leeke@cascade.UUCP (04/12/86)
References: Since my enthusiasm over getting D&S to work may be jading my judgment - please let me know if I am missing some suttle bug in what I say below. It was reported several times in this newsgroup that Dollars & Sense is NOT HFS compatible. I was upset to see that since I rely heavily on D&S for my financial analysis/record-keeping. I decided to see for myself what the problems between D&S and HFS were when a friend w/ a new Plus and an old 128k tried to run D&S on his Plus and said there were problems. I am glad I did not accept this newsgroups reports as the absolute truth! I ran D&S from a Mac Plus w/ HD20 with NO! problems. The finder was 5.1, system 3.x (I don't know exactly), and the D&S software was all in ONE folder (I don't know if this matters but I think it does). The D&S folder was about 5 folders deep and there was never any confusion on the part of D&S - it even put the Backup copy in the correct folder. I also ran it without the HD20 - just the 400k MFS key disk floppy (actually a Copy II Mac key-disk duplicate) and it ran FAST and fine. The only thing I had to remember was that the KEY disk has to be mounted in the internal drive BEFORE you start D&S. i.e. you CAN NOT start D&S, get the Error dialog box and THEN insert the keydisk - if you do that it will just return to the finder. So I suggest for two floppy systems you put D&S in the external drive and put the master disk in the internal drive, then start D&S from the external drive, wait until it boots up and checks the master disk, and when it is done and the D&S Logo dialog box is on the screen waiting for you to select one of the menus do a CMD-SHIFT-1 to eject the internal drive and replace it with your data disk - then use the File menu's open command to open up the data file. It should work FINE! The same steps should be useable with a floppy and ramdisk combination - but I have not tried this setup. Steve Leeke P.S. And we were all wondering why Monogram hadn't offered an upgrade...