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From: phil@and.cs.liv.ac.uk (Phil Jimmieson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: THINK Pascal 3.0.2 SFPutFile alias bug?
Message-ID: <1991Jun3.180238.80@and.cs.liv.ac.uk>
Date: 3 Jun 91 18:02:38 GMT
Organization: Computer Science, Liverpool University
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I know that THINK Pascal 3.0.2 is only supposed to be *mostly* compatible with
system 7 - but I just found a very strange problem with it.  I was trying to
save a source file into a sub-folder. When the new SFPutFile dialog came up I
had to scroll to get to the sub-folder I wanted, but before I got there it
crashed everytime, with the Finder reporting a type 10 error. I happened to
notice that the dialog had just drawn a SICN for an application  before it fell
over - and had not drawn the application's name.  The problem seems to occur
when the SFPutFile dialog shows a file that has been aliased (inthis case I had
an alias to ResEdit 2.1 in the same folder as my project). Moving the alias out
of the way stopped the crash, until I used the SFPutFile dialog to enter
another folder where there was an alias - and then it crashed again. This error
occurs repeatedly with THINK Pascal the application - not my running project,
and it doesn't seem to matter what the alias is - just that there's one there
to be displayed by SFPutFile.

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