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From: stephen@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Steve Whitney)
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Subject: Re: TOS 1.4 bug?
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Date: 24 May 91 18:59:14 GMT
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In article <1991May23.154113.24096@cbnewsc.att.com> lincoln@cbnewsc.att.com (charles.e.lincoln) writes:
>I've not seen anyone else describe this problem, but it started
>for me after I installed TOS 1.4 on my 1040ST.
>
>Every now and then when I double-click on a GEM application,
>instead of running it, the desktop gives me the show/print/cancel
>dialog box.  When I click on cancel and double click on the
>application again, it always runs normally the second time.
...
>

At least in TOS 1.6, this happens with files that have an 18 character
path name, I think.  I only get it for E:\MWC\BIN\MSH.PRG...  You can very
nearly eliminate it (if not entirely) by changing names that happen to be
that length.

Pretty annoying.  I have yet to hear any comments from Atari on it so
I don't believe it's been fixed in later TOSses.

>Chuck Lincoln
>lincoln@ihlpf.att.com


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