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- as mentioned in !Help, Paul Denize wrote me that (the old, v1.0) !Filer- 'crashed' the
- machine when it's been shut down with S.Hickinbottom's !ShutDown application.
- he also gave the error's line number and suggested a fix (see there).
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- with my 'standard' desktop setup by my !Boot appl (modules: Bits, Quitter,fat IconSwitch,
- MouseAxess (used to be MoveWindow); !PtrCopy, !Memphis, ro2 !TinyDirs, hacked !ModeUtil,
- !MBF and !Filer-) i NEVER got a shutdown-crash, no matter what and how many has been
- running before, but ALMOST ALWAYS the petstf (press excape to start the filer) error window
- prior to the nycsotc (now you can switch off the computer) window. sometimes the annoying
- petstf doesn't come.
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- but i too got crashes when *Configure'd NoBoot (i.e. only !Boot.!Boot has been obeyed when
- the Filer saw the root dir of the hard disc; just some system vars are defined there) and
- !Filer- 2.0 + some other apps were running and i did a 'normal' risc os 3.11 shutdown: the
- nycsotc window didn't appear and the machine 'hung' (you'd need a ctrl-break if you wanted
- to restart). Stuart's !ShutDown worked fine all the time though (but i haven't done heavy
- testing cause i use ro3's built-in shutdown).
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- i've been trying to reconstruct that random 'application configuration' to find out
- whether !Filer- was the offender but did not succeed.
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- if !Filer- is the bad guy then i strongly suspect the bug in the FiPiFi module
- (!Filer-.FiPiFiSrc is the source code) but i could be wrong...
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- should you find it please write/email me (address in !Help).
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- thanks and have fun (read Stuff.StyleGuide for instance)
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- franz
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