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- Reporting Bugs in Mac BibTeX
- ============================
-
- Please send me (<mailto:vince@das.harvard.edu>) details of:
-
- • Machine type (PPC/68k).
- • System (7/7.1/7.5/7.5.3/…).
- • Circumstances of the bug.
-
- Also please try repeating the bug after restarting your machine with
- extensions off (hold down shift during restart). If this resolves your
- problem then you have an extension conflict. You'll have to work out which
- extension/control panel doesn't like BibTeX and remove it or upgrade to a
- newer version.
-
- There are known cosmetic bugs in which the log window is not cleared
- correctly, or scrolled back to the top correctly. At least some of these
- seem to be inadequacies/'features' of the Powerplant class I'm using,
- which is v. annoying. I'll gradually make it work perfectly, but it's
- not a high priority. So please only report peculiar bugs in that category.
-
- thanks,
-
- Vince.
-
- Reporting Bugs when command clicking to Alpha
- =============================================
-
- If command-clicking switches you to Alpha, but what happened subsequently
- seems wrong, do the following: switch to Alpha, hit cmd-Y, hit shift-cmd-Z,
- select 'GURLHandler' from the list which appears, switch back to BibTeX,
- repeat the problematic cmd-click, switch to Alpha, hit cmd-Y, hit
- shift-cmd-D, and mail me the trace-dump which should appear in a new window
- at that point. Also copy the errant text out of BibTeX's log window, and
- send that to me. If no trace-dump window appears, the problem is on the
- BibTeX/Appleevent end of things, and in that case just send me the text
- which caused the problems.
-
- -----------------------------
- Also (for helpful souls with MacsBug):
-
- If you are dumped into MacsBug, please grab a stack trace. You
- can do this by typing:
- LOG bibcrashlog
- sc6
- HOW
- STAT
- Then send me the file 'bibcrashlog' which will appear on your
- desktop. Many thanks; it'll help me to track down and fix the bug.
-
-