Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/02/04/11:38:05
On Sun, 2 Feb 1997, John M. Aldrich wrote:
> nikki wrote:
> >
> > ah now i have no problem with the editor. i did the following and it seems to
> > work now, at least it hasn't crashed at all in the last 5 days.
> >
> > 1) don't use it for mail or news like you suggest
> > 2) disable java and javascript like you suggest
> > 3) switch the 'number of connections' under the network preference menu
> > down from 4 to 1 and set the buffer to 16k. netscape won't hang or bomb out
> > any more it seems, however sometimes you have to wait for something as
> > you only have one connection now.
>
> What you folks are describing is very odd. I use the 16-bit version of
> Netscape 3.01 Gold (exe dated 10/22/96 7:16:30 pm) in Windows 3.11 and
Hmm. Last time I checked there wasn't a Win 3.1 version of Gold.
Have they released one now? Not that I want it though.
> it has never crashed from inactivity no matter how much junk I was doing
> (or not doing) at the time.
I wan't meaning to imply that it crashed FROM inactivity, but
rather that it crashes all the time even when inactive.
> The editor works fine, and is a lot better
> once they fixed the line wrapping bugs in 2.x.
Well, I've got line wrapping bugs and I'm using 3.01. Perhaps
they didn't fix the "Linux" version? My friend runs '95 and uses
NS301g and he said it works exactly like my Linux version,
complete with bugs (the same ones too). I've since tried it out
myself on his system, and found out that it does crash the same
way. I'm glad I didn't actually *PAY* for it. He did! :o)
> The only real problem
> that I've had using NN is that for a while it was "losing" news articles
> - they just seemed to disappear without a trace from the server. I
> reinstalled it the other day and the problem went away. :)
If you've read a message, it will be removed from the display if
you switch newsgroups and switch back. There is an option to
disable this behaviour (Options|Show ALL messages, or Show only
unread messages).
> Are you using the 32-bit version of NN? If so, then I may reconsider
> upgrading once I get Win95...
I'm using the Linux version of 3.01gold. So, yes it is 32 bit.
Works the same, looks much better though (in Linux). Good thing
is, in Linux when NS crashes, it only hurts itself, not the OS.
<big OS bragging grin>
TTYL
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