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From: gersh@aplvax.jhuapl.edu (John R. Gersh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Boomerang 2.0B8 problem ...
Summary: 'Ware crashes
Keywords: Boomerang, Macintosh
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Date: 16 Oct 89 16:36:58 GMT
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In article <35688@apple.Apple.COM> chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
>
>Same here. maybe your copy is corrupted? (Or something else?) I've noticed
>earlier versions of Boomerang occasionally committed suicide occasionally.
>It hasn't happened to me under B8, but...
>

One problem that I've noticed with B8 is that the Boomerang Prefs file
has a tendency to become corrupted on system crashes. After a crash
of any kind, Boomerang often fails to function (icon missing from SF
dialog, sometimes fixable by choosing Boomerang in Control Panel)
or causes the system to hang when accessed. Replacing the Boomerang
Prefs file with a fresh copy restores normal operation. (Mac II, 5
Meg, 6.0.2, Multifinder, scads of inits.)

>
>Yeah. The more I work with it, the more I really appreciate it. I used to
>use sfscrollinit and sfvol to do parts of what boomerang does, but I don't
>miss them...
>

Me, too.

						- John Gersh

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