'method source with it' generates 'Error: RemoteString past end of file'

> 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.
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>> 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)
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>> 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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> On Fri, 13 Aug 2010, Enrico Spinielli wrote:
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>> 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 ...
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> 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.
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> 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 <[hidden email]>:
>>>
>>> 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
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