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From: kehr@felix.UUCP (Shirley Kehr)
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Subject: Re: Why switch to system 6.0? (i'd rather fight than switch...)
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Date: 10 Sep 88 17:01:39 GMT
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In article <1988Sep7.234716.1949@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> heath@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Todd Heatherton) writes:
>It seems to me that there have been numerous complaints about system 6.0.
 
 I believe most of the news reports no problems on Mac II.  I've been
 using it for about three weeks with no problems at work.  I had to stay
 with System 5.0 printing resources because I'm the only one on the net
 using (testing) this software.

 I like it because of macro maker. It's much easier to record a sequence
 of instructions than with QuickKeys.  I like double clicking another
 document when Word is already open and the document just opens - no hassle.

 I like the new Map cdev. In the control panel you can find out the time
 elsewhere in the world and the milage to that city from any point you
 choose as a reference.

However, I also tried it at home on a Mac that started life as a 512 and is
now upgraded to a 2MB plus level. It was OK most of the weekend until Sunday
night. Map would not go into the control panel at home, but I was only
working on some Word documents so I didn't care.

Sunday night I started a save of a document I had spent hours on. It bombed
during the save and I lost the document (0 bytes in the file when I tried
to open it). The temp file was left on the desktop, not in the System folder
and it only came up empty - untitled 1.

I've lost documents before (seemingly) only to find them hidden behind their
temp icon.  I couldn't double click the icon to open it, but I could open it
through the dialog box and I could see that there was something in the file
using Command-I.  But this time there was nothing in the file.

I opened another document, thinking a previously written letter would be
safe enough (no funny fonts like in the first document).  After adding some
more text, I saved it before going to the printer.  The same thing happened.

So I can't recommend System 6.0 on anything but a Mac II, but I hope the
6.01 upgrade is out soon too, so the SE's at work can have it.  We've found
that QuickKeys and MegaScreen are incompatible, so System 6.0's macro maker
is the first time they'll be able to program extended keyboards (they've
never tried Tempo).


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>       Todd Heatherton (aka "the novice", aka "bad typist")
>