Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!linus!linus!linus!sdl From: sdl@aries.lyra.mitre.org (Steven D. Litvinchouk) Subject: Re: SID is crashing randomly In-Reply-To: dingebre@imp.es.com's message of Wed, 12 Jun 91 22:59:39 GMT Message-ID: Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.applications Sender: news@linus.mitre.org (News Service) Nntp-Posting-Host: aries.mitre.org Organization: The Mitre Corporation, Bedford, MA References: <1991Jun12.225939.2651@javelin.sim.es.com> Date: 13 Jun 91 12:53:10 In article <1991Jun12.225939.2651@javelin.sim.es.com> dingebre@imp.es.com (David Ingebretsen) writes: > I have been using SID for a little while. I haven't registered yet because > randomly, after a screen refresh, SID crashes.... > The only common factor is it crashes after loading a directory. After the > load, instead of displaying the new directory, Whamo! There is a known bug in SID that causes intermittent symptoms like those you describe. Namely, whenever the SID.config file has the SeparateDirs setting set to YES. If this is the case with yours, try editing the file to change the setting to NO. -- Steven Litvintchouk MITRE Corporation Burlington Road Bedford, MA 01730 (617)271-7753 ARPA: sdl@mbunix.mitre.org UUCP: ...{att,decvax,genrad,necntc,ll-xn,philabs,utzoo}!linus!sdl "Where does he get those wonderful toys?"