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From: csbrod@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Claus Brod )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Tick-tick-tick-CRASH! is not dead in TOS 1.4
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Date: 16 Feb 90 10:15:00 GMT
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hafer@tubsibr.uucp (Udo Hafermann) writes:

>Add Calamus to the list.  Calamus likes to crash for all sorts of
>reasons, but yesterday it definitely was the phantom typist. (Including
>the effect that you had to move the mouse slightly to get the system
>to react to keys and/or menu selections.)

Has anybody tried to push some of the SHIFT/CTRL/ALT keys when the
phantom typist shows up? Somebody wrote somewhere that this might
prevent the application from crashing so that you can save your
work before system breakdown.

Claus Brod