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From: mp1u+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: bug in latest version of vt100
Message-ID: <0WRHRiy00Xc1E2o1Z8@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 27 Apr 88 01:20:46 GMT
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Organization: Carnegie Mellon
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> *Excerpts from: 25-Apr-88 bug in latest version of vt100 Richard*
> *Champeaux@hubcap (469)*


>      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.

> Rich Champeaux
> Clemson University


Perhaps you should run VT100, exit it, run it again, and see if another 5K
disappears the second time.  When VT100 runs, it opens the serial.device.  If
the serial.device has never been opened before, the appropriate library is read
into memory and stays there even after VT100 exits.

And are you sure the problem with Hack isn't Hack itself?  Is Hack an old
version (which had a tendency to guru pretty often)?

                                --M


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