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- From: jsburger@xmission.com (John S. Burger)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: I'm impressed with IBrowse!
- Date: 12 Feb 96 11:25:03 +0500
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- On or about 10-Feb-96 21:49:49 John Hendrikx typed the following words about
- "Re: I'm impressed with IBrowse!". My reply is thus...
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- JH> In a message of 09 Feb 96 Paul Kolenbrander wrote to All:
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- JH> >> least thats what I heard a couple weeks ago! AWEB also Has BUGS,
- whic
- JH> >> is why it's not out YET either.
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- 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.
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- JH> Sigh, do you know why that warning is in the IBrowse readme? IBrowse can
- JH> the machine as it is a early BETA version, right? Well, what happens if
- JH> program crashes when writing to the HD? Your HD goes validating, and if
- JH> are unlucky you will have lost some files. IBrowse uses your HD as a cac
- JH> HTML and Image files, so if it crashes while writing to the HD your HD co
- JH> get unvalidated. The readme however refers to this as 'could trash your
- JH> which basicly is the same thing.
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- JH> The same thing could go for AWeb. If it happens to crash when writing a
- JH> file to disk then it 'could trash your HD', because the HD would get
- JH> unvalidated. The only difference is that with IBrowse this is a more lik
- JH> event as it uses the HD more often because of the HD based Cache.
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- JH> Grtz John
- JH> -- Via Xenolink 1.981, XenolinkUUCP 1.1
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- And that is why the beta distribution of IBrowse (V0.68) comes with the cache
- defaulted to RAM:.
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