Brian Jordan wrote on 13 Feb:
> In article <9b5f51d953.jim@abbeypress.net>,
> Jim Nagel <netsurf@abbeypress.co.uk> wrote:
>> Suggestion to the Netsurf team:
>> Please, could you include an extra "Readme-date" file in the download
>> zipfile that would simply state in plain text the date of the last
>> actual change and words to the effect that "If you have updated !Boot
>> and !System since this date, there is no need to do it this time."
>> It would save the chore of going to every machine and repepetititively
>> performing the merge-boot and merge-system rigamarole when it isn't
>> necessary. (The rest of the job of updating the !Netsurf application
>> on all stations can be done over the network.) Thanks.
> I work on the assumption that if a merge-boot or merge-system is required
> that NetSurf will let me know with an appropriate message. Otherwise I
> just let NetSurf get on with it. Am I under vigilant or are you over
> vigilant? It seems to me that the NetSurf team have far bigger fish than
> this to fry.
Maybe I am being overpunctilious, but I'm just following the
instructions in the existing&unchanging Readme that comes as part of
the download.
>From what you say, I can see that Netsurf might give a warning about a
module being out of date. But the Unicode stuff is not modules:
would Netsurf warn if any Unicode files are missing or outdated?
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Jim Nagel www.archivemag.co.uk
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