6e3ch...@chris-johnson.org.uk>, cj 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 kee

Re: Fetching NetSurf

2012-10-14 Thread Alan Leighton
In message <52dea12cebch...@chris-johnson.org.uk> cj wrote: > In article <52de9a64e1ris...@gotadsl.co.uk>, >Richard Ashbery 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

Re: Fetching NetSurf

2012-10-14 Thread cj
In article <08749dde52.pnyo...@pnyoung.ormail.co.uk>, Peter Young wrote: > That sounds interesting, and I will do that. 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, r

Re: RISC OS: Squeezed executable

2012-10-14 Thread Michael Drake
In article , Chris Young wrote: > On Sun, 14 Oct 2012 14:31:48 +0100, Rob Kendrick wrote: > Is this a RISC OS-only feature, as thumbnails get lost here after > quitting? Yes, but it's broken on RISC OS anyway. -- Michael Drake (tlsa) http://www.netsurf-browser.org/

Re: RISC OS: Squeezed executable

2012-10-14 Thread Chris Young
On Sun, 14 Oct 2012 14:31:48 +0100, Rob Kendrick wrote: > > I'm at a loss to understand exactly what 'bitmaps' NetSurf could have > > 'modified' in the course of the session, or where it's 'saving' them to. > > All I know is that this is a horrendously inefficient operation! > > They're probably

Re: Fetching NetSurf

2012-10-14 Thread cj
In article <52de9a64e1ris...@gotadsl.co.uk>, Richard Ashbery 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

Re: Fetching NetSurf

2012-10-14 Thread Peter Young
On 14 Oct 2012 Richard Ashbery wrote: > In article , Peter Young > wrote: >> On 14 Oct 2012 Richard Ashbery 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 >>

Re: Fetching NetSurf

2012-10-14 Thread Peter Young
On 14 Oct 2012 Peter Young 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 upthre

Re: Fetching NetSurf

2012-10-14 Thread Richard Ashbery
In article <52de8f9e88ch...@chris-johnson.org.uk>, cj wrote: > In article , Peter Young > 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 > becaus

Re: Fetching NetSurf

2012-10-14 Thread Richard Ashbery
In article , Peter Young wrote: > On 14 Oct 2012 Richard Ashbery 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 se

Re: Fetching NetSurf

2012-10-14 Thread Peter Young
On 14 Oct 2012 cj wrote: > In article , >Peter Young 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

Re: Fetching NetSurf

2012-10-14 Thread Peter Young
On 14 Oct 2012 cj wrote: > In article <8ff38ede52.pnyo...@pnyoung.ormail.co.uk>, >Peter Young 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

Re: Fetching NetSurf

2012-10-14 Thread cj
In article <8ff38ede52.pnyo...@pnyoung.ormail.co.uk>, Peter Young 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 versio

Re: Fetching NetSurf

2012-10-14 Thread cj
In article , Peter Young 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

Re: RISC OS: Squeezed executable

2012-10-14 Thread Rob Kendrick
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 02:08:09PM +, Tony Moore wrote: > On 13 Oct 2012, Rob Kendrick wrote: > > [snip] > > > I'd like some feedback on this. Specifically; > > > > - Are people noticing any difference in load times? > > SARPC / RISC OS 6.20: >netsurf-2012-10-02_20-23-02 17 secon

Re: RISC OS: Squeezed executable

2012-10-14 Thread Tony Moore
On 13 Oct 2012, Rob Kendrick wrote: [snip] > I'd like some feedback on this. Specifically; > > - Are people noticing any difference in load times? SARPC / RISC OS 6.20: netsurf-2012-10-02_20-23-02 17 seconds NetSurf #461 15 seconds. RPCEmu 0.8.9 / RISC OS 4.39:

Re: Fetching NetSurf

2012-10-14 Thread Peter Young
On 14 Oct 2012 Peter Young wrote: > On 14 Oct 2012 Richard Ashbery 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

Re: Fetching NetSurf

2012-10-14 Thread Peter Young
On 14 Oct 2012 Richard Ashbery 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 corrupte

Re: RISC OS: Squeezed executable

2012-10-14 Thread Rob Kendrick
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 01:29:33PM +0100, Martin Bazley wrote: > The thing which is *really* annoying about using NetSurf on a USB drive > is the enormous amount of time it takes to quit - up to thirty seconds > on a bad day! This seems to be dependent on the amount of browsing done > beforehand.

Re: Fetching NetSurf

2012-10-14 Thread Richard Ashbery
> > 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

Re: RISC OS: Squeezed executable

2012-10-14 Thread Martin Bazley
The following bytes were arranged on 13 Oct 2012 by cj : > In article <20121013172217.gg7...@pepperfish.net>, >Rob Kendrick wrote: > > I would expect to see the most significant improvement on a > > StrongARM RiscPC using the on-board IDE where the IO is a > > significant bottleneck and time