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From: murat@farcomp.UUCP (Murat Konar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: New Macs--System 6.0.7
Message-ID: <269@farcomp.UUCP>
Date: 20 Oct 90 00:13:25 GMT
References: <9331@milton.u.washington.edu> <28859@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: murat@farcomp.UUCP (Murat Konar)
Organization: Farallon Computing Inc. Berkeley, CA
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In article <28859@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> bruce@cory.Berkeley.EDUIn article <9331@milton.u.washington.edu> phaedrus@milton.u.washington.edu (Mark Phaedrus) writes: writes:
[ about 6.0.6 and 6.0.7]
>This was a big surprise.  Developers get alpha, beta, and final versions of the
>System before it ships and we never heard a word about it.  I dug around 
>AppleLink and found a note saying that 6.0.7 fixed an AppleTalk bug. It did 
>not have any other details but it must have been a bad bug.


As I understand it, the bug caused SysEnvirons to return an AppleTalk version
of 0. Naturally, this would cause many applications and utilities that use
AppleTalk to fail.


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