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- From: jeremyn@nj5.injersey.com (Jeremy Nixon)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Multiview/AG bug (Was: Re: Amiga "C Manual")
- Date: 10 Mar 1996 14:32:18 GMT
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- Yesterday, I (jeremyn@nj5.injersey.com) wrote:
-
- (After someone else wrote:)
- : : I've never before had repeatable crashes on Multiview, overall it's
- : : done ok especially compared to the more fragile V37 amigaguide.
- : : However I suppose I haven't been doing much doc-browsing because
- : : the material in this CM4 really tickles my system and crashes it cold!
-
- : : Instead of "install"ing it (really, now, logicals are fine but
- : : I'll draw the line at so many just to browse a doc!) I changed
- : : the referenced paths eg to ACE_DOS:AmigaDOSLibrary/AmigaDOSLibrary.guide
- : : eg the ACE_DOS will be the only logical being the directory holding
- : : all sub-directories. Anyway, so do this to the "BufferedIO"
- : : directory. Set the .guide icon to "Multiview" or just
- : : "amigaguide BufferedIO.guide". Try to go to the Examples link
- : : (Blank page). Go back to contents. (Crash).
-
- : : Computer: A3000,OS3.1,PicassoII, MCP/MagicMenus/ARQ
-
- : : I'll be waiting for the "just fine here" messages so I can
- : : track the possible source.
-
- : : Greg
- : : jung@osse.nrl.navy.mil
-
- : Sorry, so such luck. I've also never seen MultiView crash on AmigaGuide
- : documents, but it happens quite frequently with this CM4 stuff, on
- : several of the files. MultiView just locks up as soon as I load some of
- : them. I haven't looked into the files themselves yet, so I can't make any
- : guesses as to why.
-
- : And the assigns are just a little over the top, I agree.
-
- Okay, if I may be excused for following-up to my own post...
-
- When Multiview crashes on an AmigaGuide document, I get curious. So,
- while yesterday I just rebooted and went on to other things, today I went
- in and found the problem in CM4.
-
- 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
-
- The cause of the crashes is simply bad AmigaGuide coding. There are
- links where the text for the destination node has an opening quote, but
- no closing quote. So AmigaGuide is sitting there looking endlessly for a
- matching closing quote that doesn't exist! Or something.
-
- Anyhow, if you go into the files and seek out the "problem" areas and
- insert the closing quotes, everything should work fine. I haven't done
- this yet. I have a little trouble with learning about programming from
- someone who can't code a stable AmigaGuide document, or possibly who
- could actually MISS the fact that the files crash the viewer program, and
- RELEASE the stuff to the public.
-
- I'm sure I'll get over it.
-
- Jeremy "It took me all of ten minutes to debug this one" Nixon
- jeremyn@injersey.com
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