Message-Id: From: veion@xiron.pc.helsinki.fi Subject: WWW is almost there To: lojbab@access.digex.net Date: Fri, 20 May 1994 18:22:35 +0300 (EET DST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1241 Status: RO X-From-Space-Date: Fri May 20 11:21:38 1994 X-From-Space-Address: veion@xiron.pc.helsinki.fi I have about finished the initial phase. All of the essential stuff is there and even some not so essential. Only some slight polishing remains to be done. The next step is to split the longer files into shorter segments, I think 20-30kb is about the largest sensible maximum. I'll also do some rearrangement within the material now that I have got it all within one space. I tested off-line reading on a medium speed PC using DOSLYNX and was rather disappointed. It's too damn slow. It seems to do many unnecessary things, writing the accessed files to the disk and reformatting the text over and over again. For reference use we need something else. Probably the most sensible thing is to preformat the files for a simple hypertext reader. So we would have two programs: a preformatter which would read the HTML files and spit out format X files, and a simple reader which wouldn't have to worry about formatting and net access buffering. There are PD hypertext readers which could be utilized, so we would need only a preformatter - that is, if we can live with visible tags and but a single tag per line. I'll do some searching and thinking, a reasonable speed hypertext reference library is too valuable a goal to give up. Veijo