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From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: New Deluxe Paint II bug
Summary: sounds good to me
Message-ID: <4492@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 16 Jun 88 07:22:18 GMT
References: <6540@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <6540@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> ins_adjb@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Daniel Jay Barrett) writes:
>
>	I believe I've tracked down a new bug in Deluxe Paint II.
>Could somebody please try to reproduce it?
>
>	Basically, the problem is this:  if you invoke DPaint from
>the CLI, and that CLI is using a font other than Topaz, DPaint
>crashes when you exit.
>
>	Reproduce:
>
>		Warm boot on vanilla Amiga
>		Open a CLI
>		Change font from Topaz to anything else.  I use
>		 the "setfont" program; i.e., "setfont ruby".
>		Invoke DPaint.
>		Exit DPaint.
>		<CRASH!>
>
>If you don't crash on exit, you should at least notice that your CLI
>font has "disappeared"; that is, characters don't echo at all, or they
>echo garbage.  If so, invoke DPaint again, exit again, and you will
>crash.
>
>Can anyone else verify this?  Could it somehow be attributed to the
>"Setfont" program?  Thanks!

Verified.



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