Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!apple!agate!ucbvax!ANDREW.CMU.EDU!sk2f+ From: sk2f+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU ("Seth D. Kadesh") Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: GSOS bug? (TML Pascal, Source Code Library) Message-ID:Date: 1 Oct 89 20:49:37 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 74 I got my order from TML last Thursday, minus the Source Code Library. Has anyone else ordered the SCL? Did anyone get it? I'm going to call TML tomorrow, but in the meantime... I went to compile some of the sample stuff on the compiler disk, and I kept getting the error "unable to open tool interface," or something very similar. After a little investigating, I discovered that the tool interface for Quickdraw was damaged. Bad news! Anything using any kind of graphics needs this interface. TML was nice enough to include the source code for the interfaces, but the source code for the Quickdraw tool interface was damaged too! Lucky me, it's all printed in the back of the book! 8+ pages of Quickdraw constants, type declarations, and procedure headings. GROAN! I hope it works. Another strange thing. TML pascal shipped on two disks: one has all of system disk 5.0 (the boot stuff), and the other disk (the compiler disk) has the compiler :-). I was making a backup of both disks. I booted up with system disk 5.0. My system is configured thusly: GS w/ 512k on AE GS-Ram one Apple 3.5 drive (smartport) one noname 5.25 drive (daisey chained to 3.5 drive - slot 6) MDIdeas Supersonic/Digitizer (slot 4 - set to mouse) Imagewriter II (printer port) I removed system disk 5.0, and inserted 4.0 (my old system disk - work copy). I believe I executed Copy II plus (v 8.3) to examine the catalog of my system disk 4.0. I then returned to the finder (system disk 5.0) and copied the entire 5.0 disk onto the 4.0 disk. I then copied the entire compiler disk. For some strange reason, the first time I boot the system disk and then go to execute TML pascal, the system hangs after the second disk switch. (insert compiler disk, double click on TML icon. computer asks me to insert system disk. after a minute or so, the computer asks me to insert compiler disk. I insert the compiler disk, and the system hangs. This happens with my original disks also) So I go to execute TML pascal after making the backups. The system hangs, and I reboot. The finder comes up, and the screen is screwed up. Everything that wasn't background appears to have two bits in every byte shifted over one byte to the left (icons, menu bar). Like a double image of everything. It appeared to be the first and seven bits of each screen byte. So I figure that some memory got trashed, and rebooted. Same thing. I thought maybe the disk was trashed, so I took out Deluxe Paint. Same thing. Now I'm worried - I thought I blew the video controller, or something dumb like that. I ran the diagnostic test - no problems. I rebooted, and the problem was still there - isn't the diagnostic test supposed to clear out all memory? I ran my AE memory check utility. No problems there either. I turned the machine off, waited a couple of seconds, and turned it back on. Problem was still there. So I shut the machine off, went downstairs to watch tv, and came back about an hour later to find that the problem was gone. It occurs to me now that the computer might have overheated. However, I've never had a problem with overheating in the (4? 5?) years that I've owned the machine. It's in a well ventilated area, and the ambient temperature couldn't have been higher than 70 F. I still can't get TML Pascal to execute the first time through either. Might this have something to do with switching disks/executing programs with only one 3.5 drive? thanks. -seth a physics/computer science major in four acts\Carnegie Mellon University ======================================================> tHe mAd ScienTisT, |sk2f+@andrew.cmu.edu and other carnations. |p254sk2f@cmccvb (bitnet - might not work) >>tmS software systems<< | <======================================================