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Hi--

Now that I've made a suitably small virtual machine, I've finished a new version of a complete installation package for Squat, along the lines of "relief" (http://netjam.org/relief ). It's a webpage that, when visited, downloads an installer program and runs it. The installer program downloads a snapshot, a virtual machine, and the Flow plugin, decompresses the virtual machine and the Flow plugin, and runs the virtual machine. The virtual machine decompresses the snapshot, and the snapshot updates itself.

The current sizes are 93,352 bytes for the snapshot, 18,973 bytes for the Flow plugin, 107,642 bytes for the virtual machine, and 61,440 bytes for the installer program, for a total of 281,407 bytes. The decompressor is is both the virtual machine and installer; I could save about 40K by loading it dynamically in each case... I'll save that for some future version.

Next I'm going to write my first Squat application, which is a snapshot that updates itself enough to display my resume, then displays it. :)

thanks,

-C

-- Craig Latta http://netjam.org/resume craig@netjam.org [|] Proceed for Truth!