CompuServe Thread

message waiting bug

4 messages in this thread
#44189From: Joe MacRaeMay 19, 1993 12:20 PM
Well…… Guess yoiu could say that was kinda on purpose. This is a software bug and not a virus. These are all strictly ASCII files that are getting hacked and viri don't affect ASCII files. Apparently pointers to the text portion of the file or linking pointers between headers are getting trashed, and it may be by the HMI interface (all that CIM stuff). So there will be at least two groups working on it. The forum support programmers and the HMI programmers. Yep!!! HMI was written by a different set of programmers, and it was written from a spec. Evidentally them guys never did use what they wrote….<g>. HMI ain't even got the simplest of sysop commands in it.
#44258From: Don LandisMay 19, 1993 11:24 PM
Surprize, surprize! My waiting icon is now working again. It was non functional for 11 days. Did the culprit scroll or did the programmers fix the problem? I wonder if the problem will return? Thought you'd want to know.
#44274From: Joe MacRaeMay 20, 1993 3:15 AM
Don, don't go crazy on us now, it was only the forum scroll. New software hasn't been distributed to the forums yet……so keep your fingers crossed.
#44298From: Don LandisMay 20, 1993 11:16 AM
Right!