On Thu 21 Dec 00, 11:57 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said...
> On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > anyway, that was my first experience with a file that was too large.  
> > it was interesting.
> 
> I tried to download a several megabyte file yesterday with Lynx into my
> /home fs, and it garbled that tty (you know, where the characters get
> remapped and you have to reset it), and started making strange noises come
> out of my sound card.  Turns out that fs was full.  It didn't corrupt the
> fs, but I find the association between a full fs and sound output
> disturbing.
 
jeff, it was probably your hard drive screaming in pain...
:)


pete

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