JCKASPER@MTUS5.BITNET (05/04/89)
Date: 4 May 89, 01:22:07 EST From: John C. Kasperski (Otherwise known as "Jc") JCKASPER at MTUS5 To: INFO-APPLE at BRL.MIL Subject: Carpet Bag BUG! I think I've found a rather large flaw in the program "Carpet Bag" posted to Apple 2-L sometime ago. My system will crash whenever I try to use AppleWorks 2.0 while I have the Carpet Bag DA active. If I deactivate it with the Finder, Appleworks works fine. I have Marcoworks (I forget the version) also installed with Appleworks. Perhaps that is the culprit. Besides this slight problem... I think the program is great! <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> < John C. Kasperski, "Jc" Bitnet: JCKASPER @ MTUS5 > < > < Disclaimer: The only foolish question, is the one that goes unasked. > <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>
JDA@NIHCU.BITNET (Doug Ashbrook) (05/08/89)
> I think I've found a rather large flaw in the program "Carpet Bag" posted to > Apple 2-L sometime ago. > > My system will crash whenever I try to use AppleWorks 2.0 while I have the > Carpet Bag DA active. If I deactivate it with the Finder, Appleworks works > fine. I have Marcoworks (I forget the version) also installed with Appleworks. > Perhaps that is the culprit. > > Besides this slight problem... I think the program is great! I tried Carpet Bag on my system and also had some problems. It works fine with AppleWorks 2.1 and AppleWorks GS, but AppleWorks 2.0 hangs while loading. Both of my 2.n versions of AppleWorks are modified by the TimeOut programs QuickSpell, FileMaster, and UltraMacros. Carpet Bag also had a problem when attempting to load DAs while running a TML Pascal program. The idea is great, and the program is nice when it works, but it does have several bugs in its current incarnation. -------------------------------------------------------------------- J. Douglas Ashbrook (301) 496-5181 BITNET: JDA@NIHCU ARPA: 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!
JDA@NIHCU.BITNET (Doug Ashbrook) (05/09/89)
I recently reported two problems with the Carpet Bag NDA. One problem was that AppleWorks 2.0 would hang while loading. John Kasperski and Doug Mcintyre were kind enough to point out that this was a bug in AppleWorks 2.0 and not a bug in Carpet Bag. John suggested that I use SuperPatch 3.1 to apply the NDA fix to AppleWorks. I did this and it fixed the problem. (SuperPatch is one of the best bargains that I have ever seen. If you have not tried it, do so. And be sure to send your $5.00 "Beggarware" fee to the author.) My second problem occurred when I attempted to load an NDA while running a TML Pascal program. I can load CDAs without any problem. However, when I load an NDA and then pull down the Apple menu, none of the names of the NDAs appear in the menu (not even ones loaded at boot time). If I then quit my TML Pascal program and run the Finder, the names of all of the NDAs appear in the Apple menu (including the one just loaded by Carpet Bag). Anyone have any ideas? One other minor discrepancy is that the subject line and description in the APPLE2-L file for Carpet Bag refer to it as version 1.4. However, both the documentation file and the NDA show a version number of 1.3. Is the APPLE2-L file the most recent version? -------------------------------------------------------------------- J. Douglas Ashbrook (301) 496-5181 BITNET: JDA@NIHCU ARPA: 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!