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Please bear with me, as I am summarizing this problem and posting to
Usenet, as a favor to an office-mate.  He knows how to use the
applications on the Mac which are relevant to his job, but little more
than that.  I know NOTHING about Macs, but I at least know how to post
an article :-)

System: Mac-SE, 1MB RAM, 45MB Rodine hard disk.  I do not know the
OS version, but it was installed here in mid 1987.

Recently, a phenonenom has occured whereby windows which normally
display scrollable selection lists (fonts, point size, ...) appear blank
on screen, yet they seem to contain accessable data.  In otherwords, one
can click the mouse on an area within the window, and the hidden list
entry will appear in the application's option field.  Also, the elevator
bar accurately displays the current position within the hidden list.

The problem appears to be selective, as HyperCard and a few MacXXX
applications will exhibit this problem, but Quark Express seems
unaffected.

We have managed to reinstall the documents within the System Folder, but
this does not clear up the problem.

Has anyone encountered such a phenomenon, or can any Mac gurus offer
further diagnostic advice?

Also, a remotely related question -- the size of the System document
named "System" on the hard disk was ~750KB.  The original on the System
Tools diskette is ~350KB.  After replacing the hard disk copy with the
original, we notice no obvious operational differences.  Is "System" the
MacOS kernel, and if so, what might have been added to the hard disk
copy to more than double its size?  My guess is the additional code is
device drivers which access devices owned by the original user, but not
transferred to this setup (the only external devices currently connected
are a floppy and a Laserwriter).

Please e-mail any replies.

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Dave Hammond
daveh@marob.masa.com
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