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From: scasterg@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Stuart M Castergine)
Subject: Re: Under the apple
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Date: Sat, 8 Jun 1991 04:16:59 GMT
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In article <1991Jun7.191201.7387@mmm.serc.3m.com> pejacoby@mmm.serc.3m.com (Paul E. Jacoby) writes:
>In article <1991Jun6.110545.1@mee.tcd.ie> richard@mee.tcd.ie writes:
>>One of the fx's in the lab that I look after has developed the most annoying
>>habit of needing the option key pressed before you can access any of the
>>D.A.'s under the apple.
>>
>>I'm sure that it was done by a beloved student who likes giving us 
>>challenges.
>
>Copy the file "DA Handler" back into the System folder.  I assume you
>hear a beep any time you try to get at a DA under MultiFinder.  That is
>because DA Handler is missing.
>
>By holding down the option key, you open the DA into the application
>heap, thus bypassing the DA Handler.


Another possibility is that they are running Suitcase II, which has a
setting that requires you to hold down teh option key to get the full
DA list. Check under Settings in Suitcase, if this is the situation.



>
>Paul
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-- 
scasterg@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu	Stuart M Castergine
"Step by step they were led to practices which disposed to vice -- the
lounge, the bath, the elegant banquet. All this in their ignorance
they called civilisation, when it was but part of their servitude." 
