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#Whap! crashes

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#86690From: Bill ForcadeJan 26, 1990 10:57 PM
Andrew: I also use Whap! from the WB with stack at 20000, and sometimes log on three or four times per boot (although usually only once or twice). I have an A2000 with 3 meg, used to be 1 meg. I run from a HD partition called WHAPSTUFF:. With daily use since the original Whap! was posted, I have not had the problems you report. I usually do not open or close windows while Whap! is running. Can you give me a repeatable pattern so I can try it on my system to see if the crash occurs ?
#86738From: Andrew J. RichardsonJan 27, 1990 12:52 AM
Bill, Well, today, I used Whap! about a dozen times, all without a reboot, and without altering any windows on other screens. I just let Whap! go, then QUIT when I wanted to do something else. No problems. But if I were to set Whap! to get new messages, then clicked it into the background and used, say, MEMACS to edit a file unrelated to Whap!, and opened/closed a couple windows before going back to the Whap! screen, I can count on it crashing right after the OFF command. Not always, but if I mark a few messages, then set Whap! to go get them, it'll crash the next time it hangs up the phone. Andrew
#86825From: Betty Clay/SYSOPJan 27, 1990 11:26 AM
Andrew, I use Whap! with a 512K Agnus – have been doing so for nearly two years now. I multitask with it all the time, using many different programs in the background. Sometimes I work on the bridgeboard, sometimes play a game that requires a colorful screen, sometimes use WordPerfect to write, etc. The programs I am using work well with Whap!, and crashes are rare. I had a rash of them two or three days ago, but that was unusual. All seems to be back to normal yesterday and today. I do sometimes get a message that I'm out of chip ram and Whap! cannot open another screen. In that case, I just close down something and re-load whap! Even that is rare. ……Betty
#86876From: Andrew J. RichardsonJan 27, 1990 5:07 PM
Betty, It does seem strange, but when I just leave the machine alone while Whap! is running, there are no problems. Andrew