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From: philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: System 7.0 Finder crash
Message-ID: <1991May19.232727.21121@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 19 May 91 23:27:27 GMT
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In article <53089@apple.Apple.COM>, robg@Apple.COM (Rob Griffiths) writes:
|> I devoted this morning to exploring the apparent trash alias/cx problem
|> under System 7.
While we're on the subject of bugs ... Every now and then, the watch
cursor gets trashed. I haven't pinned down the exact situation yet (obviously,
it's only noticeable at the point you do something needing the watch cursor).
So far, this hasn't caused any crashes, but is usually a symptom of a memory
management bug. I'm running too much stuff (MacX using MacTCP mainly, but
this is a lot to start with) to pin this down. Has anyone else had this?
It only happens in the Finder, and usually goes away after a while. My system:
IIcx 8/40, Asante ethernet; exact symptom: watch cursor (not the animated one -
the ordinary one) becomes a vauge blob.

Despite these problems, I still say 7 is more stable than 6.0.7 - not bad
for such a major rewrite. It even fixed some long-standing bugs in
Backgammon, which is about 5 years old.
-- 
Philip Machanick
philip@pescadero.stanford.edu