ix21@sdcc6.UUCP (David Whiteman) (06/20/86)
Today an Apple rep distributed copies of the "official" release of the Mac System and a list of the bugs fixed and some not fixed by this new distribution to my local user group. Although this list is long I thought it might be of interest. This official list is appropriate for: Macintosh 512K Macintosh 512K enhanced Macintosh 512K with Level I upgrade (128K roms & 800K internal drive) Macintosh Plus Macintosh XL External 800K Disk Drive Hard Disk 20 LaserWriter & LaserWriter Plus Imagewriter I & II Imagewriter 15 Imagewriter II with Appletalk option A Macintosh with less than 512K Ram should continue to use System 2.0, Finder 4.1, and Imagewriter driver 1.0. The following files are the official current release: System 3.2 replacing 3.1.1, 3.1, 3.0, 2.1, 2.0, and preceding versions Finder 5.3 replacing 5.2, 5.1, 5.0, 4.1, 1.1g, 1.0 Imagewrtiter 2.3 replacing 2.2, 2.1, 2.0, 1.0, Imagewriter 15 1.0 AppleTalk Imagewriter 2.3 replacing 2.2, 2.1, 2.0 LaserWriter 3.1 replacing 3.0, 1.1, 1.0 Hard Disk 20 1.1 replacing 1.0 Installer 2.2 replacing 2.1, 2.0 Font/DA Mover 3.2 replacing 3.1, 3.0, 2.5, 1.0 The Namer 2.1 replacing 2.0, 1.0 These files have been placed on Compuserve and Genie on 6/18/86. A version placed earlier on these networks on 6/13/86 have errors and should not be used. These files will also be placed on AppleLink for dealers on 7/1/86. User Visible Problems corrected: Finder 5.2 and earlier finders had a bug in which directory information which was already in memory would be read a second time from disc. corrected in Finder 5.3 which will therefore run faster 32 character name in Namer Fixed in Namer 1.1 The Namer can't deal with 32 character names, and it assumes that since it can't enter them, it'll never encounter them. Unfortunately, a test program at Apple leaves a 32 character name in the LaserWriter's EEROM. This results in you being unable to rename the LaserWriter. Applications crashing Fixed in System 3.2 The Locked bit is set on PACK 6 (International Utilities), causing fragmentation in applications. Many applications crash with unrecoverable errors after a little while. Better/Faster in ImageWriter (not a bug but a feature) Picture quality is darker for Faster quality than for Best quality. Bitmap garbage on LaserWriter Fixed in LaserWriter 3.1 Small pictures pasted from MacPaint into another application (such as MacDraw) occasionally print with extraneous dots and lines around them. Calculator arrangement does not match keypad Fixed in System 3.2 For historical reasons, the Calculator desk accessory's key layout does not match the numeric keypad on Macintosh Plus, Macintosh XL, or the optional numeric keypad on Macintosh Microsoft Word's inability to use letter quality printers Fixed in System 3.2 Chooser and Locked Disk Fixed in System 3.2 The Chooser, when checking to make sure the system disk is unlocked, checks the default volume instead of the system volume. This makes the Chooser sometimes display the wrong message and sometimes fail to set the printer. Chooser doesn't remember Imagewriter port Fixed in System version 3.2 After restarting the system, the chooser will forgeT which port the imagewriter is connected do. Color Printing in Imagewriter Fixed in Imagewriter 2.2 & AppleTalk Imagewriter 2.2 Printing a color picture on an Imagewriter II will not work unless the color black appears in the picture somewhere. Colorprinting damages the ribbon Fixed in Imagewriter 2.2 & AppleTalk Imagewriter 2.2 Colors are printed in an order that tends to get the ribbon dirty, smearing other colors. Now black is printed last, so no black ink gets on the yellow ribbon. Control Panel dialog box too small NOT FIXED The text that warns you that the AppleTalk setting cannot be changed is too large to fit into the dialog box. Copies of System File can't be opened by Font/DA mover Fixed in Font/DA Mover 3.2 The Font/DA mover was not able to open any system file unless it was actually named "System." This restriction has been removed. By the way Apple does not recommend that DA's be placed in applications by using the option-open feature of the DA mover. Copying folders form the Desktop Fixed in Finder 5.1 Dragging a full folder from an HFS volume onto the Desktop, then onto an MFS volume, will act like it's copying the folder and contents to the MFS volume. In fact only the folder was copied without contents. Document appearance changes -- text moves around not a bug The Times, Helvetica, and Courier fonts have been altered slightly from the original LaserWriter fonts to improve spacing on the LaserWriter when used with the Mac Plus. This may affect text layout in existing documents. No workaround or fix is expected. Dragging an empty folder to trash, then duplicate: crashes Finder Fixed in Finder 5.3 Dran an empty folder to the Trash, then select another file and duplicate it; this will crash the system, Draggin on Locked Discs in the Finder Fixed in Finder 5.3 The Finder will not report a disk locked error when you drag a file from a folder onto the disk icon of the same disk if the the disk is locked. Now the error message is given (even if it is not very clear). Draging out of trash loses file Fixed in Finder 5.3 Dragging a file out of trash can onto a different volume removes the file, from both the trash and the destination volume. Duplicating files in the trash crashes system Fixed in Finder 5.3 Files lost Fixed in System 3.2 A bug in the Resource Manager caused programs that wrote small resources to resource files occasionally destroyed the files. Finder Comments not copied on installationt Fixed in Installer 2.2 When the Installer copies a file, it does not copy the file's Finder comments under all circumstances -- and if the comment contains the former version number, the Finder's Get Info box will tell you the prvious version number of an updated file. Folder SIze Reporting Fixed in Finder 5.1 The sizes reported for folers under the tilte bars of their open windows in the Finder does not accurately reflect the amount of space taken up by all files in all folders in that folder, excluding