phil@waikato.ac.nz (04/19/91)
I may have missed the discussion on the following, as I haven't read this group for a while, so apologies if this is a repetition of what has gone before... As far as I can determine, WriteNow 2.2 does not work on a Classic. Does anyone know what, if anything, T/Maker plan to do about it, or if there is already a free upgrade to a bug fix version? It would seem to be a sensible thing to provide, since an entry level WP isn't much good if it won't run on an entry-level computer... I have tried WN 2.2 on other Mac models running System 6.0.7 without any problems, BTW. -- Phil Etheridge (phil@waikato.ac.nz) Phax: +64 +71 384 155 Computer Services/Mathematics & Statistics Phone: +64 +71 568 299 x 8339 University of Waikato, Hamilton, NZ. I'd rather be MTBing
dburr@headcrash.Berkeley.EDU (Donald Burr) (04/19/91)
In article <1991Apr19.170835.3504@waikato.ac.nz> phil@waikato.ac.nz writes: >I may have missed the discussion on the following, as I haven't read this group >for a while, so apologies if this is a repetition of what has gone before... > >As far as I can determine, WriteNow 2.2 does not work on a Classic. Does >anyone know what, if anything, T/Maker plan to do about it, or if there is >already a free upgrade to a bug fix version? It would seem to be a sensible >thing to provide, since an entry level WP isn't much good if it won't run on an >entry-level computer... > >I have tried WN 2.2 on other Mac models running System 6.0.7 without any >problems, BTW. >-- >Phil Etheridge (phil@waikato.ac.nz) Phax: +64 +71 384 155 >Computer Services/Mathematics & Statistics Phone: +64 +71 568 299 x 8339 >University of Waikato, Hamilton, NZ. I'd rather be MTBing Really? WriteNow is incompatible with the Classic? I've run both WriteNow 2.0 and 2.2 on my 4meg Classic, under both System 6.0.7 and 7.0b1/b4, using just about every diferent kind of INIT configuration, and haven't had any problems with it. What, specifically, are the incompatibilities you mention? ======================================================================= Donald Burr; Univ of California, Berkeley | America Online: DonaldBurr INTERNET: dburr@ocf.Berkeley.EDU |_Compu$erve:_72540,3071____________ or: 72540.3071@compuserve.COM | "Send flames to /dev/null."
dplatt@ntg.uucp (Dave Platt) (04/20/91)
In article <1991Apr19.170835.3504@waikato.ac.nz> phil@waikato.ac.nz writes: >As far as I can determine, WriteNow 2.2 does not work on a Classic. Does >anyone know what, if anything, T/Maker plan to do about it, or if there is >already a free upgrade to a bug fix version? It would seem to be a sensible >thing to provide, since an entry level WP isn't much good if it won't run on an >entry-level computer... I tried WriteNow 2.2 on a Classic in our lab. GateKeeper immediately began reporting that it was vetoing attempts by WriteNow to change some of the resource attributes of one of the system's DRVR resources. I checked the application for virus infection using Disinfectant 2.4; it's clean. I gave WriteNow permission to do "res/system" operations in Gatekeeper's Settings dialog. This seems to have resolved the problem... I entered a short Jabberwocky quotation, changed the fonts and point-sizes of the text, and printed it (via our CAP spooler). It worked just fine. I'm not sure what Gatekeeper is doing to the DRVR resource in the System... perhaps it's setting the "lock" bit to avoid memory clobbering under obscure conditions? Nor do I know why this affects only the Classic (the same copy of WriteNow runs without complaint on my IIci). To answer your question directly... I can't speak for T/Maker, but I do have reason to believe that they're working on a new release which will fix certain problems in version 2.2 (for one: WriteNow 2.2 is not 32-bit clean, and will crash under System 7's 32-bit addressing mode). -- Dave Platt VOICE: (415) 813-8917 UUCP: ...apple!ntg!dplatt USNAIL: New Technologies Group Inc. 2468 Embarcardero Way, Palo Alto CA 94303
dhansen@ogicse.ogi.edu (David Hansen) (04/20/91)
In article <1991Apr19.170835.3504@waikato.ac.nz> phil@waikato.ac.nz writes: >I may have missed the discussion on the following, as I haven't read this group >for a while, so apologies if this is a repetition of what has gone before... > >As far as I can determine, WriteNow 2.2 does not work on a Classic. [...] >-- >Phil Etheridge (phil@waikato.ac.nz) Phax: +64 +71 384 155 >Computer Services/Mathematics & Statistics Phone: +64 +71 568 299 x 8339 >University of Waikato, Hamilton, NZ. I'd rather be MTBing I've been using WriteNow 2.2 for months without any problem on my Classic 2/40. When you launch WriteNow it does say version 2.2a so perhaps there was some fix applied to a previous 2.2(?) - David