Re: GS/OS 6.0.1 3-way hang with File Manager and ShadowWrite

[fmlin@netcom.com (Frank M. Lin)]

>I've been trying to get a stable setup with GS/OS System 6.0.1 for a while.
>
>Latest hitch, a system hang when I use Jeff Hartkopf's indispensable File
>Manager NDA (V2.0, I think).  The DA window comes up, and the file select
>dialog works, but when I accept the selected file, the dialog box goes away
>and then - nothing.  The mouse still moves, but the system requires rebooting.

FYI, The latest version of File Manager is v2.0.2.  And what you're seeing
sounds more like a problem of File Manager than system 6.0.1.

>I disabled all my third-party INITs, CDEVs, and DAs, and then by re-enabling
>them one at a time I isolated the problem to some interaction between File
>Manager and ShadowWrite V3.1.  When both are enabled, ShadowWrite works fine
>but File Manager hangs.  When ShadowWrite is disabled, File Manager works as
>expected.

Well, The Manager isn't really all that stable.  :)  Buy Switch-It!  :)

>This combination of DAs works properly under System 6.0.

I have _lots_ of extensions installed, and system 6.0.1 doesn't have 
conflicts ( aside from the known ones, like the font manager bug, and
CDev Alias not working; which is Bill's problem :)

>I suspect that the problem is in the way ShadowWrite puts its fingers into
>the system's file selection code to trap the file types it wants to open.  I
>have not disabled all its file trapping; that's next.

Well, be sure you have the most recent version.  If can are able to
reproduce it consistantly, write to Andre.  

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frank m. lin
fmlin@netcom.com