the contents of folders in it. Font/DA Mover Changes modification date of unmodified files Fixed in Font/DA mover 3.2 The mover updated the modification date of every file it opened, even if the file was not actually modified. Font/DA mover crashes on Nearly-Full Disk Fixed in Font/DA Mover 3.2 The Font/DA Mover would crash if it tried to copy fonts or DA's that would not fit on the disk. Font/DA Mover Double-clicking "Open" button opened New file Fixed in Font/DA Mover 3.2 Double clicking on the "open" button occasion had the result of clicking on "New" Font/DA Mover: Two copies of System File Fixed in F/DA Mover 3.2 On occasion, inserting a disk while running the Mover would cause it to open a 2nd copy of the currently opened System file, rather than opening the System file on the just inserted disk. Fonts Inaccessible in MacDraw NOT FIXED On a Mac Pluse with System file 3.0 or higher, the font menu in MacDrae is alphabetically ordered and does not scroll. If you have more than 11 fonts on a 9-inch Macintosh screen; more on a Mac XL), this makes the bottom ones uninvokable. There is a workaround posted on AppleLink. Formatting Blank Discs in F/DA Mover Fixed in F/DA mover 3.2 Mover does not bring up the Disk Initialization package when a blank disk is inserted. The disc is neither mounted or formatted. ImageWriter driver does not recognize ImageWriter II Fixed in Imagewriter verison 2.3 The Imagewriter driver forgot how to recognize an Imagewriter II, and would assume it had different paper handling and no color, or give the message "The printer is not responding." ImageWriter stops printing Fixed in IW 2.3 Large MacPaint pictures occurring many times on one page would cause the IW to stop printing and hang the system Initializing Discs on MacWorks Fixed in System 3.1 Initializing a blank disk on MacWorks would cause a System error under system 3.0 Installed files have generic icon Fixed in Finder version 2.2 [sic] The LaserWriter and Laser Prep files, when installed from the Printer Installation 2.0 disk, hav generic document icons instead of their own. Problem: The Finder does not rebuild bundeles if the Init bit is set but the file prviously existed, even if the type has changed. Workaround: rebuild desktop Installer deletes incorrect resources (loses Alarm Clock Pictures) Fixed in Installer 2.2 LaserWriter and Downloadable Fonts Fixed in LW 3.1 When the LW driver encounters a change in style, then a change back, in a downloaded font (or a Mac bitmap font), it re-downloads the original style. This fills up the LW virtual memory very quickly, and the LW resets in the middle fo the job. LW Plus loses optional characters Fixed in LW 3.1 If a user does not have all of the LW Plus fonts installed in the system file, option characters ( using Option) will print wrong LW underlining (not a bug) The underline character in a font and the font underlining of that font may not coincide. Long, Slanted fonts have lower half chopped off fixed in System 3.2 Large fonts like Zapf Chancery may have to lower part omitted on the screen. MacTerminal occasionally disconnects from a modem Fixed in System 3.2 MacWrite opens documents as "Untitled" Fixed in version 5.1 Opening a Mac Write document often results in the document coming up as "Untitled"; you cannot use Save or Save As to save it. Old Pictures come out of Scrapbook Fixed in System 3.2 Pictures from previous editing sessions were occasionally pasted from the Scrapbook during editing. One bit shift in dialog text NOT FIXED Occasionally text in an text box shifts up one bit when text is added or another box is selected Overprinting of MacPaint documents Fixed in LW 3.1 Printing multiple MacPaint documents causes the 2nd one to have remnants of the 1st, the 3rd to have remnants of the 1st and 2nd etc. Pasted-in pictures don't print Fixed in LaserWrtier version 3.1 Pictures cut for MacDrawand pasted into other applications occasionally don't print on the LaserWriter. Phantom fonts in Font menus Fixed in F/DA Mover 3.1 & 3.2 F/DA Movers prior to 3.o did not know about new font information added in System File 3.0 and later [the FOND resource] If an older F/DA mover removed a font from a system file, the FOND resource remains in the system, thus the font names stay in hte menu even though the fonts are not present. Problems with Clipboard in Paint and Draw NOT FIXED Due to some problems cutting and pasting may not work unless the application is on the same disk (and may be the same folder) as the System and Finder. Reboot on launch on F/DA mover or Installer Ficed in System 3.2 Under some conditions the installer and F/DA mover would crash or reboot. Screen dumps with mouse down act differently NOT FIXED On 128K ROMS (the new ones) the Cmd-shift-1 thru 4 actions are queued, rather than being executed immediately. This means that pending actions (such as releasing the mouse button) take place before the FKEY action (such as taking a screen shot) is executed. It is no longer possible, then, to take a screen shot of a menu. SCSI multi block blind reads and writes Fixed in System version 3.2 A timing problem prevented multi-block blind reads and writes from working correctly, thus seriously reducing the maximum performance possible on SCSI. An INIT filecalled SCSI Helper or SCSI items patched these problems; the code in this files was rolled into 3.2 Sheet feeded, color ribbon not recognized on IW II Fixed in IW 2.2 A Mac with 64K ROMS (old rom) and an IW I with Rev 3 ROMS, the IW driver could not recognized the sheet feeder or color ribbon. System 3.1.1 incompatible with scripts Fixed with System 3.2 System File grows after using Chooser Fixed in System version 3.2 The Chooser will improperly clean up after itself allowing the system file to grow by leaps and bounds Underlinded Italics on LaserWriter may result in only underlining without italics Fixed in LW 3.1 White Lines through Pictures Fixed in LW version 3.1 Some images occaisonally printed with thin white lines through them -- ---- David Whiteman, University of California, San Diego -- ---- David Whiteman, University of California, San Diego