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- Hi guys,
-
- The following was sent to bugs@ardi.com and the executor mailing list.
-
- After working with E/D 1.99l and the browser, I have to take a deep breath
- sigh a little and hope things improve significantly in 1.99m and further.
- Here goes the list of bugs I found intermixed with some general complaints
- and remarks.
-
- Testsystem used : Toshiba T4400C
- 486DX2/50
- 12 Mb. RAM
- WD90C30 SVGA 640x480x256
- MS-DOS 5.0
- EMM386.EXE NOEMS
- Mouse driver Microsoft 8.21
-
- - When E/D starts it shows the desktop with a one pixel horizontal line
- dividing the desktop from the menu-bar. Just before E/D shows the
- browser the dividing line temporarily becomes twice as thick. This only
- lasts for about half-a-second but it still is a cosmetic annoyance.
- This might be a bug along the same line as the 'flicker-bug' in 1.99m
- that was solved by Mat.
-
- - Why not displaying some sort of 'Please wait' or hourglas when E/D loads?
- Anyway; loading is very fast now.
-
- - The browser's help screen is in the way of the browser itself. It should be
- positioned so that the browser stays visible. Then help has a context.
-
- - Without volume windows E/D crashes when View by Icon is selected.
-
- - When View by Listing is selected when a volume window is the active window
- the resulting listing scrolls to the right outside the window.
-
- - When a circular reference is created (i.e. a folder within a folder, both
- with the same name is copied into its parent) an error -34 occurs and
- then a -120
-
- - Ctrl-Break halts E/D but hangs the PC in the worst kind.
-
- - If there are no windows visible the option Close Window is not dimmed.
-
- - When an icon on the hotband is selected the option Copy to Hotband is not
- dimmed. When it is selected subsequently E/D crashes.
-
- - The reference from a document to an app is static. When I copy the app to
- another volume, double clicking the document does not start the app
- anymore.
-
- - When nothing is selected sometimes the options Duplicate or Delete are not
- dimmed. Result is an error -35
-
- - Copying an item twice to the same location is possible. The result is two
- exact icons on the destination. Only a refresh of that drive will make one
- of the two icons disappear.
-
- - Copying a document gives 'document copy' as the name. A subsequent copy
- of that document gives error -37. Continuing results in
- 'document copy copy' but the document has an invalid data fork.
-
- - Get Info gives the opportunity to change type/creator but when 4 characters
- are entered and OK is clicked it complains that they should be 4
- characters.
-
- - When a file with say a name of 15 characters is renamed to a name of say
- 10 characters the old name is overwritten. Only a refresh will make the
- screen proper, i.e.
-
- document with a long name
-
- rename it to:
-
- small document
-
- results in:
-
- documesmall document name
-
- - When a drive is selected on the hotband and the option Edit Delete is
- choosen without a warning (well, actually there is the 'normal' error
- -34 or something) the whole drive is emptied. Some warning should be nice.
-
- - I had a serious file system error and could not copy to a volume anymore
- after testing a lot.
-
- - Disk Error -120 when running Binhex on a .SIT file and a subsequent
- Stuffit Expander 1.5.1 This used to work under previous versions. I
- retried using the same volumes using E/D 1.3 and had no problems, so the
- volumes were ok.
-
- Stuffit Lite worked ok. however. Somewhere across the lines Stuffit
- Expander 1.5.1 was broken then.
-
- - I have seen the '1 absoffset=859045376 nphyscontig=0' error on the
- menu bar again. This has not appeared for a *long* time.
-
- - I have a standalone document created using DocMaker. It works fine except
- for asking the 'Table of Contents' I do not know what this is supposed to
- do but it crashes E/D severely. EMM386 complained about a serious harddisk
- error but restarting the PC showed no HDD problems.
- This problem has been present in all previous versions. Sorry about not
- mention it any sooner.
-
- That is about it. I am pretty sure that there are a lot more errors in the
- browser. In its current state I would make -nobrowser the default. A lot of
- people, new to E/D, will be put off when they use it and probably never
- register E/D.
-
- One remark: now that E/D is very able to restart when an app finishes it
- should not be very difficult to implement a 'Mount Mac Volume'
- option that pops up a dialogue box and asks the user to
- specify which .hfv volume should be mounted. This enhances
- the flexibility a lot. I now have to exit E/D, change the
- batch file that starts it and restart it everytime I want it
- to address some other volume.
-
- B.T.W. Clifford; need any help with the browser's manual?
-
- And please everybody; lets come up with a good name for the browser.
- How about 'Found it!' or 'Founder' or 'Object Manager'?
-
- Thanks.
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- Ernst J. Oud ernstoud@euronet.nl
- 100265.3601@compuserve.com
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- Our dreams escape us almost as vividly as we can imagine them,
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- John Irving - The Hotel New Hampshire
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