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From: stowekeller@pro-sol.cts.com (Stowe Keller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: GS/OS 3 bugs
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Date: 27 Sep 89 04:34:23 GMT
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GS/OS 3.0 bugs
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     Recently I've experienced the following Finder bugs and several other 
people on Compuserve have confirmed that they have experienced them too.  I 
wanted to post them to see if anyone else knows about them - particularly 
Apple, in hopes that they have been fixed (or soon will be).
 
     The first bug is intermittent in nature.  Basically, renaming a disk 
volume doesn't always update the disk.  What happens is that after 
double-clicking on the name field of the disk, retyping the name and pressing 
return, the name field gets updated on the screen, but removing the disk and 
either re-inserting it or taking it to another machine will show that the 
disk's name did not get changed.  And no, the names I was using did not 
conflict with the name of the boot disk (which is a SCSI hard drive); I was 
attempting to rename a 3.5" disk called "BLANK" to "MODEM74".  I finally had 
to boot into ECP8 under ProDOS8 in order to successfully rename the disk.  
This bug is fairly rare, and I have not yet found a way to duplicate it.  
(Has anyone else?)  A few people on Compuserve have also seen this bug on a 
rare basis, and they too have not yet found a way to duplicate it.
 
     The second bug seems very reproducible.  To invoke it, double-click on 
an icon's name (in my case, I was viewing with large icons) to rename it, and 
before you finish renaming it, pull down the "View" menu and switch to "By 
date".  On my machine it will always crash into the monitor.  Several people 
on Compuserve say they too can duplicate this bug, although in some cases the 
computer will hang instead of crash (perhaps the computer is attempting to 
execute a random location in RAM?).  I have not tried all the possible 
permutations of this bug - perhaps it will also occur with selecting other 
"View" options.  I don't yet want to waste alot of time duplicating a system 
crash if the problem has already been found and fixed by Apple in the next 
release of GS/OS.
 
                         Stowe Keller
Stowe Keller           Author of ProDOS8 LIST utility
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