[arachne] Re: arachne Digest V2 #234 Progress update

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On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 19:54:40 -0800, Ray Andrews wrote:

> The mob is still too small, but we are *very* hard at it.  Old news
> is that Michal (That's "Dr. Tyc" to you < G G G > is completely rewriting
> the bitmap handling. Joe is working his cookie size and online timer
> improvements into the cleaned code, and I'm experimenting with
> a total re-working of the way Arachne configures herself (it seems to
> be going well). If my master plan works out, we'll eventually have
> full error checking during startup, so that Arachne will tell you
> what the problem is instead of just stopping if some setting or other
> is incorrect. Glenn has '1.77' in the works.

Wow! Such fundamental rewrites ought to keep you fellows busy for
awhile.

Error checking during startup with reports would certainly be useful.
It's not unusual for for Arachne to crash and lockup for me during
startup. SCANDISK almost always sets things right again after a reboot.
The same bunch of Arachne files get damaged over and over. I've
never been able to figure out why this happens. Actually, since
I can fix things by running SCANDISK, I don't give it much thought.

Thanks for the update, Ray.

Here's a suggestion for a new feature that's urgently needed (IMHO)
Arachne needs multiple hotlists and a better way to orgainize and
edit an existing hotlist.

Why not be presented with a choice of hotlists when you save an
item? This could work just like saving an email where you have a choice
of folders to save to. That way I could save hotlist items to different
lists, sorting by subject matter or other category.

Also it would useful to be able to sort an existing list by when the
items were added or alphabetically. And there ought to be an easy
way to transfer an item from one list to another.

As it is now I can always start a new list by manually renaming the
existing list, but I can't sort or save to different lists. 

Would something like that be easy to implement?






Sam Ewalt
Croswell, Michigan, USA
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