mjohnson@Apple.COM (Mark B. Johnson) (03/20/90)
It has taken a long time to happen, but the disk images for System Software
6.0.5 are now available on Apple.com for anonymous FTP. These files are in
a special sw.license directory. You may FTP files from this directory, but
you may NOT legally redistribute these files electronically. By downloading
these files, you are also bound to the terms and conditions in the End User
License Agreement found in the same directory. In addition, each of the files
has this agreement prepended to its BinHex form. You need to read and remove
these headers before decoding the file.
PLEASE WAIT UNTIL NON-PRIMETIME HOURS TO DOWNLOAD THESE FILES. Each image is
over 800K in size, and this much traffic during peak hours must be avoided.
The BinHex files produce StuffIt files of the disk images. When you UnStuff
these files, you will get DiskCopy documents. DiskCopy is an application from
Apple for producing exact disk images and for creating floppy disks from these
images. You also need to download DiskCopy for these images to be of any use
to you. WARNING: DiskCopy is currently incompatible with SUM II and SAM from
Symantec. If you get errors or problems with DiskCopy, check to see if these
are the problem.
We are currently working with our Software License department to allow further
redistribution of these files and to allow us to post other licensed software.
Until that time, please don't ask why other things are not posted and do not
further redistribute these files.
To get System Software 6.0.5...
anonymous ftp to Apple.com (130.43.2.2) with password guest.
Look in ~ftp/pub/dts/sw.license
get the Read Me file and the End User License Agreement. Once you have
read these, get DiskCopy and the disk images. All disk images are prefixed
by 605i. If you don't know if you want to upgrade to 6.0.5, then you may
want to read the DRAFT change history or user-level technical information
on 6.0.5 documents which are also available in this directory.
After getting the files...
Read and remove the license prepended to each file
Decode the files with BinHex then StuffIt
Run DiskCopy to produce original floppy disks
Boot your machine with the Systems Tools disk and run the Installer...
Enjoy.
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-r 892245 Mar 19 11:33 ./sw.license/605i-utilities-1.hqx
-r 873148 Mar 19 10:57 ./sw.license/605i-system-tools.hqx
-r 855075 Mar 19 10:28 ./sw.license/605i-printing-tools.hqx
-r 2411 Mar 19 10:25 ./sw.license/605-readme.txt
-r 3413 Mar 19 10:19 ./sw.license/605-technical-information.txt
-r 872085 Mar 19 09:56 ./sw.license/605i-network-products-installer.hqx
-r 4022 Mar 19 09:54 ./README
-r 9518 Mar 19 09:27 ./sw.license/end-user-license-agreement.txt
-r 96561 Mar 19 09:27 ./sw.license/diskcopy-4-1.hqx
-r 19384 Mar 19 09:23 ./sw.license/605-draft-change-history.hqx
-r 3180 Mar 19 08:43 ./press/pr0319-memory-price-reductions.txt
-r 6102 Mar 19 08:43 ./press/pr0319-high-performance-products.txt
-r 8257 Mar 19 08:43 ./press/pr0319-high-performance-display-cards.txt
-r 7072 Mar 19 08:42 ./press/pr0319-high-performance-macintosh.txt
-r 3239 Mar 19 08:42 ./press/pr0319-customer-reseller-training.txt
-r 4742 Mar 19 08:42 ./press/pr0319-comm-college-alliance.txt
-r 2382 Mar 19 08:42 ./press/pr0319-aux20-update-program.txt
-r 6129 Mar 19 08:42 ./press/pr0319-aux20-announced.txt
-r 1604 Mar 16 08:06 ./press/pr0315-higher-qtr2-earnings.txt
-r 20068 Mar 15 12:23 ./mac/docs/sadmac-errorcodes.hqx
-r 418347 Mar 15 12:14 ./mac/stacks/serialport-toolkit-2-6.hqx
-r 4204 Mar 15 11:58 ./press/pr0315-appleii-high-speed-scsi.txt
-r 750 Mar 15 08:31 ./help/ftp-status
-r 686 Mar 12 09:41 ./press/pr0309-repurchase-shares.txt
-r 2618 Mar 8 12:54 ./press/pr0308-one-year-warranty.txt
-r 177649 Mar 7 18:04 ./mac/sys.soft/truetype-info-stack.hqx
-r 4257 Mar 7 11:55 ./mac/sc/sc-formpw31users.txt
-r 29111 Mar 7 10:44 ./mac/defprocs/wprocasm.hqx
-r 20479 Mar 7 10:43 ./mac/defprocs/sbarcdef.hqx
-r 770 Mar 7 10:42 ./mac/defprocs/readme-defprocs.txt
-r 18529 Mar 7 10:42 ./mac/defprocs/rdocproc.hqx
-r 60771 Mar 7 10:42 ./mac/defprocs/mdefproc.hqx
-r 5466 Mar 7 10:40 ./mac/defprocs/ldefproc0.hqx
-r 18612 Mar 7 10:39 ./mac/defprocs/butcdef.hqx
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"You gave your life to become the person you are right now. Was it worth it?"
