Re: Network Manager

["M.Stekelenburg <m.stekelenburg@student.utwente.nl>" <root@cal052304.student.utwente.nl>]

On Mon, 1 Sep 1997, Andrew J Berkley wrote:

> I was recently looking through the code of the Network Manager and
> realized that there is a lot of old stuff in there (stuff that we phased
> out during our internal design stuff -- ie, pre TransferFilter code).
> Removing this code and the data members associated with it is relatively
> easy.
> 
> I think we should extend this Bug Fixing session to a Bug Fixing and Code
> Cleanup session (as the less code there is, the less bugs).
> 
> There is a major problem with support for blocking calls -- I'm not so
> sure we should support them anymore, but the Image stuff uses them (not
> successfully of course since the calls are broken).  It is not that hard
> to make the FetchURL_b calls work, but I would rather see the Image code
> changed.
> 
> Andrew
> 
I'll write an extra filter to go from the messages to a normal file
stream. This way i can remove the extra read code in the jpeg filter and,
if makes adding image filters easier because a lot of those libraries
expect an file to read from. 

> 
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