mcgurrin@MITRE.ARPA (10/21/88)
A further clue on the desktop freezing when trying to launch a new program. It happens with good repeatability after exiting from Smartcom, which is on a 3.5" drive plugged into the smartport. I believe it's happened at other times also, but maybe this will be a clue to someone. I didn't have the problem until GS/OS. Smartcom also won't run as a folder on my hard disk, even though the original disk can be freely copied onto other 3.5" disks. I don't know why. Finally, I've noticed that some programs which tended to crash in the past (the freeware Othello and Towers of Hanoi games for example, now seem to run fine with the new software. I find this interesting. I don't know what bug fixes or whatever cleared this up. Also, the Apple demo program that was a French Mastermind game now runs again. It did not run properly under some versions of the System Software.
jordan%lvvm6.span@SDS.SDSC.EDU (RICH) (10/21/88)
In Message-Id: <8810211301.AA02734@mitre.arpa> Michael Mcgurrin writes: >A further clue on the desktop freezing when trying to launch a new program. >It happens with good repeatability after exiting from Smartcom, which is >on a 3.5" drive plugged into the smartport. I believe it's happened at >other times also, but maybe this will be a clue to someone. I didn't >have the problem until GS/OS. Smartcom also won't run as a folder on my >hard disk, even though the original disk can be freely copied onto other >3.5" disks. I don't know why. . . . I still don't have any info on what causes the crashes, although I have experienced several. However, it is likely that Smartcom won't run off your hard disk because it has a hardcoded prefix/pathname in the code, and won't try to access the 'current prefix' where it was launched from. This may not be much help, but you could look at the program file(s) with a block editor and see if you can locate any such. Experiment with your HD turned off by putting the program in a subdirectory on a 3.5 disk and giving that disk the volume name of your hard disk. Hope that helps... Keith, did you receive my last two messages? I sent them after receiving your note stating that you hadn't received the first two. I'm starting to think there's a black hole somewhere between SPAN and your system... Rich <jordan%lvva.span@sds.sdsc.edu> BIX: richjordan (Rarely there) GEnie: BARRACUDA