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From: lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: System Tools  6.0
Message-ID: <10941@apple.Apple.Com>
Date: 23 May 88 21:01:29 GMT
References: <4421@dasys1.UUCP> <1660001@hpiacla.HP.COM>
Reply-To: lsr@apple.UUCP (Larry Rosenstein)
Organization: Advanced Technology Group, Apple Computer
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In article <1660001@hpiacla.HP.COM> steve@hpiacla.HP.COM (Steve Witten) writes:
>Can you outline the highlights?

Sure, except this is going to be from the point of view of a user, since I
am not familiar with the internal changes.  

First there are the usual bug fixes.  I don't have a complete list of them,
however.  Two that I know about: (1) popup menus can pop up on any screen
of a Mac II, (2) the bug in MultiFinder that could hang the machine has been
fixed (as promised in the Tech Note).

The Sound Manager has been ported to the Mac Plus and Mac SE.  The sound
CDEV will now work on those machines and they can use any beep sound that a
Mac II could use.

All machines have the Notification Manager, which allows DAs and application
to give the use notification even if they are not the frontmost application.
(One of the things you can do is put a small icon in the menu bar to
indicate which apps need attention.)  The Alarm Clock and Print Monitor have
been modified to use the Notification Manager.

Under MultiFinder, if you double click on a document and the application is
already running, MF will try to have the application open the document.
This depends on the application having an Open... item in the File menu,
although applications can include resources that direct MF to the right
item. 

The Finder will identify INIT files as "Startup documents"; cdevs as
"Control Panel documents"; and device files as "Chooser documents".

The Finder supports a file versioning scheme (see Tech Note 189).  A file
can have a vers resource to indicate its version.  There can be a second
resource to indicate the version of a group of files.  This addresses a
complaint people have had, namely that the different files making up a
system release have different version numbers.  In System 6.0 if you do a
Get Info on any system file, you will see that it is part of "System
Software Version 6.0."

All the DAs on the disks now remember their window positions.

The disks come with the AppleShare workstation code (version 1.1).

There is the Map cdev, which lets you tell the system where you are
(latitude & longitude).

There is the Close View cdev, which can be used to magnify your screen.

There is the MacroMaker INIT, that lets you define simple keyboard macros.

QuickerGraf is incorporated into the system patches (not as an INIT).

There were some additions to TextEdit.  In particular, TESetStyle now has a
new mode bit that says to toggle the styles.  This addresses the problem
people were having when trying to remove a style (eg, bold) from characters
that had more than one style (eg, bold, italic).

The LaserWriter driver supports 11x17 pages (on printers that can handle
this).  It also has a new option for smoothing bitmap fonts separately from
other bitmaps.

This covers the main highlights.  As I mentioned, this is not a complete
list; I'm sure that other people, who were directly involved with the code,
can add to this list.

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		 Larry Rosenstein,  Object Specialist
 Apple Computer, Inc.  20525 Mariani Ave, MS 27-AJ  Cupertino, CA 95014
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