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- From: jung@osse.nrl.navy.mil (Greg Jung)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Multiview/AG bug (Was: Re: Amiga "C Manual")
- Date: 11 Mar 1996 14:42:01 GMT
- Organization: U.S.R.A/NRL
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- In article <4hup5i$mu2@news.injersey.com>, jeremyn@nj5.injersey.com
- says...
- >
- >Yesterday, I (jeremyn@nj5.injersey.com) wrote:
- >
- (Multiview/amigaguideDT crashes because closing quotes are
- missing in file links)
- >
- >Turns out, there's only two files that crash the viewer. It just seemed
- >like more yesterday because I've never seen an AmigaGuide crash before,
- >and I was too busy wondering what chip in my computer had blown.
- >
- >The offending files are:
- > AmigaDos/Contents.guide
- > Miscellaneous/Miscellaneous.guide
- There are many more files, about half of them I suppose, with
- the faulty link syntax.
- >
- >The cause of the crashes is simply bad AmigaGuide coding.
-
- No, that didn't cause the crash. A bug in Amigaguide.library/DT
- parsing that allows it to overrun data. The imperfection of input
- should generate an error, i.e. "file name too long" etc.
-
- Greg
-
-