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From: gandalf@apple.com (Martin Gannholm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: HC and Locked disks (update)
Message-ID: <10286@goofy.Apple.COM>
Date: 18 Sep 90 21:06:15 GMT
References: <15384@csli.Stanford.EDU>
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In article <15384@csli.Stanford.EDU> levesque@csli.Stanford.EDU (Hector 
Levesque) writes:
> One reason HC (even 1.2.5 under System 6.0.5) won't run with a locked 
startup
> disk is that for some reason it wants to overwrite the clipboard file in 
the
> System Folder as it starts up.  You can confirm this by doing a "Get 
Info" on
> this file, and clicking the "Locked" checkbox, to lock the file.  
Presto: HC
> will not run!  If there is no clipboard file, it will insist on creating 
one.
> So what gives?  Is there a way of getting HC to leave that file alone??

In HyperCard 1.2.5 and earlier Bill made a call to UnloadScrap to free up 
the memory that the clipboard may be taking. If this returned an error 
code (which will happen if the Scrap Manager can't write to the Clipboard 
file), HyperCard would quit. Silly, eh?

Well guess what? We thought it was silly too, and "fixed" it in 2.0. You 
should be able to run HyperCard 2.0 with a locked startup disk.

Martin Gannholm
Apple Computer

Exclaimer !!! I typed this myself which should be proof enough that I 
speak for myself...