Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!princeton!orsvax1!pyrnj!caip!seismo!rochester!kodak!elmgate!jdg From: jdg@elmgate.UUCP (Jeff Gortatowsky) Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga Subject: 1.2 Notes and a bug (kinda) Message-ID: <465@elmgate.UUCP> Date: Thu, 5-Jun-86 12:55:21 EDT Article-I.D.: elmgate.465 Posted: Thu Jun 5 12:55:21 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 7-Jun-86 08:15:20 EDT Organization: Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, NY Lines: 69 Keywords: 1.2 Amiga kickstart new release beta2 OS ROM kernal bugs notes Much to my suprise I recieved 1.2 beta2 yesterday! Guess I *WAS* one of the 1000! Anyways I quickly got some blanks and started making a working set of disks. First problem: The tools disk was badly damaged. Diskcopy said NO_WAY_BUDDY!!! Thanks to a program called disksalvage (not diskdoctor) I was able to recover most of the executables. However most of the sources directory was cut. The first two tracks of the disk were completly gone. Odviously diskdoctor expects a formatted disk and then just fixes up the filesystem. It won't play if the media is munged up. Disksalvage on the other hand copies every readable block to a new formatted disk then fixes the filesystem. Question to CBM-Amiga: What number is the right number to call to get a replacement (free or otherwise)? The bug report sheet has an address but no phone number. I won't send the disk back. The magnetic media is physically damaged. Tho I'll send a fresh one along if needed. The number please..... Didn't get a chance to read through (or even print) the docs on disk yet. A quick browse revealed wierd spacing (meaning none in some cases) between words. I'll have to see if they are to printed by some special program. The emacs was fine but (sniff) the docs were on one of the two bad cylinders. I'd say directories are twice as fast. No more no less. At least with default settings. Moving icons around is much nicer. As reported earlier Manx exec's fail (double sniff). Could this in part be due to the new path support? I saw the exact same message from make under 1.1 when 'make' could not find a command I had renamed (DELETE to rm). I guess I'd better read the new docs first before jumping to conclusions. I did find a little 'glitch' in the systems error handling. My workbench (1.2) copy had a 'marginal' block on it. From the CLI I typed 'dir opt a', when the system got to the questionable block in retried twice and put up a system requester telling me about the read error. When I clicked (or Amiga keyed) cancel the requester went away and there I sat. The dir command did not abort nor did it continue. It just sat there until I keyed CONTROL 'c'. Then I got back my CLI prompt. It was repeatable. Bug report is on the way as soon as I make acouple of copies of the blank provided. Metascope seemed to work fine. Wack is as undocumented as ever. The font editor is superb. Someone should be patting him or herself on the back. Toggle switches, I love it. Freemap died. Just puts up a screen of garbage. Fortunatly the quit menu was still working. Don't know if this is a bug or just an 'unsupported' program. Can't look at the source. If it was there, it was on one of the dead cylinders. With Manx only kinda working I'll have to dust off the Lattice disk to try some of the new tricks (ick). Now let me see.. which disk is that PD make on? Oh well, guess I can always hack on the ST while the linker is running, aye? 8-) The PD shell version 2 also seemed to work fine. More as I find it...... Jeff PS> RJ Mical! You back for good? Or just visiting/consulting? Either way, good to see your comments again! -- Jeff Gortatowsky {allegra,seismo}!rochester!kodak!elmgate!jdg Eastman Kodak Company