Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!unisoft!cerebus!amdahl!acs
From: acs@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Tony Sumrall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: bug in latest version of vt100
Message-ID: <29819@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Date: 26 Apr 88 07:40:56 GMT
References: <1496@hubcap.UUCP>
Reply-To: acs@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Tony Sumrall)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
Lines: 33
Keywords: vt100 bug

In article <1496@hubcap.UUCP> rchampe@hubcap.UUCP (Richard Champeaux) writes:
>
>     A fried of mine who no longer has access to the net, downloaded the
>latest version of vt100 a couple of weeks back.(I can't remember the current
>version number)  He says that it forgets to return 5k of memory when it
>exits and if he runs Hack after exiting vt100, the computer crashes.
>Unless there's some other reason for this that he's overlooking, it appears
>that vt100 forgets to properly close and/or deallocate something.

Does that figure go up each time he runs it?  Don't forget that there are
libraries that are opened (and closed) but the libs aren't flushed unless
the memory is needed.  I haven't seen this behaviour in 2.8 and I use it
all the time (course, I'm responsible for this release :-).  If ANYONE
sees any anomalous behaviour in VT100 PLEASE send me e-mail!

A patch release of 2.8 will be available in about a week or so which fixes
1) the bug which caused a guru if the user did KERMIT BYE when KERMIT
wasn't active, 2) misc problems with interlace screens and 3) other minor
irratations.

BTW, if *anyone* can send me the IDCMP messages that are generated when
the "new" keypad keys are pressed on a 2000 or a 500, please do so.  I
need the info to support them as F1-F4 in R2.9.

>Rich Champeaux
>Clemson University


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