Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!husc6!cmcl2!nrl-cmf!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!dewey.soe.berkeley.edu!oster
From: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (David Phillip Oster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: FKey / new system bug?
Message-ID: <22582@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: 15 Jan 88 00:39:20 GMT
References: <4146@pucc.Princeton.EDU> <1408@uhccux.UUCP> <2626@fluke.COM> <7899@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU> <8801140006.AA03433@ronzoni>
Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
Reply-To: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu.UUCP (David Phillip Oster)
Organization: School of Education, UC-Berkeley
Lines: 42

I use the FKEY DateKey 1.1. It definately has some bugs handling 1988. As
soon as we entered the new year, it began to put a garbage character on
the front of the day. I'd write to the author to see if there is a newer
version.  It also doesn't work in Macterminal.
It _is_ shareware after all. Did you pay your shareware fee?

There is a bug in the system with FKEYs: Here is how you trigger it:
(Caution, read the _entire_ directions before trying this.)

1.) Run from a System file on a floppy.
2.) eject that floppy.
2.) Insert an unformatted disk into that same drive.
3.) format the disk, so that you are looking at the "Name this disk"
dialog.
4.) trigger an FKEY.

The system will eject the new disk and prompt you for the system floppy.

5.) insert the system floppy, hit return.

The directory of the new floppy gets written onto your system floppy,
completely erasing the directory. Your system floppy has just been erased!


FLAME ON
Apple, you've got to work in your testing. Here we have a destructive
interaction between FKEYs and the Disk Iniitalizer package.

You also:
1.) can't use color quickdraw to Apple's printer drivers (Come on guys,
they are both your code, and System 4.2 is a second official release, at
least it shouldn't crash.)

2.) can't have a DA with a window on top of Macterminal when you select
"Clear Lines Off Top"

Apple, you are doing great stuff, but you've got to improve your testing.
FLAME OFF

--- David Phillip Oster            --A Sun 3/60 makes a poor Macintosh II.
Arpa: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu --A Macintosh II makes a poor Sun 3/60.
Uucp: {uwvax,decvax,ihnp4}!ucbvax!oster%dewey.soe.berkeley.edu