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From: ifar355@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (David H. Huang)
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Subject: Re: Problems with ORCA/M editor
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Date: 15 Nov 90 17:01:23 GMT
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In article <8909@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> benji@euler.Berkeley.EDU (Benji Rudiak-Gould) writes:
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>I'm using ORCA/M for the GS version 1.1b. I've had no problems with it until
>recently. Suddenly, for no apparent reason, the editor has stopped working.
>When I try to edit a file, about 90% of the time, the editor displays "Illegal
>text data" and then either 1. Hangs, 2. Clears the screen, displays
>"Memory Manager: An invalid handle was given", and hangs, or 3. Returns me
>to the shell, without letting me edit the file. The length of the file I'm
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>--                         ____________________________________________________
>Benji Rudiak-Gould        /"RESTRICTIONS:
>benji@euler.berkeley.edu /   The time must be less than 2,147,483,647 seconds."
>________________________/          -- sleep manpage

I don't think the problem is with 5.0.2, since I've been running that for a
while now. Although this is probably unlikely, you might not have enough memory.
(my GS is a 1.75meg Rom 01). Maybe you should try getting rid of most of your
inits and DA's and perhaps recopy ORCA/M and the related files from your
original disk.

I also have a problem with the Orca/M editor, and I think the problem has to
do with the disk caching, but I'm not sure. If I edit a file a couple of times,
the first character of my SYSTABS file will disappear, and the editor will
say "Invalid SYSTABS file. Using defaults." More rarely, all the CR's in my
file will seem to disappear, and I get 1 extremely long line (and a line too
long error). Quitting and then restarting Orca usually clears up the problem
temporarily. I'm not sure if this happens with system 5.0.3, since I haven't
tried it yet. My system configuration is Rom 01, 1.75megs, one 800K disk drive.


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