Re: FM 6.0 on Mac Crashes (Final)

[Michael Richards <michaelr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gee whiz! That really makes a 604e user (at home) like me feel really peachy.
But then we haven't seen FrameMaker 6.0 at work, as the small fortune that we
pay every year for full support (and a hot prices on, alledged in the this case,
major upgrades) counts for nothing. 

Thinks: "Or, is it that everyone in Australia just hates Telstra?"

Scott Turner wrote:
> 
> >I have a PowerPC (PowerCenter Pro 210) running Mac OS 9.0. I am
> >having problems with unmapped memory exceptions and freezes whenever
> >I attempt to do any action with a Book, or save a file.
> 
> Here is an update.
> 
> This  problem is specific to older PowerPC chips. The 604/604e and
> probably 603/603e chips either will crash upon starting FM 6.0 or
> freeze during save and save as operations. Apparently, FM 6.0 code is
> somehow specific to the G3 and G4 chips.
> 
> This is not dependent upon the version of the OS. Adobe has
> acknowledged the problem and is examining it.
> 
> A G3 upgrade card in a Mac 8500 eliminates this behavior. A G3
> upgrade card in a PowerCenter Pro allows FM 6.0 to save files, but
> save as and some book actions still result in a freeze.
> 

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