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- From: cirop02@elm.circa.ufl.edu (David Isaacson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: System 6.0 Reliability
- Date: 17 Dec 1992 08:36:57 -0600
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- In article <9212160804.AA19053@bluffs.scar.utoronto.ca> 90taobri@BLUFFS.SCAR.UTORONTO.CA (Brian Tao) writes:
- |>The following revelation escaped Tim Meekins's lips:
- |>>
- |>> I wrote soniqTracker which you mention, and I know of -NO- outstanding
- |>> crash bugs in it. If you can -consistently- crash it let me know. I've
- |>> never seen soniqTracker crash since about version .4. it's possible i have
- |>> a rare strange bug in it, but i've never seen one occur. i've had a few
- |>> reports quit crashes, but no way to verify it was actually soniqTracker
- |>> and no way to reproduce it.
- |>
- |> I've never had sT crash on me, but very often the next desktop
- |>application that comes along will hang (either when the menu bar is drawn,
- |>or before the screen switches from text to SHR). This never happens unless
- |>I had just quit from sT. No system error messages, nothing. It looks like
- |>some memory trashing problem at first glance. I've never run sT without
- |>DA's or init's long enough to verify that it isn't conflicting with
- |>something else. However, *only* sT causes the computer to hang (and it
- |>doesn't happen every time either).
-
- Hmm... I get the same exact problem. A lot of times when I quit sT to
- go back to the Finder it justs hangs and never makes it back. It never
- beeps like it crashed or anything. And it only happens to me with sT
- also.
-
- |>--
- |>-- Real name: Brian Tao (Dept. of Exobiology, University of Toronto)
- |>-- Preferred: 90taobri@chasm.scar.utoronto.ca (checked daily)
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