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From: avery@netcom.UUCP (Avery Colter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: System Disk 5.0.3 hang problems
Message-ID: <17404@netcom.UUCP>
Date: 25 Nov 90 13:47:30 GMT
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Interestingly enough, I find myself having less trouble with disk
dialogs now with 5.0.3.

When I was using 5.0.2, I always had to remember with certain programs,
notably GSHK, TextDragon, and a couple other desktop programs, to not
out a disk in the drive other than the one the application was running
off before going into the disk dialog. If I did, guaranteed, it would
stop in its tracks after polling the drive and freeze clear through
to China. I haven't had that problem since I started using 5.0.3,
nonstandard dialogs notwithstanding.

Of course, there's the other classic problem I have to watch with GSHK:
namely that the quit routine on GSHK sometimes freezes in a way that
the reset to reboot wipes out the RAMDISK.

Even that seems to be happening less often with the update though.
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