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In article <1992Oct01.194411.16766@news.mentorg.com>
	brianc@pdx.mentorg.com (Brian Caslis) writes:
>I've just intalled NeXTSTEP 3.0 on a NeXTstation Color and have
>noticed two interesting things. After a while I started having the
>floppy disk eject problems that many are reporting. After some
>detective work it turned out that Stuart 2.4 was causing the problem,
>but only if I autolaunched it.

In article <1992Oct1.123914.19011@panther.mot.com>
	me@here (_please_ fix your reply address) writes:
>As previously mentioned,  Apps like AltDock, etc would cause the
>problem.  I stopped autolaunching AltDock and the proplem still
>persisted with floppies and optical.  After playing with autolaunchig
>selections, I found that Stuart causes the same problem, after it
>was removed from autolaunch everything is fine again.

The point of overlap between Stuart2.4 and Engage, AltDock, and
other programs that have caused this problem is that they request
file icons from the Workspace.  I have also heard on one of these
groups that this _is_ the problem (ie, any autolaunched program
requesting icons will cause the floppy eject problems).  So, perhaps
if you turn off Stuart's Shelf feature, it'll work (albeit not as
nicely).  Unfortunately, I cannot offhand think of something you
could do to Engage or any other program to fix this, as most of
those other programs _live_ to do the file icon thing ...

Has anyone heard anything regarding fixes from NeXT?  This is a
pretty major little bug, and could affect a _wide_ variety of
programs.  Well worth an NS3.0a :-).  On the other hand, anyone
know of anything a mere mortal like myself could do to cause my
programs not to invoke this behaviour?  Is the problem precisely
"autolaunched programs that request file icons", or is it "programs
that request file icons before XXXXXX occurs"?  If it's something
where I could wait until a certain point and _then_ request the
icons, I can make that modification ...

Thanks,
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