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From: dwal@ellis.uchicago.edu (David Walton)
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Subject: Re: MultiFinder 6.1b9
Message-ID: <1990Nov13.030044.19371@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: 13 Nov 90 03:00:44 GMT
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In article <1990Nov13.000937.4972@hoss.unl.edu> ho@hoss.unl.edu (Tiny Bubbles...) writes:
>In <1730@blackbird.afit.af.mil> lriggins@blackbird.afit.af.mil (L. Maurice Riggins) writes:
>>What happened to the Option-Apple Menu-Set Aside Others feature of 6.1b7?
>>Now all I get is the Application portion of the menu.  Please don't tell me 
>>it's gone!
>
>Hey, somebody, is there a moderator in here who posts Frequently Asked
>Questions like they do in some other newsgroups?  This one definitely
>needs to go in there.
>
>(6.1b7 was apparently a MF supplied with some other product -- a beta test
>version -- and since its modification date was older than the one that came
>with 6.0.7, the Installer replaced it.  If I got that wrong, send flames.)

This is all correct.  MultiFinder 6.1b7 and 6.1b9 were both supplied
with SADE (Symbolic Application Debugging Environment, I think--for
all the non-programmer types :-), which is a module for MPW.  Both
versions have modification dates which are (not surprisingly) earlier
than MultiFinder 6.1.7, so the Installer replaces them.  If you have a
backup of the beta version, you should be able to restore it without
problem (I did, at least).

Also, I believe that you should have 6.1b_9_, not 6.1b7.  B9 was
released for compatibility with either the IIfx or System 6.0.5, and
I'm not sure which it was.  I thought it was for 6.0.5.  In any case,
I've used b9 with no problems for quite a while now.
 

>        ... Michael Ho, University of Nebraska


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