Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!bsu-cs!jbwaters
From: jbwaters@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (J. Brian Waters)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Change Dir bug in VT100 2.8a? Or maybe it is MyMenu?
Keywords: VT100 MyMenu Bug
Message-ID: <7573@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
Date: 4 Jun 89 00:32:18 GMT
References: <6225@cognos.UUCP> <746@solaria.csun.edu> <7557@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> <748@solaria.csun.edu>
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In article <748@solaria.csun.edu>, ecphssrw@trantor.csun.edu (Stephen Walton) writes:
% In article <804@pccuts.pcc.amdahl.com>, acs@pccuts (Tony Sumrall) writes:
% %In article <7557@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> aegnor@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (David C. Powell) writes:
% %-%In article <746@solaria.csun.edu> ecphssrw@winston.csun.edu (Stephen Walton) writes:
> >->>Any program, including VT100, which does anything like a directory
> >-% ^^^
% %-%%change, will only work if it is started in a known way;
% %-%
% %-%I have one that uses ARP requesters to change between drives/sub-
% %-%directories and it does NOT hang, ...
% %
% %Interesting.  Since I don't use MyMenu I haven't seen this problem.  If
% %*anyone* can shed some light on the subject, please let me know and I'll
% %fix it in 2.9.
% 
% Having a program which uses the ARP requesters work doesn't really
% count, David, since the return from the requester includes the
% complete path name of the file.  What I *should* have said was that
% I'll bet that any program, started from MyMenu, which does an AmigaDOS
% CurrentDir() call, such as VT100, will crash the system.  I suspect,
% as I said originally, that MyMenu is neither perfectly duplicating the
% CLI startup environment (which is very hard--ask Bill Hawes) nor
% sending a completely proper WBStartup message, i.e., one *including* a
% legal Lock on a directory.  VT100 requires one or the other for its
% CurrentDir() call.


Dave may not have been clear in what he said,  but the program he mentioned
does count as an example.  It simply uses the arp file requester to prompt
for the directory to CurrentDir() to.

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Brian Waters              <backbone>!{iuvax|pur-ee}!bsu-cs!jbwaters