Squat progress 19 July 2003: new version of completeinstallation package

David P Harris dpharris at telus.net
Sun Jul 20 16:23:10 UTC 2003


Didn't work for me on Windows XP.  Had trouble accessing files at 
croquet and writing to disk?
David

Craig Latta wrote:

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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 at netjam.org
>[|] Proceed for Truth!
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