On Sat, 19 May 2001 14:32:22 -0500, L.D. Best wrote:
> immaterial ...
> On Fri, 18 May 2001 23:20:52 -0400, Glenn McCorkle wrote:
>> On Fri, 18 May 2001 14:10:14 -0500, L.D. Best wrote:
> <snip>
>>> Today was yet another day of "red boxes" but today was different. This
>>> time around I not only was unsuccessful in obtaining a rendition by
>>> using 'right click' and reload, I ran into a LOOP that's killer.
>> URL of the site in question ??? <g>
I beg to differ. <g>
Without the URL, we can't test the files in question to see if they
might be "corrupt".
Try Bernie's suggestion of doing a "manual conversion" with djpeg32.exe
direct from the Dos command prompt.
Then any error messages will be visible.
Another possible cause would be if the JPGs are actually GIFs
Try this as an expmple...
http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/wrongext.htm
The result of loading the images on that page:
26 "red boxes" and 26 "zero byte" BMPs in my cache.
L:\ARACHNE>sf.exe -lhstwa l:\arachne\cache\*.*
Listing directory: L:\ARACHNE\CACHE\
Name mask: *.*
90392662.HTM 2189 5-20-2001 17:08:02 -----A--
90392674.HTM 3594 5-20-2001 17:04:14 -----A--
90392686.HTM 5148 5-20-2001 17:07:50 -----A--
90392861.HTM 3630 5-20-2001 17:07:30 -----A--
90392934.HTM 3632 5-20-2001 17:08:04 -----A--
90392949.HTM 1210 5-20-2001 17:08:10 -----A--
90392963.JPG 34812 5-20-2001 17:08:22 -----A--
90392974.JPG 34812 5-20-2001 17:08:22 -----A--
90392993.JPG 34812 5-20-2001 17:08:32 -----A--
90393003.JPG 34812 5-20-2001 17:08:32 -----A--
90393023.JPG 34812 5-20-2001 17:08:40 -----A--
90393034.JPG 34812 5-20-2001 17:08:42 -----A--
90393052.JPG 34812 5-20-2001 17:08:50 -----A--
90393063.JPG 34812 5-20-2001 17:08:52 -----A--
90393082.JPG 34812 5-20-2001 17:08:58 -----A--
90393092.JPG 34812 5-20-2001 17:09:00 -----A--
90393111.JPG 34812 5-20-2001 17:09:08 -----A--
90393121.JPG 34812 5-20-2001 17:09:08 -----A--
90393139.JPG 34812 5-20-2001 17:09:26 -----A--
90393150.JPG 34812 5-20-2001 17:09:26 -----A--
90393176.JPG 34812 5-20-2001 17:09:34 -----A--
90393187.JPG 34812 5-20-2001 17:09:36 -----A--
90393206.JPG 34812 5-20-2001 17:09:44 -----A--
90393217.JPG 34812 5-20-2001 17:09:48 -----A--
90393238.JPG 34812 5-20-2001 17:09:56 -----A--
90393249.JPG 34812 5-20-2001 17:09:56 -----A--
90393267.JPG 34812 5-20-2001 17:10:06 -----A--
90393278.JPG 34812 5-20-2001 17:10:06 -----A--
90393297.JPG 34812 5-20-2001 17:10:18 -----A--
90393308.JPG 34812 5-20-2001 17:10:18 -----A--
90393328.JPG 34812 5-20-2001 17:10:26 -----A--
90393339.JPG 34812 5-20-2001 17:10:28 -----A--
90392963.BMP 0 5-20-2001 17:10:30 -----A--
90392974.BMP 0 5-20-2001 17:10:30 -----A--
90392993.BMP 0 5-20-2001 17:10:30 -----A--
90393003.BMP 0 5-20-2001 17:10:30 -----A--
90393023.BMP 0 5-20-2001 17:10:30 -----A--
90393034.BMP 0 5-20-2001 17:10:30 -----A--
90393052.BMP 0 5-20-2001 17:10:30 -----A--
90393063.BMP 0 5-20-2001 17:10:30 -----A--
90393082.BMP 0 5-20-2001 17:10:30 -----A--
90393092.BMP 0 5-20-2001 17:10:30 -----A--
90393111.BMP 0 5-20-2001 17:10:30 -----A--
90393121.BMP 0 5-20-2001 17:10:30 -----A--
90393139.BMP 0 5-20-2001 17:10:30 -----A--
90393150.BMP 0 5-20-2001 17:10:30 -----A--
90393176.BMP 0 5-20-2001 17:10:30 -----A--
90393187.BMP 0 5-20-2001 17:10:30 -----A--
90393206.BMP 0 5-20-2001 17:10:30 -----A--
90393217.BMP 0 5-20-2001 17:10:30 -----A--
90393238.BMP 0 5-20-2001 17:10:30 -----A--
90393249.BMP 0 5-20-2001 17:10:30 -----A--
90393267.BMP 0 5-20-2001 17:10:30 -----A--
90393278.BMP 0 5-20-2001 17:10:30 -----A--
90393297.BMP 0 5-20-2001 17:10:30 -----A--
90393308.BMP 0 5-20-2001 17:10:30 -----A--
90393328.BMP 0 5-20-2001 17:10:30 -----A--
90393339.BMP 0 5-20-2001 17:10:30 -----A--
Sub-Directories: 0
924515 bytes used in 58 files.
924515 bytes used in 58 files in 1 directories.
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Glenn
http://arachne.cz/
http://freedos-32.sourceforge.net/
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http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/download.htm
