on Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 06:32:31PM -0800, Craig Dickson (crdic@yahoo.com) wrote:
> Carl Fink wrote:
>
> > BTW, for HTML docs, put them all in *one* file with hyperlinks. There is no
> > meaningful advantage to cutting it into twenty pieces, and it makes
> > searching significantly more difficult.
>
> For locally-stored docs that's arguable. The advantage of small files
> comes when you have to read it across a network, especially a WAN.
I'd disagree. Info nodes can be _quit_ small -- a screen or less of
data. Load latency kills you more than the actual data transfer
interval. I'd rather have, say, 1/10 the interrupts, of roughly 2-4
times the duration, than to be interrupted with great frequency.
This can be further mitigated by browsers that render on partial load,
or which allow background loading of pages (Galeon rocks for this).
> When I want to search a directory of HTML files, I tend to grep it
> first, then view the files that seem to be apropos.
One better:
$ less $( grep -l 'pattern' filelist )
Peace.
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