mithomas@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Michael Thomas Niehaus) (04/28/89)
Maybe someone out there can answer this question: Yesterday, I person on campus
asked me why he couldn't copy his MacDraw II from one hard drive to the other.
I told him that there shouldn't be any problem, and I went and tried it myself.
It copies fine, but when you try to run the new copy, all of the menus appear
with about 8 spaces in-between each letter in each menu item (and the title).
The application still works (assuming that you don't need the menus on the end
of the menu bar), and all of the command-key shortcuts still work.
I checked to see what version he was running. It was MacDraw II 1.0x22. Now
another questions arises: Does he have a legal copy of MacDraw II? It would
seem to me that this is an experimental version, but I don't know how Claris
goes about numbering its applications.
If the behavior of this application is intentional, does anyone know how they
did it?
-Michael
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Ball State University AppleLink: ST0374 (from UUCP: st0374@applelink.apple.com)captkidd@athena.mit.edu (Ivan Cavero Belaunde) (04/28/89)
In article <6964@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> mithomas@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Michael Thomas Niehaus) writes: >It copies fine, but when you try to run the new copy, all of the menus appear >with about 8 spaces in-between each letter in each menu item (and the title). >The application still works (assuming that you don't need the menus on the end >of the menu bar), and all of the command-key shortcuts still work. That happened to one of the Macs in the lab here, and after much fiddling around, we found that simply recopying the Chicago and Geneva fonts onto the boot disk fixed everything. I don't know whether MD2 corrupted the fonts or something else happened, but it's pretty strange behavior. Anyway, I don't think this is some form of copy-protection, since Claris (or actually MacConnection) advertises its products as not copy-protected. If it is, tho' it is pretty effective. Funny thing, various Claris pgms were affected the same way. Both MD2 and Claris CAD had the strange font problem, but MPaint didn't. Weird weird weird. >-Michael >-- >Michael Niehaus UUCP: <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!mithomas >Apple Student Rep ARPA: mithomas@bsu-cs.bsu.edu >Ball State University AppleLink: ST0374 (from UUCP: st0374@applelink.apple.com) -Ivan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | "My father peddles opium, my mother's on the dole. | | My sister used to walk the streets but now she's on parole. | | My uncle pays with little girlss; my aunt, she raped a steer, | | But they won't even speak to me 'cause I'm an engineer." | | -The MIT Engineers' Drinking Song | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | ARPA: captkidd@athena.mit.edu | | DISCLAIMER: It's my spout, not MIT's (would they really say such garbage?) | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
krazy@claris.com (Jeff Erickson) (05/01/89)
From mithomas@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Michael Thomas Niehaus): > I checked to see what version he was running. It was MacDraw II 1.0x22. Now > another questions arises: Does he have a legal copy of MacDraw II? It would > seem to me that this is an experimental version, but I don't know how Claris > goes about numbering its applications. Heh, heh, heh. Your friend is a stinking thief. :-) What he has is NOT a legal copy. In fact, it's not even a released copy. Some beta tester violated his nondisclosure agreement by copying that sucker. (If we had a copy, we could even find out WHO!) His copy is full of bugs anyway. Tell him to get a real one. -- Jeff Erickson Claris Corporation | Birdie, birdie, in the sky, 408/987-7309 Applelink: Erickson4 | Why'd you do that in my eye? krazy@claris.com ames!claris!krazy | I won't fret, and I won't cry. "I'm a heppy, heppy ket!" | I'm just glad that cows don't fly.