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From: leeke@cascade.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Dollars & Sense 1.2 IS HFS Compatible!!!
Message-ID: <81@cascade.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 11-Apr-86 19:07:33 EST
Article-I.D.: cascade.81
Posted: Fri Apr 11 19:07:33 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 20-Apr-86 18:02:13 EST
Reply-To: leeke@cascade.UUCP (Steven D. Leeke)
Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Laboratory
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Keywords: Mac Plus, HFS Compatibility, Dollars & Sense

References:

Since my enthusiasm over getting D&S to work may be jading my judgment - please
let me know if I am missing some suttle bug in what I say below.

It was reported several times in this newsgroup that Dollars & Sense is
NOT HFS compatible.  I was upset to see that since I rely heavily on D&S for
my financial analysis/record-keeping.  I decided to see for myself what the
problems between D&S and HFS were when a friend w/ a new Plus and an old 128k
tried to run D&S on his Plus and said there were problems.  I am glad I did
not accept this newsgroups reports as the absolute truth!

I ran D&S from a Mac Plus w/ HD20 with NO! problems.  The finder was 5.1,
system 3.x (I don't know exactly), and the D&S software was all in ONE folder
(I don't know if this matters but I think it does).  The D&S folder was
about 5 folders deep and there was never any confusion on the part of D&S -
it even put the Backup copy in the correct folder.  I also ran it without
the HD20 - just the 400k MFS key disk floppy (actually a Copy II Mac
key-disk duplicate) and it ran FAST and fine.

The only thing I had to remember was that the KEY disk has to be mounted in
the internal drive BEFORE you start D&S.  i.e. you CAN NOT start D&S, get
the Error dialog box and THEN insert the keydisk - if you do that it will
just return to the finder.

So I suggest for two floppy systems you put D&S in the external drive
and put the master disk in the internal drive, then start D&S from the external
drive, wait until it boots up and checks the master disk, and when it is done
and the D&S Logo dialog box is on the screen waiting for you to select one
of the menus do a CMD-SHIFT-1 to eject the internal drive and replace it with
your data disk - then use the File menu's open command to open up the data
file.  It should work FINE!  The same steps should be useable with a floppy
and ramdisk combination - but I have not tried this setup.

Steve Leeke

P.S. And we were all wondering why Monogram hadn't offered an upgrade...