Re: Size limits for text files?

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Date: Tue, 25 Feb 92 15:52:17 GMT+0100
From: timbl (Tim Berners-Lee)
Message-id: <9202251452.AA04826@ nxoc01.cern.ch >
To: "Mark P. McCahill" <mpm@boombox.micro.umn.edu>
Subject: Re: Size limits for text files? 
Cc: emv@cic.net, JONZY@cc.utah.edu, gopher-news@boombox.micro.umn.edu,
        www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch

> Another thing clients should do (but don't yet) is to cache  
information.
> That is, the client ought to keep the previous list of gopher items  
in memory 

> so you don't have to fetch it again. Of course, there should also  
be a timer...

As happens, the www client caches information. The number of  
documents (text files or menus) cached is currently 2, defined by  
LOADED_LIMIT in GridText.c. We'll increase it next release, as 5  
seems more useful.  There's no timer, but it its a good idea.

	Tim BL