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From: dawg6844@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Race Bannon)
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Subject: Re: 7.0b4 bugs was( Re The NEW desktop)
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Date: 10 Apr 91 02:03:19 GMT
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mxmora@unix.SRI.COM (Matt Mora) writes:

>In article <50865@apple.Apple.COM> nerm@Apple.COM (Dean Yu) writes:

>>  If I'm not getting my Finder dialogs confused, I think that particular
>>dialog now says "Updating disk for new system software" or something like
>>that.  But that dialog does still exist when you actuall do rebuild the
>>desktop.

>Theses bugs happened on a Mac II and  Mac IIx with 5 megs of memory and no 
>inits. Just a standard system install. To a  harddisk with no system folder.

>I would have posted these to Applelink but my account expired. ( Can't afford
>it)

>Time for 7.0b4 bugs. 

>Finder bug

>When that dialog box comes up select "About Help Balloons" in the Help
>menu and the dismiss the alert. Opps! the bargraph is now being drawn
>on the desktop. I guess someone wasn't reading the UMPG were it states
>that you should set to a known vaild  Grafport before you draw. Actually this
>happens in the file copy dialog also, so I imagine it happens any time the 
>finder uses the moveable modal dialog box. 

>Page Set or Print dialog box bug. 

>Select pagesetup in the finder. Sometimes it does not grey out the edit menu.
>If it doesn't, select any of the standard editing commands. All the mac
>does is beep at you. I don't know which is the bug. Should I not be able to 
>access the menu when a modal dialog box is up or should I be allowed to do 
>the standard editing commands from the menu. 

>Fatal bug (this one I haven't repeated because I really need to get some work 
>done and not debug system 7.0 for Apple)

>Open the control panels folder. Do a Select All. Select open from the file
>menu. 

>After about the third or fourth control panel was opened the finder started to
>complain "The control panel is damaged or not enough memory" I clicked ok
>because that was the only option. As it continued to try to open more it
>complained some more and then finally crashed. 

>Anytime I drop something into the apple menu, a grey pattern fills the rounded
>upper corners of the screen.  


>There were a few others that I can't think of at the moment. I will post them 
>when I remember.

>Matt


NONE of these bugs exist in 7.0f2c2, as far as I can tell.

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