flowers@CS.UCLA.EDU (05/08/88)
People may recall my postings asking for help on why my machine
wouldn't let me choose imagewriter, which I wanted since I had just
gotten a Grappler. I got a few good suggestions. The answer turned
out to be pretty simple, and I thought people would be interested.
The grappler was not involved. Some time earlier I had locked my
system file in a fit of virus-paranoia during software testing, before
vaccine was out. Unfortunately, I was accustomed to systems which
warned you if you tried to write a file which was write-protected, and
assumed the Mac would be the same. It was not. Chooser would blithly
let me choose what I wanted, but fail to warn me when the change was
not recorded. Thus, symptoms that there was a problem (problems
finding the printer driver file) were separated from their cause.
I'm posting this so that others are alerted to the lack of warning
message in this type of situation.
Margot Flowers Flowers@CS.UCLA.EDU ...!{ucbvax|ihnp4}!ucla-cs!flowers