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| Date: | Fri, 11 Sep 1998 16:06:49 EST |
| From: | sbtaus@ibm.net |
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| To: | 32bits@sbt.net.au |
| Subject: | NetExtra version 1.1 |
Forwarding note from: Kari Jackson 11:59:23 EDT
//NetExtra is available through us, Multitasking, Frankson, or other local
resellers, approximate price $69//
This is to announce the availability of NetExtra version 1.1, at
http://www.tiac.net/innoval/netex-11.zip. That's the demo version, but if
you unzip it over top of a licensed copy, it will still know that it's a
licensed copy.
Here are the fixed bugs and new features since version 1.01:
Can now Page Mine and CacheUp password-protected sites.
Can now edit a bookmark's URL.
Page Mining agents now have separate settings for number of levels inside
the domain and number of levels outside. The maximum for inside the domain
is now nine instead of two.
Can now copy a URL to the OS/2 clipboard for pasting elsewhere, from the
bookmark folder windows, jump list, archive log, and nickname list windows.
Can now add a bookmark without visiting it via the web browser first.
Filename-generating algorithm had a problem creating more than around 400
filenames with the same extension in the same directory during the same
hour. Not only did this problem cause the inability to move huge numbers
of bookmarks and very slow ability to move medium numbers of bookmarks,
but also caused a massive slowdown and 100% CPU usage (as the program
searched for an available filename it could use for the next file) during
large Page Mining jobs.
SYS3175 upon trying to start NetExtra, if any jump list (MAINLOG.FIL) entry
contained a URL of 299 or more characters in length.
Really, really long URLs could overwrite the spot in memory where NetExtra
keeps the name of the archive log file (such as NOV1996.LOG), so that when
it tries to write the new URL to the log file, it would end up trying to
write to a file named "[...end of URL] * [date] * [time]" which OS/2
didn't really feel was a valid filename. Too bad this error didn't prevent
the program from writing the long URL to the jump list file, though, since
that long entry in the jump list is what would often cause the SYS3175
described above.
"Remove" option in folder windows was working only on folders that had been
created before the most recent time the List of Folders window was opened,
and was working on all such folders. Whereas what it's supposed to work on
is any folder listed in FLDINDEX.NIX, and no others. (That is, the folders
that were created somewhere other than under NetExtra's BOOKS
subdirectory.)
When you use the Flip Toolbar option, it didn't snap to the configured
corner, so if you flipped twice, it could end up a couple inches from the
edge, parallel to the corner position in which it should have been.
Now you can run Page Mining agents and whole-folder CacheUp operations, and
browse the Page Mining results, via command line parameters.
Sometimes, too many instances of Help got left open, so that no more could
be opened, and then every time you'd open a folder you'd get that annoying
message about the inability to open another instance of Help.
Sometimes, using the Load a New URL dialog, the URL would be sent to the
browser twice, so NetExtra would pop up the annoying "The URL entry field
is not active" message since WebExplorer can't multitask.
"Find" option in jump list and folders didn't always scroll the entries in
the window so that the found entry would be displayed in the window.
A weirdly corrupted bookmark, migrated from WebExtra, which somehow had
five spaces instead of a tab between the date and time, caused a SYS3175
upon trying to open the folder which contained it. We still don't know how
the bookmark got corrupted, but it won't cause a SYS3175 anymore.
Nickname List window's menu options had no effect when clicked upon.
Drag a URL to the Nickname List window, and click Cancel instead of filling
in a nickname. The new object should be deleted, since it wasn't created
properly, but it was left there instead.
The jump list now ignores URLs that start with "view-source:".
Removed that irritating message box which always asks whether you're sure
you want to restart the browser, when NetExtra doesn't find it running.
Available memory goes down by 100K every 30 seconds or so, as long as
Netscape is running and NetExtra is configured to talk to Netscape, even
if they're both totally inactive. (Does not happen with WebExplorer, and
does not happen with Netscape when NetExtra is configured for
WebExplorer.) Happens because NetExtra allocates shared memory, gives it
to Netscape in order to find out what Netscape's current URL is, and then
frees that shared memory, but somehow it's not being freed anyway. Maybe
Netscape isn't letting go of it or something. To get around this problem,
we had to stop using the shared memory, and instead use Netscape's title
bar to determine when the current page has changed. This means that
whenever two pages are visited consecutively, which have identical titles
(which is, thankfully, rare), NetExtra will not notice the second page, and
will not add it to the jump list or archive logs. Bookmarking will not
have a problem because of this; just the jump list and archive logs. We
can't find anything we can do about it. Losing a jump list entry on the
very rare occasion of visiting two pages in a row that have identical
titles, is better than losing 200K of free memory for every minute you
have Netscape and NetExtra running!
Several REXX *.CMD files are now distributed with NetExtra:
BOOKMARK.CMD lets you create a NetExtra bookmark from the command line.
COPYURL.CMD copies or moves *.URL (bookmark) files from one folder to
another, from the command line. Not only does it handle the problems which
the COPY and XCOPY commands can't, but it also automatically renames files
while copying them, if necessary to avoid overwriting another *.URL file
in the target directory that has the same name as one of the files you're
copying.
NETEXPRT.CMD exports the data in a folder of bookmarks, or all of your
bookmark folders at once, to an ASCII text file.
NETIMPRT.CMD creates NetExtra bookmarks from an ASCII text file in the same
format as that created by NETEXPRT.CMD.
SHOWBKMK.CMD lets you see the contents of a *.URL (bookmark) file, from the
command line.
URLOBJCT.CMD creates NetExtra bookmarks from OS/2 WorkPlace Shell URL
objects.
Enjoy!
Kari Jackson OS/2 Product Engineer InnoVal Systems Solutions, Inc.
A confident manner is important; computers can sense this.
Voytek Eymont
SBT Information Systems Pty Ltd - Distributor of OS/2 software
fax 61-2 9310-1118 ph 61-2 9310-1214
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~sbt
sbtaus@ibm.net
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