Smalltalk - [VW72nc] BOSS Syntax Error Unknown Character

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[VW72nc] BOSS Syntax Error Unknown Character

A-S Koh

2004-07-21, 3:59 pm

BOSS in VW7.2nc is not reading some old bos files. The error message
is
Syntax Error Unknown Character.

The same old bos file can be read in VW7.1nc. If I boss out in 7.1 the
old bos object, then 7.2 can read the new boss.

Is there a patch?

All the best,
Koh

Alan Knight

2004-07-22, 3:58 pm

That doesn't sound like a known problem, but it would be easier to tell
with more information (e.g. at least part of the stack). An example BOSS
file would probably be even more helpful.

askoh@askoh.com (A-S Koh) wrote in
news:d05e06f7.0407211103.4ba780be@posting.google.com:

> BOSS in VW7.2nc is not reading some old bos files. The error message
> is
> Syntax Error Unknown Character.
>
> The same old bos file can be read in VW7.1nc. If I boss out in 7.1 the
> old bos object, then 7.2 can read the new boss.
>
> Is there a patch?
>
> All the best,
> Koh
>

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A-S Koh

2004-07-23, 3:58 pm

I have put the old boss at
http://www.askoh.com/misc/arm.zip
It was created with VW3.0.
I can open it with my application freecad8 at
http://www.askoh.com/freecad
which was created with VW7.1.
I cannot open it with my application CADSM1 at
http://www.cadsm.com/cadsm
which was created with VW7.2.

If I ask freecad8 to save it, then CADSM1 can read the new version.

Thanks for your attention
Koh

Alan Knight <knight@acm.org> wrote in message news:<Xns952E8D0378CFEknightacmorg@66.185.95.104>...
> That doesn't sound like a known problem, but it would be easier to tell
> with more information (e.g. at least part of the stack). An example BOSS
> file would probably be even more helpful.
>

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