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From: thecloud@dhw68k.cts.com (Ken McLeod)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Problem with FKEY 0 in System 6.0.3?
Message-ID: <22617@dhw68k.cts.com>
Date: 1 May 89 09:38:06 GMT
References: <4466@wiley.UUCP>
Reply-To: thecloud@dhw68k.cts.com (Ken McLeod)
Organization: Wolfskill & Dowling residence; Anaheim, CA (USA)
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In article <4466@wiley.UUCP> david@wiley.UUCP (David Hull) writes:
>Caution: the following may crash your system.
>
>If you're running System 6.0.3 try this: hit FKEY 0 (command-shift-0).
>My cx crashes if the current application is Finder, and beeps if it is
>anything else.  The problem occurs under MultiFinder and without, with
>lots of inits and with none (booted directly off the System Tools 6.0.3
>disk).  ResEdit doesn't show any FKEYs installed in slot 0.

  Check the Desktop file; it may contain an FKEY 0 resource if the disk
has ever contained an application with the creator type 'FKEY'. This
FKEY 0 resource doesn't contain any code, but it's in the resource
calling chain, so it will be found and executed (>*crash*<).

  I know of only one program that ever had FKEY as its creator (not a
good idea, for obvious reasons); the author quickly changed the creator
type, so this problem doesn't crop up too frequently...

  On the other hand, this may have nothing to do with the problem,
especially since you're booting from different disks. Hmmm.

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