Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!harvard!uwvax!puff!hammen From: hammen@puff.UUCP (Robert J. Hammen) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac Subject: Re: Problem with System 3.X (actually what is the OFFICIAL release?) Message-ID: <873@puff.UUCP> Date: Fri, 2-May-86 04:45:55 EDT Article-I.D.: puff.873 Posted: Fri May 2 04:45:55 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 4-May-86 10:14:23 EDT References: <1035@runx.OZ> <247@ur-tut.UUCP> <214@ut-dillo.UUCP> Organization: UW-Madison Confusion Science Dept. Lines: 57 In article <214@ut-dillo.UUCP>, werner@ut-dillo.UUCP (Werner Uhrig) writes: > > Apple recommends in its December supplement notes, that one should use > > System 3.1.1 and not 3.1. You should be able to get a copy of System 3.1.1 > > from your friendly Apple dealer. It is on the System Installation disk in the > > Dec supplement. .... Yesterday, in talking with a couple of the people at our school's Microcomputer Information Center, I found out that, according to what the local Apple people have told them, the official Apple Finder/System is Finder 5.1 and System 3.1. They showed me a sheet, from Apple, of all of the current version numbers. When I asked them why Apple was then shipping 5.2 and 3.1.1 out with the MacPascal 2.0 upgrade, they said that Apple had claimed it was a mistake. I really can't understand this. Wasn't 3.1 the 'deadly system' that no one was supposed to use (according to InfoWorld a couple of weeks back)? Is this true? Is the Apple Chicago office screwed up, or what? Sheesh. There's gotta be a better way of letting people know about upgrades/bugs. You have no idea how many people I've seen show up in the MIC who know absolutely nothing about the existence of *Finder 4.1* and MacWrite 4.5. Anyway, would someone at Apple be kind enough to let us know what the *official* release version is? The MIC here will only give out 5.1/3.1, and I suspect that Apple's confusion on this matter is also the reason why most dealers won't give out the new system. > > PS: I meant to mention that System-3.2 has been sighted ....Rumour has it > that it's *BETTER*, *FASTER*, *SMALLER* (well, maybe not the latter) > all kind of bugs got fixed ..... will all the Ghostbusters with > nerves and a "good hard-disk back-up discipline" please step forward?! > Me? I'm still a nervous wreck from last time when I had doubts that > I could recover my HD.... I have a copy of System 3.2b4 (I think that's the right version) and Finder 5.3(??) which I got at the MacExpo in Chicago. Although I'm not going to use either until they're officially released (I've been happy with 5.2/3.1.1 so far), they seem to work ok, although I don't think they got smaller..... At one of the booths, they were running one of the new system versions, and they found a nice bug.... Seems that the standard file package wouldn't open up documents with any program, and so the only way to open documents was to double-click on them. All the more reason *NOT* to play with these things until they're officially released. By the way, ResEdit 1.0D12 exists (it was floating around at the show). I've got a copy, and have used it quite a bit without any problems. Switcher 4.9, however, seems to have some problems, possibly with MacServe. And, while we're on the topic of versions, Red Ryder 9.0 is out to registered users, and it has problems with XMODEM file transfers timing out--seems that the throughput was increased so much so that RR is too fast for most boards (this was verified by a number of people from The Rest of Us, the Chicago area user's group). Robert J. Hammen {seismo,allegra,ihnp4,harvard,topaz}!uwvax!puff!hammen UW-Madison CS Dept. hammen@puff.wisc.edu UW-Madison Plasma Physics Dept. plasma%wiscpsl.bitnet {@wiscvm.wisc.edu} ---- Working here is like being in a nightmare. You'd like to get out of it, but you need the sleep.