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From: ravi@mcnc.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: magic sac info wanted
Message-ID: <2567@alvin.mcnc.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 3-Oct-87 17:28:00 EDT
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Reply-To: ravi@alvin.UUCP (Ravi Subrahmanyan)
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Organization: Microelectronics Center of NC; RTP, NC
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Keywords: magic sac, st

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>Would you give us a few examples of what crashes the Sac?
>

	Well, lets see.  Most versions of MacWrite except 2.2 and 4.5, 
MacChart except under finder 1.1g, anything that goes to hardware like
Mac240 (communications program), various desk accessories like
Disktop, some screen savers, McSink is unpredictable, etc.  

	I'm not trying to detract from the Sac, not in the least.   I
think it's an awesome hack.  It's important to note that for anything that 
does not work, it is usually possible to find something else (usually in the
public domain or shareware) that does the same thing; eg. disktop
crashes, but I use FileMaster without any problems whatsoever.  McChart 
did not work, but Cricket Graph does, and so on.   The 'Convert
clipboard' option in the switcher always causes hassles, so I always
use the scrapbook.  Mac240 dies, but freeterm, and a bunch of others,
work just fine.  I wish Macsbug would work!  

	Anyway, to repeat my original point, the user needs to get a
feel for what is Ok, as early as possible.  After that, just being
careful can let you use the Sac with no trouble at all.  Two things are
crucial:  to make absolutely sure that the System and Finder are not
damaged at all (eg. by removing a disk without telling the Sac to do
it, etc.), and also to make sure that the copy of the driver software
(on the TOS disk) does not get munged due to an incorrect disk swap or 
something (I speak from bitter experience!),
								-ravi