Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!mtuxo!mtgzz!drutx!druhi!med
From: med@druhi.ATT.COM (Myron Drapal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Bugs in new BETA ROMS?
Message-ID: <3446@druhi.ATT.COM>
Date: 26 Aug 88 18:59:16 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: AT&T, Denver, CO
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	I hear through the grapevine that there is what I would
consider a very serious bug in the new BETA ROMS.  I can't verify
this myself, but the problem affects the way I use the ST enough
to ask and see if this is really a bug.

	I tend to create a number of windows in my desktop.inf
file in which I change the pattern (via an editor) from the standard
*.* pattern to a known pattern (i.e. for Micro C shell - gemcsh.prg).
This then brings up a window at boot time that has only this entry in
it, so I can quickly start Micro C shell, or Magic Sac, or...

	Well, on the new BETA ROMS, the window comes up at usual, but
you *cannot open* the ICON (e.g. it won't execute)!  You can select it
(in fact, many times), but it will not execute.  In fact, after some
number of clicks, you get 2 bombs and the system reboots.

	This is all hearsay, as I couldn't possibly have my own
copy of these ROMs (;-)...  But I do feel that this is another case of
fix a few, and create some new - bugs, that is....

					Myron Drapal
					AT&T Denver
					att!druhi!med

P.S. Has anyone else heard of any new bugs introduced in the BETA ROMS?
     Are there any (real) BETA testers out there who would like to comment?
     Any news from the *official* Atari mouthpieces?  Inquiring minds
     want/need to know...