Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site utai.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsri!utai!perelgut From: perelgut@utai.UUCP (Stephen Perelgut) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac Subject: Possible bug in MacWrite 4.5 Message-ID: <882@utai.UUCP> Date: Mon, 4-Nov-85 11:02:34 EST Article-I.D.: utai.882 Posted: Mon Nov 4 11:02:34 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 4-Nov-85 11:42:31 EST Distribution: net Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto Lines: 32 I am using a new Apple Macintosh, received directly from Apple Canada Inc. 10 days ago. I received the latest versions of they System, Finder (4.1), and MacWrite (4.5). I am running off the diskette titled "Backup Disk", having reconfigured it slightly to contain MacWrite, the original System Folder, and MacPaint. I have used the Font/DA Mover to add extra fonts, all from the supplied System Disk, leaving 3K available. The system is a 512K Mac with an external Apple floppy drive. The external drive contains a diskette with MacWrite files, MacPaint files, and a folder holding some of the above. There is 351K available on the external diskette. Enough of the system. The problem is MacWrite has bombed once (ID=02 - Address Error???) and hung once, refusing to respond to anything except hitting the reset switch I installed as per instructions at the side. The file being modified is a MacWrite file, all in Toronto font, 9 Point, with 4 pages and 8 rulers. Something on the order of 16 paragraphs. Total space reported to be 7K. When I make a deletion, I get the message This disk is almost full! Is it OK if this operation can't be Undone, and the file is automatically Saved afterwards? GO AHEAD Cancel (Why is it looking at the internal drive when I opened the MacWrite file by double-clicking the icon image on the external diskette?) Anyway, the first time I click Go Ahead, everything sometimes whirs and happens properly (allowing that "properly" includes saving on the 351K diskette). Once it took 2 of these, once 3, and this time it happened on the first change. This time, (ID=03 - Illegal Instruction Error). That's a new one again! Any suggestions other than working off a MacWrite diskette with more than 3K??? Especially, any ideas why MacWrite is bombing and what can be done to patch it? -- Stephen Perelgut Computer Systems Research Institute, University of Toronto