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Re: Re: X-FrontEnd crashes upon certain keystrokes

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg2756] Re: [mg2678] Re: X-FrontEnd crashes upon certain keystrokes
• From: george at mech.seas.upenn.edu ( George Jefferson )
• Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1995 02:01:58 -0500
• Organization: Mechanical Engineering

:Yes we had a lot of trouble with the Mathematica Front End on the SGI.
:We made some progress by working closely with Victoria Bush from WRI.
:Wolfram has to do a lot more to have a X- front end that is similiar to
:the Mac Front End.

I've run into a different bug in the sgi/x front end.  Various
control characters accidentally typed ( ^x say ) do not crash,
or show up on the screen display - but they do get sent
to the kernal resulting in the most bizarre errors.  I spent
a whole day debugging a simple notebook...finally a save-as-text
showed these unintentional control codes burried in the input..sigh.