Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!apple!keith
From: keith@Apple.COM (Keith Rollin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Psst!  Hey buddy, want MPW 3.2?
Keywords: MPW, 7
Message-ID: <53160@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 21 May 91 17:37:02 GMT
References: <1991May19.140556.4205@ducvax.auburn.edu>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <1991May19.140556.4205@ducvax.auburn.edu> richards@eng.auburn.edu (Eric J. Richards) writes:
>Like most MPW people, I found a rather rude and shocking
>dialog waiting for me with System 7:  sorry, you have
>to upgrade if you want to run MPW. SOB!
>
>Then I started thinking.  I need the latest version.  I
>need version 3.2.  I don't have the right... version.
>Hmm... version.  As in vers-ion.  Where's my copy of
>ResEdit?  Where's that vers resource?
>
>So now it's running, though I don't know if I should
>be running it or not, as in, am I going to lose anything?
>I'd hate for my thesis on a platform free GUI to say
>disappear.  What?  Oh, yeah, backups.  Right.
>
>The only problem I've had so far is that Build, command-B,
>doesn't work.  File O/I OS error, so I just have to type in:
>
>BuildProgram <program-name>
>
>Anything else evil lurking out there?  Is this a good idea?

You got MPW 3.1 to work except for that one problem??? Incredible!
Everyone else I know found the major problem the hard way - that you
can't save any changes to your text files. If you are managing to save
your files, then some incredibly weird interaction is taking place...

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