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From: morse@currituck.cs.unc.edu (Bryan Morse)
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Subject: Re: Chicago Nice under Sys7
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Date: 26 May 91 00:51:57 GMT
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In article <1991May21.015903.12949@midway.uchicago.edu> tisu@quads.uchicago.edu (Seth Tisue) writes:
>4) I restarted my system... when the Chicago Nice icon came up, it went into
>   some sort of infinite loop of disk access.  Eventually I had to give up
>   and hit the programmer's switch...
>5) ...totally corrupting my System file.

I had a similar situation happen to me.  I left the INIT in the system folder
after the install and during my first boot of System 7.  I also turned it
off, rebooted, and watched it light up the disk for a while.  However, a
little patience (and a knowledge of what can happen if you interrupt a 
disk write to the System file) payed off.  Eventually it finished and came 
up with normal Chicago.  Seems is wasn't infinite after all.

Moral: I don't know why removal of Chicago Nice takes so long, but 
       be patient--it will finish.

P.S. I'm sure there's some application of the Halting Problem here for 
those with a theoretical bent. :-)

-- 
Bryan Morse                University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
morse@cs.unc.edu           Department of Computer Science