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From: langer@gibbs.uchicago.edu (Steve Langer)
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Subject: Re: Versaterm & Mathematica
Keywords: Versaterm, Mathematica
Message-ID: <1991May9.201312.17709@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: 9 May 91 20:13:12 GMT
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In article <1991May9.181042.13564@src.honeywell.com> drdan@SRC.Honeywell.COM (Dan Johnson) writes:
>In article <1991May8.225511.126@midway.uchicago.edu> langer@control.uchicago.edu I wrote:
>>...
>> I've had problems with Versaterm leaving my computer in some sort of
>>funny state --- if I want to use Mathematica after using Versaterm, I
>>have to reboot, or Mathematica will crash as it starts up. On the other
>>...
>>not too many INITs, a recent version of Versaterm (I don't remember which
>>one at the moment) and Mathematica 1.2.
>
>I had the same problem. The answer was to upgrade to Mathematica 1.2.2.

What can Versaterm be doing to make Mathematica crash *after* Versaterm
quits? Does it confuse the modem port in some way, and Mathematica
has a bug that only lets it start if the modem port is not confused?
I'm not using a remote Mathematica kernel, so it shouldn't care
about the port, right? The principle of cause and effect seems to say
that Versaterm is at fault, not Mathematica.

  Somebody else (sorry, I forgot your name) asked if I'd reported this
problem to Versaterm. No, I haven't, but only because
I've been lazy and I don't use Mathematica and Versaterm together too much.
I'll do it soon, unless somebody convinces me that cause and effect
doesn't hold for Macintosh software.

      -- Steve (langer@control.uchicago.edu)