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- From: d88-jwa@dront.nada.kth.se (Jon Wtte)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
- Subject: Re: Letter to Changeling (long)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec27.094317.27297@kth.se>
- Date: 27 Dec 92 09:43:17 GMT
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- In <103222@netnews.upenn.edu> jason@retina.anatomy.upenn.edu (Jason Ehrlich) writes:
-
- >I've had a few crashes, mostly at StuffHex, whatever that is. But I
-
- StuffHex is an ancient system call that should have never
- existed in the first place. It takes a string of hex digits
- and converts it to binary, without any kind of error control
- for either the validity of the string or where the data's
- going.
-
- It's also totally unneccessary since any data can be stored
- in a resource instead, in binary form, and only take up half
- the space of the StuffHex string.
-
- But if you get large offsets from StuffHex, like "StuffHex+0B32"
- you're really in the memory manager or toolbox, not in StuffHex.
- Or maybe you use an old MacsBug with a new machine. 6.2.2 is
- available from ftp.apple.com.
-
- Cheers,
-
- / h+
-
- --
- -- Jon W{tte, h+@nada.kth.se, Mac Hacker Deluxe --
- Engineering: "How will this work?" Science: "Why will this work?" Management:
- "When will this work?" Liberal Arts: "Do you want fries with that?"
- -- Jesse N. Schell
-