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From: ejkst@cisunx.UUCP (Eric J. Kennedy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Locked PRT: after reboot & GURU w/ MoveWindow
Message-ID: <7058@cisunx.UUCP>
Date: 19 Feb 88 07:09:16 GMT
References: <8802171935.AA19878@jade.berkeley.edu>
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh, Comp & Info Sys
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In article <8802171935.AA19878@jade.berkeley.edu>, FYS-MA@FINTUVM.BITNET (Matti Aarnio) writes:
>         The other day, I went to copy a text file to PRT: using CLI,
> and got the message object in use (it had apparently been locked by
> a program which was unable to free the lock).  I re-booted the system,
> typed CTRL-D to wind up in CLI and tried the file copy again.  Still
> got the error message "object in use" (i.e. it was still locked, even
> though nobody was using it).

The only times this has happened to me was when Preferences was set
to a printer driver that did not exist on the disk.  Did you modify
Preferences, or copy the system-configuration file, or delete any
printer drivers before this happened?  I don't think a device or a file
can stay open over a warm boot.  Make sure the printer driver specified
in preferences actually exists in DEVS:printers.

>                                                               Is there
> someplace in the system-configuration file that I can alter to get the
> window to open up to the right size (MoreRows modifies this file, why
> can't it also modify window-size when it modifies screen-size?).

The window size is not kept in the Preferences structure, so it is not
in the system-configuration file, which is simply a copy of the
Preferences structure.

You might be able to patch kickstart to change the startup cli window
size, if you have a 1000.  Anybody know of a patch to do this?
It would be risky, though, and I wouldn't recommend it.  What happens 
if you boot from a non-morerows disk?  You would have to power down first.


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