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From: levin@bbn.com (Joel B Levin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Democratic bug in AppleLink!
Keywords: bug AppleLink General democracy
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Date: 9 May 90 14:38:18 GMT
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In article <2107@uchdcc.uchile.cl> hpuschma@uchdcc.uchile.cl (Heinrich Puschmann) writes:
|Here is a _very_ strange bug in the AppleLink application that had me really
|puzzled for a while:
|
|  1  Write a new memo and save it using the name "General".
|
|  2  Quit to the Finder or switch to it if you're using MultiFinder.
|
|  3  Now try to find the file "General".  It's not there!
|
|You can imagine how baffled I was the first time it happened to me, just after
|finishing a lengthy letter.  I was much too surprised to be angry.

Have you checked the General cdev for your Control Panel lately?  This
is a file in your System Folder.  Sounds like a "Poor Man's Search
Path" problem.

[Disclaimer: This is pure speculation.  I have never used, seen, or
 owned Applelink.]

	/JBL
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