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From: steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mixing old drivers with new System
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Date: 31 Oct 88 18:15:18 GMT
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In article <31624@bbn.COM> levin@BBN.COM (Joel B Levin) writes:
#>I would like to upgrade my Mac at work to 6.0.2.  It is linked by
#>PhoneNet to a LaserWriter+ along with a half dozen or so other Macs
#>running system release 5 (sys 4.2 / finder 6.0).  I don't want at this
#>time to try to get everyone to move to the new system, however.  I
#>assume that the LW files in the new release would be incompatible and
#>would cause continual reinitializing of the LW as various members of
#>our net used the printer.
#>
#>Question: anyone know of a reason I can't upgrade my Mac+ to 6.0.2 and
#>then replace the LW files with the release 5.0 versions?
#>
#>	Thanks / JBL
#>
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I had a similar problem but came up with the opposite solution,
which seems to work. I upgraded my Mac II and a Mac plus, both
with hard disks, to 6.0.2. But then I found that there isn't room
on a floppy for the new system along with TOPS for an SE and a
plus which don't have hard disks. The two versions of the driver
in our TOPS network meant that each time a different driver was
used the printer was slowly reset. So I left the old system on
those machines but upgraded their laser prep and laserwriter
files. Everything seems to work fine.

Steve Goldfield