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From: lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Apple IIGS system Disk 3.2
Message-ID: <635@n8emr.UUCP>
Date: 16 Sep 88 08:34:44 GMT
References: <8809130736.AA13446@crash.cts.com>
Reply-To: lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden)
Organization: Ham BBS, 614-457-4227 (1200/2400/19.2 telebit,8N1)
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WARNING!! If you do get the new System Disk 3.2, be sure to begin using it
in the correct way!  A new release of a system disk from Apple should NEVER
just be file copied over an existing system disk unless you are intimately
knowlegable with the various files ON THE OLD AND NEW DISKS.  For example,
some of the 'experts' that I know tried to use a file copy program to just
copy over all the new files over top of the old ones on an existing disk.
Well, what happened was a) brand new files that never existed before were
left behind.  While this was great for non-Appletalk use - there are a LOT
of A.T. files on that disk! - it messed up a lot of the rom fixes, and
b) a few old files that are not to be present were left!  This caused
a lot of so called 'incompatibilies' of software to show up - appleworks
crashs, etc.  Once folks took their original copy of the system disk,
copied it, deleted from the copy those pieces no longer wanted, added
those DAs, Start Ups, etc that they did want, they found few programs 
that crashed (only those that tried to compensate for bugs that are now
fixed - and there are a LOT of fixes in SD 3.2).

P.S.  On CIS, during a 9-10pm time period (normally quite heavy system
use) on a local CIS node phone line, with no line noise, at 2400 baud and
using Vidtex Quick B protocol, it took me 53 minutes to download a BNY
version of the new system disk which had aoubt 25% compression.  This
was a 624,454 .bqy file (expands to 1532 blocks fully loaded with all
the Appletalk, etc. files).  I havent created a pared down version of the
disk yet.  Using the full disk I see minimal decrease in the boot time.
But after I trim down a lot of the drivers etc I expect to see more
benefits.

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