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From: jmatthews@desire.wright.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Shutdown before crash?
Message-ID: <1991Jun11.233206.3919@desire.wright.edu>
Date: 12 Jun 91 04:32:06 GMT
References: <1991Jun11.125742.1@mcclb0.med.nyu.edu>
Organization: University Computing Services, Wright State University
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In article <1991Jun11.125742.1@mcclb0.med.nyu.edu>, huff@mcclb0.med.nyu.edu (Edward J. Huff) writes:
> When debugging an application (prepared with MPW 3.1) which is
> likely to crash, is there any way to ask the finder, etc. to
> write out all cached data to the disk prior to starting the
> application?  I write out all MPW windows, etc., but sometimes
> find for example that windows I closed recently in the finder
> show up open upon resetting the machine.  Usually I run
> disk first aid or Norton Utilities after such an event, but
> it takes time.  Sometimes there is something to repair.

Programmer's Key (that's a curly apostrophe if you try to Find it) version
1.4 of 4/10/91 found on "Lord of the Files" has a Command-Shift-Power
combination that "works just like the Restart command from the Special
menu in the Finder..." I find it works most of the time, but sometimes
I manage to crash badly enough to break even that.

Hope it helps. John
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