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Subject: Re: DAs won't open while using comm programs in System 7
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Date: 11 Jun 91 17:39:39 GMT
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In article <7709@mace.cc.purdue.edu> omalley@mace.cc.purdue.edu (John O'Malley) writes:
>Here's a problem that only happens to me in System 7 while using
>communications programs.
>
>When using either MacKermit 0.9(40) and a modem OR using NCSA Telnet 2.3
>(with MacTCP 1.0.1), try selecting any item in the Apple Menu.  I get
>a beep and nothing else.  Option-selecting a DA doesn't work, either.
>
>Yet DAs work fine when chosen in the Finder or in other types
>of programs (word processor, spreadsheet, etc.).  Even if the comm
>program is still open in the background.
>
>The end result is basically what happened when the DA Handler file was
>missing under MultiFinder in System 6.  But this is System 7 (yes, it's
>the release version), and it has no separate DA Handler file!
>
>The problem occurs on an unnetworked 4-meg Mac Classic and different
>networked 5-meg Mac IIcx's, and probably on other Macs as well.  Common
>extensions on the tested systems are Moire 3.0 and Disinfectant INIT 2.4,
>but the problem occurs even with all non-Apple extensions removed.
>Increasing the RAM allocation to the comm program also doesn't help.
>
>Can anyone confirm this ... or offer a solution?

I can confirm this. However, it is not a problem endemic to communication 
programs. Things under the Apple menu work fine from Zterm 0.85. I have no idea
what is wrong with MacKermit (or Telnet). From looking at the code needed to
process the Apple menu (from _Mac Pgming Primer_), I can't see how things can
break like this. (Of course, this is from someone who doesn't program the Mac
much. ;)

On a different note, I've noticed that some programs now have two separator
lines instead of one after the About... item. What's wrong?

BTW, I'm on an unnetworked 4Mb SE.

>
>
>-John
>---
>John O'Malley          / Macintosh  / Purdue University / (317)
>omalley@cc.purdue.edu / Specialist / Computing Center  / 494-1787

George Chow