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From: jwz@SPICE.CS.CMU.EDU (Jamie Zawinski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: strange bug in DeluxePaint II
Message-ID: <334@PT.CS.CMU.EDU>
Date: Mon, 9-Nov-87 15:25:05 EST
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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.  The window doesn't list filenames; it
is filled with random-looking characters.  But, if I click in this mess, the
filename which SHOULD be there will appear in the "Filename:" field.

I just now went into Dpaint to check this, and it acted differently!  I
started it with the lowest possible resolution and selected load.  It acted
as I described above, but afterwards my keyboard was completely hung.  I
could move windows and screen around with the mouse, but nothing would take
typein.

Other programs have no problem dealing with this directory; DigiPaint,
CShell, CLI, and MicroGnuEmacs all can list, read, and write to this
directory with no weirdness.

Any ideas?

Jamie (jwz@spice.cs.cmu.edu)