[Oberon] System degeneration ?

[easlab at absamail.co.za]

Are systems breaking down:
   ethz - oberon servers reported ooo ?
   reports of 40% net traffic consumed by spam ?
   
Is forced obsolesence making previously well functioning sytems
unusable ?

Under n-o [ver Oct 2001] I  get the trap-trace [included below]
for eg. Desktops.OpenDoc "
http://www.csmonitor.com/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?printEdition"

Perhaps there's a new 'update' to all web-pages which my 'old'
 system can't handle ?
 Or did I cause the error in incrementally modifying Oberon.Text ?
eg. I've been able to extend the file-extention types downloadable 
by adding some lines/entries eg:-
 MIME = {
	"application/msword" = ""
	"text/plain" = doc
	"application/wordperfect5.1" = ""
	"text/plain" = wp
	"text/plain" = wpd
	"text/plain" = pdf
....
	"image/gif" = gif
	"image/jpeg" = jpg
....

Yes obviously, I should test with the 'original saved version'.
But this won't work, since a hack was needed when my new ISP
allocated me a pasword containing the [unexpected to the n-o
design] "@" character.


I'd appreciate any advice to avoid having to debug this trap:

== Chris Glur.

TRAP -14  NIL reference ( 00000014H ) (PC Native 11.10.2001)
HTMLImages.ImgIcon  PC = 5551
	key = 15
	keyAttr = "IMGKey"
HTMLImages.IMG  PC = 7583
	C =  00000018H
	E =  0005CC40H
	P =  001DF4E0H
	S =  000000A8H
	alt = "go to csmonitor.com's homepage"
	attr = ""
	battr =  00000000H
	border = 0
	doc =  00000000H
	dsr = 0
	form =  00000000H
	h = 42
	i = 0
	iCon =  00000000H
	icon =  00000000H
	ikey = 15
	ismap = FALSE
	l = 0
	locked = TRUE
	mapname = ""
	obj =  00000000H
	okey = -1
	on = TRUE
	sattr =  00000000H
	w = 760
	x = 0
HTMLDocs.HandleTag  PC = 39454
	S =  00000010H
	Ss =  00000074H
	e =  003736C0H
	found = FALSE
	gen = ""
	i = 0
	on = TRUE
	prev =  00000000X
HTMLDocs.ParseNext  PC = 41310
	P =  001DF4E0H
	St =  001AE5C0H
	app = TRUE
	i = 28599672
	me =  00063560H
	minSize = 1
	timeOut = 28600672
Oberon.Loop  PC = 8726
	M =  00000010H
	N =  0000000CH
	V =  00126740H
	X = 84
	Y = 285
	ch =  000000A4X
	keys = {}
	oldshift = {}
	shift = {}