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From: unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User)
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Subject: Re: System Disk 5.0.3 and two observations
Message-ID: <8627@darkstar.ucsc.edu>
Date: 8 Nov 90 06:46:04 GMT
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First off: Sorry for quoting most of the file, but I felt it necessary.

In article <123529@tiger.oxy.edu> prophet@oxy.edu (Dale Bruce LaFountain) writes:
`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.
	WHY can't they just do it the way the Mac does? Unless I'm remembering
wrong, the Mac just uses the name over the scroll window as the "volumes"
list (always or only when you're at the root of a volume?? I forget)..


`   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.
	This has been there for a LONG time. I just booted up GS/OS and
ran SHRConvert to check.. clicking on the name DOES close the subdirectory.
(I ran SHRConvert to make sure it was a fairly old program. I believe
the "Standard File Dialog" may be a built-in function so I will say I was
using 5.02, but this definitely shows it's not new in 5.03).


`   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. :)
	Hopefully it's faster!!

`   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.

	The SCSI driver isn't any faster?

`   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.
	If other things are Expressloaded, doesn't that mean it'll boot
faster?? or is it only the ones that aren't needed upon boot (like BASIC.
SYSTEM, P8, etc?..

	I sure hope they'll release a program to make EXPRESSLOAD files
yourself..  Am I correct in believing you can convert a RUNNABLE file
to Expressload format?? It's not something you do on source code or
anything like that somehow, is it??  So even ancient old things that
are relatively well behaved can then be converted to expressload and
things'll fly.. RIGHT?   {An example of something that's NOT well behaved:
ANYTHING from Accolade! SHEESH! Their stuff is slow, won't work with
disk caches (except one special one after they patched their program I
think), and I believe is a pain in the butt if not impossible to put
on a hard drive... If Test Drive II was a little faster in gameplay and
graphics were a little better it would be a very very good game.. now
it's only ok}
	Having an Expressload version of something like MicroWings 
would be neat.. (Heck, it MIGHT be Expressloaded already, I've just tried
it..)
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