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From: heuring@kirk.Colorado.EDU (Vincent Heuring)
Subject: Help!  Munged System File
Message-ID: <1991Jun24.231059.8882@colorado.edu>
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Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1991 23:10:59 GMT
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How about some help from you Mac weenies with a weird problem
we're having with the IIsi, running 6.0.x.

Several days ago, with no warning, and with nobody having done nothing
out of the ordinary, about half of the DA's and Fonts got their
names changed to garbage strings.  Some of the strings contained
nonprinting characters, and some of them were several dozen characters long.
The DA's and fonts are *apparently* still working, just their names
got munged.

Nobody had used font/da mover or any other tool that writes to the
system file. 

What could have caused this?

When does the system file get written to?

Could we have bad ram here?

What's the best way to fix it?

Thanks in advance...

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 Vincent Heuring     Dep't of Electrical & Computer Engineering
 University of Colorado - Boulder  heuring@boulder.Colorado.EDU