[softwarelist] Re: Scanning software oddity

In article <37ef30fc4e.Alan.Adams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Alan
Adams <alan.adams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In message <4efc1f7127rkp@xxxxxxxxx> Richard Partridge
>           <rkp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > ....If you dare, just try putting a file called "Route" into
> > your root directory, and see what happens when you re-boot - but
> > be warned; it took me two days to find what had gone wrong and
> > wipe the offending file. Congratulations to anyone who knows the
> > operating system well enough to predict the effect.

> At a guess the Internet software tries to interpret it as a
> definition of static routes. I can't imagine what the consequences
> would be though.

Very good!

Once the error is made, the rest of Choices:Internet.Startup is
skipped, so we have neither Internet access nor ShareFS. It also
seems to skip everything in Choices:Boot.Predesk after !+Resource, so
inter alia the screen gets left in a default 640x480. All very
alarming!

Regards,

Richard.

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Richard Partridge
rkp@xxxxxxxxx

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