Re: Shades of Netscape 4.7x

At 22:10 2001/12/04, Keith Hopper wrote:

>Developing a script for teaching today involved trying to download an
>80Mbyte file from the web.
>
>Amaya 5.2 (non-Gtk) [linux 2.2.19] crashed after reading 2^31 bytes! Until 
>the latest Netscape and Mozillas they didn't crash but behaved very 
>erratically once the 'number' had 'gone negative' - only to behave alright 
>again after 2^32 bytes.

I'm not sure why this would trouble you. 2^31 is 2 GB and 2^32 is 4 GB.
80 MB, although a suitably impressive download size, is only about 0.08 GB.

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Received on Wednesday, 5 December 2001 02:48:38 UTC