On Fri, 13 Aug 2010, Enrico Spinielli wrote:

> 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 ...

There was a release candidate (called 4.1.1) which included a shorter 
sources file with the same name (SqueakV41.sources). It's size was 
25912908 bytes. Maybe you were using the VM+sources file from that RC.


Levente

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> Anyway thanks a lot and sorry for the fuss
> Bye
> Enrico
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> 2010/8/12 Levente Uzonyi <leves at elte.hu>:
>> On Thu, 12 Aug 2010, Enrico Spinielli wrote:
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>>> 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?
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>> 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.
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>> Levente
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>>> 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
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