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Re: lynx-dev division by zero when lynx a huge HTML file
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Patrick |
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Re: lynx-dev division by zero when lynx a huge HTML file |
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Wed, 28 Mar 2001 03:07:36 -0800 |
In "lynx-dev division by zero when lynx a huge HTML file"
[27/Mar/2001Tue 18:46:16]
Shaozhong Deng wrote:
> On a Windows NT machine, I run lynx like
> lynx -dump http://mywebserver/cgi-bin/myscript.pl?myarg
> where mywebserver is an apache web server running on another
> SunOS machine. Basically the CGI script myscript.pl returns
> a VERY SIMPLE BUT VERY LARGE HTML file like
>
> <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>mytitle</TITLE></HEAD><BODY><PRE>
> abcdefgabcdefg11111222223333344444555556666677777
> .................................................
> abcdefgabcdefg11111222223333344444555556666677777
> </PRE><BODY></HTML>
>
> The size of the HTML file depends on the argument myarg.
> If the size is not too large, then lynx works fine.
> But if the size is too large (>10MB), then the NT system always
> gives me an error message like "floating point execption",
> "division by zero".
Wow. The only advice I can think of is; stay away from 10mb+ HTML
files. This bug probably went undiagnosed because you're the first to
throw that much data at Lynx in one shot.
> Does anybody have any idea about this problem?
No clue, but I wonder what anyone else has to say about it...
Patrick
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