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Subject: Re: AcorNet 0.20 (Stewarts comments)
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Carol Carpenter wrote:
> > ReadMe020: version number of FreeTime is wrong.
> It is ? How can you tell ? The archive I took it from says 1.03 as
> does the readme inside it.
It said 10.3 in the readme file.
> > I notice that ArcWeb has lost its ReadMeDocs directory and ReadMe1st.
>
> Erm... no it hasn't. The Docs are where they were in the 0.19 version.
> i.e. in the Acornet:Docs.Arcweb directory.
> I'm keeping it the same as much as possible to a) avoid adding to the
> workload and b) introducing unforeseen problems.
Fancy that - I didn't think of looking in there. Actually, it looks like
the Docs directory is a long way out of date - at least the FreeSMTP read
me (claims to be 1.18) and the ArcWeb directory (claims to be 1.69!).
> They're linked to from the !Acornet stronghelp manual.
That's OK then.
> > like the ChangeFSI fixes is more tricky. Can Acornet automatically
> > alter ChangeFSI?
>
> Yes - providing changefsi has been seen by the filer. Colin has
> created a wonderfully configurable setup with !Acornet - you can do
> almost anything - there are libraries for most things.
> The stumbling block is me understanding what needs to be done and
> then figuring out how :) He didn't document his coding much :(
>
> > Should it?
>
> Hmm.... praps not. I don't think I'd like apps interfering with
> other apps on my hard disk without me knowing about it.
I think it is perfectly reasonable to ask the user for permission to
modify the application. You can always copy !ChangeFSI.ChangeFSI as
!ChangeFSI.ChangeFSI~ before making the patch. It might be a bit dodgy
attempting to just patch the program. Maybe supplying the complete BASIC
program (hidden away internally) which can be copied in directly would
save the hassle.
> > (I've just devised a new fix for CFSI
> > 1.15 to let it recognise revision 2 JFIFs and force djpeg to process
> > them) ArcWeb requires djpeg 6a to have been installed inside ChangeFSI
> > too.
>
> Hmm....as long as its in the docs what to do I guess we could leave
> it as it is for the moment anyhow.
The problem is that without the fixes applied, I get bug reports saying
that *ArcWeb* froze the machine when it is simply a fault in ChangeFSI.
The other problem is that not everyone is comfortable with editing the
ChangeFSI application. The BASIC looks daunting to beginners (I presume)
and they need to be very careful when typing in (or copying) the patches.
I'm still getting "froze machine" bug reports from people using FreeBufs
who discover that replacing it with MbufManager magically cures the
problem.
--
Stewart Brodie, Electronics & Computer Science, Southampton University.
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~snb94r/