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From: mss+@andrew.cmu.edu (Mark Sherman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: TextEditor hanging
Message-ID: <wb6_UYm00WB8I3n1MU@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 14 Oct 90 18:02:12 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Center, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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Does anyone else have experience with TextEditor hanging? For no obvious
reason that I can see, when I try to save certain files, TextEditor puts
up the clock cursor and then hangs the system -- I can`t switch processes,
the save never comes back -- the machine is dead. This always happens when
I try two particular files (I know of nothing that makes those files special.
They are two random make files in a tree of sources that I am working on.)
What I do is simple: type the command TextEditor filename, then make some
trivial edits, then pick save. Freeze. Other files seem fine. After the
system reboots and fscks 200+ megs of disks, I find empty TextEditor.Scratch
files in my home directory (which is not where I was editing). Anyone got a
clue?
               -Mark