Alpha Base fix for AM3000's
by: Randall C. Haan
Mail box: HAAN/AM
If you are an AM3000 owner with Metropolis/Alpha Base 7.2C with operating
system 1.4(189)-1 and are haveing trouble with applications like Super
Vue, TALKTO, AUTOLOG, Simpli File, Look and the like dying quick and
miserable deaths (i.e. Address error at @)*&^*&) lend an ear(((((((((.
In the LITFIL account is a program called AFIXIT.LIT that will monitor
your system and wait for Alpha Base to KILL IT! It will then attempt to
restore life to your system.
It can be run in a background job or on any terminal. Every 1 second it
checks to see if a special place in the monitor has been steped on and if
it has fixes it and reports the date & time and number of times that it
has performed such an opperation. I have a system in Portland that would
die once every 3 weeks on the average, one in Boise that would die every
20min, another system in portland dies twice a day.
Its not the perfect solution but it will save a System Reset!
The system in Boise will almost certianly die if FUNCT 6-9,0 are
pressed. I belive FLPCTL is having its way with the opperating system on
a regualr basis!!!!