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Article #5162Re: TOS 1.4 AUTO bug
From: Andy Cassino
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 1989 19:34
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 1989 19:34
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I, too, have a Mega ST2 with TOS 1.4, and I run Neodesk 2.04 as an AUTO
application. I do not use UNITERM, but I am seeing some similar sorts of
things, I think, and in my comm program as well. Everything went okay in the
past week since the TOS 1.4 upgrade until yesterday, when I had *5* "random"
system crashes. This is a very rare problem in my experience.
One crash occured when I double-clicked HDUTIL.PRG 4.1.8 - the disk access
began, and whammo, address error. Three times I had address errors in Interlink
(one in the middle of a 200K GENIE download). But two of these were using the
buffer editor, and I have had that crash before). These three crashes were
followed by subsequent crashes on cold reboot (keyboard-invoked). It took
two cold reboots to get things running again. The fifth crash was when
I tried to extract from a file archive. After reboot, it worked just fine.
Did I mention - these were all address errors!!!
I have two suspicions at this point - a hardware problem (oooh noooo!!!) or
maybe I am experiencing some residual effects of having set the "fast" bit in
just about everything I use. (That, in fact, is the first thing I am going to
do, unset the fast bit in Neodesk, Hdutils & Interlink. I don't think I set
it in arc, though I'll check.)
So, I would also like to know if any of the Atari folk have a suggestion!
Disclaimer: The opinions expressed herein are those solely of the author,
who has no pecuniary interest in the companies mentioned.
Copyright (c) 1989 by Andrew Cassino.
Permission for distribution on USENET hereby granted.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!ucsd!ucbvax!hplabs!hp-pcd!hplsla!andyc From: andyc@hplsla.HP.COM (Andy Cassino) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: TOS 1.4 AUTO bug Message-ID: <5440069@hplsla.HP.COM> Date: 23 Oct 89 19:34:18 GMT References: <122@bnrgate.bnr.ca> Organization: HP Lake Stevens, WA Lines: 37