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- From: st1dr@rosie.uh.edu (Frankfort, David C.)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: Formatting troubles :(
- Date: 24 Jan 1993 22:20 CST
- Organization: University of Houston
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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.
- >
- >Here's my */System/System.Setup folder:
- >
- >
- >/plague/system/system.setup/ 20 files
- >
- >name type blocks modified access
- >---- ---- ------ -------- ------
- >introplay tsf 9 21-Dec-88 9:52 AM rwnd B
- >startpic tsf 1 26-Dec-87 4:57 AM rwnd B
- >finder.view str 127 14-Jun-92 6:00 AM rwnd B
- >findersounder str 4 6-May-92 10:15 PM rwnd B
- >cdev.init tsf 6 14-Jun-89 10:29 AM rwnd
- >aw str 3 18-Mar-89 1:25 PM rwnd B
- >dtutils3.3 str 77 17-Jan-93 6:47 PM rwnd B
- >finder.data $C9 1 23-Jan-93 6:56 PM rwnd B
- >gs.spy.2 str 22 2-Apr-91 9:18 PM rwnd B
- ^
- +----Heres the source of the sound "alert, alert"
- >picture.a pic 65 15-Dec-92 3:35 PM rwnd B
- >resource.mgr str 24 13-Feb-92 1:00 AM rwnd
- >scrollicons str 4 21-Jun-92 12:31 AM rwnd
- >sys.resources p16 52 13-Feb-92 1:00 AM rwnd
- >tool.setup str 39 13-Feb-92 1:00 AM rwnd
- >ts2 $BC 74 13-Feb-92 1:00 AM rwnd
- >ts3 $BC 82 13-Feb-92 1:00 AM rwnd
- >bidwelcome bin 90 18-Dec-92 8:44 PM rwnd B
- >introsound bin 90 21-Dec-88 9:52 AM rwnd B
- >desktracker str 36 5-Jul-92 12:57 AM rwnd B
- >synthinit str 12 15-May-92 8:45 PM rwnd B
- >
- >blocks free: 6452 used: 11928 (65%) total: 18380
- >
- >--
- >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- >A closed mouth gathers no feet. You don't need a weatherman to know which way
- > the wind blows.
- > kls0@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
- I used to use gs spy. It however does not want to let my format disks
- either so I just inactivated. Make life easier since I have backups of
- everything I have.
- ********************************************************************************
- *David F. This could be apart of your source code. Apple II GS *
- ********************************************************************************
-