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From: folta@tove.cs.umd.edu (Wayne Folta)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: System 7.0 available from CompuServe
Message-ID: <34507@mimsy.umd.edu>
Date: 15 May 91 17:16:33 GMT
References: <1991May15.155731.148@zardoz.eng.ohio-state.edu>
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Reply-To: folta@tove.cs.umd.edu (Wayne Folta)
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>Well, my fiancee just gave me a ring.  She's on the Technical Team
>over in Compuserve Customer Support.  It seems that System 7.0 has
>been placed in the Macintosh Development Forum on Compuserve.
>
>Now, before you go rushing off to Compuserve, some caveats:
>
>Six hours at 2400 bps is -optimal time-.  Right now the Mac Dev Forum
>is -swamped- with people accessing it.  It takes about 3 minutes just
>to actually get into the Mac Dev forum after you enter the command to
>go there.  People who are trying to get at the System 7.0 files are
>often recieving "File busy" messages due to the sheer number of people
>trying to download it.

And I thought I had it bad... I was the first person to download it, at
1:03 AM. (At least the download count said 0.) The first file came down
at 942cps (V.32 modem), but the last one came down at 450cps! Took 100 

They have an excellent help file. I didn't download the DiskCopy, which I
had already gotten from apple.com, and I didn't download the compatibility 
stack, since I had already gotten the text of that. I also skipped the FONTS
One problem, though. On my Apple 80Mb HD, the new DiskFirstAid finds an     
uncorrectable error:

   Error -521: Invalid node structure (TarID=4, TarBlock=1408)

I wonder what that means?                                                     

I hadn't seen anyone mention that you can now select the desktop by clicking
on it. Then Clean Up becomes Clean Up Desktop. The Balloon Help also supplies
Finder Shortcuts--and there are a bunch of nice ones! A brilliant touch, as
the lack of knowledge of the shortcuts (Option-dragging to the trashcan, for
example) often leads novices to believe that the Finder is tedious.      

They also supply 4 nifty new beep sounds.

I am not able to paste a new icon onto my Scrapbook file. Wonder why? 
If you haven't seen the tip: you can get a great full-color world map from  
the Scrapbook to paste into the Map cdev.                                    

Also, I had to Get Info PrintMonitor and give it more RAM in order to print  
my QXP documents.                                                               
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Wayne Folta          (folta@cs.umd.edu  128.8.128.8)