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From: tmattox@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Timothy I Mattox)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Solution to programs unexpectedly quitting, and much more.
Message-ID: <1991Mar29.040145.4722@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: 29 Mar 91 04:01:45 GMT
References: <1991Mar27.221646.1339@hawk.cs.ukans.edu> <1991Mar28.025824.27448@cs.dal.ca> <1991Mar28.231330.16715@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
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As a reply to my own post, I just found this text file I made last year
when I was tracking down the cause of an "unexpectedly quit" syndrome.

*** Begin text file

A REALY weird INIT conflict.
With the following inits and a DA, and two programs in MultiFinder on
a 8 meg Mac IIci using the onboard video set to 256 colors (Apple 13" RGB).
 
INITPicker 2.0
ColorDesk 1.0 displaying an almost full screen mandlebrot set
RAM Disk 1.1 set to an 800K RAM disk
ClairvoyantINIT 1.1 master switch turned off.
LaserFix 2.0
 
The Finder is set to 350K.
The DA is Appointment vers 3.0.2S from JAM.
The first program is Zterm vers 0.85 set to 520K.
The second program is QuickGIF Plus vers 1.1 set to 4000K.
 
Simply choose Open in QuickGIF and you get a ID=10 Crash soon after
drawing the border of the GetFile Dialog.
 
The INITPicker log follows...
 
INITPicker 2.0 ) 1989,1990 Barry J. Semo. All Rights Reserved.
 
Configuration: Macintosh IIci, System 6.0.5, 32-Bit QuickDraw
System started on Sunday, December 2, 1990  10:40:27 PM
 
Selected set:  Iso
 
Startup Document              BufPtr Memory   System Heap Memory   Total
________________________________________________________________________
ColorDesk                         307200              9148        316348
RAM Disk                          819200              3152        822352
ClairvoyantINIT                    68308                 4         68312
LaserFix 2.0                         990                 0           990
________________________________________________________________________
Total                            1195698             12304       1208002

*** End text file

I could remove any of the INIT's, QuickGIF, or the Appointment DA from
the setup, and nothing would go wrong.  Only when I had the above setup
did it crash.  I have no idea which of the 6 programs/INITs/cdev's where
at fault.  I have since just stopped using LaserFix since it seemed not to
work the way I wanted it to.  I also seem to remember that LaserFix messed
up somthing on my sister's Mac IIci when used with one of her Graphics Arts
programs.

Any comments on this weird conflict?
--
Live long and prosper.     - Tim Mattox - (email: tmattox@ecn.purdue.edu)
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