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From: davidp@skat.usc.edu (David Peterson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Anyone know a better way to do this?
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Date: 26 May 89 18:18:38 GMT
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Reply-To: davidp@skat.usc.edu (David Peterson)
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When you get a system bomb, can't you press the interrupt switch, enter some
code (G xxxx or ES, or something like that) and get back to the finder?

The machine crashed when trying to mount an AppleShare volume; didn't give me
a system bomb window or anything, just stopped working. I pressed the interrupt
switch and entered ES, and E S neither of which did anything. I tried G alone 
and that hung the machine again, pressed the interrupt again and tried G 123456
and this did drop me back to the finder (I think it restarted the finder is
what it did) but it "broke" the chooser and telnet (I was using telnet at the
time).  When I called the chooser again what came on the screen was the DragBar
(window title, whatever you call it), the three selection areas and the place
where you enter your user name. It worked fine, just looked wierd, kind of like
a plexiglass chooser. Telnet hung after showing me the window about NCSA,
nothing spectacular. I did a real reset then, and they both worked fine after
that

Does anyone know the correct address to get you back to the finder without
"breaking" anything?

Thanks,
-dave.
davidp@skat.usc.edu