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From: dcw@athena.mit.edu (David C. Whitney)
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Subject: Re: Just got GS/OS
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Date: 3 Aug 89 17:20:23 GMT
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In article <8908021658.aa23622@ADM.BRL.MIL> DICKSON@HARTFORD.BITNET writes:
>First time in ages I post to this list...
>
>I got System 5.0 today, and I must say I love the new speed on the finder, and
>the new scrolling on long pull-down menus.  That's about all I had time to test
>before going to work, but while installing it on my hard disk I noticed a
>couple problems.


>Later, and this is a new problem, I found that certain icon files cause the
>system to crash when it tries to use them.  I'm not sure which ones yet, but
>will post again when I am.  Anybody else had this problem?  Any ideas about it?

>                                                        William R. Dickson
>
>                                                        DICKSON@HARTFORD.BITNET

I too just got 5.0 (very nice!! - thanks to those who worked on it.
I'm sure we *all* can remain happy for at least 8-10 months :-)

I also noticed a couple of problems. One, I came across by accident,
is with TextEdit. I was renaming a file from the Finder. I clicked,
and the edit bar appeared. When I did stuff to move the cursor (like
DEL, arrows, etc) the insert bar remianed where it was, and a new
blinking one apeared where it was supposed to be. (to put it simply,
the bar didn't properly erase from its original position.) I haven't
been able to do this twice, but we'll see.

My other problem is with Icon files. I have numerous icon files. I
also played around with Finder.Icons and Finder.Icons.X (I added some
of my own stuff like new trash cans - I hate the distributed trash
cans!) At any rate, *some* stuff from my other icon files is ignored.
For example, I have icons for Z-Link and Z-Link config files. Well,
the application icon is ignored while the config file icon is read in.
In fact, all of the application icons defined are ignored (including
the ones made up for Advanced Disk Utilities and Installer).

Can anyone help out?

Dave Whitney	A junior (well, a senior) in Computer Science at MIT
dcw@athena.mit.edu  ...!bloom-beacon!athena.mit.edu!dcw  dcw@goldilocks.mit.edu
I wrote Z-Link & BinSCII. Send me bug reports. I use a //GS. Send me Tech Info.
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