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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Binscii and Shrinkit
Message-ID: <13616@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 19 Aug 90 02:16:47 GMT
References: <887@digi.lonestar.org> <27238@nuchat.UUCP>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <27238@nuchat.UUCP> henrym@nuchat.UUCP (Henry Malmgren) writes:
>I just got off of America Online, and I saw an interesting rumor 
>concerning a new version of Prodos 8.  This version is 1.9, and it is 
>supposed to replace the lousy quit code with a "mini-finder".  I also heard
>that it is not compatible with GS/OS 5.0.2, so this might mean a new version
>of the system software is about to be released.  Does anyone have any more
>information about this?

A developer version of ProDOS-8 was distributed at KansasFest,
under a license that forbade redistribution.  It indeed does not
work with GS/OS 5.0.2.  I would be quite surprised if it were
never released by Apple.