Re: Defender of the World

[NO%lesh%SPAM%erjt%HERE@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (Tilghman Lesher)]

Devin Reade (glyn@cs.ualberta.ca) wrote:
: Hey folks,

: Aaron and I are trying to figure out why a particular program will 
: sometimes fail when launched from ProSEL-16 or GNO, but will work fine
: from the Finder or ORCA/Shell.

: I seem to recall that DOTW has a similar problem (at least on the 
: surface).  With DOTW, one will get a "Fatal Error $0046" on launch.
: However this other program (call it "SB") gets bad data, as if
: I/O is not happening right.

: This is really vague, but does anyone have any ideas?

In this vein, when you do the 'launch <path>'/'init 5' combo with
GNO when GNO is running off an HFS partition, and the <path> is a
P8 program,

after the system switches to P8, it gives a text dialogue asking
for the HFS partition to be inserted.  Of course, it can't see
the partition because it's in P8 mode.  So you get an infinite 
non-breakable loop.  Reboot is the only solution.

And no, the P8 program is not on the HFS partition, it's on a
perfectly stable ProDOS partition, and it works the rest of the
time when launched from the Finder.

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