- Richard Bach, _One_pnm@goanna.oz.au (Paul Big-Ears Menon) (03/20/90)
In article <39647@apple.Apple.COM>, mjohnson@Apple.COM (Mark B. Johnson) writes: >It has taken a long time to happen, but the disk images for System Software >6.0.5 are now available on Apple.com for anonymous FTP. These files are in >a special sw.license directory. You may FTP files from this directory, but ThankyouThankyouThankyouThankyouThankyouThankyouThankyouThankyouThankyou ThankyouThankyouThankyouThankyouThankyouThankyouThankyouThankyouThankyou >PLEASE WAIT UNTIL NON-PRIMETIME HOURS TO DOWNLOAD THESE FILES. Each image is >over 800K in size, and this much traffic during peak hours must be avoided. A question. With international accesses, it becomes dificult to gauge the TimeZone for a site. Is there a TIME command in ftp? Is it possible for popular sites to include their local time in their sign on message? It would prevent bad feelings from all points of view. Thankyou, Paul Menon, Dept of Computer Science, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, 124 Latrobe Street, Melbourne 3001, Victoria, Australia. pnm@goanna.cs.rmit.OZ.AU PH: +61 3 660 3209
dan@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Dan Schwarz) (03/20/90)
In article <2991@goanna.oz.au> pnm@goanna.oz.au (Paul Big-Ears Menon) writes: >In article <39647@apple.Apple.COM>, mjohnson@Apple.COM (Mark B. Johnson) writes: > >>It has taken a long time to happen, but the disk images for System Software >>6.0.5 are now available on Apple.com for anonymous FTP. These files are in >>a special sw.license directory. You may FTP files from this directory, but > > ThankyouThankyouThankyouThankyouThankyouThankyouThankyouThankyouThankyou > ThankyouThankyouThankyouThankyouThankyouThankyouThankyouThankyouThankyou > > Paul Menon, Let me also say "thank you!" for making System 6.0.5 available through FTP (lets hope 7.0 follows shortly :-) ... Let me be the first to start with some questions: I have a Mac SE which was previously running the combination System 6.0.1 / Finder 6.1b7 - this worked very well, but I thought it might be time to see what new fixes and such Apple had in store with this revision. One ANNOYING thing I see is that the resident-program-list has been moved back to the bottom of the DA list. I find this to be much less convenient than the placement in 6.1b7. Why the change? -- | some rise... | Dan Schwarz, MB 2926 Brandeis U. | RECYCLE YOUR JUNK| | some fall... | I'NET dan@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu | SUPPORT EARTH DAY| | some climb... |----------------------------------| tradetapes?mailme| | to get to Terrapin ... GRATEFUL DEAD | FloydRushDeadEtc.|
mjohnson@Apple.COM (Mark B. Johnson) (03/20/90)
In article <1990Mar20.044715.17957@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu> dan@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Dan Schwarz) writes: > >Let me also say "thank you!" for making System 6.0.5 available through FTP >(lets hope 7.0 follows shortly :-) ... Let me be the first to start with some >questions: > >I have a Mac SE which was previously running the combination System 6.0.1 / >Finder 6.1b7 - this worked very well, but I thought it might be time to see >what new fixes and such Apple had in store with this revision. One ANNOYING >thing I see is that the resident-program-list has been moved back to the >bottom of the DA list. I find this to be much less convenient than the >placement in 6.1b7. Why the change? >-- No change. MultiFinder 6.1bx (SADE MultiFinder) is currently an unsupported product from Apple and only ships with SADE and MPW. If you choose to use it, you can reinstall it and the DA Handler from your original SADE/MPW package and everything will be back to the way it was before, but with the benefits of 6.0.5 fixes. In addition, the current version of 6.1bx is b9. -- Mark B. Johnson AppleLink: mjohnson Developer Technical Support domain: mjohnson@Apple.com Apple Computer, Inc. UUCP: {amdahl,decwrl,sun,unisoft}!apple!mjohnson "You gave your life to become the person you are right now. Was it worth it?" - Richard Bach, _One_
newbery@rata.vuw.ac.nz (Michael Newbery) (03/21/90)
Might I make a plea to shorten the file names on the Apple file server so
they conform to Macintosh file name length limitations? At least the 6.0.5
software! Tsk tsk. And while I'm on my soap box, how about
(a) using a restartable ftp
(b) providing macbinary as well as hqx files for those of us with binary
ftp and slow Internet connections.
