On 16/11/01 4:53 AM, "Grant [Crossed Fingers] Hutchinson" <grant_at_splorp.com>
wrote:
>
> In a previous message, Stephanie Maks typed vigorously:
>
>> After upgrading my iBook to OS9.1 this past week, I've found my Newton Press
>> is suddenly crash-happy. Seems like every other keystroke it crashes with
>> an error Type 1 or error Type 2. Anyone know of any incompatibilities?
>> Should I try re-installing Newton Press? I have version 1.1 of Newton
>> Press, and it worked very fine indeed on OS 9.04
>
> Not that Newton Press was that well behaved before...
>
> This is the same situation that I have experienced using NP 1.1 and Mac
> OS 9.1 (and more recently 9.2.1). If someone who knew what they were
> doing (read: not me) installed MacsBug and started getting down and dirty
> in the machine code, they may be able to at least figure out what makes
> NP so unhappy in these newer operating systems. Perhaps it may be
> possible to patch NP into thinking it's healthy again.
>
> Or I could be barking up the wrong tree.
>
> I just make sure I save a lot when building Newton books.
>
I've had not a single crash with NP1.1 and OS9.1 despite some extensive use
on large (1000+ page) documents. I always try to use the simplest input --
only dumb text files, avoid illustrations if possible -- but that may be
over cautious.
Maybe it's one of those intriguing extension conflicts that you can waste
your entire life tracking down?
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