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- From: mheiskan@hut.fi (Mika Heiskanen)
- Subject: Re: unpostable sex48pos
- In-Reply-To: Erik Naggum's message of 19 Aug 1992 01:44:20 +0200 (19920818234420)
- Message-ID: <MHEISKAN.92Aug19051417@vipunen.hut.fi>
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- Organization: Helsinki University of Technology - Finland
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- <1992Aug17.224319.29939@seq.uncwil.edu> <23310C@erik.naggum.no>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 05:14:17
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- In article <23310C@erik.naggum.no> Erik Naggum <enag@ifi.uio.no> writes:
-
- > I found this thing extremely offensive, but that has nothing to do with
- > the graphics, which were kind of entertaining. (Good work to cram so
- > much into so few pixels, Glu.) It has to do with Lutz Vieweg's lazy
- > programming style, which caused my '48 to lock up when I tried to figure
- > out how this picture compression thing worked, and it deleted the entire
- > "null" directory, with alarms and user key assignments, and made it
- > impossible for me to add new alarms or user key assignments: the '48
- > cleared memory when I tried to re-install user key assignments (STOK).
-
- Next time try ON-C. It executes every $CONFIG program, including the one in
- library 1 (internal). It makes a new hidden directory if you somehow
- manage to purge it.
-
- > This is the third time I have to restore from backups, all of them after
- > I've used a program written by Lutz Vieweg, all of which did incredibly
- > stupid things to completely unrelated parts of the system. I'm not
- > happy with this, of course, and I'm not going to use software written by
- > Lutz Vieweg for the next decade or so, or until somebody can give some
- > evidence of his improving his programming style to include sanity checks
- > on arguments and input, so as not to blow up the system on bad input.
- > If you don't heed this advice, please heed another: always take a full
- > backup before you download Lutz Vieweg code to your '48. Think of it as
- > safe sex.
- >
- > Best regards,
- > </Erik>
-
- If Lutz makes a good program, I will use it no matter who says what. If I
- play around with the code of his programs, I blaim only myself for any
- crashes. If the user level command causes crashes for inadequate argument
- checking, I suggest you contact Lutz and tell him about it so he can fix it
- in the next release.
- What comes to crashing the HP48, well, I don't bother to reset the clock
- anymore. :)
-
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