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From: dodgson@sol.cs.wmich.edu (Harry Dodgson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: bombs on an STE, GCR mouse
Summary: Just a few thoughts
Message-ID: <1991Feb14.133530.10456@sol.cs.wmich.edu>
Date: 14 Feb 91 13:35:30 GMT
References: <4824@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl> <1991Feb13.201052.21311@uvm.edu>
Organization: Western Michigan Univ. Comp. Sci. Dept.
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In article <1991Feb13.201052.21311@uvm.edu>, pegram@kira.UUCP (Robert B. Pegram) writes:
> From article <4824@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl>, by avgroeni@cs.ruu.nl (Annius Groenink):
> 
> The symptom is that the mouse freezes on the screen, and I then trash
> my system disk, since the keyboard is not responding either, and mac
> menus don't have default key equivalents anyway 8-(.  Do I need a new
> IKBD processor, or a new machine?  If only TTs were class B approved!
> This risky store-in-memory behavior of the mac file system is souring
> me on the whole deal.  I know, Un*x also can crash horribly when it
> loses power - but at least *it* has fsck!  A "busy or defective" app
> on a mac does not seem to be fixed by the disk repair program (humph!).
> 
> Bob Pegram

	If you know someone with a REAL Mac, have them install key
equivalents into the Finder resources with Resedit.  That may help
that problem.  Also, the "busy or defective" error is usually automatically
reset by my Mac SE when I reboot, since it knows that the program cannot
be busy.  The 'Busy' bit can also be reset with Resedit or a Mac DA called
DeskZap which I use a lot.  I have crashed my Mac a lot and have never
trashed the system files or any of the program files.  I just reboot and
continue on.  I have lost work in progress though.  For slightly buggy programs
like DMCS ver 2.0, I use an autosave DA so I don't lose too much when it
crashes (it doesn't handle MIDI active sensing very well).

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