Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!scasterg From: scasterg@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Stuart M Castergine) Subject: Re: Under the apple Message-ID: <1991Jun8.041659.9667@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Sender: news@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: bottom.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Organization: The Ohio State University References: <1991Jun6.110545.1@mee.tcd.ie> <1991Jun7.191201.7387@mmm.serc.3m.com> Date: Sat, 8 Jun 1991 04:16:59 GMT Lines: 37 In article <1991Jun7.191201.7387@mmm.serc.3m.com> pejacoby@mmm.serc.3m.com (Paul E. Jacoby) writes: >In article <1991Jun6.110545.1@mee.tcd.ie> richard@mee.tcd.ie writes: >>One of the fx's in the lab that I look after has developed the most annoying >>habit of needing the option key pressed before you can access any of the >>D.A.'s under the apple. >> >>I'm sure that it was done by a beloved student who likes giving us >>challenges. > >Copy the file "DA Handler" back into the System folder. I assume you >hear a beep any time you try to get at a DA under MultiFinder. That is >because DA Handler is missing. > >By holding down the option key, you open the DA into the application >heap, thus bypassing the DA Handler. Another possibility is that they are running Suitcase II, which has a setting that requires you to hold down teh option key to get the full DA list. Check under Settings in Suitcase, if this is the situation. > >Paul >-- >| Paul E. Jacoby, 3M Company, 3M Center, 235-3F-27 | >| Maplewood, MN 55144-1000 .-----------------------------------| >| => pejacoby@3m.com | I am _not_ the editor of | >| (612) 737-3211 | the Radio Times. | -- scasterg@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Stuart M Castergine "Step by step they were led to practices which disposed to vice -- the lounge, the bath, the elegant banquet. All this in their ignorance they called civilisation, when it was but part of their servitude."