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From: dudek@ai.toronto.edu (Gregory Dudek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Context switch via MacsBug?
Summary: Can I get multifinder to switch from MacsBug?
Keywords: context switch multifinder bug macsbug debugger
Message-ID: <90Mar16.163436est.10370@ephemeral.ai.toronto.edu>
Date: 16 Mar 90 21:35:39 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
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  While doing development under multifinder (or even normally just doing stuff)
it's not uncommon for an application to land me in MacsBug & for
it to be too trashed to continue.  In many cases I can't
exit either, probably because the dead app. has patched 
exit-to-shell.

  Is there any way to force MultiFinder to make a context switch or
to trash the offending partition?  That way I can at least
close down my other applications in an orderly manner.

   Isn't this pretty much what MF does when it says the application
has "unexpectedly quit" (which it doesn't do when MacsBug is loaded).

  Greg Dudek