Desktop Manager and A/UX 2.0

Brian S. Schang brian at fog.ann-arbor.mi.us
Fri Nov 16 16:26:04 AEST 1990


>From article <vk[cg2.=u7 at smurf.sub.org>, by urlichs at smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs):
> The problem is that the Desktop Manager doesn't tolerate crashes very well.
> It seems that the A/UX Startup program doesn't close the Desktop manager
> files (there's a HFSDispatch selector for this), so you tend to lose some
> icons and/or file type to application mappings.

Does this happen only during crashes?  And if it does happen, can the
Desktop be rebuilt in the usual manner?

Thanks for the info!
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Brian S. Schang   N8FOG          brian at fog.ann-arbor.mi.us
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