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Re: Getting AWeb to work!

#5767
From: CS Wagner
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 23:30
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On 23-Mar-96 13:40:35, Noah I Rosenberg wrote in comp.sys.amiga.networking
about Getting AWeb to work!:
>       Okay I've tinkered with the AWeb demo a bit, I ws determined to
>figure out what was wrong, and I have:


>       Something is wrong with the file aweb/docs/aweblogo.iff ... somehow
>the info hunk at the start pfo the file got to say that the picture was 0 x
>0 x 256 colors.. so I guess when Aweb starts it tries to do some math with
>that picture.. and with the x and y sides being 0, boom, crashes.

>TO FIX THIS:

>       .. couple things you could do:

>       1) rename aweblogo.iff to blah.iff (so aweb can't find it, so it
>won't crash)
>       2) rename aweb.html altogether (similar effect)
>       3) Load AWevlogo.iff into am image processing program such as
>dpaint. Dpaint will ask if you wanna change the screen to that of the file,
>0x0x256. Don't. when it loads up, there will be some crap on the right edge
>of the file. cut that crap out, don't need it. then cut out the image as a
>brush, and save it as a brush (that way it gets the right sizing
>information). save it over the original, and you should be in business.




>       (haha I figured it out first, do I get a prize?)

>--
>CONTROL INTEGRITY LUST
>in'T@-gr@l    http://www.uwm.edu/~integral
>See you on the flipside, you long-haired freak.
>-integral@csd.uwm.edu


You seem to have completely skipped the INTELLIGENT solution - check The Amiga
Internet Guide. Upon the _first_ day Aweb 1.0 was released it let you know
there was a bug with the aweblogo.iff picture and it told you how to get the
fixed picture from the author of the program (simply one mouse click - no
repainting!)

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From: kainaw@cris.com (CS Wagner)
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Subject: Re: Getting AWeb to work!
Date: 24 Mar 1996 23:30:03 GMT
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