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Pre-downloaded images/cache
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lugnet.admin.general
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Wed, 21 Oct 1998 19:26:00 GMT
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Matthew Miller writes:
> Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote:
> > knowing the location on your hard-drive of pre-downloaded images (see
> > http://www.lugnet.com/magicache/ for a proof-of-concept). Maybe the
> > work/home/machine location should be in a separate cookie from the uid/pw
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> Huh. Looks like a great idea, although I can't get it to work for me --
> Navigator 4.5/Linux seems to have an inexplicable brokeness in its
> file-browse dialog box -- it can't seem to find any files of any type. So
> I'll have to check it from home, where I've got a Win95 box....
If the "Browse" button doesn't show up, maybe it'll still let you type the
pathname in manually (of the .txt file) -- see if that works... All the server
is looking for basically is a directory name. The .txt file happens to contain
a list of images downloaded in that tarball but I think in that test, it's
ignoring the contents of the .txt file.
> Are you going to make all of, for example, the Pause image collection
> available for download like this? That'd be ultracool.
Well, definitely thumbnails if it all works out...looks like it might. Maybe
all the big images too...depends how people feel about having 5MB of thumbnails
on their hard drive compared to 150MB or more of bigger images. Ideally, you
ought to be able to pre-download any subset you choose. I don't know about
making custom tarballs on-the-fly but maybe if they were separated by size or
theme or something...
BTW, are there UN*X utilities for creating Windows-compatible ZIP files and/or
Mac-compatible HQX files? I only know how to make tarballs on-the-fly at the
moment.
--Todd
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 | | Re: Pre-downloaded images/cache
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| (...) No it's really broken -- it can't find any files, even when specified explicitly. Happens in the File|Open Page|Chose File dialog too. Very odd -- I didn't have this problem with 4.5pr2. (...) Yeah, there's zip and unzip (for ZIP of course). (...) (26 years ago, 21-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Huh. Looks like a great idea, although I can't get it to work for me -- Navigator 4.5/Linux seems to have an inexplicable brokeness in its file-browse dialog box -- it can't seem to find any files of any type. So I'll have to check it from (...) (26 years ago, 21-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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