nasty assertion error

[George Hester]

There is only one circuit if you are using msnews.microsoft.com. They do
not strip out the graphics. Normally ntp servers do not "strip" out
anything but the post itself. In other words ntp servers that do not
support binaries will just not "Serve" the entire post. But I guess some
can do that but that is not the case here. If you are usng
msnews.microsoft.com and NOT seeing the message than the issue is at your
client pretty sure about that. But absolutely sure msnews.microsoft.com
supports binaries as I can see the image.

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George Hester
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"Sid Elbow" <mevagissey@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:e23cf$469fdd15$cef889ca$6969@TEKSAVVY.COM...
> No, I'm pulling it from regular nntp servers. If what you included was
> an imbedded/attached graphic, it was probably stripped on the nntp
> circuit since most servers don't allow such attachments in non-binary
> groups (another netiquette problem I'm afraid).
>
> George Hester wrote:
> > Really that is interesting. Are you viewing this newsgroup over the Web
> > interface? To explain this issue would have required alot of verbage
and it
> > would really have been way over the top. Try to view the message with
OEX
> > you will find if you set it up right it works quite well. Here is the
> > address for this newsgroup:
> >
> > msnews.microsoft.com
> >
> > --
> > George Hester
> > ________________________________
> > "Sid Elbow" <mevagissey@gmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:25094$469f9a54$cef889ca$26929@TEKSAVVY.COM...
> >> I don't know if you inserted something after that "Here it is" but if
> >> so, it sure didn't survive the trip to my machine.

 

[George Hester]

Hey I didn't know I could do that. Thanks heaps for that information.
Learn something new all the time. Let me try that and see if what you said
puts the title of the messagebox in...wowwee

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Microsoft Visual C++ Debug Library
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Debug Assertion Failed!

Program: C:\Program Files\Media Player Classic\mplayerc.exe
File: dbgheap.c
Line: 1044

Expression: _CrtIsValidHeapPointer(pUserData)

For information on how your program can cause an assertion
failure, see the Visual C++ documentation on asserts.

(Press Retry to debug the application)
---------------------------
Abort Retry Ignore
---------------------------

Nice one. I will do that in the future title of box is in there. Great man
you have made my day.

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George Hester
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"Alex Blekhman" <tkfx.REMOVE@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:uLAcx1kyHHA.1776@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> "George Hester" wrote:
> > Really that is interesting. Are you viewing this
> > newsgroup over the Web
> > interface? To explain this issue would have required alot
> > of verbage and it
> > would really have been way over the top. Try to view the
> > message with OEX
> > you will find if you set it up right it works quite well.
>
> Usually people read (and write) Usenet posts in plain text.
> Many of them have configured teir newsreaders to filter
> attachments out, as well. Asking them to switch to HTML view
> is considered impolite.
>
> Most of the time developers already know about different
> kinds of error message boxes. So, it's enogh to say that it
> was "CRT assert message box" or whatever. Then just post
> relevant part of it (like name of a function or source file
> with number of a line).
>
> However, if you need to post entire content of message box,
> then press Ctrl+C when message box window is active. Then
> press Ctrl+V in any text editor. You'll get full content of
> the message box. Almost every MS product (including Windows)
> supports this feature.
>
> Alex
>

 

[Alex Blekhman]

"George Hester" wrote:
[...]
> Nice one. I will do that in the future title of box is in
> there.

Yes, it's a nice feature. Suicidal rate in MS support
department was extremely high before copyable message boxes
were introduced.

> Great man you have made my day.

You're welcome.

Alex

 

[Alex Blekhman]

"George Hester" wrote:
> [...] I can
> still use Windows Media Player on mpgs usually and VLC
> Player on everything
> else.

Yes, one of VLC's strengths is that it doesn't use anything
from the system. VLC has all its codecs embedded within a
player.

Alex

 

[Sid Elbow]

George Hester wrote:
> Right this ntp server does support graphics it is only your client
> that keeps you from seeing the html



I don't really want to prolong this but the Microsoft nntp server may
well support all kinds of things. But this is Usenet. People pull
messages in this group from any of a gazillion servers worldwide.

In fact, my reader does support html - it was my understanding that you
had attached a graphic file (or that you had embedded a graphic which
was seen as an attachment when your message was propagated through usenet).

The fact that you are adding a graphic, doesn't imply that any html is
involved. And actually, html messages are generally preferred on usenet
because of the possibility of embedding malicious code in html. Not that
that stops a lot of people and most servers will actually allow html.
But not graphics. No matter how useful they are in individual cases,
their unrestricted use simply takes up too much capacity on the nntp
servers.

 

[Sid Elbow]

Sid Elbow wrote:


> ....................... html messages are generally preferred on usenet
> because of the possibility of embedding malicious code in html.

Should have been "generally not preferred" of course - sorry.