Re: bug-checking experiment
- To: mathgroup at yoda.physics.unc.edu
- Subject: Re: bug-checking experiment
- From: Leendert van Gastel <gastel at can.nl>
- Date: Mon, 06 Jun 1994 17:04:22 +0200
> Dear MathGroup, > > I'd appreciate it if any of you running the X Front End could try > this little procedure, which hangs the FE on both SGI and DEC RISC > (versions 2.2 and 2.2.1): > > Start the FE, and execute an Input[] command. That should work > fine. Now do another Input[] --- you may get a message saying > "Mathematica could not find an important resource..." and > the kernel is hung. > > Do any of the FE versions not have this bug? > > If you find it, send a message to support at wri.com asking them why > a bug which was in the beta release of XFE last fall is STILL > there after TWO release versions. > > It's not my intention to harass WRI Technical Support, but I've > tried several times to get a response through the "usual channels" > and got nowhere. > > Phillip Kent > Imperial College > London. > > > The bug showed up here as well some time ago. After reporting this, we obtained a bug fix through the "usual channels". The Silicon Graphics version In[1]:= $Version Out[1]= SGI 2.2 (December 22, 1993) works fine. I do not know about the DEC. Leendert van Gastel CAN Expertise Centre Amsterdam