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- Cache Index V2.3 July 1996 WHAT'S NEW
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- Cache Index V2.3 July 1996
- Only small changes in this release. CI now checks for Netscape V2 FAT
- before looking for V1 so if an old V1 FAT file is left lying around it will
- not confuse CI. (Only of significance to new users!)
- Made headings smaller on index page (they looked OK on my hi res monitor but
- a bit gross on lower res monitors :-) )
- Added an explanation in the 'About Cache Index' page about how to view pages
- complete with their original graphics.
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- Cache Index V2.2 June 1996
- A Directory Scan facility has been added.
- The +d option can be used to make Cache Index scan a
- directory looking for Netscape cache files and create an index of them. This
- option is intended for when there is no FAT file available. eg if someone has
- saved a bunch of files out of a cache directory. There are several
- limitations to this mode: firstly because there is no FAT file, it is not
- possible to determine the original URL of each file. Also it is necessary for
- Cache Index to make a guess about the file type based on the file extension.
- At present it assumes .GIF and .JPG are graphics files and anything else is
- text. It it gets it wrong, it is not a major problem, it just means the file
- ends up in the wrong list. Another limitation is that only files whose name
- starts with M0 are considered.
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- Cache Index V2.1
- V2.1 now presents the cache pages in chronological order. ie the most
- recently viewed pages are at the end. This makes it a lot easier to locate
- a particular page - especially when you have a large cache. As this is by
- far a better way to list the pages, there is no option to disable this.
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- To achieve this meant that Cache Index has to read all the FAT entries into
- a buffer and then sort them. This is slightly slower and imposes a limit of
- 700 text or graphics items maximum. The sorting takes less than 5 seconds for
- the 700 entries.
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- Some of the command line options have had their default changed. What I
- consider the most desirable operating modes are now the default.
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- There is a new command line option to specify the maximum number of entries
- on a page. The option is the letter L followed by a number. eg l28 or L28
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- Cache Index now probes further into each text file looking for the TITLE (up
- to 15 lines). This means 99.9% of pages are now shown with their title.
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- The presentation format for the text file pages has been improved by using
- a table instead of separate paragraphs. This puts the entries closer together
- and reduces the amount of scrolling required.
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- Updates:
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- If you would like to be on a mailing list to be advised of updates to the
- Cache Index program, send an email to: dgriffo@ozemail.com.au and put
- SUBSCRIBE UPDATES as the subject.
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- And of course if you would like to suggest any enhancements, send an email.
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- DG
- 25JUN96
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