Re: [MacPerl] AppleShare IP and MacPerl

[Matthias Ulrich Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>]

dick@cfcl.com (Dick Karpinski)
>Matthias Ulrich Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch> writes:
>>Mark Meyer <mameyer@xsite.net> writes:
>>>In short, I went out there and found MacPerl was running fine unless
>>>AppleShare IP was also running. In this case any script would cause MacPerl
>>>to crash with a type 2 error when I tried to run it from the menu bar.
>>
>>I've heard this before, but so far, I was not able to investigate due to the
>>lack of an AppleShare IP installation, so I'm still in the dark as to the
>>possible causes.
>
>I've used Macintoshes but not debugged low level problems so I
>don't understand why serious error aborts like "type n error"
>are impossible to get further info from.

They are not at all impossible to debug, but they are extremely hard to
debug remotely. I usually ask for a MacsBug stdlog at the point of the crash,
but I already got one for this case, and it wasn't enlightening.

If I can reproduce the bug on a Mac in front of me, I'm usually able to
zoom in on the problem in reasonable time, but, as I said, I don't have
AppleShare IP on any Macs (might consider installing it, though; seems that
demo versions are available from Apple's WWW site).

Matthias

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