leivian@dover.sps.mot.com (Bob Leivian) (08/04/90)
After posting a patch to the net for Less 1.3 to determine if GOFM was writting to low mem after a failed OpenWindow call I have gotten lots of replys of the form "use GFXbase to get the prefered number of rows and columns", I KNOW about this and when I make a new release it will use this strategy! But my question (perhaps poorly worded) is still unanswered. DOES THE LOW MEM WRITE OCCUR IF THIS PATCH IS APPLIED? That is the question! I want to make sure that changing the open will fix the problem. I don't have GOMF and I can't check it out. While I appreciate all the programming advice, I need an answer to the question. I know the patch is a temp fix and as soon as I am confident that this is the cause of the problem I will make a new release. --Bob Leivian
sdl@linus.mitre.org (Steven D. Litvinchouk) (08/14/90)
In article <2362@dover.sps.mot.com> leivian@dover.sps.mot.com (Bob Leivian) writes: > After posting a patch to the net for Less 1.3 to determine if > GOFM was writting to low mem after a failed OpenWindow call I > have gotten lots of replys of the form "use GFXbase to get the > prefered number of rows and columns", I KNOW about this and > when I make a new release it will use this strategy! > > But my question (perhaps poorly worded) is still unanswered. > DOES THE LOW MEM WRITE OCCUR IF THIS PATCH IS APPLIED? That is > the question! I want to make sure that changing the open will > fix the problem. > > I don't have GOMF and I can't check it out. Please either email me the patch (in uuencoded binary, please), or repost it--I seem to have missed it somehow. I have been burned by the GOMF/Less v1.3 incompatibility, and I would like to help resolve it. -- Steven Litvintchouk MITRE Corporation Burlington Road Bedford, MA 01730 (617)271-7753 ARPA: sdl@mbunix.mitre.org UUCP: ...{att,decvax,genrad,ll-xn,philabs,utzoo}!linus!sdl "Where does he get those wonderful toys?" -- J. Napier (a.k.a. "The Joker")
sdl@linus.mitre.org (Steven D. Litvinchouk) (08/14/90)
In article <2362@dover.sps.mot.com> leivian@dover.sps.mot.com (Bob Leivian) writes: > After posting a patch to the net for Less 1.3 to determine if > GOFM was writting to low mem after a failed OpenWindow call. . . . > > DOES THE LOW MEM WRITE OCCUR IF THIS PATCH IS APPLIED? That is > the question! I want to make sure that changing the open will > fix the problem. I got a copy of your suggested patch ($FFFC487803EE487A => $FFFC601603EE487A), and applied it to a copy of Less v1.3. Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to fix the problem. When I invoke the patched Less to display a text file, GOMF still displays an error requester, with the message: Trap or Exception table was trashed. 68000 vector at location $00000078 was corrupted with value $002B41D8 -- Steven Litvintchouk MITRE Corporation Burlington Road Bedford, MA 01730 (617)271-7753 ARPA: sdl@mbunix.mitre.org UUCP: ...{att,decvax,genrad,ll-xn,philabs,utzoo}!linus!sdl "Where does he get those wonderful toys?" -- J. Napier (a.k.a. "The Joker")