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From: meekins@CIS.OHIO-STATE.EDU (timothy lee meekins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Is there a current 'time bomb?'
Message-ID: <9101020517.AA00886@tortoise.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 2 Jan 91 05:17:31 GMT
References: <8624@uwm.edu>
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In article <8624@uwm.edu> you write:
>Is or was there a current time bomb set for Jan 1, 1991? Suddenly today
>I've had megga disk slowdown, GS/OS crashes (like *dead*), and out of
>memory errors... I'm really frustrated. I haven't added anything new to
>my system disk in a few weeks, but I did just get antetris, zpack, and
>zlaunch. I have a *lot* of stuff installed on my Vulcan20 and no real
>adaquate backups. Its still running, but crashing like the dickens! I've
>never had this problem before! AAAAArgh! Help!
>

Well, since I wrote zpack and zlaunch, I'll guarantee they weren't the
culprit. :)

>Rom 03
>AE GS ram + w/ +1 meg on board
>AE VulCAN20
>and lots of stuff installed on my system disk... (5.04)
>
>Oh, I guess I also added the new system disk 1.5 weeks ago... replaced
>5.03 which I had *no* problems with.
>
>Its dying in AWGS and in the finder. NDAs like Memopad give an out of
>mem error, and file manager looses the 6 icons and comes up w/ a bunch
>of question marks...
>
>Dan


What you should do is install NiftyList CDA, then from NL, type '0i'.
This will give a listing of *all* the memory handles and who owns them.
This should be a start. There is also memory bar NDA floating around
somewhere that may be of help, but it will only display how much free
memory is available. Anyways, try NiftyList, if there is time-activated
virus in your system, you should be able to find it. And if you do
find one, send it to me! I'd like to take a look at it. (I'll even
write a virus killer for it).
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