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To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (2226)4/10/2000 5:43:00 PM
From: Mitch Blevins  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 2615
 
I dunno why it crashes only IE and not the other browsers. The actual bug is in the OS itself and is caused by some old DOS device-driver code. The problem is the IE will pass the URL thru to the OS unchanged, while other browsers (netscape, opera) will change the URL to make it harmless.
(or something like that...)

Full details at
securax.org

-Mitch



To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (2226)4/10/2000 7:14:00 PM
From: Pareto  Respond to of 2615
 
Hi Cheeky,

This is funny, I programmed in DOS in '88 and let a macro generate code (hundreds of files with different graphs). So based on the input data it generated a file with the extension .con

Then I run the program on DOS and Harvard Graphics and it totally crashed. It took me many hours to find out that the .con file was the cause of it. Like the millennium bug, bugs in OS seem to be pervasive, even after 10 or 20 years.

Regards
Pareto


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