"Andrew C. Greenberg" <werdna at gate.net> wrote:
> >Hello,
> >   I'm just starting out familiarizing myself with Squeak. I am very 
> >impressed with this environment. I have tried Squeak 2.5 & 2.6 for 
> >the PPC Macintosh, and I have a problem with the system browser. 
> >Often the definition or commentary for an object has its first few 
> >characters chopped off. Can anyone help?
> >
> >   Thanks.
> 
> This is the same problem mentioned earlier this week.  Either the 
> changes file or the sources file were corrupted by a program 
> attempting to modify line endings.  It is critical to load these text 
> files as though they were pure data files, and to set any expansion 
> program settings so that NO data conversions are done to "improve" or 
> "import" these "text" files.
> 
> Try downloading these files once more, taking pains to assure they 
> were downloaded in ASCII mode, and before decompressing, make sure 
> that all settings to modify text files are ENTIRELY turned off.

Make the BINARY mode :-)

cheers

bruce