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- From: grover@emunix.emich.edu (Grover Thomas)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: Formatting troubles :(
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.211026.3196@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 21:10:26 GMT
- Article-I.D.: zip.1993Jan24.211026.3196
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- Sender: news@zip.eecs.umich.edu (Mr. News)
- Organization: Eastern Michigan University
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- In article <C1DD1r.71G@news.cso.uiuc.edu> kls0@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Plague) writes:
- >Whenever I hit ESC while in the Finder, it locks up and I can'tI seem to have a
- >problem with my Finder (and all other S16 programs). Here's the deal. If I
- >try to format a disk (3.5" or 5.25") my GS yells "ALERT! ALERT!" at me, and
- >then locks up - kinda. I can't activate any windows, but
- >I have the Animated Watch INIT running, and it keeps running - forever. I'm
- >assuming it's one of the INITs I have installed, but before I do some lengthy
- >troubleshooting, I was wondering if anybody else has/had this probelm. BTW: it
- >doesn't crash if I boot up without INITs/DAs. I've got a 4MB GS, ROM 01,
- >running System 6.
-
- Sounds like a problem with GS.SPY, which never did work well for me,
- either. Instead of the "AniWatch" init, you might consider the GS+
- CDev called "Cool Cursor" which offers more animations and has never
- given me a problem with System 6.
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