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Date:	Thu, 12 Jul 2001 19:21:05 PDT
From:	Ray Davison <raydav@intlaccess.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Bad 'Ol NS 4.61 Bug

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This a reply to the message below. "Reply" works fine. Am I missing
something?
NS 4.61, NETSCAPE.EXE: 8-21-00

Ray

"J. R. Fox" wrote:

> =====================================================
> If you are responding to someone asking for help who
> may not be a member of this list, be sure to use the
> REPLY TO ALL feature of your email program.
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>
> This is a copy of a note I sent to Steve Wendt, who maintains the
> NS Communicator for OS/2 BugTracker page, at
>
> http://www.os2bbs.com/os2news/Communicator.html
>
> Have you experienced this bug ? Comments ?
>
>
> __________________________________________________________________
>
> Hi Steve,
>
> Good to see that the bugtracker page is still maintained.
>
> I'm still using the 7/2000 build of 4.61 (or 8/2000 -- both dates
> are mentioned in the .EXE). The updated APAR list did not sound
> particularly relevant to me, and I'm waiting to hear from others
> before I bother changing to the just released build. I'm running
> Warp 4 @ FP-9.
>
> One rather prominent bug that I don't recall seeing on your list,
> or in any APAR list, is an old, familiar, and very annoying one.
> I choose REPLY for a piece of email I've received, the
> Composition window appears, and . . . NOTHING. The Adressee
> field remains empty, the Message being replied to is not quoted,
> and the Composition Window just sits there: blank, frozen, and
> useless. Sometimes it finally gets updated after a minute or
> two, sometimes not. If, after a nice long wait, I try to close
> the Composition window -- or encourage it to update itself by
> clicking *anywhere* -- NS crashes and disappears, with an entry
> left in POPUPLOG. Occasionally it will crash anyway, even if no
> action is taken.
>
> Of course, each of these occurrences counts against the (still
> unfixed) 15 or 16 Open | Close cycles you get before NS
> destabilizes the running OS, with a Reboot before that point is
> reached being advisable.
>
> I'm 80 % sure that at least a couple other users have confirmed
> much the same NS behavior in past conversations I've had on the
> subject. You would think that this problem would have been
> corrected by now. I just hope it is not carried over into the
> code base of the various flavors of Warpzilla / Mozilla, or
> whatever they are calling the successor to NS 4.61 for OS/2.
>
> Jordan
> ___________________________________________________________________
>
> P.S. : Yes, I'm aware that "NS successors" is the tentative
> topic for the next meeting. Hope that holds up, as it is an
> important one. Also hope we are given the pros & cons for
> choosing one over the others.
>
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