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From: bezanson@gumby.WISC.EDU (Brian Bezanson)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: TML Pascal, SetPaths DA
Message-ID: <448@gumby.WISC.EDU>
Date: Sun, 9-Nov-86 00:45:26 EST
Article-I.D.: gumby.448
Posted: Sun Nov  9 00:45:26 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 9-Nov-86 06:01:20 EST
References: <286@hao.UUCP> <645@ssc-bee.UUCP>
Organization: Manta Software Corporation
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Summary: Use only the latest SetPaths.

In article <645@ssc-bee.UUCP>, chas@ssc-bee.UUCP (Chas Boyd) writes:
> >	So I guess the question is, is 'SetPaths, ver1.1' incompatable with the
> >Mac+ or is it intrinsically buggy?  And what *exactly* is SetPaths supposed to
> >be doing?  Thanks in advance.

> I, too, have had this problem on my Mac+. Depending on the paths specified,
> the compiler or the linker bombs the system.  I have also been unable
> to use TML 2.01 at all from a ramdisk.  I think this problem may also
> be related to SetPaths/HFS.  I have yet to try the version 1.3 of
> SetPaths that was posted to net.micro.mac, but that may fix both problems.

Use only SetPaths 1.3.  Paul Snively - the author of setpaths and #1 Beta
tester of TML 2.0 says do not use 1.2 or 1.2, because they are buggy and 1.3
isn't.  On using SetPaths, Snively never intended it to work with RAM disks.
He did have it tested on RAM disks for 1.3 but only for Data Storage.  The
Pascal System still needs to be run off a floppy.  He also said that TML
will need "at least one more non-trivial revision" before it can work
properly with MacApp - this is a big bummer.  The good news is that I heard
on the APDA graipvine that updates to MPW 1.0 will be sent out free to all
Beta users/owners (maybe Larry R. from Apple can confirm this).  MPW 1.0
is also said to be near completion and ready for release.

Anyway, hope the info on SetPaths 1.3 helps.  Snively also mentioned that
TML put too much emphasis on SetPaths and not looking for files itself.  I
found this out big time when my new TML 2.0 wouldn't work on a 800K MFS
MacServe volume.  1.2 worked fine, but 2.0 was so dependant of SetPaths that
it couldn't even look for file in its own volume/folder.  And SetPaths 1.2
wasn't any help either because it only wants HFS folders as paths, not 
volume names.  1.3 seems to have sold the old problems (I haven't tried
putting Pascal back on volumes yet - just use it fine from HFS).

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Brian Bezanson {seismo,ihnp4,allegra,topaz,harvard}!uwvax!gumby!bezanson
Manta Software Corp.				  bezanson@gumby.wisc.edu