edgar@dasys1.UUCP (Edgar Balagot) (05/13/88)
What has happened to the System Tools 6.0 release that Apple promised?? Does anyone know?? I, for one, don't know. If anyone does, I would sure like to find out. Thanks in advance. Eagerly awaiting reply. Hmmm...System 4.2, Multifinder 1.0 and Finder 6.0 are have too many bugs...that's why I am so eager to find out!! -- Edgar Balagot Big Electric Cat Public UNIX ..!cmcl2!phri!dasys1!edgar
korn@eris (Peter "Arrgh" Korn) (05/15/88)
In <4421@dasys1.UUCP>, edgar@dasys1.UUCP (Edgar Balagot) said:
>What has happened to the System Tools 6.0 release that Apple promised??
System Disk 6.0 is finished. It went "Golden" last Thursday. For those
who absolutely positively cannot wait another second, drive down to
Cupertino, with 4 formatted diskettes in hand, and go to the lobby of
DeAnza III, wait in line (if there is one) and get System Disk 6.0.
Or wait the few days it'll take to get it out to Dealers and authorized
users groups and get it from them. APDA should also have it within the
next few days too.
Peter
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{decvax,dual,hplabs,sdcsvax,ulysses}!ucbvax!kornIlan@cup.portal.com (05/17/88)
>>In <4421@dasys1.UUCP>, edgar@dasys1.UUCP (Edgar Balagot) said: >>What has happened to the System Tools 6.0 release that Apple promised?? >System Disk 6.0 is finished. It went "Golden" last Thursday. For those >who absolutely positively cannot wait another second, drive down to >Cupertino, with 4 formatted diskettes in hand, and go to the lobby of >DeAnza III, wait in line (if there is one) and get System Disk 6.0. >Peter "Arrgh" Korn >korn@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU >{decvax,dual,hplabs,sdcsvax,ulysses}!ucbvax!korn Which lobby of DeAnza III, Peter ? The North or the South ? Is there a person I should contact ? I gave Apple a call and they dont seem to know where 6.0 is being distributed. - Ilan Rabinowitz - with ILANET(tm) Ilan@cup.portal.com
han@Apple.COM (Byron Han, Licensed To Dream.) (05/18/88)
In article <5514@cup.portal.com> Ilan@cup.portal.com writes: >>>In <4421@dasys1.UUCP>, edgar@dasys1.UUCP (Edgar Balagot) said: >>>What has happened to the System Tools 6.0 release that Apple promised?? > >>System Disk 6.0 is finished. It went "Golden" last Thursday. For those >>who absolutely positively cannot wait another second, drive down to >>Cupertino, with 4 formatted diskettes in hand, and go to the lobby of >>DeAnza III, wait in line (if there is one) and get System Disk 6.0. > Folks - Peter is wrong. We do NOT have clone stations open to the general public in the lobby of any of our buildings! For information on getting System disks, please bug your dealers. That is what they are paid for! 8-) Just to clear up confusion and potential thousands of angry hordes clamoring for system software... :-) -- Byron Han, Licensed to Dream. "Macintosh - there is no substitute." Apple Computer, Inc. MS 27Y ------------------------------------- ATTnet:408-973-6450 applelink:HAN1 domain:han@apple.COM MacNET:HAN GENIE:BYRONHAN COMPUSERVE:72167,1664 UUCP:{sun,voder,nsc,decwrl}!apple!han
steve@hpiacla.HP.COM (Steve Witten) (05/20/88)
Can you outline the highlights?
Thanks in advance.
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"...I feel in touch with the modern world!..." --J. Richmankorn@eris (Peter "Arrgh" Korn) (05/20/88)
In <5515@cup.portal.com>, Ilan@cup.portal.com said: >>>In <4421@dasys1.UUCP>, edgar@dasys1.UUCP (Edgar Balagot) said: >>>What has happened to the System Tools 6.0 release that Apple promised?? > >>[me directing people who absolutely positively needed it immediately to DeAnza III to find it in a lobby] Well, I blew it on this one. Indeed, as was pointed out, there is no such machine in the lobby of DAIII with System Disk 6.0 on it. I mistook one machine in one lobby during a gathering to celebrate 6.0 getting released as something more than it was. Of course, that day happened to be the last day I was down in Cupertino for a while, so I wasn't there to notice that no machine was sitting in the lobby as I thought (mistakenly) it would be. Hence my previous posting. Again, let me appologize for anyone I've inconvienced by this. Peter -- Peter "Arrgh" Korn korn@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU {decvax,dual,hplabs,sdcsvax,ulysses}!ucbvax!korn
chuq@plaid.UUCP (05/21/88)
>Can you outline the highlights?
