JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu (JKT) (02/17/91)
I dunno why they did it, but Quark made version 3.0 of QuarkXpress
incompatible with A-Max II. QuarkXPress 2.12 loads and runs fine;
I've used it for months without problem. But I recently got version
3.0, and it hangs the machine before it even gets to the intro screen.
I called Quark and they were totally unaware of the problem. *sigh*
Anyway, chalk this one up as the first major application that is
incompatible with A-Max II. There goes our gleaming track record!
Kurt
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-----------------------------------------------------------------------drz@po.CWRU.Edu (David R. Zinkin) (02/17/91)
One of the things QuarkExpress 3.0 does when it starts up is to attempt to register the serial number of the specific copy of QuarkExpress 3.0 which is being launched. If there is already another copy in use with the same serial number on the network, the second copy of the program will not run. Although I don't know how A-Max II handles AppleTalk calls, I would suspect that the crash may have something to do with the serial number-based copy protection. Versions 2.0 and later of SuperLaserSpool 2.0 (formerly sold by SuperMac, now sold by Fifth Generation Systems) and DiskExpress 2.04 (ALSoft) also use this form of copy protection; if you have access to these programs, you might try running them to see what happens. Quark Systems uses this instead of the disk-based copy protection found on early versions of QuarkExpress; if this *is* the problem, I suspect you'll have a difficult time trying to get Quark to remedy it. Hope this helps, -- Dave P.S. I'm a Mac user, not an Amiga user; hope no one minds! :-) -- David Zinkin (drz@po.cwru.edu) -- Rochester General Hospital Radiology (Consultant) and Case Western Reserve Univ. (Psychology/Chemistry) Prisoner of CHEM 302 and CHEM 305 (until May 7, 1991!)