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Date: Sun 27-Dec-1988 02:11:58 From: Unknown Subject: Re: Icon Death In article <5036@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> andy@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Andrew M. Milburn) writes: >Has anyone gotten Icon (in Programming/Demos) to work? Yes. Fairly nice, too, although it doesn't win the I^3 award (Instantly Intuitive Interface). Fortunately, it is one of the few applications currently blessed with extensive on-line help. Unfortunately, the program behaves differently when help is on, since help sometimes-but-not-always traps a mouse click (some clicks will call up the help window, but not take their normal effect, while others will do both). >I get a segmentation fault. This is undoubtedly a case >of Beta-Death, but since it's Christmas, I thought I'd >ask anyway... I'd call it a beta problem, since it works fine for me (currently sitting on my dock). It *did* dump core the first time I ran it, but hasn't since. How are you trying to launch it? From a Terminal, Browser, or off the dock? >From: levy@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Silvio Levy)

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