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From: dlyons@Apple.COM (David Lyons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: minor 5.0 chang
Message-ID: <33804@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 7 Aug 89 22:15:14 GMT
References: <890804194855.350008@DOCKMASTER.ARPA>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <890804194855.350008@DOCKMASTER.ARPA> TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL writes:
>I discovered one difference between 5.0 and previous that for awhile had
>me upset.  In the new control panel under alphabet there is somethign
>called "translation".  I don't know what it does, but when I used it as
>delivered ("standard") it caused the optiion key to work strangely on
>Word Perfect.  If I changed it to the other choice ("none") it worked
>fine.  Comments anyone?

Comments?  Yup, it's working just how it's designed to.  "Translation"
means that the Event Manager automatically does Option-key-type
translation when you type; this can cause problems with applications that,
for example, already do their own translation when the Option key is
down.  You already discovered the solution (choosing "None").

>Oh yes, in relation to what somebody else said:  ProSel (at least block
>warden) does block writes which don't seem to get written right away.
>After making some changes I moved around several files and that seemed
>to be enough to get them written, or maybe they got written when I
>exited to GS/OS.

Are you talking about Block Warden running under ProDOS 8?  If so, blocks
are written when WRITE_BLOCK calls are made, and there's no fancy stuff
like caching or sessions going on--at least ProDOS 8 isn't doing them.
What kind of drive are you working with, and what's happens to indicate
that blocks are not getting written right away?

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