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From: hull@hao.ucar.edu (Howard Hull)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Long Standing Manx bug
Summary: When is he going to fix the z editor?
Keywords: line too long at bottom of page gets Guru
Message-ID: <1037@ncar.ucar.edu>
Date: 27 Nov 88 02:41:48 GMT
References: <77890@sun.uucp>
Sender: news@ncar.ucar.edu
Reply-To: hull@hao.UCAR.EDU (Howard Hull)
Organization: High Altitude Observatory/NCAR, Boulder CO
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ARRRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!!  It just nailed me again.  I have had the pleasure
of losing the last fifteen minutes of creative source generaton to it,
and dad gummit, I was on a roll...   This bug has been in the z editor
since before there were z-plane teradactyls.  It was in 3.20a, 3.40a, 3.60a
and it is STILL THERE.  &^%$#@! why can't he fix this sob?  The way it works
is one types to the bottom of the page, and somehow, there, while typing
furiously, the line gets too long.  Then, while one is still typing, the
screen announces "cursor below page bottom" or something of that ilk.
So what.  But THEN the keyboard stops responding and the red power light
begins to flash (no requester) and one gets the Guru.  Has anyone else run
into this beast?  I have lost literally hours of very creative stuff this
way, and have had great difficulty trying to remember what I put down.
One fine day a work associate came into my office, and we discussed stuff
while I typed notes into AMI using z.  Just as he was wrapping up - POOF!
all gone.  &^%$#@! there is NO excuse for this kind of bug year after year
in what is otherwise an excellent product.  It seems to happen for either
ram: files or df0/1: files.  It strikes without warning.  There seems no
way to recover the text...

Sooooo.  Am I doing anything wrong?  Is this puppy another one of those
stack sensitive ogres?  Does anyone have a way of dumping ram: to a disk so
that portions of text can be recovered?  Does anyone have a patch for this
AGONIZING bug?  Use email, post, chisel it in granite.  Whatever, I gotta
know what to do with this vampire!  Thanks in advance...
					Howard Hull
					hull@hao.ucar.edu