--
Michael Newbery<newbery@rata.vuw.ac.nz> (...!uunet!vuwcomp!newbery if you must)
"There were no survivors, sir. I'm afraid we'll have to find another test market"rterry@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Ray Terry) (03/21/90)
Has anybody gotten Diskcopy to work? I've ftp_ed it twice now and w/o any INITs, Mac II, System 6.0.4, MF 6.1b9, it either always hangs the Mac or bombs it (ID=10, I think it was). I tried running it both from the startup hard disk and a floppy. It did a little better when run from a floppy, but would bomb when I tried to load the image... Did I miss something? Any help would be appreciated. Ray rterry%hpda@hplabs.hp.com
yost@esquire.UUCP (David A. Yost) (03/22/90)
-------- In article <39647@apple.Apple.COM> mjohnson@Apple.COM (Mark B. Johnson) writes: >WARNING: DiskCopy is currently incompatible with SUM II and SAM from >Symantec. Please give more details. I used it today on my IIci to copy floppies of 6.0.5 and now I'm wondering. Does it quietly write bad floppies, does it crash sometimes, what's the nature of the incompatibility, and on what machines running what systems? Thanks. --dave yost yost@dpw.com or uunet!esquire!yost Please ignore the From or Reply-To fields above, if different.
rterry@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Ray Terry) (03/22/90)
Does Diskcopy work with Desktop mgr??? Perhaps that is why it didn't work for me. (It is at home and I'm at work right now.) If anyone using Desktop Mgr got it to work, please let me know. Thanks. Ray
allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) (03/22/90)
+--------------- | In article <1990Mar20.044715.17957@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu> dan@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Dan Schwarz) writes: | >Let me also say "thank you!" for making System 6.0.5 available through FTP | >(lets hope 7.0 follows shortly :-) ... Let me be the first to start with some +--------------- Will it be possible to get HyperCard 1.2.5 this way at some point? I'm still running 6.0.2 because I use HyperCard but don't have the time to find a reputable local dealer to get 1.2.5 from. (I no longer have any respect for my previous dealer....) ++Brandon -- Brandon S. Allbery (human), allbery@NCoast.ORG (Inet), BALLBERY (MCI Mail) ALLBERY (Delphi), uunet!cwjcc.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery (UUCP), B.ALLBERY (GEnie) BrandonA (A-Online) ("...and a partridge in a pear tree!" ;-)
rterry@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Ray Terry) (03/22/90)
Sorry for all the msgs here... I've heard from several folks that tell me it worked fine for them, but also several others that are also having trouble. After reinstalling system 6.0.4 on my system (just in case), after directly launching Diskcopy it tells me that the Finder is damaged or busy... Tells me the same thing when I boot from the 6.0.4 disk from Apple. So I guess I'll just wait until my 6.0.5 disks arrive in the mail. Thanks to all those that replied. Ray
kovar@popvax.uucp (David C. Kovar) (03/23/90)
In article <-286499951@hpcupt1.HP.COM> rterry@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Ray Terry) writes: >Has anybody gotten Diskcopy to work? I've ftp_ed it twice now and w/o any >INITs, Mac II, System 6.0.4, MF 6.1b9, it either always hangs the Mac or >bombs it (ID=10, I think it was). I tried running it both from the startup >hard disk and a floppy. It did a little better when run from a floppy, but >would bomb when I tried to load the image... DiskCopy does seem to be a tad sensitive to things. I tried running it on my Portable and kept getting an Error -39. I eventually copied the image onto a floppy disk and read the image into DiskCopy from there. Everything worked fine. It's a very slick program, when it works. I also shut off all my INITs, just to be sure. Never bombed. By the by, this is a Portable with 2MB of memory, 40MB disk. -David -David C. Kovar Consultant ARPA: kovar@popvax.harvard.edu Eclectic Associates BITNET: corwin@harvarda.bitnet
