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From: prophet@oxy.edu (Dale Bruce LaFountain)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: System Disk 5.0.3 and two observations
Message-ID: <123529@tiger.oxy.edu>
Date: 7 Nov 90 17:07:24 GMT
References: <1990Nov4.204538.23309@cbnewsd.att.com>
Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA  90041
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There are not very many new features in System 5.03, but here are the
things that have changed:
   o The Disk button is now the Volumes button, and when pressed will
      display all of the online volumes in the dialog.	The previously
      used Disk button just polled you to the next available drive,
      so finding a specific volume (if you have lots of partitions)
      was somewhat tedious.  Note: the bug in the dialog that shows
      one of your volumes (the 3rd partition on my HD, for me) in
      all uppercase still exists, but you must use Tab to change
      volumes.	This new feature avoids that bug, somewhat indirectly.
   o The current path is now displayed above the scroll window in
      dialog boxes.  By clicking on this line, you effectively 'Close'
      one level of subdirectories.  If you are currently in the root
      of the volume, clicking on the path line will give you a list
      of online volumes.
   o New tools: all tools have been updated except for: 14, 22, 24, 25,
      and 28 (don't quote me on this, it's from memory).  The desktop
      environment seems to be a little bit faster, but it's probably
      just my optimistic distorted perspective. :)
   o New SCSI Drivers:	An updated SCSI.HD and Manager drivers seem
      to have solved my earlier posted problem about writing to 3
      consecutive 128k blocks.	Other than that, I can't tell the
      difference from the old one, other than it has a different date.
   o Most importantly:	NEW IMAGEWRITER DRIVER!!!  This is version 4.0
      of the IW driver, and it is several times faster than the one
      released with System 5.02.  The page setup and print dialogs now
      have popup menus (like in the Control panel NDA) instead of
      radio buttons.  It has four print qualities: Text only, draft,
      standard, and Best.  I was very impressed.
   o Various other changes to System files include, but are not limited
      to: Expressload, most of the system.setup files, Basic.System,
      P8 (v1.9), and a few others that elude me at the moment.
   o System Tools: include many AppleTalk utilities/drivers/accessories.
      I'm not familiar with AppleShare (yet :)) so I won't go into
      what was included.

All this is available to YOU for the low, low price of.... FREE!  All
you have to do is find a dealer with a copy, and you're all set.  If
you are really desparate to get this, I have been told that both
disks are available on Genie and (?) America Online.


As for Prosel-16, v8.54 worked fine with the new system software.  Just
remember to rename Start as something else before you install the new
finder, or you will lose your Prosel startup.  I speak from experience
on that one, guys.  :)

As has been mentioned before, Prosel is now at v8.55, which has included
virus protection (Blackout and Load Runner were specifically mentioned)
and a few more bug fixes (of course).

If anyone has any comments or additions to my above statement, please
feel free.  I think I have covered all the major additions, but I may
have left something out.

I hope this helps.

Dale LaFountain
prophet@oxy.edu