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[S] S-Plus Win 200 crashes on exit: SOLVED
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Prager)
Tue Aug 24 14:36:33 1999
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Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 14:31:17 -0400
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From: Michael Prager <Mike.Prager@noaa.gov>
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I recently wrote that S-Plus 2000 crashed on exit after some
uses. MathSoft was able to trace this problem, and here, I pass on their
findings.
My code included functions that open a graphics device with the
graphsheet() function, specifying a name for that graphsheet. If that is
done without closing an *existing* graphsheet of the same name, S-Plus
issues a Fortran error message. However, in such cases, S-Plus will also
crash on exit.
The solution is to put a guiClose() call before opening the graphsheet; for
example:
guiClose("GraphSheet", Name = "Fred")
graphsheet(Name = "Fred", print.background = T)
This works whether an existing sheet is open or not.
Contrary to what many of us thought, the crashes were not caused by
corrupted files in the _Data or _Prefs directories.
MathSoft states that they will add this to the bug-fix list. Few vendors
today seem to put much effort into fixing bugs, and it is a pleasure to
work with one that does.
--
Michael Prager <Mike.Prager@noaa.gov>
NOAA Beaufort Laboratory
Beaufort, North Carolina 28516 USA
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