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From: araftis@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Alex Raftis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Some Addional 5.0.3 Comments
Message-ID: <273a7f9f.72da@petunia.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 9 Nov 90 10:06:23 GMT
Reply-To: araftis@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Alex Raftis)
Organization: Cal Poly State Univ,CSC Dept,San Luis Obispo,CA 93407
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Don't let the little things fool you, they can make a big difference. On the
surface, the 5.0.3 upgade seems to do little, but there's a couple of fixes
that make it well worth while to download or copy.

First of all, some major bugs with the Resource Manager seem to have been 
fixed. I played aroung with both Genesys and TML Pascal and was unable to get
either to trash a menu resource. Both programs would do this regularly with
5.0.2. Also, I had to create some 25+ resource and randomly edit these for
about 20 minutes before I could get Genesys to crash. This to me implies that
some other fixes with the Resource Manager have been fixed.

Secondly, the TextEdit tool set seems to have been fixed. Owner's of TML Pascal
II will know about this bug. The Text Edit tool appears to no longer crash 
when a large block of selected text is deleted. I haven't thoroughly tested
this, but deleted some blocks of about 200+ lines, and each failed to mangle my
sample text file.

Finally, having looked over a friends spec sheet from Apple about 5.0.3,
nearly all the tool kits, and all the tool patches have been modified. This
should basically mean a much more reliable system for all of us.



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