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From: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Problems with System 6.0?????
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Date: 12 Jun 88 19:16:32 GMT
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In article <51150@ti-csl.CSNET> holland@mips.UUCP (Fred Hollander) writes:
>I installed Dollars & Sense 4.1 at the same time as System 6 and was furious
>at the frequency that it would crash.  It didn't take long to pinpoint the
>incompatibility with new system.  When I want to use it, I have to reboot
>with the old system.  Does anyone know what has been changed that is causing
>these problems?

A friend had the same problems, and called the makers of Dollars & Sense.
They admit 4.1 doesn't work under 6.0, and will be mailing out a new
revision to registered owners poste haste.

As of today, these are the programs I know are having problems under 6.0:

4th Dimension (don't know the revision, saw note in MACINTOSH TODAY)
Dark Castle, Beyond Dark Castle, Apache Strike, Falcon
Dollars and Sense 4.1

Several that I'm not sure WHAT is causing problems with:

Microsoft Works 1.1 keeps getting some garbage characters under the Database
menu bar.  Someone said that they'd get a bomb after hitting the menu bar,
but I can't say I've seen that.

Something is peculiar with the control panel.  Some things just aren't
getting refreshed correctly -- the Edit menu under QuicKeys (the Edit menu
actually inside the control panel box) doesn't appear until you obscure the
QuicKeys menu with a dialogue box.  Similarly, the Map Icon didn't appear
under the control panel until I selected and de-selected it.

Worst of all, I tried bringing QuicKeys up under 6.0 (Finder, not
MultiFinder) while running PictureBase 1.2.2, and got half a control panel!
It was if someone had re-designed the control panel to be 1/3 narrower than
before.  Trying to select QuickKeys caused a bomb, and I had to replace the
control panel in the system file.  Damn annoying, 'cause I needed to to use
QuicKeys to do some dull work in PB.  QuicKeys seems to work elsewhere,
though.  (This is QuicKeys version 1.1).

More problems as they occur on this CBS station...

                         Any sufficiently advanced technology is
                         indistinguishable from a rigged demo. 
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