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From: neilg@fraser.sfu.ca (Neil K. Guy)
Subject: Re: IBM to Mac porting information for TADS authors
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Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 15:06:10 GMT
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Russell L. Bryan <rbryan@Mail.trincoll.edu> writes:

>I've had this problem lately by the finder's confusion when it comes to
>TADS 1.2 and TADS 2.0 files.  I'd mention this to Michael J. Roberts
>personally, but it does seem to be a little nit-picky.  Perhaps it has
>something to do that the 2.0 compiler has been CRASHING every time I've
>used it -- crashing so badly, in fact, that I can not exit the
>application, or even reboot from Macsbug, and unless I completely turn
>off the computer (i.e. using the manual switch), the errors continue even
>after a clean restart.

 When you say that the 2.0 compiler has been crashing when you launch
it... Do you mean that you double-click a TADS file from the Finder,
or that you explicitly launch TADS Compiler 2.0 by double-clicking it?
If the former it's possible that TADS 1.2 is actually being launched,
and it's trying to open a file created with 2.0. If this is the case
try making a backup of 1.2 onto a floppy and then trash any copies of
it from your hard drive.

>Of course, I have no idea how to express this to him in any positive way,
>nor do I know where to direct him to find the problem. [...]

 You could always email him. He's been very responsive to the messages
I've sent him, and seems very interested in supporting his software.
If you can send mail on the Internet, you can reach him at the address
73737.417@compuserve.com. Note that although CompuServe uses a comma
internally, you have to use a period between the two sets of numbers
when sending from the Internet.

> [...] If any other Mac
>users are having troubles with the compiler or the run-time system, and
>are more Mac-literate than I, please bring these troubles to Mike's
>attention.

 It might be helpful if you write down your exact system configuration
- what machine, how much memory, how much free hard disk space, what
version of the system, what extensions or control panels (INITs and
cdevs) you have installed - you have. Then check that it is, in fact,
TADS 2.0 that's launching and not TADS 1.2. And then write down
exactly what happens when you double-click a file from the Finder or
when you double-click an application from the Finder. Does it crash if
you try to compile your own TADS adventure? Does it crash if you try
to compile an unmodified copy of the sample adventure? Have you tried
the same thing on someone else's IIcx that's running an otherwise
identical version of the system? Etc.

 Good luck!

 - Neil K. (n_k_guy@sfu.ca)
