Re: Problems with Pointless

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <505ego$beg@apocalypse.dmi.stevens-tech.edu>,
Karl Horster <khorster@attila.stevens-tech.edu> wrote:
>	I have Pointless 2.02 running on my system, and it causes a weird
>crash in 6.01.  When I open a window all this multicolored garbage is
>spewed in the window, and it's about a 50/50 chance of the system
>crashing.  Is there a newer version of Pointless out?  Are there any known
>conflicts with Desk Accs or anything?

   Any window, or the "Choose Font" window? If it's the choose font
window, that's a bug in 6.0.1 exposed by Pointless or any time you
have a document with no font sizes available (such as a document
written using "New York", but New York is not on the
system). Pointless 2.0.3 includes a patch for that; there is a free
upgrade at apple2.caltech.edu,
pub/apple2/addons/patches/pointless.upd.shk

   I also have fixed that and many other bugs in 6.0.1, the Finder,
and the like. If you get this window trashing in the Finder, it might
be a bug I squashed a while back. Get GUPP (Grand Unified Patched
Program) v1.03 from ftp.ugcs.caltech.edu, pub/nathan and install that.

   If this is the Finder mucking up, it may be a bad icon file or
Desktop file. You can move things out of the Icons folder on each
volume online (be sure to go to Special / Preferences... to turn off
the "hide invisible files") to another folder (do not move the
Ftype.apple file) until things work. I would appreciate a copy of the
bad Icons/Desktop file so that I can see if I can replicate the bug on
my machine and fix it from there.

Nathan Mates



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