New Squeak

Gary McGovern gary.play at btopenworld.com
Sat Feb 2 03:37:00 UTC 2002


Thank's John,
Peculiar, It says 3.1 Beta  #4478.
That's the image relevant to my original email. 
The servers are't giving me anything else.

Gary


02/02/02 03:04:53, John Hinsley <jhinsley at telinco.co.uk> wrote:

>Gary McGovern wrote:
>> 
>> Thanks John,
>> I think I've got everything. Judging from some of the updates I read, I assumed the 
vm
>> and plug-ins were all part of the updates. I think I've got all the updates but didn't 
catch
>> what number they went to. The servers are saying there is no more to give me.
>> 
>> How do you know what number was last downloaded ?
>
>That bit's easy: just pop open the Squeak tab (l/h side) and click on
>"about this system". 

>> Another question: when updating I was disconnected from the phone line and lost the
>> http connection. This caused Squeak to crash, I couldn't save what I had already
>> downloaded. Do you know a way to halt in the middle of updating to save ?
>
>I don't think you can do it with the update stream, 'cos that would then
>(when re-started) give errors like "name already in use" and so on. But
>Dan (I think) sent me a code snippet when I was having problems of a
>similar kind:
>
> flagUtilities readServerUpdatesThrough: nil (I guess you put the number
>here!)
>                saveLocally: true
>                updateImage: false
>
>and then load them in by executing...
>
>        Utilities applyUpdatesFromDisk
>
>which worked just fine back then but which I've never used since.
>
>Of course, if you want to "regress" your image (I did this so that I've
>one banzai test pilot image and one pretty stable one with all my old
>stuff in it -- trying to update my old image to the modulkes stuff
>proved impossible) just pop open a change sorter and destroy the
>changesets. Going back to 4664 should give you something pretty stable.
>
>HTH
>
>Cheers
>
>John
>
>-- 
>They're afraid, very afraid......
>According to CRN magazine, Microsoft staff discovering Linux in use
>will have now access to a special 'escalation' team.
>Now, where did I put that stake and mallet?
>http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/01/16/0310222&mode=nocomment
>
>






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