Path: utzoo!dciem!trigraph!john
From: john@trigraph.UUCP (John Chew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: error msg "Online: Open/Read error with OnBase"
Message-ID: <410@trigraph.UUCP>
Date: 7 Oct 88 13:35:04 GMT
Article-I.D.: trigraph.410
References: <16550@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU>
Reply-To: poslfit@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu
Organization: Trigraph Inc., Toronto, Canada
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Summary: Programmer's Online Companion

In article <16550@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> 
  flowers@CS.UCLA.EDU (Margot Flowers) writes:
>When I boot on a Mac II (System 4.2, Finder 6.0, 1 meg, Rodime
>140meg, and not much else), I an error message near the bottom of
>the screen during the startup:
>
>	Online: Open/Read error with OnBase

This means that you have a copy of Addison-Wesley's Programmer's
Online Companion INIT installed but do not have a copy of its
data file OnBase.

There are several ways to get rid of the message:

1. Buy a copy of the Online Companion.  It's an electronic version
   of Inside Mac I-V and is well worth the small purchase price if
   you do any programming for the Mac.

2. Find a copy of the file OnBase on your disk and put it in your
   system folder.  If you share your Mac with someone, perhaps they
   own a copy of the software, and merely removed it temporarily to
   get Falcon or Beyond Dark Castle to run.

3. Replace the system file on your hard disk.

4. Remove the INIT resource from your system file with ResEdit.
   This is a bit tricky, as I don't believe it is identified in
   any obvious manner.  Note too that it's actually in your
   system file and is not an INIT 31 file.  If you want to do
   this and have trouble finding it, send me mail and I'll snoop
   through my copy to find it's ID.

5. Close your eyes when the system boots up.  If OnBase is not around,
   the Online Companion does nothing but display the message, so it
   should not affect anything else you do.
   
Hope this is of help.

John Chew

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  [it is my opinion that these are solely my opinions.]