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iSiloX Alternative
Authored by: james_sorenson on Mar 12, '02 11:33:32PM
I thought I should mention this because competition is good. iSiloX does the same thing as Plucker. They provide both a command-line and Aqua-GUI of their web-converter application for MacOS X. However, it isn't free ($17.50). I considered iSilo worth the registration because the GUI made it a lot easier to customize the size of the graphics for each web-page, and how many links deep to go. Then I used the command-line version to "cron" it each morning. iSilo also supports the use of VFS memory. However, I'm really glad to see a free alternative (even if it is sans-gui). Cool freeware is what's keeping the Palm platform on top. Thanks for the tip! Jim

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iSiloX Alternative
Authored by: Choid on Mar 17, '02 08:38:52PM

I just want to mention that the current CVS version of Plucker supports VFS and I've been using it for a few weeks now.
Note: To build the newest version of Plucker you need PRC-TOOLS which requires a bit of work to get it to compile. I will be making a fink package for it with in the next few months.



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Authored by: Mserm on Mar 17, '02 09:54:31PM

Maybe I'm an idiot, but I can't run iSiloXC. I've downloaded the beta and the last final version. I tried making it executable and it is reported to be invalid. It will not run alone either. Any obvious problems I'm missing?



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Authored by: james_sorenson on Mar 21, '02 01:42:12AM

Invalid? Well, you are correct that it needs to be made executable. Could you post the exact error? It could be the xml file that it finds invalid. Also, you will want to put it somewhere in your path.



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