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From: benn@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (T Cox)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: HFS / MacPlus incompatible with ...
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Date: Mon, 10-Feb-86 16:56:46 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 10 16:56:46 1986
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>From "View From The Mac", put out by VFTM Pblications Co., Inc. of
Chicago, reprinted without permission, from Vol. 2, #2 [February 1986]:

Initial Software Preclusions ...

   Apple Computer, Inc. had warned that software developed without 
regard to the Macintosh Interface Standard would have operating
difficulties on the new Hierarchial [sic] Filing System and perhaps the
new Finder 5.1 as well.  It is a practical impossibility to test all the 
existing software to see what works [...] but here's an initial report
which we fear may be the "tip of an iceberg". [...]

COPY II MAC(tm) TOOLS  are inoperative and operation of program itself
	is intermittant.  The only tools we could reliably use where
	ResEdit and REdit.

MAC-SPELL-RIGHT(tm)  hangs up completely on the Mac-Plus which appears to be
	an addressing problem not an HFS related difficulty.

SWITCHER from Apple itself has difficulty finding applications to open from a
	predetermined "set" due to the HFS technique not looking into
	folders.

MICROSOFT BASIC  encounters HFS problems when seeking to open a file from 
	within a non-opened folder.  This is typical of the HFS.

RED RYDER(tm) will not open from the new System/Finder but is "under
	revision" with Scott Watson pointing his finger at an alleged "bug"
	in MacPlus ROM.

PAGEMAKER(tm)  cannot open MacDraw documents created under the new Finder
	which is a severe limitation leading to this problems [sic] in 
	creating this issue.


The above comments from "View From The Mac" are Copyright c 1986 by
VFTM Publication Co., Inc.  

I don't know if they are right or not.  I am waiting on my MacPlus upgrade
until I hear about RedRyder.  The HFS sounds like a Large-Scale Insect to 
me.  [Read that "big bug".]  Comments to the net; questions to /dev/null.
I don't even own most of the above programs.

Fixes to the publishers and to the net, by all means!


-- 
T Cox
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