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[Ari Steinberg <ari.steinberg AT stanford.edu>]

Okay, so as promised, I have a few other SM issues that I've encountered 
these 
last few days (or, in some cases, before then).  These two happen to be about 
summon.

First, does summon --url work correctly?  For some reason, I couldn't seem to 
get it to work.  Specifically, the xiph.org was down yesterday so I was 
trying to get the vorbis tools from vorbis.com.  The summon --help and man 
summon documentations weren't completely clear on this, but I tried all of 
the following:

summon --url http://fatpipe.vorbis.com/files/1.0/unix/vorbis-tools-1.0.tar.gz 
vorbis-tools
summon vorbis-tools --url 
http://fatpipe.vorbis.com/files/1.0/unix/vorbis-tools-1.0.tar.gz
summon --url http://fatpipe.vorbis.com/files/1.0/unix/ vorbis-tools
summon vorbis-tools --url http://fatpipe.vorbis.com/files/1.0/unix/
summon --url http://fatpipe.vorbis.com/files/1.0/unix/vorbis-tools-1.0.tar.gz

None of them worked - I ended up downloading the files manually and putting 
them in the spool.

Next, and this one has been bothering me for a while, why is it that summon 
sometimes presents such a nice display with an "animated" bar displaying your 
progress, but other times it scrolls a newline in between each update in a 
pretty ugly way?  And when casting multiple spells at a time, if a download 
fails for one of them, it seems to scroll through the whole failed download 
message in between each other cast.

That's all for now.
-Ari