teener@apple.com (Michael Teener) (03/23/90)
In article <-286499948@hpcupt1.HP.COM> rterry@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Ray Terry) writes: > Does Diskcopy work with Desktop mgr??? Perhaps that is why it didn't > work for me. (It is at home and I'm at work right now.) Works like a charm for me, and I use almost all INITs in existence ... including Desktop Manager. ---- Michael Teener -- 408-974-3521 ---------------------------------+ ---- Internet teener@apple.com, AppleLink TEENER | ---- Apple may know my opinions, but *I* am responsible for them | ---------------------------------------------------------------------+ Transportation by Cheetah N9900U, a loyal beast for the past 7 years.
rterry@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Ray Terry) (03/23/90)
The utility DiskCopy (Apple 3.5" Disk Duplicator, v4.1) that is used to convert the System 6.0.5 disk images available via anonymous ftp from apple.com has a very definite bug/incompatibility. DiskCopy cannot be launched from a hard disk that has been partitioned with Silverlining (v5.17 in my case). When DiskCopy is launched from a Silverling partitioned disk it bombs (ID=10, hangs, and/or tells you that the Finder is damaged or missing). Workaround = move DiskCopy to a non-Silverling partitioned disk and launch from there. All works fine then. Thanks to the others also having problems w/DiskCopy that helped me to finally isolate this bug. Ray * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Ray Terry Hewlett Packard Company /HP4700/M2 GEnie : R.Terry CONNECT: Ray Packet: N6PHJ @ N6IIU.#NOCAL.CA.USA UUCP : sun!hpda!hpcupt1!rterry Domain: rterry%hpda@hplabs.hp.com SysOp : MacScience BBS 408-866-4933 IPaddr: 44.4.0.214 N6PHJ.norcal.ampr CIS : 71150,735
kellogg@prodigal.psych.rochester.edu (Lars Kellogg-Stedman) (03/23/90)
In article 54829, rterry@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Ray Terry) said, in part... >Does Diskcopy work with Desktop mgr??? Perhaps that is why it didn't >work for me. (It is at home and I'm at work right now.) > >If anyone using Desktop Mgr got it to work, please let me know. > >Thanks. > >Ray I'm using Desktop Manager. Diskcopy works fine, as long as I boot it off of a floppy. Lars kellogg@prodigal.psych.rochester.edu
minow@mountn.dec.com (Martin Minow) (03/23/90)
After I installed 6.0.5 on top of an existing 6.0.4 system file, the Mac crashed solid (ID=12) immediately after booting. I worked around this by moving the new (crashing) System file to another directory and installing 6.0.5 on a "fresh" system. This seems to work ok. Oh, yes, when I tried copying the huge collection of screen fonts (souvenier of MacInTax), Font/DA mover died with error 4,-1. Copying fonts one-by-one worked. This is by way of warning: don't forget to backup your system before upgrading. Martin Minow minow@thundr.enet.dec.com
tempest@walleye.uucp (Ken) (03/26/90)
In article <-286499945@hpcupt1.HP.COM> rterry@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Ray Terry) writes: [...] >DiskCopy cannot be launched from a hard disk that has been partitioned with >Silverlining (v5.17 in my case). When DiskCopy is launched from a Silverling [...] However, DiskCopy will work with SilverLining v5.2. Call LaCie and ask for an upgrade. Ken _____________________________________________________________________________ Kenneth K.F. Lui | Other paths you can use: tempest@csuchico.edu | tempest@csuchico.edu, tempest@csuchico ________________________________|____________________________________________