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The high-quality Mac software by MS
Humor? Well, I guess not for the people affected, but stupid bugs in MS
software are always worth a laugh.
Vik Rubenfeld ([email protected])
For many months, my Mac had been crashing once or twice a day, usually
when I was closing an app, or using the Application menu to bring
another app into the foreground. I posted email about this to
comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc, and got a very valuable reply back from
Troy Gaul, of Apple.
TG> This will happen if an application is using a WDEF that has it's
TG> Purgeable bit set on the resource.
TG>
TG> The problem is that if the resource gets purged and the Toolbox
TG> tries to reload it when another application's resources are in use,
TG> the resource will not be available and the system will put up this
TG> system error. For me, System 7.5 and later seemed to worsen the
TG> problem.
I checked many apps, and found purgeable WDEFs.
Guess who! Microsoft, of course. MS Word 6 and MS Excel 5--the latest
versions of each program--have purgeable WDEFs (window definitions). Now I
have a reason to download MSIE--to see if it also has them. :-)
Eric Bennett ( [email protected] ; http://www.pobox.com/~ericb )
Cross-platform internet file format utilties at www.pobox.com/~ericb/xplat.html
Windows 95: Five years ago, corporate software giant, Microsoft, spent
millions of dollars, and put a team of hundreds of highly specialized
programmers on an extensive and highly ambitious project to find another
name for the Apple Menu.