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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Help --> How to prevent the visit from the dreaded guru
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Date: 3 Jan 91 20:07:41 GMT
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In <1776@winnie.fit.edu>, rcs91900@zach.fit.edu ( Charles Stockman /ADVISOR-Clutterham) writes:
>Last night, I was working on a small program and the guru visited me 
>about six times in thirty minutes.  In other words, I had to reboot
>my machine 6 times in 30 minutes !!!!!
>
>Could someone please :
>
>   1) give me advice on how to stop the guru

Write programs that don't cause GURUs.

>   2) programs that stop the machine from guruing

You want it to not GURU when it has scrambled its brain? Either something has
caused drastic problems or it hasn't. If it has, you don't want to keep running,
lest you be smitten by worse things that cessation of activity. If it has not,
you of course do not want to chat with the GURU, but then he won't be there
when all is well.

>I have an Amiga 3000 and 1.3 includes and 2.0 Os

If your machine is crashing a lot, and it is not your own code that is doing
it, you should find out what _IS_ causing it. Find the conditions that cause
problems. If it is a particular program, dump it, or replace it. If it is
hardware, get it fixed.

>I hope with the new Os: and the new machine that this can be changed because it 
>makes programming on the amiga a hassle

A new OS will not protect you from errors in your code, or ill-behaved
programs, or hardware failures. Investigate; do some digging.

-larry

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