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From: dales@teksce.SCE.TEK.COM (Dale Snell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: BAD GURU trouble!
Summary: yeah, me too!
Keywords: guru vt100 vd0: help!
Message-ID: <1439@teksce.SCE.TEK.COM>
Date: 15 Jun 88 01:14:40 GMT
References: <6538@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Reply-To: dales@teksce.UUCP (Dale Snell)
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[  Trust the Computer.  The Computer is your friend.  ]

In article <6538@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> ins_adjb@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU
(Daniel Jay Barrett) writes:
|
|Every time I run VT100 v2.8 with my new Avatec modem, I get a GURU
|when I exit.  The GURU *wipes out* my VD0: ramdisk.  The GURU numbers
|vary greatly.  Here are the last 4 I received:
|
|		00000008.0021C3D8
|		00000004.0022CB68
|		0000000B.0022CD88
|		00000003.00206250
|
|I've been using VT100 and VD0: for over a year with no problems.
|My configuration is:
|
|		A1000 with 512K + external drive
|		2 meg Starboard II memory expansion
|		C. Ltd. 50 meg hard drive + SCSI interface
|		Avatec 2400 modem
|		Serial A-B-C switch box between modem and A1000
|
|I never have a VD0: of more than 1 meg, and I am never close to
|running out of memory.
|
|I used to run DMouse v1.06 and ConMan v1.1 in the background, but
|I have taken them out.  I still get GURU's.  I am using ARP commands.
|Here's typical scenario:
|
	[ description of typical usage ]
|	
|Can anybody suggest something helpful?  I am at a total loss.
|-- 
|Dan Barrett	ins_adjb@jhunix.UUCP
|		barrett@cs.jhu.edu

     I get similar problems with r2.8 of vt100.  I didn't notice nearly as
many gurus with r2.7, and I've been considering going back to the older
version, but I like the new features. (*snif!*)

     My configuration is a stock B2000 w/2nd internal drive, 1Meg of ram, no
other extras, and a USR Courier 2400 modem.  I run DMouse 1.06, Patch_1, the
Arp commands, and have tried SnipIt, Matt Dillon's PIPE:, and Ed Puckett's P:
devices.  I've removed all of them at various times and in various
combinations, and I'm sure it's in vt100 somewhere.  :-(  And I *like* vt100;
it makes the commercial programs I've tried look sick!

     Dan's Guru numbers look familiar, although on my machine the address is
almost always somewhere in $C00000 memory.  (I have gotten a few outside
that, including one of 3.FFFFFFF [!?!?].)  Fact is, I was almost sure that I
had some bad ram somewhere, I've been getting so many failures.  Now I'm not
so sure.  I don't always get guru meditations, either.  Sometimes the program
just locks up.  Usually it's trying to do a Kermit transfer, and everything
just stops.  Nothing gets out of the Amiga, and I can't exit the program. 
Everything else seems okay, but I have to reboot to get my serial port back.

     Please don't get me wrong.  I'm not trying to flame Tony Sumrall or
vt100.  Like I said, I *like* this program, and consider it superior to the
commercial programs I've tried.  I intend to keep on using it, gurus and all,
because I *do* like it so much.  I'm mentioning all this simply because I'd
like to see it get better.  And who knows, maybe I really do have a flakey
ram chip somewhere...
					--dds

p.s.
     Would keeping a log of Guru Meditation numbers help anyone?  I'm
willing if it'll do any good.  --dds


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