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Re: AWeb lockup problem

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From: Heikki Kantola
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 10:04
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In article <4l0lk5$k18@nyx10.cs.du.edu>,
	rdavis@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Robert Davis) writes:
>mpa@iig.com.au (Mark P Allen) writes:
>>On 16-Apr-96 04:10:54, Michael M. Rye wrote:
>
>> MMR>      I was wondering if anyone else has been experiencing
>> MMR> lockups with AWeb v1.0???  After a short time using it on my
>> MMR> machine (config shown in signature), it totally locks up
>> MMR> everything.  I get *no* GURU, no system error window ...
>> MMR> nothing.  Even the mouse quits moving!  When I warm start the
>
>>Yes, I've been getting the occasional lockup recently too. No idea what'
>>causing it, and as you say, there is no indication of the cause of the
>>problem.
>
>At times, but mostly whan loading html files, the browser
>just reboots the machine.  No lockup, no error messages,
>just an instant reboot.

I could guess either bad images which aren't supported by the
datatypes or simply running out of chip mem...

>Too many people run AWeb without problems.  Although I did
>download the AWeb 1.1 archive from Aminet today, so 
>there must have been something which needed fixing .

Well, I ran 1.0 quite quite fine on my A3000, but it sure had little
quirks (enforcing some styles for certain font types and minor visual
disharmonies with Urouhack, broken 68000 support (didn't affect me ;))
etc.) which seem to be now fixed in 1.1.

-- 
Heikki Kantola, Amiga advocate, computer linguistics student at University 
of Helsinki, author of HK Fonts vol.1-7, PC loather, idler extraordinaire, 
IRC addict (Hezu@#Amiga), Mac basher, Unix/X fan and what else?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> E-Mail: Heikki.Kantola@Helsinki.FI <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
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From: hkantola@cc.Helsinki.FI (Heikki Kantola)
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Subject: Re: AWeb lockup problem
Date: 17 Apr 1996 10:04:06 GMT
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