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From: lriggins@blackbird.afit.af.mil (L. Maurice Riggins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Yet Another StuffIt Complaint (YASIC)
Message-ID: <1844@blackbird.afit.af.mil>
Date: 4 Jan 91 12:27:20 GMT
References: <1991Jan2.155637.14687@cs.utk.edu> <1841@blackbird.afit.af.mil> <148@atux01.UUCP>
Organization: Air Force Institute of Technology; WPAFB, OH
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In article <148@atux01.UUCP> jlc@atux01.UUCP (Jim Collymore) writes:
>> And my SE runs over a dozen popular INITs as well as (gasp) Smart Alarms.  
>> This is with System 6.05 - 6.07 using MF 6.1b9.
>
>This reference to Smart Alarms makes me curious.  Are there some problems
>with Smart Alarms?  If so, what are they and with which version?

Well, I've used it for almost 4 years now and have gotten so used to it I
don't want to switch.  It seems to work very close to the System software
and has caused some incompatibility with certain INIT's over the years, not
to mention needing updating with major system software revisions.

The latest problem is an incompatibility with Suitcase II under MultiFinder
6.1b9 which reorders the DA's and Applications in the Apple menu.  Although
Smart Alarms went from a special installer to an INIT in the latest versions,
(Calendar is still a DA), there is still the Reminder DRVR.  Smart Alarms
tries (and keeps trying) to install itself in the DA menu.

IF Smart Alarms loads before Suitcase (look at the spellings), and you pull
down the Apple Menu with the Suitcase modifier key, Smart Alarms will keep
installing itself over and over in the Apple Menu and a crash is soon to
follow.  My workaround is to make sure Suitcase loads first.

Also, one of my favorites, DAMenuz (HierDA) broke when I got the new SA.  But
in fairness, I understand it broke anyway with later System software.

I keep using Smart Alarms because I personally like the way it works (even 
though I don't really use the Calendar because it's not integrated).  A
colleague who bought it despite my recommendation (do as I say, not as I do :-)
is now purchasing Alarming Events.



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