[Info-vax] bizarre problem displaying JPEG files with CSWB

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

Displaying JPEG files with CSWB (with file:///, not http://; transport 
LOCAL or TCPIP doesn't matter), I find that files above a certain size 
will not display, but the time taken to read the file is what it should 
be, scroll bars of the right size appear etc---everything works OK, 
except the screen is blank.

The strange thing is that this happens only when the display is directed
to a certain machine X, no matter where the browser process is running. 
All other combinations: browser running on X and displaying on Y,
browser running on Y and displaying on Y etc work---running on X
displaying on X and running on Y displaying on X don't. 

What is even stranger is that X is the most powerful machine: 2 GB RAM 
in a DS10.  (To be sure, the monitor on X is running at a higher 
resolution, but I don't see how that could be the problem, especially 
considering that the files display fine on an ALPHAstation 500/500 with 
just 288 MB RAM (wherever the browser process is running).)