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Re: 5 MB free ftp-space - Something weird

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From: Thomas Malmberg
Date: Tue, 06 May 1997 00:00
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In alt.www.sites.that.don't.suck Tim McKillican <bmck...@lon.hookup.net> wrote:

-> I went to this site, and while loading, in the status bar while loading
-> the page, it said "Uploading C: 67% complete."  I didn't realize until
-> it had gone up to 67 or 70%, but as soon as I saw it I quickly exited. 
-> What happened?  I have never seen this before.

 Hahah. It's called javascript.. =) You should know that neither java or
jscript can actually read or do any writing on your local harddisk. To
have a java-applet read/write you must use the SDK (or alike).

 I guess they fooled you.

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From: Thomas Malmberg <tsma...@cc.helsinki.fi>
Subject: Re: 5 MB free ftp-space - Something weird
Date: 1997/05/06
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