Re: [MacPerl] MacPerl/Alpha hangs

[John Macdonald <jmacd@mail.interlog.com>]

At 3:33 PM -0700 10/12/97, Dan Herron wrote:
>If you hit command-period (in Alpha) while it is "hung", it should come
>back to you. It's just waiting for the reply to the AppleEvent it sent to
>MacPerl. You might even be able to prevent this by flipping one of the
>flags in the Perl mode (not sure, and you probably wouldn't want to,
>anyway.)

Yes, that helps a lot.  It is not always easily predictable whether it is
going to need that command-dot, and after a command-dot the next attempt to
run the script sometimes works normally and sometimes pops back to Alpha
with MacPerl having terminated itself instead of running the script (but then
just retrying the run works out normally again).

However, most of the time, things can be made to work - I've only had one
more hang, and that is despite having some bugs in my code that ran MacPerl
out of memory.

I got a chuckle out the message when I tried to use the debugger 'R' command -
I was chided for expecting Unix exec capability.

John Macdonald             jmacd@interlog.com



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