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- Path: grafix.xs4all.nl!john.hendrikx
- Date: Sat, 10 Feb 96 16:49:49 GMT+1
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- Subject: Re: I'm impressed with IBrowse!
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- From: john.hendrikx@grafix.xs4all.nl (John Hendrikx)
- Message-ID: <john.hendrikx.4d7w@grafix.xs4all.nl>
- Organization: Grafix Attack BBS Holland
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- In a message of 09 Feb 96 Paul Kolenbrander wrote to All:
-
- >> least thats what I heard a couple weeks ago! AWEB also Has BUGS, which
- >> is why it's not out YET either.
-
- PK> That's NOT the reason (Damnit, no you're making me shout as well) The
- PK> reason AWeb is not out is because the author wants to not release it
- PK> until it's tested and has all the features put in. Of course it has
- PK> bugs, but so do most other programs. But so far the AWeb bugs have
- PK> proved minor. And there's no warning to AWeb testers that AWeb might
- PK> trash their HD. Something that's in the IBrowse readme. In my opinion,
- PK> the Ibrowse peopel shoudl not have surrendered to pressure and have
- PK> released these 'buggy' beta's. They should have kept it internal until
- PK> they had it stable.
-
- 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
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