FreeLists / arachne / [arachne] FEATUS "WRITE NEW HOTLIST" Re: arachne Digest V2 #71

["Greg Mayman" <gmone@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!

On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 15:15:19 -0500 (EST), Arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> In HOTLSMAN.C, the maximum number of items is defined as 512.

Mine was definitely limiting at 196 a few days ago when I tried to
add an extra item, either by clicking on the "+" in the button bar
or by writing it in the blank slot in the hotlist manager. But now
the limit is changing each time I open Arachne... today I have had
198, 200, and 199.

And there is no warning that the limit is being reached. All I get
is that the newest item is not included when I look at the hotlist.

I tried some more complicated testing as follows:

1. FORCE 12 EXTRA ITEMS INTO HOTLIST AND REWRITE:
   I opened HOTLIST.HTM in DOS with a text editor and added 12
   extra items by copying and pasting existing lines. Then I
   opened the hotlist within Arachne and confirmed that the extra
   items were there. Then clicked on "Hotlist Manager" to open the
   editor. The last numbered item visible was #208, with the extra
   ones still there.

   Then clicked on "Write new hotlist". When the revised hotlist
   appeared, a number of items had been deleted from the bottom
   of the list. Clicking on "Hotlist Manager" showed the numbered
   items to be now only 200, but on a later test this was reduced
   to 198, and on a later one still to 199.

2. REDUCE HOTLIST BELOW LIMIT THEN ADD ONE ITEM AT A TIME:
   Using a DOS text editor I deleted several items from the
   hotlist bring the total back to 195. Then opened local and
   cached remote pages and clicked on the "+" icon to add them
   one at a time to the hotlist. After each addition I opened the
   hotlist to check that they were shown on the bottom of the
   list, then clicked on "Write new hotlist" to sort them into
   their proper places in the hot list. This worked alright until
   I got to 198 items, at which point the newest one was added in
   its proper position but with the Title blank. Adding
   subsequent items would add them to the bottom of the hotlist
   but "Write new hotlist" would delete them.
   Manualling writing something to the Title of the item did not
   work as it was blanked again when "Write new hotlist" was run.
   Deleting this item and adding a new one gave a blank title
   after WNH was run.
   A repeat of the above test after closing and re-opening
   Arachne gave similar results but with the limit now at 199.

3. REDUCE HOTLIST THEN ADD SEVERAL ITEMS AT ONE STEP:
   The hotlist was again reduced to 195 items with the DOS
   editor, then 11 local and cached pages opened and added to the
   hotlist with the "+" button. After all these were added,
   hotlist was opened and the new items were visible at the
   bottom. "Hotlist Manager" showed all the old and new items,
   numbering up to 206. Running WNH at this stage sorted the new
   items into their proper places but the bottom ones were
   chopped out.

It looks as though edithotlist.dgi is able to prepare the new
hotlist with new items sorted into their proper places, but it
is having trouble writing it to the diskfile, beyond a number of
items that seems to be tied to a variable variable.

> Each line can be up to 1000 characters long. There is also some
> code to include a warning in the HTML output when the maximum
> number of items is execeeded. I haven't studied this code with
> a great detail, though.

As I said, I'm not getting the warning.

FWIW, I'm running v1.73GPL with the 386 CORE.EXE.

All the operating files are in C:\ARA173.

My user files (hotlist.htm and history.lst) and the Mail, Cache,
Download and Oops subdirectories are in C:\ARACHNE.

The temp files are in E:\TEMP, on a 4meg RAMdisk.

The computer is a 486DX-33 with 16meg of RAM (including the
RAMdisk).

Greg M.

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