phil@and.cs.liv.ac.uk (Phil Jimmieson) (06/04/91)
I know that THINK Pascal 3.0.2 is only supposed to be *mostly* compatible with system 7 - but I just found a very strange problem with it. I was trying to save a source file into a sub-folder. When the new SFPutFile dialog came up I had to scroll to get to the sub-folder I wanted, but before I got there it crashed everytime, with the Finder reporting a type 10 error. I happened to notice that the dialog had just drawn a SICN for an application before it fell over - and had not drawn the application's name. The problem seems to occur when the SFPutFile dialog shows a file that has been aliased (inthis case I had an alias to ResEdit 2.1 in the same folder as my project). Moving the alias out of the way stopped the crash, until I used the SFPutFile dialog to enter another folder where there was an alias - and then it crashed again. This error occurs repeatedly with THINK Pascal the application - not my running project, and it doesn't seem to matter what the alias is - just that there's one there to be displayed by SFPutFile. Phil Jimmieson, *************************************************** Computer Science Dept., * JANET : phil@uk.ac.liv.cs.and * Liverpool University, * INTERNET : phil@and.cs.liv.ac.uk * PO Box 147 *************************************************** Liverpool L69 3BX "The contortionist has gone to put his feet up." (UK) 051-794-3689 "Yes, it's a neat trick if you can do it..."
phil@and.cs.liv.ac.uk (Phil Jimmieson) (06/04/91)
In article <1991Jun3.180238.80@and.cs.liv.ac.uk>, phil@and.cs.liv.ac.uk (Phil Jimmieson) writes:
to paraphrase I reported a problem with SFPutFile in THINK Pascal 3.02 crashing
while trying to display an aliased Application (in this case an alias to
ResEdit). Well, it appears that Superpaint 2.0 also crashes when SFPutFile
tries to display the alias - so maybe there's something wrong with the copy of
System 7.0 that I got from my local AppleCentre (that and the fact that it
takes at least 10 reboots to start it first thing in the morning on my SE/30
with 5 Megs of RAM... :-( )
I take it that this problem doesn't happen to anyone else...
Phil Jimmieson, ***************************************************
Computer Science Dept., * JANET : phil@uk.ac.liv.cs.and *
Liverpool University, * INTERNET : phil@and.cs.liv.ac.uk *
PO Box 147 ***************************************************
Liverpool L69 3BX "The contortionist has gone to put his feet up."
(UK) 051-794-3689 "Yes, it's a neat trick if you can do it..."osborn@ux1.lbl.gov (James R Osborn) (06/05/91)
In article <1991Jun3.180238.80@and.cs.liv.ac.uk> phil@and.cs.liv.ac.uk (Phil Jimmieson) writes: >I know that THINK Pascal 3.0.2 is only supposed to be *mostly* compatible with >system 7 - but I just found a very strange problem with it. I was trying to >save a source file into a sub-folder. When the new SFPutFile dialog came up I >had to scroll to get to the sub-folder I wanted, but before I got there it >crashed everytime, with the Finder reporting a type 10 error. I happened to >notice that the dialog had just drawn a SICN for an application before it fell >over - and had not drawn the application's name. The problem seems to occur >when the SFPutFile dialog shows a file that has been aliased (inthis case I had >an alias to ResEdit 2.1 in the same folder as my project). Moving the alias out >of the way stopped the crash, until I used the SFPutFile dialog to enter >another folder where there was an alias - and then it crashed again. This error >occurs repeatedly with THINK Pascal the application - not my running project, >and it doesn't seem to matter what the alias is - just that there's one there >to be displayed by SFPutFile. > >Phil Jimmieson, *************************************************** >Computer Science Dept., * JANET : phil@uk.ac.liv.cs.and * >Liverpool University, * INTERNET : phil@and.cs.liv.ac.uk * >PO Box 147 *************************************************** >Liverpool L69 3BX "The contortionist has gone to put his feet up." >(UK) 051-794-3689 "Yes, it's a neat trick if you can do it..." Maybe THINK Pascal uses some sort of file filter with SFPutFile which doesn't quite like aliases. I don't know the particulars of how an alias in distinguished from real files. Maybe some bits get set which causes this hypothetical file filter to blow chunks. Any 7.0 file system experts care to comment? -- James .------------------------------.--------------------------------------. | James R. Osborn | It just goes to show you it's always | | Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory | something. Either it's baffling | | osborn@ux1.lbl.gov | tech notes or your mac is smoking. | | (415) 548-8464 | It's always something... | '------------------------------'--------------------------------------'