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From: p3ay@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Help on "busy" applications
Message-ID: <1990Oct22.205411.526@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>
Date: 23 Oct 90 00:54:11 GMT
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Help -- I am having an INIT/system problem that is trashing applications.
It happens only irregularly (read: I haven't had the chance to track down the
real problem) but it manages to make an application permanently "busy." i.e.
when I try to relaunch the application I get a "The file "Blah" could not be
opened/printed (-39)" alert.  This happens most often to QUED/M and Word.

Usually I just replace the broken application with another copy and continue on
my merry way.  But.... the crux of this posting is that my backup copy of
QUED/M is broken (for some other, unknown reason); so,

1)  Has anyone see/fixed this before?

and

2)  Is there any way to fix the "busy" application?

All help would be greatly appreciated.

Bill Noon  --  p3ay@vax5.cit.cornell.edu