info-mac@uw-beaver (02/01/85)
From: kevin@harvard.ARPA (Kevin Crowston) I've been using MacTerminal Beta Version 0.5X. I setup my disk to use MacTerminal as the start up, saving my defaults in a document called Untitled and this usually works fine. (It means I can use a disk with only MacTerminal, Untitled and a stripped down System file; no Finder, Imagewriter, etc., giving me lots of room to download files.) When I booted up today, however, something weird happened; after telling me I had no Imagewriter file (true) the Mac clicked a few times (ie. made clicking noises) and went dead. The screen flickered for a while and then started to display a strange pattern. I tried booting from a different disk and starting MacTerminal. This time the menu bar inverted (white on black) and then started to flash back and forth. Deleting the Untitled document cured the problem; MacTerminal starts and then creates a new Untitled document. Any idea why this happened? What's in a MacTerminal document that's so important to it? Kevin Crowston Aiken Computation Lab