JACOBSEN@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU (03/11/91)
I have been using the 'dCAD Calculator' DA for a long time. I recently got a larger monitor (Sigma Designs L*View) and now find that the DA is 'broken'. Symptoms: Selecting the DA under the Apple Menu drops me into MacsBug, almost always with a 'Bus Error' in the DA handler. Rebooting is the only way out that works. The calculator window shows briefly on the primary screen (whichever it is) before the crash. System: Mac IIci with RGB 13" display on internal video (primary screen, has menubar - although making the other monitor the primary doesn't fix this), 8M, 80M internal disk, L*View monitor in left slot. Running 6.0.7 (the DA worked on this before the new monitor). Removing all non-Apple code from the System and System folder (except the init that drives the new monitor) does not fix the problem. Any suggestions on how to fix this would be welcomed. I'm pretty resigned to this being fatal to the DA, so suggestions on a good calculator DA would also be welcomed. Thanks.
afry@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Alan R. Fry) (03/11/91)
In article <91069.093231JACOBSEN@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU> JACOBSEN@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU writes: > <<Stuff deleted>> > >Any suggestions on how to fix this would be welcomed. I'm pretty >resigned to this being fatal to the DA, so suggestions on a good >calculator DA would also be welcomed. > >Thanks. I can't offer any suggestions for fixing DCad calculator, but you might want to try using DT Calculator, available on sumex as /da/dt-calculator-303.hqx I have been using it instead of DCad for quite some time since it allows input from the keypad and keyboard, and it has RPN (HP style) input which I greatly prefer to algebraic (everybody else style). In it's about box it is listed as "Advertiseware" for Seagull Engineering of Sweden. Some of the features include: all trig functions and inverses, all hyperbolics and inverses, simple two variable statistics, factorial, natural and base ten log and exponential, polar to rectangular conversion, and multiple display options (fix, eng, sci). To be perfectly honest, though, I usually have a calculator close to my Mac which I use for simple calculations. :-) Anything more sophisticated I throw to Excel or Mathematica. Alan
kr0u+@andrew.cmu.edu (Kevin William Ryan) (03/11/91)
JACOBSEN@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU >I have been using the 'dCAD Calculator' DA for a long time. I recently >got a larger monitor (Sigma Designs L*View) and now find that the >DA is 'broken'. > >Symptoms: Selecting the DA under the Apple Menu drops me into MacsBug, >almost always with a 'Bus Error' in the DA handler. ... You might try removing MacsBug. That program has given me more grief than I can politely speak of. My program development works much better without it trapping things. And I reboot _much_ less often. kwr Internet: kr0u+@andrew.cmu.edu
boomer@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Rich Akerboom) (03/12/91)
In <12699@ur-cc.UUCP> afry@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Alan R. Fry) writes: >In article <91069.093231JACOBSEN@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU> JACOBSEN@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU writes: >> <<Stuff deleted>> >> >I can't offer any suggestions for fixing DCad calculator, but you might want >to try using DT Calculator, available on sumex as /da/dt-calculator-303.hqx >I have been using it instead of DCad for quite some time since it allows >input from the keypad and keyboard, and it has RPN (HP style) does anyone know of any other non-dCAD calculators that are NOT rpn? It seems that most of the calculators in the archives are rpn style. Rich Akerboom -- Rich Akerboom Internet, etc.: boomer@eleazar.dartmouth.edu Sylvan Software UUCP: decvax!dartvax!eleazar!boomer P. O. Box 566 Telephone: (802) 649-2238 Norwich, VT 05055 USA