About the output of 'wwwoffle -purge'. Maybe not much people are reading the output at all, I am doing so (using the 'wwwofflebook' frontend which makes it more easy to control the cache) for the reason that with my slow dialup but sundays free download, i use to suck tons of material which i might use some day in the future, and therefor like to have *many* domains which never get erased (like wikipedias). Also, for the fear that some sites with cool information or layout may disappear some day (which happens regularily). So i have to pay special attention to my purge section.
Some notes on the layout of the wwwoffle -purge output. What does 'not purged' mean ? I believe 'purging' is the process of entering a http directory to look if there's something to do. So, 'not purged' would mean 'directory not checked'. Is this correct ? What i however, as non-native in english, thought first was, these are the domains which weren't deleted - all of them -, which actually would be a different category. [ In addition to my previous posting several weeks before. Where i proposed 'talking' identifiers like: "Expire (+age)" "Hold" (= -1) "Default" - just the word, age already shown in the header info ] Now that i study the purge output more regularily, i note that i mainly look for 3 categories of domains, which i imnagine could be listed on top by wwwoffled. (1) The deleted domains. (2) The top stored (harddisk usage) domains, as a kind of percentile (Is this the word ? eg, x domains resembling 30% of the complete http disk usage.) (3) Default Age domains. I need to decide if some of them are more important and deserve a 'Hold' or higher expiring age. The complete domain list should be shown afterwards (redundant - why not), sorted alphabetically. In order to postprocess the wwwoffle-purge output, one would have to cut the relevant domain list ougt of the other info, usually with a program function. I would be glad if i could rely on this extracting function even with further wwwoffle versions, which might change the header / trailer layout. Perhaps the wwwoffle list output could be separated by fix markers (like LIST BEGIN and LIST END). Perhaps it's even possible (by an option switch) to have it logged to a file separatly by wwwoffled itself. Also i would be delighted if storage sizes could be formatted 'human readable' (KB MB GB) wherever possible, especially in the statistics (summary) at the end. -- Michel... .
