rosen@ucla-cs.ARPA (Bruce E Rosen) (07/22/86)
While in Macwrite (4.5) I used the calendar DA. Which for some reason caused a system crash. When rebooting, I tried to launch a macwrite document, but couldn't. The info window of the document said it QDIAL Docs. ( I had just uploaded QDIAL and QDIAL DOC ). Now every document that was Macwrite is of type QDIAL docs, and Macwrite creates documents of QDIAL type. I figure that the desk top or some resource is scrwed up. I have a Macbottom 20, finder 5.3, system 3.2. Can I recreat the desktop? Should I? How do I? I noticed there is garbage in my Macwrite document resource STR which has resource id=700 which is "etnroaisdlhcf". Thanks Bruce Rosen
oster@ucblapis.berkeley.edu (David Phillip Oster) (07/23/86)
In article <18019@ucla-cs.ARPA> rosen@ucla-cs.ARPA (Bruce E Rosen) writes: >While in Macwrite (4.5) I used the calendar DA. Which for some >reason caused a system crash. ... Calendar is just plain buggy. It was written in SUMACC C, and uses a bizarre patch-non-relocatable-addresses-at-load-time scheme. Since the Mac moves desk accessories around, IF YOU CALL CALENDAR TWICE IN ONE RUN OF AN APPLICATION PROGRAM, IT MAY CRASH YOUR MAC. Now, my advice to bruce: Your copy of Macwrite 4.5 is now damaged. You should replace it with a fresh copy from your back-up disks. Since this letter deals with a buggy calendar, and since there was a previous letter this week asking for calendar software, and since the original author of Calendar doesn't answer his mail, I am taking the liberty of posting Calendar 1.1 - Calendar 1.1 is my re-implementation of Calendar. I believe it to be bug-free. If there are problems with Calendar 1.1, I will warn the net, and I will try to fix them. Notes: 1.) Calendar 1.1 uses the Mac's international package, so that it will work correctly in countries that don't speak English. The Mac's international package does not support years < 1940 > 2004. Since this is Apple's bug, I want Apple to fix it. If there is a big demand for calendar to support any year, I will fix it. 2.) Calendar 1.1 definately does not have Calendar's fatal bug. It has been tested on 512k Macs, MacPluss, and on MacXLs. --- David Phillip Oster -- "We live in a Global Village." Arpa: oster@lapis.berkeley.edu -- Uucp: ucbvax!ucblapis!oster -- "You are Number Six."