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New release of the Dillo browser for DOS (Announce)

posted by georgpotthast Homepage, Germany, 29.03.2013, 08:45

Hi DOS386,

what a list of items! Let me comment on some of them:

> - Mouse wheel doesn't work (RTFM ...)
>
I will try to support the wheel in the next version

> - Ugly beeping on BUG-free HTML (see shot)
>
I will also look into that. I did not get that message myself yet.

> - TFM is in PDF format. Support for PDF in DOS is nowadays less bad than
> it used to be, still, an additonal good-old TXT file would be nice.
 You could use my mupdf to read the manual.

> - Purpose of various files inside the package is not fully documented,
> most notably "vcls.exe" (why should I use it ?)
 vcls.exe should not be needed. If Dillo should terminate(crash?) without setting the
screen back to text mode, you can run vcls.exe to set it back to text mode.

>
> - TFM says "ALT-F" ("<alt>f = file-menu") doesn't work, what's missing ?
>
The file menu should open but it does not. I did not have the time to explore that.

> - History, Cookies and Cache (formerly "Temporary Internet Files", note
> the cool spaces in the name) management is not documented
>
> - Seems to hang while waiting for answer from server, please display
> something useful ("waiting for answer" + running clock for example)
 Usually the number of images is increased. But I can write an additional message
into the status line.

> - After restarting Dillo, it does no longer work (networking hangs),
> have to kick "W32DHCP.TMP" file (have same problem in other Water-Loo
> -TCP-based browsers except Arachne too, related to my Ethernet card +
> packet driver ???)
 This does not happen here. I think the IP address the WATT32 driver got via
DHCP is stored there and reused when restarted. Your network setup may not
allow to reuse the IP address.

> - ZIP includes useless ".BAK" files
>
This are copies of the default files. If you managed to corrupt your files
you can copy the BAK files to restore.

> - File "WATTCP.CFG" is bloated and full of junk, please remove stuff
> having no relevance for DOS Dillo, and make DHCP the default (TFM says
> it would be ... but isn't ... or what do the most users need ?)
 I forgot to change that to DHCP before making the ZIP file.

> - Why "dillo.exe" started using "DILLO.BAT" (YES this is much worse
> with Arachne and Lynx ...) ? Couldn't be "NANOSCR" merged into
> "dillorc" and named "DOSDILLO.CFG" finally ?
 NANOSCR is read by the nano-X driver linked with Dillo. This driver starts
with 8888 as default now and falls back to 565 if it cannot set to 8888.
On the other hand you need 565 mode to use SNARF for screenshots.

> - Hardcoded absolute pathes, "WATTCP.CFG", "W32DHCP.TMP", "seedfile.dat"
> and all other files should be in the same directory as "dillo.exe"
> unless environ variable tells something else
>
> - Inconsistent naming and placing of those files ("bm.txt", "dillorc"),
> suggestion to fix: use ".CFG" for read-only files ("WATTCP.CFG"),
> and ".INI" for files also written by Dillo ("W32DHCP.INI", cookies
> "DILCOOKS.INI", bookmarks "DILBOOKM.INI", browsing history
> "DILBRHIS.INI", DILRSEED.INI", ...)
 The naming of the files I would like to keep consistent with the Linux version of Dillo.

>
> - No screenshot feature (but SNARF seems to work, TFM even suggests it)
>
You can now make a "screenshot" by printing to a postscript file. I will see
if I can add writing the screen contents to a PNG file too.

> ? Untested: download + upload HTTP + FTP
>
Upload does not work yet.

Thank you for testing Dillo!

Georg

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