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From: cosell@BBN-PROPHET.ARPA@caip.RUTGERS.EDU
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Subject: Re:  Screwup'd's
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Date: Mon, 24-Feb-86 09:34:58 EST
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From: Bernie Cosell <cosell@BBN-PROPHET.ARPA>

In fact you are running into a little publicized compatibility
problem.  It appears that Workbench 1.0 doesn't know how to set
the date for Kickstart 1.1.  Thus, *NOTHING* you do will result
in the date being set if you are trying to run in that configuration.
I pushed on it a fair bit and as odd as it seems, this is the *only*
odd behavior I was able to uncover.  [to see this more clearly,
fire up a CLI window and just try "DATE <whenever>" "DATE" and you'll
see that the date doesn't `take'].

I'm a little surprised that this never got publicized *especially*
to the dealer: folks who got their Amigas with 1.0 software discovered
that most of the neat new programs (DPAINT was the one I hit) 
*required* Kickstart 1.1, so dealers happily supplied that.  Mostly
they did *not* worry much about giving you Workbench 1.1 to go
with it (they *would*, but they didn't know that they *should*).

In sum, if you have Kickstart 1.1, and don't have Workbench 1.1 to
go with it, *go back and get an updated workbench disk!!*.

  /Bernie

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