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From: sdl@aries.lyra.mitre.org (Steven D. Litvinchouk)
Subject: Re: SID is crashing randomly
In-Reply-To: dingebre@imp.es.com's message of Wed, 12 Jun 91 22:59:39 GMT
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Date: 13 Jun 91 12:53:10


In article <1991Jun12.225939.2651@javelin.sim.es.com> dingebre@imp.es.com (David Ingebretsen) writes:


> I have been using SID for a little while. I haven't registered yet because
> randomly, after a screen refresh, SID crashes....
> The only common factor is it crashes after loading a directory. After the
> load, instead of displaying the new directory, Whamo!

There is a known bug in SID that causes intermittent symptoms like
those you describe.  Namely, whenever the SID.config file has the
SeparateDirs setting set to YES.  If this is the case with yours, try
editing the file to change the setting to NO.


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