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From: sdl@linus.UUCP (Steven D. Litvintchouk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: help with RexxArpLib "GetFile" function
Message-ID: <48192@linus.UUCP>
Date: 6 Apr 89 03:00:17 GMT
References: <47063@linus.UUCP> <17333@cisunx.UUCP>
Organization: The MITRE Corp., Bedford, MA
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In-reply-to: ejkst@cisunx.UUCP's message of 4 Apr 89 23:53:47 GMT


In article <17333@cisunx.UUCP> ejkst@cisunx.UUCP (Eric J. Kennedy) writes:

> I use the ARP file requester via RexxArpLib all the time.  Why don't you
> post the shortest example that fails for you, including how you invoke
> it, etc.
> 
> In fact, the line
> 
> rx "say getfile()"
> 
> should work straight from the command line.

I just found the bug in RexxArpLib.  Try the command line (from a CLI):

    rx "say getfile(100,100)"

My Arexx program invoked GetFile with screen coordinates that would have
pushed the requester partially off the screen.  Doing that a few times
will cause a guru crash (if GOMF 3.0 isn't employed to intercept it).


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