Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!yale!cs.yale.edu!fischer-michael From: fischer-michael@CS.YALE.EDU (Michael Fischer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: UniTerm V2.0c and TOS 1.4 Message-ID: <8554@cs.yale.edu> Date: 14 Dec 89 22:24:18 GMT References: <8912112347.AA10073@NARNIA.SAIC.COM> <25010@cup.portal.com> Sender: news@cs.yale.edu Reply-To: fischer-michael@CS.YALE.EDU (Michael Fischer) Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept, New Haven CT 06520-2158 Lines: 25 In article <25010@cup.portal.com> R_Tim_Coslet@cup.portal.com writes: >Other than this (BOMBS on exit) UniTerm seems to work fine under TOS 1.4. >Has anyone else encountered problems like this with UniTerm (any version) >under TOS 1.4? I've noticed this problem with UniTerm V2.0e, and I don't think it is specific to TOS 1.4. UniTerm works fine when started from the desktop, but when started from the Mark Williams shell, it will give bombs on exiting, and sometimes the computer will subsequently crash. These bombs seem to occur with other programs compiled with OSS Pascal as well. I suspect the Pascal libraries are doing something incorrect with AES causing it to walk over memory that doesn't belong to it, and the particular memory that ends up getting trampled may well be different under TOS 1.4 than under previous versions, causing the change in behavior that you observe. You may find that it also depends on what TSR programs and desk accessories you have installed. I'd be interested if anyone ever manages to track this problem down. ================================================== | Michael Fischer | | Arpanet: | | Bitnet: | | UUCP: | ==================================================