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From: singer@endor.harvard.edu (Richard Siegel)
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Subject: Re: LSP questions
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Date: Sat, 17-Oct-87 16:23:08 EDT
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In article <164500059@uiucdcsb> mcnabb@uiucdcsb.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>What is the latest and greatest release of LSP?  How long has it been out?

	The latest release is version 1.11a, and it's been available
on the net for a few weeks now.

>Does LSP have problems hanging on I/O errors when stand-alone applications
>are run?  Do I need to do something clever to have a fatal I/O error cause
>a return to the finder (or anything else better than hanging)?
>

	Pascal I/O doesn't seem to be real resistant to crashing when
running in a standalone application; this is one of the biggest problems
when using Pascal I/O in Lightspeed Pascal.

I can't offer a good workaround because I don't know of one; I would
suggest that perhaps you could rework the file-handling parts of your
program to use the Macintosh File Manager calls; in the long run
they're much more flexible, much more compatible, and (as we've seen) much
more reliable.

		--Rich


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