Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!athena.mit.edu!dcw From: dcw@athena.mit.edu (David C. Whitney) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: GS Finder bugs; dithering Message-ID: <9798@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> Date: 13 Mar 89 15:53:50 GMT References: <8903121925.aa07134@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Reply-To: dcw@athena.mit.edu (David C. Whitney) Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lines: 41 In article <8903121925.aa07134@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> AWCTTYPA@UIAMVS.BITNET ("David A. Lyons") writes: >>Date: Sat, 11 Mar 89 17:02:42 GMT >>From: "David C. Whitney" >>Subject: Re: Re: GS/OS Compatability issues > >>Note also that GS/OS sometimes doesn't launch P8 stuff very well. >>Z-Link works just fine from under GS/OS (I do it all the time - not >>figuratively but literally). Unfortunately, sometimes it gets >>launched poorly, and parts of it don't load properly. [...] > >That isn't very helpful. If there is _really_ something wrong that >is GS/OS's fault, take the time to figure out exactly what it is so >it can be fixed. Sorry I can't be more specific, but the machine freezes solid. I can describe in detail one sort of crash though... I run Z-Link. The title comes up fine. I press a key to start the terminal. The date comes up along with the "press OA-? for help". Then there's a pause of about a second. The every other column (the aux side of the 80 cols) fills with inverse @ signs. At that point, the machine is stuck - I press RESET and it reboots. Other oddities show up in file xfer. Z-Link doesn't actually crash, but it acts very strange. For example, the effective baud rate drops to about 2 or less. Or, during xmodem xfer, several blocks go by just fine, when all of a sudden it goes on an error kick. Just a bad phone connection you say? It dies on the same block repeatedly. I try again and again to send the file, and it always croaks. If I reboot the machine, it gets happy. Note that this trouble shows up ONLY during file xfer. It gets happy once back in terminal mode. Note that this activity is rare, but it is VERY annoying when it does crop up. Hope what I've said is at least partially helpful. Dave Whitney A junior in Computer Science at MIT dcw@athena.mit.edu ...!bloom-beacon!athena.mit.edu!dcw dcw@goldilocks.mit.edu I wrote Z-Link & BinSCII. Send me bug reports. I use a //GS. Send me Tech Info. "This is MIT. Collect and 3rd party calls will not be accepted at this number."