Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tektronix!tekgen!tekigm2!phils From: phils@tekigm2.TEK.COM (Philip E Staub) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Long Standing Manx bug Keywords: line too long at bottom of page gets Guru Message-ID: <3862@tekigm2.TEK.COM> Date: 28 Nov 88 04:34:06 GMT References: <77890@sun.uucp> <1037@ncar.ucar.edu> Reply-To: phils@tekigm2.TEK.COM (Philip E Staub) Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR. Lines: 47 In article <1037@ncar.ucar.edu> hull@hao.UCAR.EDU (Howard Hull) writes: ... describes longstanding bug in z editor ... >and it is STILL THERE. &^%$#@! why can't he fix this sob? The way it works >is one types to the bottom of the page, and somehow, there, while typing >furiously, the line gets too long. Then, while one is still typing, the >screen announces "cursor below page bottom" or something of that ilk. >So what. But THEN the keyboard stops responding and the red power light >begins to flash (no requester) and one gets the Guru. Has anyone else run >into this beast? Count me in. > I have lost literally hours of very creative stuff this >way, and have had great difficulty trying to remember what I put down. Me too. >ram: files or df0/1: files. It strikes without warning. There seems no >way to recover the text... >Sooooo. Am I doing anything wrong? Is this puppy another one of those >stack sensitive ogres? I seriously doubt it. I've had it happen with both very large and very small stack sizes. > Does anyone have a way of dumping ram: to a disk so I once managed to dump memory to a disk file by calling up 'db' and doing a memory dump, redirecting output to a disk file. It didn't help a whole lot: I got a lot of scattered line fragments which took me nearly as long to re-assemble as it would have taken to rebuild the original text. > Howard Hull > hull@hao.ucar.edu If it's of any help, I usually am successful in avoiding the loss of everything by noting that I have always encountered a delay of at least a few keystrokes between the 'cur past bot' message and the crash. I make use of this knowledge to do a quick 'write', then hit ^L to redraw the screen, whenever I get the message. Somehow, this often avoids the Guru altogether. However, I too would like a fix, not a work-around. Phil -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Staub Tektronix, Inc., Vancouver, Washington 98668 phils@tekigm2.MEN.TEK.COM