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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, David Moberg wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
> > My file is upx'ed.
>
> That explains why it was smaller than mine (before I compressed mine).
>
> > upx'ed executables supposedly take a bit longer to load but I don't notice
> > any difference on my 500MHz computer.
>
> They will take less time to load than a standard executable if the
> entire upx'ed executable fits in ram and your hard drive has DMA
> enabled. This is because CPUs are usually fast enough to keep
> up with hard drives, and since the file is smaller it takes less time
> for the hard drive to load it into memory.

I have DMA disabled and it still loads quickly.

> > They download in 45% of the time.
>
> That's why I gzip'ed mine.

If I gzip the upx'ed version, will that make it any smaller?

> > You seem not to have compiled to use lynx.lss, which lets you
> > change colors for various attributes, and add the missing line
> > for underline to the default.
> -snip-
> > Can you figure out how to include lynx.lss, probably in /usr/local/lib?
>
> Yes. I need to run configure again with --enable-color-style and then
> remake. I will upload a new binary soon.

Thanks a lot!  I will try to get realaudio working with lynx in the 
meantime.

> > Did I correctly understand that you can compile using kernel 2.2.26 with
> > linuxinc kernel headers for 2.2.16 from SW71, or do we need to get hold of
> > 2.2.26 linuxinc?
>
> For most (maybe all) applications you can use a kernel header version
> that is fairly close, such as 2.2.26 for 2.2.16.
>
> For compiling new 3rd-party modules you will usually need to grab
> the 2.2.26 kernel source.
>
> > I could package your executable with the original lynx.lss (blue on grey)
> > and my own modified one, and also my own lynx.cfg with zgv, drvmidi,
> > antiword, pdftotext, and without VMS sections.
>
> Thanks!
>
> > I have my links.cfg file posted at http://keesan.freeshell.org/bl
> >
> > Have wma and ram mutated beyond recognition since our last list discussion
> > or did I mess up my cfg file?  I have -playlist option for pls and m3u,
> > and asf/asx, and not for ram or mp3.
>
> Have you tried manually using mplayer with these files?

See another posting.  Some problem with racook that I have had before.

> > association "mplayer" "audio/x-ms-asf" "mplayer -playlist %" 19 1
> > association "mplayer" "audio/x-pn-realaudio" "mplayer %" 19 1
>
> > extension "asx" "video/x-ms-asf"
>
> You need to set this to "audio/x-ms-asf" to match the association
> line.
I figured that out eventually and it now works.

> > extension "ram" "audio/x-pn-realaudio"
>
> You need to set the association line to mplayer -playlist instead
> of just mplayer. All ram files that I have seen are playlists. Same
> goes for .smi or .smil files (newer version of ram).
I get a bit farther that way but racook is the problem.

I added all the extensions/associations that Steven suggested.

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