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From: mcgu5464@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Ronald J Mcguire)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re:  problems with 5.0.4
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Date: 11 Jan 91 05:32:56 GMT
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In article <14815@smoke.brl.mil> gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:

>In article <8813@uwm.edu> mcgu5464@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Ronald J Mcguire) writes:
>>Personaly I happen to believe 5.04 IS the problem. My ROM 03 chokes on
>>everything with 5.04 where with 5.03 it all ran fine, no crashes.

>Practically all system crashes I have had under any version of the GS
>system software (including 5.0.4) have been due to misbehaving desk
>accessories (NDAs mostly, but occasionally CDAs).  So far as I can
>tell from the text-screen bootup display, Apple IIGS System Disk 5.0.4
>uses all the same modules in GS/OS as in version 5.0.3, apart from the
>ImageWriter driver and perhaps some tools.  The Finder is also the same..

Well, I would agree with you, and writing software that must get along
is a hell of a difficult task. Obviously _something_ has changed or it
wouldn't work under one and not the other. Several of the tools, and
some of the drivers were changed. Perhaps they were "moved" to where
FileManager now sits, or the tools need more specifics now which FileManager
doesn't supply. I can probably do without FileManager tho.. So its no
*big* loss.

I would appreciate it if someone had a P16 program that would read a text
file (and appleworks3.0 if possible) from the icon much the way FinderView
does... Just doubleclick the icon. It would provide a box the same as
FileManager so you could view the entire file (unlike FinderView) and
dump back to the desktop after. No editing required. If there isn't one,
could someone write one? I would - but I'm a user, not a guru that
actually knows how one of these things works. It seems pretty simple -
all toolbox calls...
 
Thanks,
 Dan