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From: truesdel@ics.uci.edu (Scott Truesdell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: SunDesk causes Mac IIci to crash on shutdown
Keywords: SunDesk
Message-ID: <260ACA3E.9669@paris.ics.uci.edu>
Date: 24 Mar 90 01:15:42 GMT
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seiler@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov (Ed Seiler) writes:

> The problem is that, once loaded, SunDesk must be in the system folder
>at restart or shutdown time, otherwise there will be a crash. This is true
>whether or not you use Fresh Start, and is not limited to just the IIci. To see
>this for yourself, just try moving SunDesk into another folder and restart.
>Certainly a bug, and a strange one at that (why should it matter where it is at
>shutdown time?).

SunDesk must be in the System Folder at ShutDown because at Shutdown,
it checks to make sure that the "sysz" resource has enough memory
allocated to load the icons on next boot. If not, SunDesk changes its
sysz to the amount needed to run before shutting down.

Why would one need to change the amount of memory required?  If one
adds more icl8's and ICN#'s to the SunDesk Icons file, the system will
require more memory to load them at next boot.

Why the File has to be explicitly in the System Folder may be a good
question. Obviously, the path to the file is hardcoded into the INIT.
There may be a more flexible way to point to the file.

  --scott

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Scott Truesdell