Levente,
I re-downloaded the sources from Squeak ftp and all works fine: effectively
my .sources were smaller...why I do not know...maybe I copied from a Windows
machine with different line terminating chars?
I wonder ...

Anyway thanks a lot and sorry for the fuss
Bye
Enrico


2010/8/12 Levente Uzonyi <leves at elte.hu>:
> On Thu, 12 Aug 2010, Enrico Spinielli wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> in order to investigate where WeakFinalizationList and
>> WeakFinalizerItem where used in
>> latest Trunk I issued 'method source with it' on the relevant string
>> but got a dialog with
>> 'Error: RemoteString past end of file' as in attached dump.
>>
>> This is reproducible using Squeak4.2-10160-alpha as from Squeak Trunk ftp
>> [1]
>> and also updating it to latest Trunk; the VM I used is
>>  Squeak 4.2.5beta1U (Squeak VM 4.2.5b1)
>>
>> Is this a bug in the VM?
>
> No, your sources file seems to be shorter than it should be. It's size
> should be 26002240 bytes. Print this to see the size:
> (SourceFiles at: 1) size.
>
>
> Levente
>
>> Hope it helps
>> Bye
>> Enrico
>>
>> [1] http://ftp.squeak.org/trunk/
>> --
>> Enrico Spinielli
>> "Do Androids dream of electric sheep?"˙˙ Philip K. Dick
>> "Hear and forget; see and remember;do and understand."˙˙Mitchel Resnick
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Enrico Spinielli
"Do Androids dream of electric sheep?"— Philip K. Dick
"Hear and forget; see and remember;do and understand."—Mitchel Resnick