Re: Re: Re: v5 for Mac
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- Subject: [mg43472] Re: [mg43405] Re: Re: v5 for Mac
- From: Michael Williams <williams at vt.edu>
- Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 08:00:27 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
I've come to a standstill with v 5 on OS X (10.2.6). After months of back-and-forth with Wolfram support, they have declared it a personal problem. (Can't duplicate but won't tell me what machines they tested it on.) Apparently the problem is machine dependent-- it happens with 100% reliability on our fast dual processor machines, but not on our laptops. To see the problem (or not), put a series of expressions of the form (multiple expressions accelerates the crash) into a cell and evaluate: ExportString["a","GIF"]; ExportString["a","GIF"]; . . . . Also crashes Mathematica with other image formats. I would appreciate hearing how others fare with this (esp. w.r.t. machine). Wolfram support accuses me (literally!!) of having an impure system. Impure thoughts maybe, but I replicated this on a machine right out of its carton, with -only- Mathematica installed. (Hmm, maybe they meant Mathematica....) I'm sorry for sending what amounts to a bug report to the list, but I went through channels with no joy. Unfortunately, this feature is important to a series of my applications, hence my frustration. A few other notes: - Even if this fails to crash Mathematica (on a PB for example), it's an order of magnitude (!!) slower than 4.2 - Under Panther, any export call of this type is DOA (dead stall), whatever the machine. - Nothing like this happens under v 4.2 (even under Panther), but it is apparent from my observations that Mathematica's converter, gif.exe/pnm.exe, has a memory leak. The converters (4.2) are unusably slow under Panther. Michael Williams Mathematics Virginia Tech On 9/16/03, selwynh at earthlink.net (Selwyn Hollis) said: >The first of these --- the (not) rotated text bug --- has not been >fixed either. > >Another bizarre bug has popped up in 5.0: In text cells, lines are >sometimes broken after apostrophes. So a word like >can\[CloseCurlyQuote]t will break between \[CloseCurlyQuote] and t. >Astonishing. I wonder if that happens in Windows too. > >----- >Selwyn Hollis >http://www.math.armstrong.edu/faculty/hollis ....