At 5:21 PM -0700 7/28/2001, Alex Allee wrote:
2) One thing I'll never understand is why the Macintosh, with it's
ease of use, has always had error codes that are so user unfriendly.
Even DOS has no error message as unfriendly and Macintosh Error
codes. Windows 95 comes close, however.
At 1:44 AM -0700 7/26/2001, Gregg Eshelman wrote:
I've been unlucky enough to see the work of lazy
Windows programmers with messages like
An error has occured: Error. [OK]
Can't remember what program that was.
That's nothing. I have a jpg of an error window that CC:Mail for
Windows 3.1 gave
Netscape's favorite tactic is scribbling over
itself in memory, at least on Windows. How do I
tell if a Mac app crash is due to the app overwriting
part of its main executable in RAM? At any rate,
especially after 20+ years, _I_ find it amazing
that programmers still haven't come up with a
This is one of the advantages of Netscape on the classic Mac OS. Any
application creates it's own memory partition and only the most remarkably
buggy apps will overwrite another app's partition (maybe something not 32-bit
clean?). Netscape and some others go one step further. Once it has a
--- James S Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is one of the advantages of Netscape on the
classic Mac OS. Any
application creates it's own memory partition and
only the most remarkably
buggy apps will overwrite another app's partition
(maybe something not 32-bit
clean?). Netscape and
Very off topic, please excuse me. Maybe this tread will help some body.
I hope. Not my words but those that may come
David Robinson wrote:
The problem with that is that my crashes usually occur only when working. For
example, I may be using Pagemaker 6.5, and/or Photoshop 5.5, with Netscape
I really don't use it very much. Acutally, I hate it. But with all this
nasty comment about Netscape I thought I'd try it for a while and see if IE
Express worked better (fewer crashes while working in apps) than Netscape.
Frankly, I prefer Netscape. But if it's as buggy as everyone seems
You might consider using Eudora, by far the best e-mail app, that I know
of, and there are nice 68k versions available. In my experience Netscape
runs much nicer on 68030 macs than IE. Netscape 2.02 is the fastest, but
on a IIfx Netscape 3 and 4 work pretty well. IE is dog slow. You might
--- David Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Regarding Pagmaker 6.5, it crasher quite frequently
on it's on. I beginning
to wonder if I should have stayed with my old friend
Pagemaker 6.0. PM 6.5
crashed this morning as I was attempting to run
Outlook Express.
David
Its always so much fun
on 7/25/01 1:37 PM, (Vintage Macs) at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I really don't use it very much. Acutally, I hate it. But with all this
nasty comment about Netscape I thought I'd try it for a while and see if IE
Express worked better (fewer crashes while working in apps) than Netscape.
Gregg Eshelman wrote:
I'm still trying to find out what a -671 error is.
-671 is a connection proccesses error usually associated with an Open
Transport crash.
Kyle H. Hansen
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on 7/25/01 4:21 PM, (Vintage Macs) at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I prefer IE and Outlook Express. I've had almost no problems with crashes. I
used to use Netscape for web and email but I actually had more problems with
Netscape than with M$ (sad to say).
And you run these programs on a
At 12:20 PM -0700 7/25/2001, Kyle Hansen wrote:
I'm still trying to find out what a -671 error is.
-671 is a connection proccesses error usually associated with an Open
Transport crash.
1) Where can I find a list of error codes and what they mean?
2) One thing I'll never understand is
At 20:29 -0400 on 25/07/01, Steve Moody wrote:
At 12:20 PM -0700 7/25/2001, Kyle Hansen wrote:
I'm still trying to find out what a -671 error is.
-671 is a connection proccesses error usually associated with an Open
Transport crash.
1) Where can I find a list of error codes and what they
At 12:20 PM -0700 7/25/2001, Kyle Hansen wrote:
I'm still trying to find out what a -671 error is.
-671 is a connection proccesses error usually associated with an Open
Transport crash.
1) Where can I find a list of error codes and what they mean?
Install MACSBug. Or rather, get
I have lots of FINDER crashes
Try allocating more RAM to the finder, an operation that requires the
FinderFixer control panel or something similar. Download it here.
http://www.hidacc.av.org/pages/suggest_fw_and_sw.html#Finder%20Fixer
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At 8:26 AM -0500 7/24/2001, David Robinson wrote:
Hey speaking of the most stable OS around, I have a PM 8500 with a XLR
G3 Upgrade running at 333 mhz and 240 mgs of RAM. I have lots of FINDER
crashes with System 9.1. Anybody know what to do about this stupid
problem. I have already tried
Wait a minute It just happened again. This time I was working in
Photoshop 5.5 with Pagemaker 6.5 open and Netscape open, working a photo
from an internet download into Photoshop. (Î was editing the photo at
the time of the crash.) This is when most of my crashes occur.
David
Wait a minute
Part of the problem with Netscape 2.0 to 4.7x is that it was designed to be
internally multithreaded, using a Netscape thread manager, rather than a
system one*. The root of this came from Mac System 7 and 16-bit Windows. Those
systems didn't have thread managers. The result is a monstrously
What? G3 stuff here;-( Well, for what it's worth, 8.6
Anand
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