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From: kent@xanth.cs.odu.edu (Kent Paul Dolan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Locked PRT: after reboot & GURU w/ MoveWindow
Message-ID: <4143@xanth.cs.odu.edu>
Date: 19 Feb 88 17:24:12 GMT
References: <8802171935.AA19878@jade.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan)
Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk Va.
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In article <8802171935.AA19878@jade.berkeley.edu> FYS-MA@FINTUVM.BITNET (Matti Aarnio) writes:
>
>Date:         Tue, 16 Feb 88 14:59:00 PST
>From:         Tom Gilheany <TGILHEANY@SCU>
>Subject:      Locked PRT: after reboot & GURU w/ MoveWindow

>        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).

I've gotten this totally bogus message from AmigaDOS in a similar
situation, and the cause turned out to be a missing file (not
"in-use", but missing); memory fails, but I think it was my printer
driver which turned out to be the missing file.

Anyway, check to be sure that you have all the software pieces you
need for printing available and in the correct directories on that
particular disk, and that they are all readable.  Apparently AmigaDOS
does not distinguish between "unavailable" and "absent".

Hope this gets you on your way.

Kent, the man from xanth.