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From: oster@ucblapis.berkeley.edu (David Phillip Oster)
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Subject: Re: How do I restore MacWrite resources. (Calendar 1.1)
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Date: Wed, 23-Jul-86 04:58:16 EDT
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In article <18019@ucla-cs.ARPA> rosen@ucla-cs.ARPA (Bruce E Rosen) writes:
>While in Macwrite (4.5) I used the calendar DA. Which for some
>reason caused a system crash. ...
Calendar is just plain buggy.  It was written in SUMACC C, and uses a
bizarre patch-non-relocatable-addresses-at-load-time scheme.  Since the
Mac moves desk accessories around, IF YOU CALL CALENDAR TWICE IN ONE RUN
OF AN APPLICATION PROGRAM, IT MAY CRASH YOUR MAC.

Now, my advice to bruce:  Your copy of Macwrite 4.5 is now damaged.  You
should replace it with a fresh copy from your back-up disks.

Since this letter deals with a buggy calendar, and since there was a
previous letter this week asking for calendar software, and since the
original author of Calendar doesn't answer his mail, I am taking the
liberty of posting Calendar 1.1 - Calendar 1.1 is my re-implementation of
Calendar.  I believe it to be bug-free.  If there are problems with
Calendar 1.1, I will warn the net, and I will try to fix them.

Notes:
1.) Calendar 1.1 uses the Mac's international package, so that it will
work correctly in countries that don't speak English.  The Mac's
international package does not support years < 1940 > 2004.
Since this is Apple's bug, I want Apple to fix it.  If there is a big
demand for calendar to support any year,  I will fix it.

2.) Calendar 1.1 definately does not have Calendar's fatal bug.
It has been tested on 512k Macs, MacPluss, and on MacXLs.

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