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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Path: netcom.com!hrlaser
- From: hrlaser@netcom.com (H.R. Laser)
- Subject: Re: I'm impressed with IBrowse!
- Message-ID: <hrlaserDMLyo1.7Bv@netcom.com>
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- References: <john.hendrikx.4d7w@grafix.xs4all.nl>
- Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 11:02:25 GMT
- Sender: hrlaser@netcom12.netcom.com
-
- John Hendrikx (john.hendrikx@grafix.xs4all.nl) wrote:
-
- : Sigh, do you know why that warning is in the IBrowse readme? IBrowse can crash
- : the machine as it is a early BETA version, right? Well, what happens if a
- : program crashes when writing to the HD? Your HD goes validating, and if you
- : are unlucky you will have lost some files. IBrowse uses your HD as a cache for
- : HTML and Image files, so if it crashes while writing to the HD your HD could
- : get unvalidated. The readme however refers to this as 'could trash your HD'
- : which basicly is the same thing.
-
- : The same thing could go for AWeb. If it happens to crash when writing a HTML
- : file to disk then it 'could trash your HD', because the HD would get
- : unvalidated. The only difference is that with IBrowse this is a more likely
- : event as it uses the HD more often because of the HD based Cache.
-
- : Grtz John
- : -- Via Xenolink 1.981, XenolinkUUCP 1.1
-
- Except that the new demo version of IBrowse now has a user-config
- area that lets you set the image cache to ram: if you wish, thus
- avoiding the problem entirely. :)
-
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