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Article #35455Re: 5 MB free ftp-space - Something weird
From: Andrew Ansell
Date: Tue, 06 May 1997 00:00
Date: Tue, 06 May 1997 00:00
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Thomas Malmberg wrote: > > 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). True it's only ActiveX that can do that sort of thing. About all Java can do is post an email from your address to any address and with any content without informing you what its doing.
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From: Andrew Ansell <asa...@cam.ac.uk> Subject: Re: 5 MB free ftp-space - Something weird Date: 1997/05/06 Message-ID: <336F6CB1.4298@cam.ac.uk> X-Deja-AN: 239802321 References: <5kffv5$jmq@argon.btinternet.com> <336E41A0.20A7@lon.hookup.net> <5kmtv3$o1l$1@oravannahka.Helsinki.FI> Organization: Organisation? Whats that? Newsgroups: alt.games.command.and.conquer,alt.games.command-n-conq,alt.games.command-n-conq.red-alert,alt.games.redalert,alt.hack.nl,alt.internet.stuff,alt.www.sites.that.don't.suck,backbone.fragen.isdn,be.comp.internet,comp.dcom.isdn,comp.os.ms-windows.win MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit