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From: geoffb@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Thumper)
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Subject: Re: Strange Problem Running Disinfectant 2.4! (Mac)
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Date: 8 Jan 91 20:33:07 GMT
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GREVE@WILMA.WHARTON.UPENN.EDU (Michael Greve) writes:
>
>   program works great on 15 of the machines.  When I run it on the
>   last machine, the program calls up fine, but in the upper right
>   hand corner where it should normally tell you which drive/partition
>   you are currently scaning, the program comes up with a blinking message
>   saying insert a disk to be checked.  This lab is networked using
..
>   2 partitions and scan them.  On this last machine, the name of the
>   server shows up for a quick second then it changes to the flashing
>   message.  I've tried running it from diskette and the hard drives and
>   still get the same message.  I can't get it to work at all.


I saw a similar problem on a machine which has a Disinfectant Preferences
file which had been configured for Scanning Station Mode (which is supposed
to behave this way).
Discard the prefs file and try again.

- -Geoff Bronner '91
 Student Consultant, Dartmouth College Computing Services
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