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From: dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: DAs not working
Message-ID: <1990Jan17.172110.4750@smsc.sony.com>
Date: 17 Jan 90 17:21:10 GMT
Reply-To: dce@smsc.Sony.COM (David Elliott)
Organization: Sony Microsystems Corp.
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Before you say "your DA Handler is missing or trashed", read on.

Recently, I installed Boomerang 2.0 and DfaultD 2.0 on my system (Mac
II, 8MB, 6.0.4 w/ MF 6.1b9).  I began to notice that sometimes I would
select a DA and it would start to execute, but then quit with no
message.  Restarting the system fixed this.

I removed DfaultD after having it crash on me in configure mode.
Sorry, John, but the old DfaultD had a major problem, and I'll always
be suspicious of it, no matter how useful.

This didn't help.  I got into a state where DAs wouldn't run, and
trying to start a DA in the current application caused the application
to quit.  I once got into a state where I was only running one
application, and it wasn't Finder!

Now, I've gone back to Boomerang 2.0b9, and I haven't seen the problem
yet.

Has anyone seen similar behavior?

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