On Thu, 25 Jan 2001 02:03:33 -0500, L.D. Best wrote:
> I get a "personalized cartoon" every week. I get the e-mail, follow
> the enclosed link, and my personalize cartoon appears.
> This week the link was [as it has always been]
> http://www.cartoonlink.com/myfly.cgi?userID=956375629
> But this week I didn't see my cartoon. Instead I see the status line at
> the bottom of the screen doing crazy things ... downloading DISCONNECTED
> downloading 2012345 Disconnected Downloading 3107332 incrementing
> higher and higher each time. And it was going on so rapidly it took
> less than 10 seconds to reach the point of xSwap error [no I didn't get
> the line code ... sorry] when over 3Megabytes had been supposedly
> downloaded despite interjected disconnections.
> Perhaps someone else running 1.70v3 can check out the site and see if
> the same thing happens to them.
> I had plenty of DOS memory to start with, the cache had been empty
> before I started reading mail and currently shows only 5 items, Free
> xSwap is 3xUsed amount, plenty of disk space, but 42938030367 Used XMS.
> [Since I only have 132Mb, I think that number is wrong.]
> Hopefully a reboot might let me get to the cartoon on the next try.
Hmmmm, Looks OK to me. ;-)
http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/cartoon.jpg (97k)
http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/cartoon.zbm (54k)
Seriously, the same thing happened to me at 2 sites last evening.
(cold reboot needed to stop the D/L of over 2mb on a 50k file) :((
When I tried again.... everything worked fine.
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Glenn
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