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From: rprohask@orion.oac.uci.edu (Robert Prohaska)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: TextEditor Trouble?
Keywords: TextEditor Finder Init Moire Directory
Message-ID: <27782425.5317@orion.oac.uci.edu>
Date: 26 Dec 90 04:16:37 GMT
Sender: rprohask@orion.oac.uci.edu (Robert Prohaska)
Organization: University of California, Irvine
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TextEditor seems to have a curious interaction  with Moire, and I'm
wondering if the net can shed any light on the problem.

The current Moire screensaver seemed to work properly in all but the
login system folder until I tried to toggle between TextEditor and 
CommandShell by clicking on the MultiFinder icon at the right edge
of the menu bar.  Apparently the icon was inside the "sleep now" box
for Moire, so both Moire and something else, I guess the Finder, woke
up at the same time. The screen went black, then the TextEditor window
appeared against a black background when I clicked again on the icon,
then the TextEditor window dissapeared and I was left in CommandShell.

The TextEditor session apparently died leaving a pair of files named
 %TextEditor.Scratch and TextEditor.Scratch but neither file is visible
in the Finder window of the directory.

How does it happen that the Finder and Commandshell fail to agree on
the contents of a directory?

bob prohaska