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Re: AWeb (Was: CU Amiga CD Version)

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From: Richard Daily
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 00:00
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Philip Stokes (phil@stokes.demon.co.uk) wrote:
> Allan Girvan (allan@girvan.demon.co.uk) wrote:
> > 
> > AWeb made it to Aminet yesterday!
> > 
> > Version 1.0 is in comm/tcp - 259557 bytes.
> > 
> > I've not really given it a good thrashing yet but it's already crashed once
> > (on the prefs window of all things!) It looks very promising though.
> 
> This is a possible cause of that (from a posting in c.s.a.networking)
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>    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.

<Cut>

You can d/l aweblogo.iff from there home page, because the one in
the archive is corrupt ISTR.

> Interestingly, I found loading the .iff into DPaint it was seen as 0/0/256,
> but PPaint reported the right sizing information. Nevertheless, I saved
> it as outlined above and used AWeb last night for an hour without a crash.
> 
I have just been using it for a few hours, and it has'nt crashed,
hope i hav'nt spoken to soon. ;) it looks good and, and i find
it's quite fast.

> But I couldn't get the installer to run, anybody else had problems with it?
> 
It seemed to work fine here.


-- 

    Richard 
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Subject: Re: AWeb (Was: CU Amiga CD Version)
Date: 1996/03/24
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