Janus/.Net

Janus for .Net — Yes, we do do requests, if not very quickly. Last August, Bob Morgenthaler asked for a Windows version of Janus, and now there is one (using the .NET framework to make things easier).

From the Windows Page.

PassiveFTP 1.3.1456

PassiveFTP 1.3 — PassiveFTP version 1.3.1456.17123 — now builds on Linux with gcc. Otherwise, apart from a couple of places where feeding an FXString& to a formatting '...' would have caused garbage, unchanged from previous version. Updated Win32 build with the new code base, Makefile etc.

From the Windows page.

PassiveFTP 1.3

PassiveFTP 1.3 — Not built or tested on anything but Win32 — has improved file icon display for files on the client, and the facility to localize all the messages through text files. Gives patches to add localization for recent Fox 1.1 versions (diffs taken against 1.1.41).

See the Windows page.

Installation problems for CTCjava -- workround

Having had problems with the ZeroG free version installer for CTCjava on Win XP and current Java releases, here are instructions for how to work around any failures on that platform.

If the installer fails to run (I've had this happen under WinXP Home, where even a copy of the installed system executable will not run, but not WinXP Pro), then you have to fall back to a variant of the Linux strategy below. Download the Linux cj_setup.zip archive and the CTClib 2.3.1 patch dll archive. Extract the .jar file from the former, and the dll from the latter, and put them in the same folder. Now create a ctcjava.bat file that has commands to change to the partition and then cd to the folder where you have placed these files, and then executes

wjview /cp:p ctcjava.jar com.ravnaandtines.ctcjava.CTC ctcjava.ini

to use the Microsoft VM, which is what I needed to use to get it working at all, or

javaw -cp ctcjava.jar com.ravnaandtines.ctcjava.CTC ctcjava.ini

(with the javaw for the JDK or equivalent jrew command for the JRE preceeded by the path to the Java installation's \bin folder if it's not on the path) to use a Sun JRE if that works for you.

Put a shortcut to this on your desktop with an icon as desired.

CSS Validator resources

Uploaded the pre-built resource files for the VS.NET build of the CSS Validator.

Geocities site cleanup

Well, as freecrypto.org has bit the big one, nuke the last (animated) .gif — rather than .mng it.

Validator Updates

Both the XHTML validator programs now support

• whole folder validation, and
• respecting file declared DOCTYPE (if it's one of the three XHTML DTDs, 1.0 Transition, 1.0 Strict or 1.1, defaulting to 1.0 Strict).

Versions are now 2.1.1263.35260 for .NET and 1.2 for Java. The Java version is noisier than the .NET version, in emitting redefinition warnings; but the W3C validator agrees with the .NET version where I have done comparisons.

Fixed bug in the Java build of the CSS2 parser that didn't handle relative file:// URLs properly, so failed on @import url() statements; this is something long ago fixed in the J# version - just forgot I needed to port it back.

Tweaked style sheets so that Konqueror 3.0 doesn't merge the print style into the screen presentation and hide the site-map links.