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From: Mark_Peter_Cookson@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: SUM bugs
Message-ID: <8077@cup.portal.com>
Date: 13 Aug 88 09:08:32 GMT
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You are not supposed to modify or move the system on the boot drive.  That is
why you can't remove from memory the startup disk, the system needs to be
able to find itself.  Font/DA mover works well, but have you noticed that it
doesn't have a DA menu?  Ever wonder why?  Ever wonder why Suitcase and Font/DA
Juggler warn when you are about to close a font file?  Because weird things
happen when you change the system file when it is in use.  By the way, weird
things happen to most files when they are already open and something else comes
along and trys to change them.  That's also (I think) why you can't launch
the same application more than once over a network or Multifinder (unless it is
a multiuser application, but they might have multiple copies to get around
that, I wouldn't know though).

Mark Cookson