andyt@pro-exchange.cts.com (Andy Thomason) (05/06/89)
To: Andy Nicholas
I hope that this is newsworthy to you. It is ported from Washington Apple Pi
in Washington, D.C. [btw: 301/986-8085]
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[W.A.Pi address header - Dan Hughes]
Has any one noticed this major bug in Shrinkit 2.01 (I don't know about the
latest version since I just downloaded it this session.) Anyway, after
launching Shrinkit from the GS Finder, shrinking a file and do any other
business I may have in the program, I quit and bomb into the Finder. Every
Time! The bomb come when I attempt to run another 8-bit program, usually
Mousetalk. Then one a warm reboot, I lose my hard disk and the Finder show
just my ROM disk mounted. NO hard disk at all. It is necessary to Shut down
and turn off my hard disk and the computer in order to restore my Hard disk. I
am going to test out the new version of Shrinkit later tonight, but if it
causes the same problem, I'm going back to Blu 2.28. Maybe the mavens of WAP
downloading have been too rash in accepting this Shrinkit as the new standard
and summarily discarding a dependable old standby.
[W.A.Pi address header - Dale Smith/reply to Dan Hughes]
I have been using ShrinkIT in much the same way as you but nover encountered
the bug - I usually go to ProTERM as a followon program. Hey, maybe it's
telling you "Don't use Flounder" :)) - I will check it out some more. Of
course I NEVER use Finder except to activate/deactivate drivers/DAs.
[next message, still Dale Smith]
Well, I just did the following (contrary to my normal practice):
Boot into ProSel-16
Goto Device 1
Select Finder from the */SYSTEM directory
Launch ShrinkIT 2.02
Unshrink the GEnie.BITS.SHK file
Type the GENIE.BITS file
Quit ShrinkIT 2.02 back to Finder (waiting impatiently of System 5.0!)
Launch ProTERM from /RAM5/PT
** !! NO CRASH !! **
Now online with that (but only 2/3 of the scrollback I normally have).
It seems to me there may be something else causing the problem. Actually, I
have been told that the bug fixes in v2.02 are for obscure and infrequently
encountered bugs, not something that would be as common as this.
[... more notes about updates.]
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Any ideas may be posted to me here or to Dale Smith (dales@pro-novapple).
Thanks...
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(-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-) ----/ |ndy |homasonlwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden) (05/08/89)
Note that anyone using a hard disk and GS/OS should try to locate the SCSI driver patchs by Glen Bredon. I dont have them, but they are for folks using an Apple SCSI controller at least - I dont know about CMS controllers, etc. I dont think they are for the First Class Perphs. controller. -- Larry W. Virden 674 Falls Place, Reynoldsburg, OH 43068 (614) 864-8817 75046,606 (CIS) ; LVirden (ALPE) ; osu-cis!n8emr!lwv (UUCP) osu-cis!n8emr!lwv@TUT.CIS.OHIO-STATE.EDU (INTERNET) The world's not inherited from our parents, but borrowed from our children.
shankar@bedrock.SRC.Honeywell.COM (Son of Knuth) (05/09/89)
In article <1081@n8emr.UUCP> lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden) writes: > >Note that anyone using a hard disk and GS/OS should try to locate the >SCSI driver patchs by Glen Bredon. I dont have them, but they are for >folks using an Apple SCSI controller at least - I dont know about CMS >controllers, etc. Presumably, these patches are for more efficient SCSI drive access - right? Does anybody know where these patches are available? And as long as we're at it, does Glen Bredon have an ArpaNet address? --- Subash Shankar Honeywell Systems & Research Center voice: (612) 782 7558 US Snail: 3660 Technology Dr., Minneapolis, MN 55418 shankar@src.honeywell.com srcsip!shankar
farrier@Apple.COM (Cary Farrier) (05/09/89)
In article <21563@srcsip.UUCP> shankar@bedrock.UUCP (Son of Knuth) writes: >In article <1081@n8emr.UUCP> lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden) writes: >> >>Note that anyone using a hard disk and GS/OS should try to locate the >>SCSI driver patchs by Glen Bredon. I dont have them, but they are for >>folks using an Apple SCSI controller at least - I dont know about CMS >>controllers, etc. > >Presumably, these patches are for more efficient SCSI drive access - right? > >Does anybody know where these patches are available? >And as long as we're at it, does Glen Bredon have an ArpaNet address? I *STRONGLY* advise people *NOT* to use somebody elses SCSI patches with System Disk 5.0. It may have been alright with 4.0, the SCSI driver provided was an interim driver, but with 5.0 the patches will most likely fail, if you are lucky. If not then things might get quite messy. Cary Farrier -- +--------------+-------------------+ | Cary Farrier | farrier@apple.com | Ok, how's this for net traffic? +--------------+-------------------+