taob@pnet91.cts.com (Brian Tao) (11/10/90)
I have received a lot of mail regarding System 5.0.3. I know it is
available on GEnie (where Apple released its system software), but apparently
it has not made it to America On-line yet. No, I will NOT shrink and binscii
the two disks!!! How would you like to send two 500K+ text files at 2400-bps
to a remote ProLine site? Can you say "probable line noise"? Be patient, and
it will certainly come to you. I imagine it will be a couple of weeks before
the dealers get copies of 5.0.3, so check in with them from time to time. It
has many improvements and bug fixes over System 5.0.2, including the annoying
StandardFile glitch which caused the system to hang if the current prefix
could not be found on any drive. It also auto-highlights the file name when
you select "Save As..." now, so you can type in the name right away, instead
of hitting Clear first.
There is also interest in the sound sample to ASIF converter, so I'll post
that on comp.binaries as soon as possible. If anyone doesn't have access to
comp.bin, I'll e-mail you a copy.
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System 5.03 has been on GEnie (A2); AO (ADV & AHW), and Compuserve (APPPROD) since November 8th, 1201am. They were released at the exact same time on all three services. Also, this may have been previously discussed [and if so, ignore it - it doesn't matter to me :)] but are you sure you can post 5.03 to a ftp site/comp.bin.apple2? You do need a licensing agreement to distribute it.
lucifer@world.std.com (Kevin S Green) (11/11/90)
As of Nov. 8th, 1990 GS/OS 5.0.3 System disk and System Tools is available from America Online in the Developer's Conference. I am currently running it from my harddisk after spending 113 minutes downloading it.
gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) (11/11/90)
In article <144@generic.UUCP> taob@pnet91.cts.com (Brian Tao) writes: > I have received a lot of mail regarding System 5.0.3. I know it is >available on GEnie (where Apple released its system software), but apparently >it has not made it to America On-line yet. It is on AOL as of 10-Nov-1990. I downloaded both shrunk disks this morning. The reason for not uploading it to comp.binaries.apple2 is that we do not have Apple's permission to do so. The software is Apple proprietary, not freeware.
taob@pnet91.cts.com (Brian Tao) (11/11/90)
From 6600prao@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Parik Rao): > System 5.03 has been on GEnie (A2); AO (ADV & AHW), > and Compuserve (APPPROD) since November 8th, 1201am. > They were released at the exact same time on all > three services. Also, this may have been previously > discussed [and if so, ignore it - it doesn't matter > to me :)] but are you sure you can post 5.03 to a > ftp site/comp.bin.apple2? You do need a licensing > agreement to distribute it. I never intended to upload System 5.0.3 onto comp.bin.a2 anyway... long text uploads usually don't go over too well from the lack of error-checking. The two disks would probably take up about a meg and a bit of message space. \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ | Brian T. Tao | UUCP: torag!pnet91!taob | / \ | University of Toronto | INET: taob@pnet91.cts.com | \ The Apple II / | Scarberia, ON | taob@pro-micol.cts.com | / Lives On!! \ |:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::| \ / | "Computer guru? Someone who got their computer a | /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ | couple of weeks before you did." (Alvin Toffler) |
gt0t+@andrew.cmu.edu (Gregory Ross Thompson) (11/13/90)
gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes: > The reason for not uploading it to comp.binaries.apple2 is that we do not > have Apple's permission to do so. The software is Apple proprietary, not > freeware. I know this has been asked before, but I don't remember the answer, and I think it was a while ago... Here's the question: Is there any way we can get Apple to put the system disk up on Apple's own FTP site? Mac System 6.0.7 is there, why isn't 5.0.3? -Greg T.
toddpw@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel) (11/13/90)
gt0t+@andrew.cmu.edu (Gregory Ross Thompson) writes: >gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes: >> The reason for not uploading it to comp.binaries.apple2 is that we do not >> have Apple's permission to do so. The software is Apple proprietary, not >> freeware. > I know this has been asked before, but I don't remember the answer, >and I think it was a while ago... Here's the question: Is there any >way we can get Apple to put the system disk up on Apple's own FTP >site? Mac System 6.0.7 is there, why isn't 5.0.3? Because they had to go through all kinds of legal jazz to get the Mac system there in the first place, and it's taking even longer to do the same for the GS system. Apple plans to move all it's anonymous FTP stuff to another machine, which will have ALL of Apple's officially released software and developers' notes available for both product lines. However, I think they have been at it long enough -- I don't see what is holding them up after this long. Todd Whitesel toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu
bh@eng.auburn.edu (Brian Hartsfield) (11/13/90)
What is the site # for Apple's FTP site? If you wanted apple to put it on there, I would send a mail messahe to someboy in apple and ask them (ifyou know the user id of anybody over that would have any control over that)