RE: [netcomics-devel] Comics that are days behind

[Hochstedler, B. (M. GEMS-IT) <ben...@me...>]

Clint,

Feel free to fix them in CVS.  Just be sure to do a retreaval of at least 2
weeks into the past to make sure they work for more than just today's comic.
& don't forget to update the ChangeLog!

-Ben

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> [mailto:net...@li...]On Behalf Of Clint
> Olson
> Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 10:54 AM
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> Subject: Re: [netcomics-devel] Comics that are days behind
> 
> 
> Heh... just found out that all you have to do is set the $hof of the 
> kingfeatures comic definition to 0, and they all work fine 
> with getting 
> today's comic.  The same holds for unitedmedia and several 
> others, they 
> all work fine with the hof set to 0.  Is there some compelling reason 
> why we need to keep the comics in sync with what's currently 
> available 
> on the website, or can I just switch them all over and have 
> them up to date?
> 
> Clint Olson
> SF.net user coandco
> 
> Clint Olson wrote:
> 
> > Hi!
> >  Hey, I was just playing around with the CVS version of 
> netcomics some 
> > more, and noticed that you had several comics (such as 
> B.C., Pickles, 
> > and Zits) listed as being behind.  However, I've got them working 
> > up-to-date in my personal installation (as I said, I 
> rewrote several 
> > of the definitions to break them free from the larger ones 
> they were in).
> >
> > For instance, one thing I did was to go to some alternate sources.  
> > The Seattle Post-Intelligencer (seattlepi.nwsource.com) 
> often has the 
> > same comics as King Features, but up to date.  On further 
> > investigation, I discovered that they both use the same hosting 
> > service, rbma.com, and that the hosting service always has current 
> > comics, even if the sites that use it don't always serve up 
> HTML pages 
> > with those comics.
> >
> > With that in mind, would you like for me to change some of the King 
> > Features comics over to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer so 
> we can have 
> > them be up-to-date?  Especially with some of the political cartoons 
> > like Mallard Fillmore that rely on current events, they're just not 
> > the same when you read them two weeks old or whatever.
> >
> > Clint Olson
> > SF.net user coandco
> >
> >
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