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Re: problems with netscape 4.05

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Babar M Bhatti)
Mon Aug 10 12:01:57 1998

Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 12:01:48 -0400
From: Babar M Bhatti <babar@MIT.EDU>
To: Todd Belton <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bug-infoagents@MIT.EDU

Thanks for your email.

Todd Belton wrote:
> 
> 
> Please tell me which type of workstation you're using, and the amount of
> physical memory present on the system as reported by 'sysinfo'.
> 

I am using sun sparc station 5 (model 170) with memory of 32 MB.

> Does it happen EVERY time you click on New Message?

No. It happens most of the time (>80%).
> 
> What other applications are you normally running at the same time? How
> many xterm windows?

Usually 4 emacs and 3 xterms - sometimes matlab too. 

> 
> The famous Bus Error happens to me a lot in 3.01, usually when I've been
> doing a lot of other things and then suddenly shift back to mail to send
> a message. I haven't seen it in 4.05 yet, but it's only a matter of
> time.

True. But it has more persistently occured with 4.05 in my case.

> 
> -Todd Belton
>  MIT I/S
>  Infoagents Fire Chief

-babar

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