Re: online copy of Vinge's True Names

2000-11-30 Thread Jim Burnes
On Thursday 30 November 2000 15:31, Bill Stewart wrote: > At 10:09 PM 11/29/00 -0500, Harmon Seaver wrote: > > Hmm, all I get when I go there is a blank page, but it looks like some > >really big files a loading before it gets there.Wonder wht I'm > > downloading? Wonder if I'm bullet proof? Ca

Re: online copy of Vinge's True Names

2000-11-30 Thread Bill Stewart
At 10:09 PM 11/29/00 -0500, Harmon Seaver wrote: > Hmm, all I get when I go there is a blank page, but it looks like some >really big files a loading before it gets there.Wonder wht I'm downloading? >Wonder if I'm bullet proof? Care to download it and send it to me? Netscape 4.7x choked on it.

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2000-11-30 Thread obvious
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2000-11-30 Thread oblivious
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2000-11-30 Thread anonymous
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Re: online copy of Vinge's True Names

2000-11-30 Thread obvious
> > Check the HTML source > > The page contains the text of a story, but there are HTML errors that > > prevent it being displayed on my browser) > > Adding a at the end fixes it. > > ... or just use lynx. This points to one of the big wins of XML over HTML. Parsers are not allowed to guess at

Re: online copy of Vinge's True Names

2000-11-30 Thread anonymous
Ken Brown wrote: > Check the HTML source > The page contains the text of a story, but there are HTML errors that > prevent it being displayed on my browser) > Adding a at the end fixes it. ... or just use lynx.

Re: online copy of Vinge's True Names

2000-11-30 Thread Adam Shostack
Bogon html. wget and xemacs solve the problem, with the bonus that web instability can't remove your copy. Adam On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 10:09:36PM -0500, Harmon Seaver wrote: | |Hmm, all I get when I go there is a blank page, but it looks like some | really big files a loading before it ge

Re: online copy of Vinge's True Names

2000-11-30 Thread Harmon Seaver
Interestingly enough, all you have to do to get this page to work is open it in Netscape Composer, save it to your drive. Should have thought of that last night. Wei Dai wrote: > There is an online copy of Vernor Vinge's novel True Names at > http://www.neoisp.org/macroscope/vinge/vernor