[12805] in Athena Bugs
ancient MacZephyr bug report
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (smcguire@MIT.EDU)
Thu Oct 27 15:06:31 1994
From: smcguire@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 1994 15:05:30 +0500
To: Catherine Preston <cassie@MIT.EDU>, bugs@MIT.EDU
Cc: maczephyr@MIT.EDU
Cat,
Eons ago (last January) you set us a bug report about MacZephyr 1.0 .
While cleaning up the dark dusty corners of our bug-reporting system,
I found it again. I apologize for not getting feedback to you long
ago, I took over the MacZephyr project in February but was not aware
of the location of these reports.
Still, I thought I would reply, figuring even an eight month old reply
is better than no reply.
Since the time you sent this we have released MacZephyr version 1.1,
which I believe corrects all of these problems. All my responses below
refer to version 1.1, which was completely overhauled internally
(externally it is not so different). If you're still using
MacZephyr, let me know if you are still having any of these problems,
or have any additional comments you'd like to offer. Thanks!
>1) The machine freezes after asking maczephyr to znol or show
>subscriptions. This means the clock stops running, I cannot
>change to another application, I cannot abort the command.
>This does not happen every time I try either of these
>commands, but with alarming frequency, especially as regards
>the znol problem.
All problems with znol have been fixed. "Show Subscriptions"
can still take a long time to complete (30-60 seconds) if you have more
than about 15 subscriptions, but you can now at least abort it with
command-period if you get tired of waiting.
>2) I get an error message that reports "Error in port %u".
>Sometimes that will reboot the machine, sometimes just shut
>down maczephyr, sometimes it shuts down maczephyr and tech
>notify. But it is always the same message.
We have fixed these problems as well. You should never see this message
anymore.
>3) Also, I have been having trouble with the zwrite windows.
>They appear in odd sizes, often completely blank (ie: without
>the prompts for name, class, instance, etc). Sometimes,
>usually after I have sent 5 or so zwrites, the windows stop
>appearing. When I go to the windows menu, it shows a check
>next to the zwrite window name, but there is still no window.
>The only way to get windows back that I have found has been to
>shut down and restart maczephyr.
Again, you should never see this anymore. This was a symptom of
memory munging that went on almost constantly in version 1.0 .
Thanks very much, sorry for the long delay.
--Scott McGuire / smcguire@mit.edu
MacZephyr Programmer / IS-DCNS, MIT
Please send all MacZephyr comments to: maczephyr@mit.edu
