On Mon, 7 May 2001, Dan Ingalls wrote:

> >4.  On my UNIX box, when I edit a method and Alt-s save it, I sometimes
> >    get a walkback because the scanner KNOWS there can't possibly be any
> >    NUL (ASCII 0) characters in the method text, but there is one!  Funny
> >    thing is that I don't type ctrl-space or ctrl-@ or anything else that
> >    should be inserting a NUL.  Typically the NUL is the very first
> >    character.
> >
> >    Why does this happen and how do I stop it?
>
> I hope someone else has an answer for you.  I've never seen this, but
> I've never run Squeak on UNIX.

I've often run Squeak on UNIX (actually, most often Linux, occasionally
Irix/Solaris ;-) but never had this happen. I sometimes had the compiler
complaining when an invisible hi-ascii character slipped in, but no
walkback.

-- Bert