On Tue, Apr 4, 2000 2:39 PM, Robert Snow <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> When I tried to
> launch the Pict or Video application with the QuickCam extension loaded,
the
> application would quit with an error message explaining that it was not
> compatible with the latest file management system installed on the
computer.
> Well, after several crashes, the machine just froze up and would not
> restart.
This sounds like something I read on Tidbits several months ago(Nov 15,
1999 to be exact). Here is the quote:
==
**Avoid AKUA Interactive's Nine 11 Utility!** AKUA Interactive
Media has released an extension called Nine 11 that prevents Mac
OS 9 from stopping certain incompatible programs with error number
119. To quote MWJ publisher and TidBITS contributor Matt
Deatherage, this is "an indescribably irresponsible idea roughly
on par with disconnecting the buzzers in your smoke detectors." As
we explained in "Mac OS 9 Installation & Compatibility" in
TidBITS-503_, to increase the maximum number of open file forks in
Mac OS 9, Apple had to change the file control block (FCB) table
that the Mac OS uses to track open files. Even with all their
resources, there was no way Apple could maintain compatibility
with old code that ignored Apple's recommendations and accessed
the FCBs directly. So Mac OS 9 prevents programs from doing that,
because code that goes directly to the FCBs would likely crash the
system or corrupt data on your hard disk. Why is this?
Applications accessing the FCBs probably want to read data about
which files are open, but because of the changes in Mac OS 9,
those applications will read the _wrong_data_. If that application
then uses that incorrect information as input for other disk-
related functions, disk corruption is likely. In short, if you see
this utility online, do not download it and warn anyone using it
that they do so at significant risk. [ACE]
==
It sounds like what happened to you. Maybe this program of yours ended up
bypassing the error enough to destroy your drive. Sounds scary.
-Jon Glass
Krakow, Poland
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