What's a "Mystery Error -39" ?

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From: John O'Malley
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 1988 14:13

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Maybe one of you programming wizards can help me out with this one.  Some
collegues on campus who have their four Macs AppleTalked to share a 
LaserWriter are experiencing some strange problems.  They've each reported
problems using spell checkers with Microsoft Word, MacWrite 5.0, and two
DA spelling checkers.  Every time they access the checker, going through
the regular steps, they end up with a "Mystery Error -39" bomb box and have
to restart.

The only thing they say that's changed with their systems is that they 
upgraded to System Tools 5.0 on each Mac a few weeks ago (that's System 4.2
and Finder 6.0).

Any clues?  What's a Mystery Error -39 and how does one make it go away?
This is happening on more than one machine.  Any chance the network could
be involved?


John O'Malley           / Macintosh          / Purdue University / (317)
mace.cc.purdue.edu!ajq / Project Specialist / Computing Center  / 494-9944

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From: ajq@mace.cc.purdue.edu (John O'Malley)
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Subject: What's a "Mystery Error -39" ?
Summary: Spell checkers are producing this error on multiple machines
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Date: 25 Aug 88 14:13:02 GMT
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