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From: chrisj@ut-emx.UUCP (Chris Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Gatekeeper bug
Message-ID: <9568@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jan 89 17:32:03 GMT
References: <326@s1.sys.uea.ac.uk>
Reply-To: chrisj@emx.UUCP (Chris Johnson)
Organization: U.T. Austin Computation Center
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In article <326@s1.sys.uea.ac.uk> jrk@s1.UUCP (Richard Kennaway) writes:

<After checking for viruses, I installed the Gatekeeper INIT/cdev recently
<posted to comp.binaries.mac.  When I ran the cdev in the Control Panel,
<the Mac crashed on closing the Control Panel.  It then refused to reboot
<from that system, even after removing Gatekeeper and its log file from
<the system folder.  I eventually found that the System file had been
<corrupted (virus rx reported logical end of file encountered).
<
<Setup: MacPlus, System 4.3, MultiFinder 1.0, Finder 6.0B1.  INITs: Facade,
<JClock31.

My apologies for your difficulties.  I've seen the problem you report occur
only once before and that was during GateKeeper's testing phase.  The problem
did not prove to be reproduceable, so no specific bug hunt was initiated.

There shouldn't be any problem running GateKeeper on your Plus, since it was
developed on a MacPlus.  Its setup was as follows:  MacPlus, System 6.0.2, 
Finder 6.1, MultiFinder 6.0.1 (although it came straight off the System 6.0.2
distribution disks).  The MacPlus has 1Mb of RAM.  INITs:  HierDA, SuperClock,
AutoBlack, Easy Access.

If the problem occurs again, I'd suggest installing a fresh copy of System
6.0.2.  It was not a requirement of GateKeeper test sites that they use any
particular version of the System, so I don't anticipate any problems with 
modern versions of the System, but the fact that you're using a beta version
of the Finder makes me nervous.

<Another problem with Gatekeeper is that the instructions for use are only
<available by running the cdev and reading them in a tiny window.  ResEdit
<cannot read the relevant TEXT resource (too big).  Why were the instructions
<not posted as a text file?  (There was a text file with it, and some
<information in the comp.binaries.mac message, but you have to read the
<on-line help to find out what the checkboxes mean.)

The help text can be opened with ResEdit - that's how it was installed in
the first place.  However, what version of ResEdit are you using?  Some 
early versions probably can't open that much text (about 11K).  I used
ResEdit 1.2b2 when creating GateKeeper.

The reason that the help was not included as a separate file is that the
help as it stands is really only a short-form treatment of the subject (which
was all that seemed appropriate for the on-line version) and it seemed more
useful in its online form than in any other as a result.  I figured that anyone 
who wanted the help as a separate file would probably just extract it using 
ResEdit (as you tried to do), but I didn't count on really old versions being
used (assuming that actually was the problem in this case).  I do plan to 
provide much more comprehensive documentation (as a separate file) with
future versions, but I had to draw the line somewhere, and for version 1.0,
the line was drawn at the current, rather terse, online help.

I'd be happy to mail a copy of the original MS Word version of the online
help text to anyone who wants it, or to post it if there's sufficient general
interest.

Hope this helps,
----Chris Johnson
Author of GateKeeper