delton@pro-carolina.UUCP (Don Elton) (05/26/89)
Was playing around with system disk 5.0 and found that indeed you can rename a
file to another set of upper/lower case and have it work under GS/OS. The bad
news though is that if you rename the wrong files your disk won't boot. i.e.
START or x.SYSTEM or x.SYS16 has to stay all upper case or the system won't
come up except with an error message saying it can't find a START, x.SYSTEM,
or x.SYS16. Would seem that this quirk is one we could do without.
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In article <8905252340.AA18186@obsolete.UUCP> delton@pro-carolina.UUCP (Don Elton) writes: >Was playing around with system disk 5.0 and found that indeed you can rename a >file to another set of upper/lower case and have it work under GS/OS. The bad >news though is that if you rename the wrong files your disk won't boot. i.e. >START or x.SYSTEM or x.SYS16 has to stay all upper case or the system won't >come up except with an error message saying it can't find a START, x.SYSTEM, >or x.SYS16. Would seem that this quirk is one we could do without. We already found and fixed that bug. Cary Farrier
dlyons@Apple.COM (David Lyons) (05/27/89)
In article <8905252340.AA18186@obsolete.UUCP> delton@pro-carolina.UUCP (Don Elton) writes: >Was playing around with system disk 5.0 and found that indeed you can rename a >file to another set of upper/lower case and have it work under GS/OS. The bad >news though is that if you rename the wrong files your disk won't boot. i.e. >START or x.SYSTEM or x.SYS16 has to stay all upper case or the system won't >come up except with an error message saying it can't find a START, x.SYSTEM, >or x.SYS16. Would seem that this quirk is one we could do without. This was true on some previous beta versions of System Disk 5.0. Beta software has a whole lot of quirks we can do without. --Dave Lyons, Apple Computer, Inc. | DAL Systems AppleLink--Apple Edition: DAVE.LYONS | P.O. Box 875 AppleLink--Personal Edition: Dave Lyons | Cupertino, CA 95015-0875 GEnie: D.LYONS2 or DAVE.LYONS CompuServe: 72177,3233 Internet/BITNET: dlyons@apple.com UUCP: ...!ames!apple!dlyons My opinions are my own, not Apple's.
shatara@memit.dec.com (Chris Shatara) (09/19/89)
I ran into a wierd problem the other evening and I have seen this problem once or twice before. I selected a bunch of files in a folder (about 20) to be deleted and dragged them to the trash can. Upon doing this the trash can dissappeared! The name was there but the picture was GONE! The files were deleted and it wasn't until I ran an aplication and came back to the desk top that the trash can was restored. /chris ============================================================================= | Chris Shatara | Internet: shatara@memit.dec.com | | | shatara@memit.enet.dec.com | | Opinions expressed are | DEC Easynet: memit::shatara | | mine and mine only! | UUCP: ...!decwrl!memit!shatara | =============================================================================
dlyons@Apple.COM (David Lyons) (09/22/89)
In article <829@mountn.dec.com> shatara@memit.dec.com (Chris Shatara) writes: >I ran into a wierd problem the other evening and I have seen this problem >once or twice before. I selected a bunch of files in a folder (about 20) >to be deleted and dragged them to the trash can. Upon doing this the >trash can dissappeared! The name was there but the picture was GONE! The >files were deleted and it wasn't until I ran an aplication and came back >to the desk top that the trash can was restored. >/chris Have you done anything weird to your Finder.Icons or Finder.Icons.x files? That could explain it. You shouldn't add icons to or remove icons from those files, and you shouldn't have any trash-can icons in any *other* icon files. -- --Dave Lyons, Apple Computer, Inc. | DAL Systems AppleLink--Apple Edition: DAVE.LYONS | P.O. Box 875 AppleLink--Personal Edition: Dave Lyons | Cupertino, CA 95015-0875 GEnie: D.LYONS2 or DAVE.LYONS CompuServe: 72177,3233 Internet/BITNET: dlyons@apple.com UUCP: ...!ames!apple!dlyons My opinions are my own, not Apple's.
shatara@memit.dec.com (Chris Shatara) (09/22/89)
>>trash can dissappeared! The name was there but the picture was GONE! The > >Have you done anything weird to your Finder.Icons or Finder.Icons.x files? >That could explain it. You shouldn't add icons to or remove icons from The answer is no. I have been very careful NOT to touch the finder ICON folders. I however do have some other icon files, but these are for AWGS, MSGS etc. Another observation is that I am coming to the conclusion that with GS/OS V3.0 that 1.25 meg is marginal for many applications. When I run into problems with a particular program, DeluxePaint II, DiskTimer V2, AWGS, SHRconvert, etc and inquire on this net about the problems. Those that respond saying that the program works for them, usually have > 1.25Meg of memory. I have 0RAM , NO NDA's. (other than the Control Panel), ran the memory diagnostics until my kids declared war and kicked me off the machine.... Regards, Chris ============================================================================= | Chris Shatara | Internet: shatara@memit.dec.com | | | shatara@memit.enet.dec.com | | Opinions expressed are | DEC Easynet: memit::shatara | | mine and mine only! | UUCP: ...!decwrl!memit!shatara | =============================================================================