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From: klimas@astro.pc.ab.com
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: Re: smalltalk/v tsr problems
Message-ID: <369.26bfe3b0@astro.pc.ab.com>
Date: 8 Aug 90 15:04:32 GMT
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In article <0093ADB8.61087B80@CEDAR.CIRCA.UFL.EDU>, noodle@oak.circa.ufl.edu writes:
> grabbing memory causes all kinds of problems.  Try (after backing up your image)
> using WordPerfect 5.1 to edit something and then quit and enter smalltalk and
> modify a few moethods somewhere.  If you then exit saving the image, it is
> entirely possible that next time you invoke the image, the test you see for a
> method will contain part of the text you edited in WordPerfect.  The method is
> fine unless you try to recompile it at which point you get all kinds of problems
	I have been using Smalltalk/V286 with WP 5.0 for over a year and have
	never experienced this phenomena.

> It seems that whenever I exit out of smaltalk using the keyboard, the
> image becomes corrupted and I am unable to get back into smalltalk.
	What is "Exit out of Smalltalk using the keyboard"?   All that I can
	say is that we have some images that are used daily and are many months
	old with no problems in them.

> say is that I hope you have backups of your work.  I love smalltalk/V286.  I
> think there is nothing better for fast prototyping, but it still has alot of
> bugs which are at lest annoying and at worst can set you back weeks in work.
	I think one needs to be a little careful here as we have found V286
	to be remarkably reliable and bug free (and yes we also run with a
	ton, 163Kb, of TSR's).  Is it possible that there is some other
	problem, like a BIOS problem, an initially corrupted image, a
	rogue miscreant TSR, etc..