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From: dlyons@Apple.COM (David Lyons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: GS/OS v5.0 problems
Message-ID: <33830@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 8 Aug 89 20:21:13 GMT
References: <8908060506.AA06743@trout.nosc.mil>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <8908060506.AA06743@trout.nosc.mil> jlai@pro-sol.cts.com (Jack Lai) writes:
>[...]
>Now the problem.  After running a P8 application (anything) and exiting, the
>Finder starts to run, but then crashes with a:
>
>        "Finder icon files can't be found.
>	 Error number $/0002"

Interesting...at that point, if you reboot and look in your */Icons folder,
is the Finder.Icons file still there, or not?  (I'm assuming you can reboot
without losing the RAMdisk entirely, which I don't actually know.)  And this
*doesn't* happen when you launch a 16-bit application and return to the Finder?

Is your RAMdisk "slinky" type, or is it memory-based so that files on the
RAMdisk could be damaged if some code stomps on memory it doesn't own?

Have you tried removing some/all of your NDAs?  (DAs do get control briefly
when you enter or exit a 16-bit app that supports NDAs, and when you switch
between GS/OS and P8, so there's the opportunity for them to mess up memory
by accident, including your RAMdisk if it's in the main memory map.)

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