Re: RISC OS: Squeezed executable
On 14 Oct 2012 as I do recall, Rob Kendrick wrote: > 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! [snip] > > 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 the webpage thumbnails used in the history viewer. It > might be nice to have an option to disable this. Since NetSurf isn't actually reloading (or at least displaying) them at the moment, it does sound like a good idea. -- Harriet Bazley == Loyaulte me lie == Flying is the art of throwing yourself at the ground... and missing.
Re: Fetching NetSurf
On 14 Oct at 20:02, Alan Leighton wrote: > 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 the same "segmentation fault" you highlighted > > > earlier. > > > The current version of cURL will not run on the BB. As mentioned by > > Frank, use wget instead - that works fine on the BB (ARMini). > > > I guess cURL simply needs a recompile with ARMv7 friendly flags. > > I run an Iyonix 5.18 and I hope one day some one will make sense of > all this fetching stuff and how people like me can make use of it. Well at the end all I did was: 1. Make a new Directory 2. Put Curl in it 3. Put Fetch_NS in it 4. Double click on Curl 5. Double click on Fetch_NS and after quite a few nano seconds, an archive appeared in that Directory with a name such as 463/zip and containing a new Netsurf, with installation instructions in the Readme file: Basically just run the Netsurf within. This was on a VRPC. > > Totally lost from Middlesbrough, I see your MP has just died, you must be bereft. -- Tim Powys-Lybbe t...@powys.org for a miscellany of bygones: http://powys.org/
Re: Fetching NetSurf
In message Tim Powys-Lybbe wrote: > On 14 Oct at 20:02, Alan Leighton wrote: >> 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 the same "segmentation fault" you highlighted earlier. >> >>> The current version of cURL will not run on the BB. As mentioned by >>> Frank, use wget instead - that works fine on the BB (ARMini). >> >>> I guess cURL simply needs a recompile with ARMv7 friendly flags. >> >> I run an Iyonix 5.18 and I hope one day some one will make sense of >> all this fetching stuff and how people like me can make use of it. > Well at the end all I did was: > 1. Make a new Directory > 2. Put Curl in it > 3. Put Fetch_NS in it > 4. Double click on Curl > 5. Double click on Fetch_NS > and after quite a few nano seconds, an archive appeared in that > Directory with a name such as 463/zip and containing a new Netsurf, with > installation instructions in the Readme file: Basically just run the > Netsurf within. > This was on a VRPC. >> >> Totally lost from Middlesbrough, > I see your MP has just died, you must be bereft. Stewart was a nice guy, he opened our Hope Foundation Adult Training Centre and was very encouraging. 'In the midst of life we are in death' as the BCP says, Cheers Alan --
