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Message-Id: <199704210824.KAA01187@math.amu.edu.pl>
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From: "Mark Habersack" <grendel AT hoth DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
Organization: PPP (Pesticide Powered Pumpkins)
To: mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 10:24:22 +0100
MIME-Version: 1.0
Subject: Re: Caldera's webpages.
Reply-to: grendel AT hoth DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl
CC: opendos AT delorie DOT com
In-reply-to: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970420074940.32647K-100000@capslock.com>

Once upon a time (on 20 Apr 97 at 7:57) Mike A. Harris said:

> Is it just me, or does everyone have problems with
> accessing caldera's web pages via LYNX.  I connected to them and
> the status line said "Read 512 bytes of 3940" or something like
> that, then "Read 2048...", then went up and up to 
> "Read 3942 bytes of 3940" and then froze until I hit the Z key to
> stop it.  Nothing was displayed.  Lynx didn't freeze, just the
> page download froze.  If you didn't notice, the amount downloaded
> exceeded the amount listed as the total by 2 bytes.  This
> happened on ALL caldera's pages that I tried to access and only
> in Lynx.  I tried Netscape and it worked fine.
Same here! Even the newest Lynx 2.7 with frame/image map support doesn't 
work!

> I just tried to access the page listed as where the source for OD
> is, and I got a blank page that said:
> 
> [LINK]
> 
> And that is it!!!!!!!!!  I'm almost positive that if I look at it
> in Netscape, it will be full of graphics that take 30 minutes to
> download.
exactly.... and when I tried to reach the sources directly, I got the 404 
error ;-((

> Please pardon my frustration, but I'm frustrated!  Come on
> Caldera!  Support text mode!  OpenDOS is text mode!
Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!
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