From: dave@powerbasic.com (Dave Navarro)
Subject: Re: PowerBasic 3.5 BUG!!!
 
In article , zarmand@concentric.net says...
> Terry Brown wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >         here's a MEGA problem I discovered with the PowerBasic editor.
> > 1) Take a file you're not worried about getting corrupted, and view it in
> > the editor.
> >     The file should be about 450 lines long, and roughly 45 char. per 
line.
> > 2) Open another file, and copy a line from it in to the clipboard.
> > 3) Paste it to the first file.
> > 4) OK, so everthing seemed to go OK right?
> >     WRONG!! take a look at the last 20 or 30 lines of your program code.
> >  If your lucky, it's just got corrupted. If your unlucky like I was, half
> > the lines
> > are missing, and the rest are garbage.
> >
> > This is using 3.5 with the upgrade....
> > Anyone else had the same problem?
> >
> > It doesn't seem to happen if you don't use the clipboard.
> > bfn
> > T..
>
> I had that happen at least once and never figured out what happened. Now
> I will give it a try. It seems to me it happened during a cut/paste
> thing also, but I never figured out exactly what happend because PB3.5
> jumps around so much anyway when you delete a line or something. I'll
> give it some more testing and see. If it is a bug, then it will not be
> the first one.
>
> If it makes a difference, I run WIN95 and use a DOS window for PB3.5. I
> set max memory available and make the mouse exclusive in a full screen
> window. It seems to work fine for me so far...but I am a tyro as far as
> PB3.5 goes....used PDS7.1 for years and years....
 
I just wanted to let everyone know that we are aware of this problem.
Unfortunately, it is very difficult to reproduce.  Whether or not the bug
manifests itself or not is highly dependant on you memory configuration. The
details of which our developers are still working on.
 
What I do know is that if this problem does happen on your system, any kind 
f
change to your memory management (or memory manager) will likely cause the
problem to go away.  However, before you do that, I would appreciate it if 
ou
would use the DOS MEM.EXE utility to do a memory dump and email the results 
o
me or our support department (support@powerbasic.com).
 
--Dave
 
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