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From: see1@sphinx.uchicago.edu (Ellen Keyne Seebacher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: HierDA incompatibility with FullWrite (and VersaTerm)
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Date: 17 Oct 88 19:31:09 GMT
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Mark H. Anbinder writes, about the HierDA Init, that:

>in FullWrite, the desk accessory menu has odd characters (some are the
>rectangle, so I can't tell for sure what they are) replacing the right-
>pointing triangle that indicates a submenu.  A few of these menu items
>with submenus also get one or two of these garbage characters to their
>LEFT, in addition to the ones replacing the triangle.
>
>Astoundingly, HierDA still functions fine.  The menus act hierarchically;
>you just see a very odd-looking menu.

This is a perfect description of what happens every time I use VersaTerm
(and since I use it to read and post news, that's pretty often :-)).  As
Mark says, it doesn't seem to *hurt* anything -- I'm just a tad worried
about HierDA's stability.

Has anyone else encountered this bug, or figured out what might be causing
it? Is jbx on the net, or do we have to actually send him snail?


Ellen Keyne Seebacher                 University of Chicago Computing Orgzns.
see1@sphinx.uchicago.edu              staff.ellen@chip.uchicago.edu