thompson@nprdc.arpa (Theodore Thompson) (05/25/89)
We have had an early release of the GoodNeWS/HyperNeWS environment and we have encountered a rather nasty bug which stops you from loading version 1.0 stacks into HyperNeWS. The bug is related to the new file format of HyperNeWS stacks. The old stack format causes the error handler to go into an infinite loop. It can be fixed by switching of the error handler when the old stacks are loaded. This is done by adding the following line to your '~/Stacks/HyperInit.ps' file: HyperNeWSDict /errordict undef Note that the '~/Stacks/HyperInit.ps' file is loaded when HyperNeWS is started up. You may put any PostScript routines here which are used in action procedures. Once you have loaded to old stacks you save them. This converts them to the new file format. You can re-install the error handler once all your stacks are saved using the new file format. Ted Thompson thompson@nprdc.navy.mil