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From: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: strange bug in DeluxePaint II
Message-ID: <2715@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 10-Nov-87 09:50:59 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 10 09:50:59 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 12-Nov-87 22:20:13 EST
References: <334@PT.CS.CMU.EDU>
Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <334@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> jwz@SPICE.CS.CMU.EDU (Jamie Zawinski) writes:
>
>This is an odd one...  I have a directory on my hard disk, dh0:pictures,
>which contains 60 files.  It also has three subdirectories, which contain
>10-20 files each.
>
>When I'm in Dpaint, I select load, and a file requestor comes up.  I can go
>browsing around my directory structure to my heart's content with the
>requestor, until I get to dh0:pictures; ANY time I try to look at that
>directory from here things go wacky.

There is a known DPAINT bug, which causes it to go wonky if it sees
a drawer with more than 40 pictures.  Solution ?  Keep less than
40 pictures in a drawer; you also might see if EA has got an update;
I haven't heard of one, but that doesn't mean there isn't one.

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