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From: sjl@amdahl.UUCP (Steve Langdon)
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Subject: Re: Fat Mac & MacProject/system dependency questions
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Date: Thu, 14-Feb-85 15:26:54 EST
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As answers to chuq's questions may be of general interest I will offer
my opinions on the subject.

>     . Which is the preferred printer interface-- the imagewriter to be
>     found on the MacProject disk (imagewriter 15) or the imagewriter on the
>     512K upgrade disk? Why? How?

Probably neither.  The only reason I say probably is that I am not sure
what the imagewriter on the 512K upgrade disk is.  The best driver I know
of is the one from the most recent version of the software supplement.  It
was posted in binhex form in late January.  Also posted was the install
program (in binhex again)  and instructions on installation.

The earlier Imagewriter 15 distributed on MacProject has some bugs that
were described in an info-mac posting.  One word of warning is that
there were reports on info-mac of trouble with desk accessories when
using the new imagewriter.  The cure appeared to be installing the
driver after the accessories.  I have not experienced these problems
myself so I cannot comment on the details.

Chuq also related strange behavior when running MacProject off an old
system disk and requested information on the current version of various
pieces of Apple software.

My technique for dealing with system updates is as follows.  I take the
latest system file released by Apple (currently from MacProject) and modify
it to generate systems having my prefered desk accesories and updates such
as the imagewriter from the software supplement.
Once I have a system I like, I generate varients that have different mixes
of fonts.  None of my application disks have a system file, but they do
have the imagewriter driver file because applications cannot print without an
imagewriter file on the same (default?) disk.  All of my applications
run without apparent problems using this method but you need to be careful
about font dependencies (e.g. Multiplan will look different if it can't
find the Seattle fonts).

Now for versions:

Finder 1.1g released - 2.x has been sighted, is faster, but is claimed to
have bugs.

System ? - my scheme is described above.

MacPaint 1.4

MacWrite 3.98 has been reported - I have given up on MacWrite and switched
to Word.
-- 
Stephen J. Langdon                  ...!{ihnp4,hplabs,sun,nsc}!amdahl!sjl

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