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- From: "Olaf Barthel" <olsen@sourcery.han.de>
- Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 12:02:09 +0100
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- Subject: Re: Multiview/AG bug (Was: Re: Amiga "C Manual")
- Message-ID: <13213753@sourcery.han.de>
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- In Article <4i3qe4$61s@news.injersey.com>, Jeremy Nixon <jeremyn@nj5.injersey.com> wrote:
- >
- > Apparently the author of C-Manual 4 didn't actually do any proofreading. I
- > thought it was only two, but here's the list of files in the CM4 package
- > which will crash AmigaGuide:
- >
- > Contents.guide
- > Miscellaneous.guide
- > --crash on the "main" node
- > Handlers.guide
- > AdvancedRoutines.guide
- > BufferedIO.guide
- > FileFunctions.guide
- > Files.guide
- > ParsingCommandLine.guide
- > --crash on secondary internal nodes
- >
- > Honestly, I'm sure the author of this work knows fifty times more than I
- > about C programming. But when you ask people to pay fifty dollars for
- > something like this, it had better be perfect. And crashing AmigaGuide
- > because of sloppy coding is *not* acceptable. If a program had this many
- > bugs, causing it to crash on this many different features, it could barely
- > be described as an alpha.
-
- There are bugs in the existing AmigaGuide implementations, both the v34
- compatible one and the v39/v40 versions. The `smartwrap' option is
- particularly dangerous since it can cause AmigaGuide to lose track of its
- `current line' pointer when merging lines. I already managed to fix this
- bug, it might that the documents you mentioned above exhibit other bugs
- that may need fixing. Where exactly can I find them?
-
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