Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!psuvax1!rutgers!elbereth.rutgers.edu!joseph From: joseph@elbereth.rutgers.edu (Seymour Joseph) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Error Detective Message-ID: Date: 21 Aug 90 22:57:47 GMT References: <1990Aug20.021901.28351@utstat.uucp> <44111@apple.Apple.COM> Distribution: na Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 26 What give me the most headaches is that the GS environment is so complicated that it is quite common for multiple NDAs, CDAs, INITs or applications to be doing things wrong. I have loaded and unloaded inits, and das until I was dizzy but still don't know why some things screw up. I find the database module of AppleWorks GS to be the most often affected application. I will have a database open and be updating data, and after a while will notice that some fields have been corrupted. If I save the file then, it cannot be reloaded, and trying to fix the corrupted fields causes others to be screwed up. I think I tracked this down to two NDAs called WriteIt! and DeskPaint! (I may have the names wrong, they were by the same author and were a Write/Paint NDA set. I liked them a great deal, but when they are installed AppleWorks GS eats my databases for lunch. I have had other interactions too. StartSound by Guy Rice would keep SoftDiskGS from starting correctly. There are still more that I have been unable to track down. I used to download and try NDA's all the time. Now, after being burned, I am much more cautious. Unfortunately I still no of no way of finding out if it will cause a problem besides trying..... Seymour