jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos) (03/10/86)
wolfl@zaphod.UUCP (Wolf Lunscher) writes in <413@zaphod.UUCP>:
> I have a problem with the SetFile DA, V?.
The original posting above was posted to net.sources.mac, but I have
redirected it here since net.sources.mac is not the proper place for
discussions.
The poster said he had problems with the SetFile DA. I also had problems
back when I first started trying to use it, as a result of which I
eventually quit using it. I was surprised that no one else had commented
on the problem; I wrote to the person who posted the DA, who said "we've
seen the problem but don't know what causes it", and I never heard any
more about it.
The problem was that certain events other than "open" events for the DA
were interpreted as open events, causing the DA to spontaneously open
itself. Subsequently a "bomb" would frequently occur. In particular,
whenever a disk was ejected from the internal drive, the DA would
spontaneously open itself; this forced the user to reinsert the disk again
since the disk had to be in the drive in order for the open to succeed.
I suspect that the problem the poster described might be related to the
one I observed. I hope someone can fix it, as the SetFile DA was
potentially one of the more useful DAs.
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