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Re: Underscore crash bug (was: ...)

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From: Ralph P. Sobek
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 1988 10:16
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|  Date: 12 Apr 88 12:50:34 GMT
|  From: lakesys!martin@csd1.milw.wisc.edu  (Martin Wiedmeyer)
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|  I was in error about the underscore bug. You don't even have to enter a
|  Return! Just entering the '_' on the directory line of the File Selector Box
|  will crash the ST *very* hard!

I understand the bug, and bugs are bad!!  But why would one enter anything
at all in the directory line other than, for example, D: to change drives?
After that one can use the directory selection mechanism in fselect(?) to go
up and down the directory tree to the proper directory.  If one lands on a
directory that contains the ubiquitous underscore, that does not crash the
ST.  I find the standard file selection mechanism sufficiently versatile
that I have not yet put fselect2 in my \AUTO\ folder.  I must admit that the
documentation on fselect is virtually non-existant.  Thanks to the discussions
here on info-atari16 digest (and the newsgroups) I've learnt a lot about
fselect's functionality.  Thanks folks!

But then, I may be missing something....  Replies directly to me or info-atari16
but I can't access any of the newsgroups.  ;-{

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From: ralph@lasso.UUCP (Ralph P. Sobek)
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Subject: Re: Underscore crash bug (was: ...)
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Date: 19 Apr 88 10:16:04 GMT
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