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From: faulkner@scdpyr.UUCP (Bill Faulkner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Fatal HyperCard Bug
Message-ID: <183@scdpyr.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 15-Oct-87 12:26:13 EDT
Article-I.D.: scdpyr.183
Posted: Thu Oct 15 12:26:13 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 17-Oct-87 18:08:15 EDT
References: <1632@unc.cs.unc.edu>
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Organization: Natl Ctr Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO
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Keywords: fatal, bug, hypercard, croak, die, break, ugly death
Summary: Oh Really !?!

In article <1632@unc.cs.unc.edu>, steele@unc.cs.unc.edu (Oliver Steele) writes:
> How to break HyperCard:
> 
> 1) Cut a bitmapped image from somewhere.
> 2) Put yourself in a situation where you have about 600K free in
>    the application heap in the Finder.
> 3) Enter HyperCard 1.0.1.
> 4) Make sure you're at painting or above.
> 5) Paste.

Funny, thing happened when I thought I would try this.  Hypercard performed
exactly how I expected.  This is what I did.

1. Start MacPaint and copy an bitmap image, then quit MacPaint
2. Started Hypercard 1.0.1
3. entered into the slideshow stack
4. created a new card   (didn't want to paste over the current card)
5. Pasted the picture
6. Pictured appeared on card perfectly.

This is on a Mac SE, with a 20 meg hard drive, running finder 5.5
Now I am not sure how to check that I had about 600K free in the
application heap, but I do know that Hypercard takes up a 780K
partion under Switcher, so maybe the previous poster did not have enough
memory and Hypercard was working OK.  Any other ideas?
-- 
Bill Faulkner * NCAR (Nat'l Center for Atmospheric Research)
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