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From: kent@lloyd.camex.uucp (Kent Borg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Background Printing
Message-ID: <345@lloyd.camex.uucp>
Date: 20 Mar 89 16:07:50 GMT
References: <339@lloyd.camex.uucp> <11010052@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Reply-To: kent@lloyd.UUCP (Kent Borg)
Organization: Camex, Inc., Boston, Mass USA
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In article <11010052@hpfcdc.HP.COM> bayes@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Scott Bayes) writes:
[quoting something I wrote]
>> I can't turn on Background Printing.  It worked yesterday, but not
>> this morning.  
>> 
>> I am running MultiFinder with plenty of memory, Print Monitor and
>> Backgrounder are in my system folder, I have rebooted, turned
>> AppleTalk off and on, gnashed my teeth.  I even looked in the manual!!
>
>You looked in the manual ??!!?!?
>
>Gasp...

After I posted my original question I `fixed' it, but still don't know
what was going on.

I booted off a different hard disk (the one I try to keep fairly
vanilla, just for times like this), and it worked.  I decided to snarf
the Backgrounder and Print Monitor files from that disk, and sure
enough that fixed it!  Then I took advantage of my Great Cleverness: I
pulled the `bad copies' back out of the folder I had stuck them in
(just for a time like this), rebooted, and *they* worked.

I don't know what was up, but I am guessing that one of those files
(probably Backgrounder) was storing some sort of state information
inside itself, and got confused.  Letting a different copy run things
for a while forced the original copy to reconsider once it was
reinstalled.

Kent Borg 
kent@lloyd.uucp or ...!hscfvax!lloyd!kent 

(though I am told our mail gateway is broken right now and
...!husc6!lloyd!kent might work better)