In article <6mu80qFip6mnU1@mid.individual.net>, Michael Unger wrote:
>On 2008-10-30 03:03, "Brad Hamilton" wrote:
>
>> [...]
>>
>> Seamonkey works better for me today, after the nightly reboot. All I really
>> want to do with it is to play with Mail and Newsgroups. I'm going to attempt
>> to find out how to invoke *only* the mail program, since the browser, although
>> more stable than yesterday, is *slow*.
>> [...]
>
>The Windows version has a command line switch "-mail" -- you might try
>that on VMS as well ...

Yes, I tried that after visiting the Seamonkey website - unfortunately, it
doesn't work on VMS. See JF's previous reply for the proper method of invoking
Mail & Newsgroups at Seamonkey startup.

Thanks anyway.
[...]

I've installed Seamonkey under VMS 8.3 at home. I backuped my profile (_MOZILLA
directory) and the old SYS$COMMON:[CSWB] directory to be able to use the "old"
Mozilla (1.7-3).

First try without installing the images with @SSYS$COMMON:[CSWB]INSTALL (and
with old images desinstalled after a reboot, I like clean systems before a try).

Navigator OK, but Mail and News not (folders not displaying, etc ...).

After installing images, all seems OK now, Seamonkey is quota hungry :-).

Only problem (not really), mail is rather slow and seems to trash the disk each
time you read a mail (and I have fast disk, a 72 Gb U160). I suppose its some
debug mode active in the test version. I suppose it wil be ok in the official
version.

Otherwise, its great.

Thanks HP folks !!

Patrick
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick MOREAU, DTI Athis ex CENA, Tel: 01.69.57.68.40
> [mailtomoreau@ath.cena.fr]
> Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2008 5:44 AM
> To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
> Subject: Re: Seamonkey browser port for Alpha now available
>
> I've installed Seamonkey under VMS 8.3 at home. I backuped my profile
> (_MOZILLA
> directory) and the old SYS$COMMON:[CSWB] directory to be able to use
> the "old"
> Mozilla (1.7-3).
>
> First try without installing the images with @SSYS$COMMON:[CSWB]INSTALL
> (and
> with old images desinstalled after a reboot, I like clean systems
> before a try).
>
> Navigator OK, but Mail and News not (folders not displaying, etc ...).
>
> After installing images, all seems OK now, Seamonkey is quota hungry :-
> ).
>
> Only problem (not really), mail is rather slow and seems to trash the
> disk each
> time you read a mail (and I have fast disk, a 72 Gb U160). I suppose
> its some
> debug mode active in the test version. I suppose it wil be ok in the
> official
> version.
>
> Otherwise, its great.
>
> Thanks HP folks !!
>
> Patrick
> --

Fwiw, and I am not sure if this is the case with Seamonkey beta, but in
most cases beta sw is loaded with debug code that makes the overall
performance slower. Focus is usually first on functionality and then
performance later in the beta cycle (close to prod).

Hence, one always needs to take testing of beta SW of any SW product for
performance comparisons with a grain of salt as they say.

Reminds me of the Word version Microsoft created for the Alpha NT
Platform many moons ago. It was quite a bit faster than the equivalent
X86 prod with Word on it at the time, so that was seen as a good
thing.

Yes, it was good, but Microsoft never removed the debug code from the
Prod release of the Word on Alpha NT prod, hence it was even better
than what was perceived.[They never did release a Alpha NT Word version
without the debug code loaded]

Ah well ..

Regards

Kerry Main
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