chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) (02/14/85)
Having just upgraded to a Fat Mac (ah, the wonderfulness of lots of memory)
and picked up a printer and MacProject, I've been doing a number of
housekeeping chores, such as installing fonts, moving around DA's,
upgrading the system disks, and the like.
I've run into a few things that I'm not sure what to do with, so people out
there who know more than I do, please clue me in:
. Which is the preferred printer interface-- the imagewriter to be
found on the MacProject disk (imagewriter 15) or the imagewriter on the
512K upgrade disk? Why? How?
. The first thing I did to MacProject was move a copy to a play disk,
sans the system folder (I keep a system disk on the internal with all
my DA's, fonts, etc... and the application on the external disks with
the data-- it seems to work well for me, and it means I only have one
place to update DA's). When I started it up, it initialized the screen
windows wrong, and generally looked funny. This leads me to believe
that the system file on that disk has some things in it that MacProject
depends on that I'm missing elsewhere. Should I simply use that system
folder as my default, install the fonts and DA's, and forget it, or
should I track down and move the missing or changed resources? Anyone
know what they are?
On a more general note, does anyone have a good idea of what revisions of
which software are the most up-to-date and really available? It seems that
the finder is still at 1.1g and MacTerminal at 1.1, but I'm not nearly as
sure about MacPaint, MacWrite, or the printer stuff. Also, how to you keep
track of System files and make sure you have what you need for the
applications you are running, and whether or not you have the most up to
date versions of those resources?
Thanx, as the say, in advance...
chuq
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of a poem is better, which if a man hears, he becomes quiet. --The Dhammapadasjl@amdahl.UUCP (Steve Langdon) (02/14/85)
As answers to chuq's questions may be of general interest I will offer my opinions on the subject. > . Which is the preferred printer interface-- the imagewriter to be > found on the MacProject disk (imagewriter 15) or the imagewriter on the > 512K upgrade disk? Why? How? Probably neither. The only reason I say probably is that I am not sure what the imagewriter on the 512K upgrade disk is. The best driver I know of is the one from the most recent version of the software supplement. It was posted in binhex form in late January. Also posted was the install program (in binhex again) and instructions on installation. The earlier Imagewriter 15 distributed on MacProject has some bugs that were described in an info-mac posting. One word of warning is that there were reports on info-mac of trouble with desk accessories when using the new imagewriter. The cure appeared to be installing the driver after the accessories. I have not experienced these problems myself so I cannot comment on the details. Chuq also related strange behavior when running MacProject off an old system disk and requested information on the current version of various pieces of Apple software. My technique for dealing with system updates is as follows. I take the latest system file released by Apple (currently from MacProject) and modify it to generate systems having my prefered desk accesories and updates such as the imagewriter from the software supplement. Once I have a system I like, I generate varients that have different mixes of fonts. None of my application disks have a system file, but they do have the imagewriter driver file because applications cannot print without an imagewriter file on the same (default?) disk. All of my applications run without apparent problems using this method but you need to be careful about font dependencies (e.g. Multiplan will look different if it can't find the Seattle fonts). Now for versions: Finder 1.1g released - 2.x has been sighted, is faster, but is claimed to have bugs. System ? - my scheme is described above. MacPaint 1.4 MacWrite 3.98 has been reported - I have given up on MacWrite and switched to Word. -- Stephen J. Langdon ...!{ihnp4,hplabs,sun,nsc}!amdahl!sjl [ The article above is not an official statement from any organization in the known universe. ]
spector@acf4.UUCP (David HM Spector) (02/15/85)
Hello... The current versions (released versions, that is.) of things is Finder - 1.1g MacWrite - 2.20 MacPaint - 1.4 Macterminal - 1.1 There may well be Macproject resources in the system folder. But that seems a rather silly thing for Apple to have done. Imagewriter 15 is prob. the best thing to use with 'project, as it knows how to deal with quickdraw objects a bit better than the old one. Dave Spector NYU/acf Systems Group