Well, for one thing, it evidently breaks 4th Dimension rather badly. Not
sure who's fault it is, yet....
Chuq Von Rospach chuq@sun.COM Delphi: CHUQ
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read his words and speak his name. Rest in Peace.spector@vx2.GBA.NYU.EDU (David HM Spector) (05/22/88)
Its probably that the versions of 6.0 that have been floating around are
not yet final. There are bugs in the date routines and others. I was
running it until I discovered that 4D was not working any more...
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"What computer can do work like this?" "Hire us and we'll tell you."lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein) (05/24/88)
In article <1660001@hpiacla.HP.COM> steve@hpiacla.HP.COM (Steve Witten) writes: >Can you outline the highlights? Sure, except this is going to be from the point of view of a user, since I am not familiar with the internal changes. First there are the usual bug fixes. I don't have a complete list of them, however. Two that I know about: (1) popup menus can pop up on any screen of a Mac II, (2) the bug in MultiFinder that could hang the machine has been fixed (as promised in the Tech Note). The Sound Manager has been ported to the Mac Plus and Mac SE. The sound CDEV will now work on those machines and they can use any beep sound that a Mac II could use. All machines have the Notification Manager, which allows DAs and application to give the use notification even if they are not the frontmost application. (One of the things you can do is put a small icon in the menu bar to indicate which apps need attention.) The Alarm Clock and Print Monitor have been modified to use the Notification Manager. Under MultiFinder, if you double click on a document and the application is already running, MF will try to have the application open the document. This depends on the application having an Open... item in the File menu, although applications can include resources that direct MF to the right item. The Finder will identify INIT files as "Startup documents"; cdevs as "Control Panel documents"; and device files as "Chooser documents". The Finder supports a file versioning scheme (see Tech Note 189). A file can have a vers resource to indicate its version. There can be a second resource to indicate the version of a group of files. This addresses a complaint people have had, namely that the different files making up a system release have different version numbers. In System 6.0 if you do a Get Info on any system file, you will see that it is part of "System Software Version 6.0." All the DAs on the disks now remember their window positions. The disks come with the AppleShare workstation code (version 1.1). There is the Map cdev, which lets you tell the system where you are (latitude & longitude). There is the Close View cdev, which can be used to magnify your screen. There is the MacroMaker INIT, that lets you define simple keyboard macros. QuickerGraf is incorporated into the system patches (not as an INIT). There were some additions to TextEdit. In particular, TESetStyle now has a new mode bit that says to toggle the styles. This addresses the problem people were having when trying to remove a style (eg, bold) from characters that had more than one style (eg, bold, italic). The LaserWriter driver supports 11x17 pages (on printers that can handle this). It also has a new option for smoothing bitmap fonts separately from other bitmaps. This covers the main highlights. As I mentioned, this is not a complete list; I'm sure that other people, who were directly involved with the code, can add to this list. -- Larry Rosenstein, Object Specialist Apple Computer, Inc. 20525 Mariani Ave, MS 27-AJ Cupertino, CA 95014 AppleLink:Rosenstein1 domain:lsr@Apple.COM UUCP:{sun,voder,nsc,decwrl}!apple!lsr
nick@ccicpg.UUCP (Nick Crossley) (05/25/88)
In article <10941@apple.Apple.Com> lsr@apple.UUCP (Larry Rosenstein) writes: >... a quick summary of System Tools 6.0 ... What about the Desktop file? Has the Resource Manager version used in releases up to System Tools 5.0 been replaced by a faster version? I understand this is done in the AppleShare(?) software, and that this Desktop INIT? CDEV? can be successfully used in System Tools 5.0. Does Apple officially support this usage, and are there any other benefits or drawbacks besides performance? Does it affect programs such as Disk First Aid, Disk Express, etc., in any way? With the standard 5.0 version, adding a new icon, etc., to a hard disk can be VERY slow! -- <<< standard disclaimers >>> Nick Crossley, CCI, 9801 Muirlands, Irvine, CA 92718-2521, USA Tel. (714) 458-7282, uucp: ...!uunet!ccicpg!nick