[Maf] Can not create archive

[Allister Beharry]

Hello Dale,
MAF does not run on Windows 98. It's a known bug  - #7913. MAF 0.5 had
some changes to try to remedy this, but it's still broken. I've pasted
in the initial testing I did with Win98. If you can confirm the
behaviour below or add any new behaviours of MAF on Win98  you've
observed, it would help to narrow down what the underlying problem is.

<snip>-----------------------------------------------------------
Anyway, the patch has is showing some unstable behaviour - it works
sometimes... It's not the batch file, which does what it's supposed to
when run interactively.  When I do a "Save as MAF" in Firefox 1.0.1, 4/5
times I get an open DOS command prompt window. Closing the window
results in the "Archive operation complete dialog", but nothing happens.
One one try though the batch file ran as expected, and it produced the
Maf file. But in about 10 trys, it's only worked twice.

invis.vbs doesn't seem to work either. At first blush it seems the way
MAF is invoking Windows commands doesn't have the desired effect on
95/98. Under certain conditions, it's causing a command interpreter to
start, but it doesn't do anything.

The other thing I noticed is that it both times it worked, I chose to
"Save as MAF Archive", as opposed to "Save as MAF Zip archive" Opening
MAF archives didn't work at all, and one time I got the hung progress
bar bug.
<snip>-----------------------------------------------------------

Allister

> -----Original Message-----
> From: maf-bounces at mozdev.org [mailto:maf-bounces at mozdev.org] 
> On Behalf Of Dale Osborn
> Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 11:33 PM
> To: maf at mozdev.org
> Subject: [Maf] Can not create archive
> 
> The FAQ says:
> 
> >Question:  	MAF doesn't save the page content properly. 
> What's going on?
> 
> >Answer: 	MAF uses some (very) mangled code version of 
> the File -> Save as 
> >-> Web page Complete code, so if it works properly when not 
> using MAF then 
> >I've mangled it too much. If that's the case, eMail the URL 
> you're trying 
> >to save to me with a brief description of your browser 
> version, platform 
> >and what's not right.
> 
> Symptom: MAFZIP.BAT is not entered. (I have commands in it to 
> trace its 
> progress).  Sometimes, but not always, if I Save As Web Page 
> Complete, 
> then load that, then save to archive, it will work.  
> Sometimes not.  The 
> below URL does not work in that way.
> 
> <http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/10/opinion/10fri3.html>
> 
> Sometimes if I try is a second time it succeeds.  Here is one 
> of those:
> 
> <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/
10/AR2005061
> 001685_pf.html>
> (Sorry about the word-wrap, the mail client insists on it :(
> 
> Win98SE
> Firefox 1.03
> MAF 0.5.0
> 
> I usually use Proxomitron.  I tried bypassing it and still 
> was not able to 
> create an archive.
> 
> If I can be helpful by doing more testing or sending more 
> info please let 
> me know.
> 
> Many thanks.
> 
> 
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