Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!pro-sol.cts.com!stowekeller From: stowekeller@pro-sol.cts.com (Stowe Keller) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: GS/OS 3 bugs Message-ID: <8909270559.AA12559@trout.nosc.mil> Date: 27 Sep 89 04:34:23 GMT Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 38 GS/OS 3.0 bugs -------------- 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 Compuserve: 71540,725 GEnie: SKELLER BIX: stowekeller Pro-Sol or Pro-Carolina: stowekeller US SNAIL: 101 Viewmont Court, Charlottesville, VA USA 22901