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From: isle@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (Ken Hancock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Finder 6.0 in "Scourge of the Killer Icons"
Message-ID: <8107@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU>
Date: 7 Feb 88 21:01:56 GMT
References: <16005@think.UUCP> <1193@cooper.cooper.EDU>
Reply-To: isle@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (Ken Hancock)
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
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In article <1193@cooper.cooper.EDU> francine@cooper.cooper.EDU (Francine Ponenti ) writes:
>in article <16005@think.UUCP>, ephraim@think.COM (ephraim vishniac) says:
>> If the icon mask (second half of the ICN# resource) for a file is
>> blank (all zeroes), attempting to drag the file in an icon view kills
>> the Finder.  Sometimes it bombs, sometimes it scrambles the screen,
>> sometimes it just freezes solid - no mouse, no keyboard, no debugger.
>
>This appears to be a very severe result of a bug that was introduced into
>Finder 6.0.  The Finder appears to no longer handles ICN#'s correctly.

Apple already stated that programs such as LSC, Red Ryder, etc. are doing
no-no's when they change the masks.  The problem, I believe, started
with how multifinder handles the mask when an application is launched.

As for the bombing, freezing, screen frenzy, that sounds serious enough
that regardless of what the application ICN# does in it's mask that
shouldn't happen.

Ken


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