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From: jln@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (John Norstad)
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Subject: Re: Disinfectant problem (SOLVED)
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Date: 2 Nov 90 20:18:23 GMT
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In article <27107@megaron.cs.arizona.edu> gerhard@cs.arizona.edu (Gerhard 
Mehldau) writes:

>   With the help of John Norstad, I've solved my problem.  It
>   turned out that my Disinfectant Prefs file was corrupted,
>   and simply dumping the file fixed the problem.

Thanks for figuring this out.  In my next release (whenever that is), I'll 
add code to check for a corrupted Disinfectant Prefs resource fork before 
trying to open it with the Resource Manager, and this will fix the 
problem.  I already do this check before opening files to be scanned, and 
it should be very simple to add a call to the same checking function 
before opening the Prefs file.  

If the file is corrupt, I'll just delete it and create a new one with the 
default prefs settings.

John Norstad
Academic Computing and Network Services
Northwestern University
jln@casbah.acns.nwu.edu