Weird behaviour with MacTerminal 0.5X

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Subject: Weird behaviour with MacTerminal 0.5X
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Date: Fri, 1-Feb-85 03:58:03 EST
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From: [email protected] (Kevin Crowston)

I've been using MacTerminal Beta Version 0.5X.
I setup my disk to use MacTerminal as the start up, saving my
defaults in a document called Untitled and this usually works
fine. (It means I can use a disk with only MacTerminal, Untitled
and a stripped down System file; no Finder, Imagewriter, etc., giving
me lots of room to download files.)

When I booted up today, however, something weird happened;
after telling me I had no Imagewriter file (true) the Mac clicked
a few times (ie. made clicking noises) and went dead.
The screen flickered for a while and then started to display a strange
pattern. I tried booting from a different disk and starting MacTerminal.
This time the menu bar inverted (white on black) and then started
to flash back and forth.

Deleting the Untitled document cured the problem; MacTerminal
starts and then creates a new Untitled document.

Any idea why this happened? What's in a MacTerminal document
that's so important to it?

Kevin Crowston
Aiken Computation Lab