Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!dptg!ulysses!andante!mit-eddie!mintaka!olivea!apple!claris!wombat From: wombat@claris.com (Scott Lindsey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: AWGS Compat. W 5.0.3? Keywords: stealthy, please, Christian, rook Message-ID: Date: 17 Nov 90 21:57:42 GMT References: <29695@boulder.Colorado.EDU> Sender: wombat@claris.com Organization: Claris Corporation, Santa Clara, CA Lines: 42 In-reply-to: hartkopf@boulder.Colorado.EDU's message of 14 Nov 90 06:03:12 GMT Subversive: Rule Psix In article <29695@boulder.Colorado.EDU> hartkopf@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Jeff Hartkopf) writes: > In article joseph@elbereth.rutgers.edu (Seymour Joseph) writes: > > > >Can anyone from Claris comment on the compatability of the current > >version of AWGS (v1.1?) with the new Apple System 5.0.3. > > > >I have been having terrible AWGS Database file corruption problems > >under system 5.0.2 with various mixes of DA's and INITS and have never > >been able to successfully track any of them down. The only way I can > >guarantee my data file integrity is to make backups of my data before > >each launch of AWGS. Sometimes I have to make updates to my mailing > >list two or three times before I get a correct, uncorrupted data file. > Well I'm certainly not from Claris, but I have not had the above > mentioned problems with the database module although I use it quite often. > In fact I have had very few problems at all with AWGS 1.1 under either > system 5.02 or 5.03. It seems to be very robust. I *am* from Claris, but not in an official capacity in this newsgroup. There is a known memory blaster having to do with large databases, finds, and saves. For the time being, the best Seymour Joseph can do is continue with backups, and possibly try to avoid doing finds before saving a database. [If anyone has a 100% reproducible database blaster, we'd definitely be interested in the file and *exact* system configuration.] As for 5.0.3, Claris has not certified AWGS 1.1 with System 5.0.3 yet. We're presently shipping with 5.0.2. Certification means thorough testing and full regression of all bugs ever reported. (Don't hold your breath waiting for an announcement.) Personally, I'm using 5.0.3 and haven't experienced any major problems (minor ones like Apple's fix to SFPutFile's selection of the file name breaks our work-around for the bug in 5.0.2... so the file name no longer comes up selected. Annoying, yes. Harmful, not really). All and all, I think 5.0.3 is more solid than 5.0.2 (and 5.0.2 was pretty good by IIgs standards). On the other hand, Claris *isn't* saying "*Don't* use 5.0.3" either :-). -- Scott Lindsey | And if you survive till 2005, I hope you're exceedingly Claris Corp. | thin. For if you are stout, you will have to breathe out ames!claris!wombat| so the man next to you can breathe in. -- Pink Floyd wombat@claris.com | DISCLAIMER: Extraterrestrials wrote this message, not me.