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Air Traffic Controller 4.0

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From: Gregory Ford
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 1989 06:02
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A long time ago (circa 1988) I came across a program by Walter J. Biess
called Air Traffic Control 4.0.  I have two questions on it.

One, is there a higher version number?  I haven't noticed any real
problems with this one, but then again, I haven't used it all 
that often (read: rarely - see second reason).

Second, the program crashes on my Mac II.  I have found a way
around it, however.  The program crashes just after it has completed
drawing the initial windows and menus.  At the point where it appears
to wait for me to select a menu command, it crashes, but resume is 
enabled, and if I click it, I am returned to the finder.  
The way around this is to launch the program and to hold down the
mouse button in the menu bar as the program starts.  If I am quick
enough to get a menu to pull down before it has time to "wait", then
everything else is great, and the program runs flawlessly from that
point on.  In fact, once a game is over, and I am returned to the
same screen where it crashes at startup, it doesn't.  All this leads me 
to believe that it's a little piece of code that can be fixed with a patch or 
the like (all this coming from a non-mac programmer).

Ok netters, any ideas out there?  Any known patches? 
Please E-mail responses..thanks in advance.

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* Greg Ford				GEnie:    G.FORD3		      *
* Univeristy of Southern California	Internet: gford%nunki.usc.edu@usc.edu *
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