shatara@memit.dec.com (Chris Shatara) (09/21/89)
I just picked up AWGS and am starting to wonder why. I put together a data base and all looks fine until I try to generate a report. I follow the instructions and when I go to "Generate Report", I get into the Wordprocesser adn then I get a message "serious system fault" please restart. I've got GS/OS V3.0 installed, I have 1.25m of memory. I tried just loading the DB module as well as the DB&WP modules. Is this one of he documented hacks under GS/OS V3.0? I have V1.0V2, the latest I believe. Any thoughts on this? /chris ============================================================================= | Chris Shatara | Internet: shatara@memit.dec.com | | | shatara@memit.enet.dec.com | | Opinions expressed are | DEC Easynet: memit::shatara | | mine and mine only! | UUCP: ...!decwrl!memit!shatara | =============================================================================
wombat@claris.com (Scott Lindsey) (09/24/89)
In article <837@mountn.dec.com> shatara@memit.dec.com (Chris Shatara) writes: > I just picked up AWGS and am starting to wonder why. I put together a data > base and all looks fine until I try to generate a report. I follow the > instructions and when I go to "Generate Report", I get into the > Wordprocesser adn then I get a message "serious system fault" please > restart. > Is this one of he documented hacks under GS/OS V3.0? I have V1.0V2, the > latest I believe. Any thoughts on this? Well, first of all, I apologize for not answering your EMail on this same question, but things have been busy and tech-support isn't exactly my job. Secondly, have you tried using the system we shipped with AWGS? 1.0v2 is certified under System Software 4.0, and not under 5.0. Is the problem reproducible or did this just happen the one time you tried? Finally, I'm fairly sure the message you're seeing is "A serious system error has occurred." If not, I have no idea what's going on. It is, indeed something of a hack (I know -- I wrote it), but it is neither documented nor specific to System 5.0. Basically it's a BRK/COP vector installed by AWGS. When you see it, you've crashed. Instead of falling through to the monitor (on the text screen, which the user can't see) we decided to be a little more user friendly and put up the TLMountVolume fake alert and allow the user to reboot with just a mouse-click. Scott Lindsey |"Cold and misty morning. I heard a warning borne in the air Claris Corp. | About an age of power when no one had an hour to spare" ames!claris!wombat| DISCLAIMER: These are not the opinions of Claris, Apple, wombat@claris.com | StyleWare, the author, or anyone else living or Dead. Scott Lindsey |"Cold and misty morning. I heard a warning borne in the air Claris Corp. | About an age of power when no one had an hour to spare" ames!claris!wombat| DISCLAIMER: These are not the opinions of Claris, Apple, wombat@claris.com | StyleWare, the author, or anyone else living or Dead.
tomd@pro-europa.cts.com (Tom Dolezal) (09/25/89)
Comment to message from: claris!wombat@apple.com (Scott Lindsey) Along the lines of AWGS' incompatibility with System Disk 5.0, I'd like to briefly point out one problem I've noticed. This will likely _only_ affect users trying to use the Epson printer drivers supplied on the AWGS system disk. Using the DC-Printer CDev with SD5.0, it is impossible to get either DB or Page Layout modules to present a page width of more than half the usual screen size. I don't know whether the problem is directly associated with the CDev, but as long as the Epson driver is selected, I can't use the entire page width to build a document. Switching to "Imagewriter" solves the problem, but does me no good as I don't own an Imagewriter in the first place. And no, I don't want an Imagewriter. I need/want the 24-pin text quality I get from my LQ-800. UUCP: crash!pro-europa!tomd ARPA: crash!pro-europa!tomd@nosc.mil INET: tomd@pro-europa.cts.com
JDA@NIHCU.BITNET (Doug Ashbrook) (09/26/89)
> Date: Thu, 21 Sep 89 02:25:02 GMT > From: Chris Shatara > > I just picked up AWGS and am starting to wonder why. [...] I agree completely. I have AppleWorks 2.0, 2.1, and 3.0 as well as AppleWorks GS. I find that I have only rarely made any real use of AWGS. My recommendation for anyone considering purchasing any of the AppleWorks versions would be to stick to the classic ones (i.e., 2.1 or 3.0). Particularly if it is upgraded with some of the TimeOut additions. ==================================================================== J. Douglas Ashbrook (301) 496-5181 BITNET: JDA@NIHCU <-- preferred address INTERNET: JDA@CU.NIH.GOV or jda%nihcu.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu National Institutes of Health, Computer Center, Bethesda, MD 20892 -+- Remember. If some weirdo in a blue suit offers you some MS-DOS, JUST SAY NO!
sb@pro-generic.cts.com (Stephen Brown) (09/26/89)
Network Comment: to #5421 by claris!wombat@apple.com What does it mean "[awgs 1.00v2] is certified under 4.0 and not under 5.0"? Don't the guys from Claris and the guys from Apple get together once in a while and ensure compatibility in future products? Wasn't awgs 1.00v2 ever tested under System Disk 5.0 before the 5.0 (or 1.00v2) was released? Call me a wimp... I'm sticking to "Classic" AppleWorks. IT WORKS. ------------------------------------------ ProLine: sb@pro-generic ARPA: crash!pnet01!pro-generic!sb@nosc.mil INET: sb@pro-generic.cts.com UUCP: crash!pnet01!pro-generic!sb ------------------------------------------ UUCP: crash!pro-generic!sb ARPA: crash!pro-generic!sb@nosc.mil INET: sb@pro-generic.cts.com
jazzman@claris.com (Sydney R. Polk) (09/28/89)
From article <8909270558.AA12533@trout.nosc.mil>, by sb@pro-generic.cts.com (Stephen Brown): > Network Comment: to #5421 by claris!wombat@apple.com > > What does it mean "[awgs 1.00v2] is certified under 4.0 and not under 5.0"? > Don't the guys from Claris and the guys from Apple get together once in a > while and ensure compatibility in future products? Wasn't awgs 1.00v2 ever > tested under System Disk 5.0 before the 5.0 (or 1.00v2) was released? Call me > a wimp... I'm sticking to "Classic" AppleWorks. IT WORKS. We released 1.0v2 and about three weeks later got the first 5.0 beta disks. -- Syd Polk | Wherever you go, there you are. jazzman@claris.com | Let the music be your light. GO 'STROS! | These opinions are mine. Any resemblence to other GO RICE! | opinions, real or fictitious, is purely coincidence.
jm7e+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU ("Jeremy G. Mereness") (09/28/89)
any chance of a new release of AWGS that runs under system 5.0 (or system 5.0.2)? jeremy mereness ============= "A car in every pot; a chicken in every garage" jm7e+@andrew.cmu.edu (Arpanet) r746jm7e@CMCCVB (vax.... Bitnet)