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GateKeeper - A LITTLE MORE TRUTH COMES OUT - (or why I like 6.0.2)

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From: Chris Johnson
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 1989 18:01
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THE BIG BUG IS FOUND

For everyone who's experienced chronic crashes when using GateKeeper in the
Control Panel there's good news:  The problem has been found, it's been fixed
and you don't have to wait for the fix.

The problem was not a bug in GateKeeper - it was an incompatibility between
GateKeeper and the versions of the Control Panel distributed with systems
prior to 6.0.  The details are tedious, but it suffices to say that old
versions of the Control Panel closed things down in a strange (and in this
case troublesome) order.  Evidently Apple was aware of the problem since it
was fixed (i.e. not present) in the Control Panel distributed with System 6.

This (as you've probably guessed) is why neither I nor my original testers
ran into this problem - we were all using System 6.0.2.  This is why it took
me so long to find and fix the problem.

The next version of GateKeeper will be compatible with the earlier versions
of the Control Panel, but I strongly recommend upgrading to System 6.0.2 since
it will not only "fix" the problem with the current release of GateKeeper,
but it will permit you take advantage of some significant new features that
will be found in the next version of GateKeeper.

Please distribute this information as widely as possible - GateKeeper users
across the world will thank you.

----Chris Johnson
----Author of GateKeeper
----chrisj@emx.utexas.edu

Thanks to all my testers and everyone who sent me their bug reports for the aid
and information, and particular thanks to Vahe Kassardjian for working with me
so closely (and quickly) and corrupting his System file so many times in
attempting to isolate this bug for me.
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From: chrisj@ut-emx.UUCP (Chris Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: GateKeeper - A LITTLE MORE TRUTH COMES OUT - (or why I like 6.0.2)
Keywords: GateKeeper, Bugs, System Software
Message-ID: <10091@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 1 Feb 89 18:01:00 GMT
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Organization: U.T. Austin Computation Center
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