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From: thomas@uvabick.UUCP (Thomas Fruin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Major problems with StuffIt (1.40a and 1.31)
Keywords: Bommen en granaten
Message-ID: <254@uvabick.UUCP>
Date: 22 May 88 08:49:05 GMT
Organization: uvabick
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Help!  After installing some new software on my hard disk, StuffIt suddenly
stopped working, and I _cannot_ find out who is the culprit.  I think it
is StuffIt ...

I'm running System 4.2 with MultiFinder on a Mac II with CDC Wren III, and
plenty of INITs, SuitCase, and similar goodies.  Also Tops.  However, I've
systematically removed every one of these, and although the crashes change
in type, they still occur.

Usually StuffIt crashes just when it tries to start stuffing a file.  The
window with the bar charts has just appeared, but no 'filling in ' of the
bar has occured yet.  Often the Mac will hang, with no ID errors or further
action.

The only sense I got out of my experimenting was this: after I had removed
practically every INIT, turned off AppleTalk etc etc I noticed the following:
immediately after running StuffIt in MultiFinder (with MPW open as well),
a Shutdown on my Mac would crash while MPW was trying to Quit.  The crash
consistently occured because the low memory global $316 was trashed.  TMON
calls $316 MPWPtr ...

StuffIt only crashes under MultiFinder - wiout MF all is OK, but with it
I cannot run StuffIt anymore :(

Anybody any ideas?  StuffIt 1.5?

-- Thomas Fruin

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