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From: dan@ivucsb.UUCP (Dan Howell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Crashing all the way to Kickstart (*the solution*)
Message-ID: <613@ivucsb.UUCP>
Date: 17 Mar 89 05:57:08 GMT
References: <6088@cbmvax.UUCP> <66@estinc.UUCP>
Reply-To: ivucsb!dan@anise.acc.com (Dan Howell)
Organization: The Audio Club at UCSB, Isla Vista, California
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In article <6088@cbmvax.UUCP> bryce@cbmvax.UUCP (Bryce Nesbitt) writes:
<< [Since installing V1.3 I have noticed something strange.  If the
<<  machine ever crashes, it sometimes goes back to the Kickstart hand 
<<  instead of the Workbench hand.]
<Thank you all for noting and reporting this bug.  I have located the
<cause; a code mistake causes the Kickstart protected memory to be
<left open open for writing during some types of system Alert.  This
<problem will be addressed in the next version of "SetPatch" (no
<date or distribution details are available at this time).
< ...
<				 Based on your bug report alone,
<we must be able to repeat the bug.  Bugs that we can repeat
<in-house GET FIXED.

This is great!  I'm glad to see that the people at Commodore-Amiga respond
to these bug reports over the net and fix them.  Would it be possible
for you to distribute the SetPatch over the net when its finished?
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-- Dan Howell  <ivucsb!dan@anise.acc.com>
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