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From: fitz@CIVE.RI.CMU.EDU.UUCP
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Subject: Everybody must run Multifinder?
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Date: Fri, 20-Nov-87 19:14:24 EST
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I just installed Multifinder on my SE last week and decided to
try the background printing.  Lo and behold it requires updating
the printing drivers to version 5.0.  This must be the weekly 
update for printer drivers again.  Does Apple realize what kind
of pain this causes?  Am I asking too much by thinking that it
would be smart to allow Macs running Multifinder and Macs running
5.5/4.1 to cohabitate on the same network?  Since I administer my
network I can upgrade everyone's Laserwriter drivers, but what 
about the people that share an AppleTalk network with other groups?
I just feel that Apple takes the easy way out quite often and that
a little foresight required to make the 4.0 LaserWriter files compatible
with background printing would have been the smart move.

wonder what will need to be upgraded next week........

Kerien Fitzpatrick
Field Robotics Center
The Robotics Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
(412)268-6564
Arpanet: fitz@cive.ri.cmu.edu

Disclaimer:  all my opinions are my own, because noone else is paying
             attention.

"hindsight is great, tomorrow I'll turn around and see what's coming..."