Re: Size limits for text files?
Tim Berners-Lee (timbl)
Tue, 25 Feb 92 15:52:17 GMT+0100
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 92 15:52:17 GMT+0100
From: timbl (Tim Berners-Lee)
Message-Id: <9202251452.AA04826@ nxoc01.cern.ch >
To: "Mark P. McCahill" <mpm@boombox.micro.umn.edu>
Subject: Re: Size limits for text files?
Cc: emv@cic.net, JONZY@cc.utah.edu, gopher-news@boombox.micro.umn.edu,
> Another thing clients should do (but don't yet) is to cache
information.
> That is, the client ought to keep the previous list of gopher items
in memory
> so you don't have to fetch it again. Of course, there should also
be a timer...
As happens, the www client caches information. The number of
documents (text files or menus) cached is currently 2, defined by
LOADED_LIMIT in GridText.c. We'll increase it next release, as 5
seems more useful. There's no timer, but it its a good idea.
Tim BL