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From: schase@pollux.usc.edu (Scott Chase)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: System 3.2 with an SE?
Summary: problems with Word 3.01
Keywords: does, it, work
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Date: 19 Dec 88 21:49:49 GMT
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In article <46003@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> jellinghaus-robert@CS.Yale.EDU (Rob Jellinghaus) writes:
>All right, folks, I need the straight dope.  Is it safe to run System 3.2/
>Finder 5.3 on a Mac SE?  I'm a computing assistant here at Yale, and we need
>to know whether we can safely give out 3.2 (because it's smaller) without
>messing with people that have SEs.  (If we don't give out 3.2, we'll give out
>4.1; anything after that is way too big for our floppy-based users.)
>
>Please only send COLD HARD FACTS, with reasons why it's safe to do so or
>why it isn't.  If all you have to say is "I use 3.2 on my SE and it works,"
>keep quiet.  Just because it works doesn't mean it won't bomb out under some
>circumstance you haven't encountered yet.  I'd appreciate it if a knowledgeable
>Apple person would respond to this, actually...
>
>Rob Jellinghaus                | "Good King Sauerkraut,
>jellinghaus-robert@CS.Yale.EDU |  On your feets uneven,
>ROBERTJ@{yalecs,yalevm}.BITNET |  When all the snoo lay round about,
>{everyone}!decvax!yale!robertj |  All kerchoo acheivin'--"  _Pogo_


Because I have a floppy based Plus at home, I use 3.2/5.3. When using an
SE with the same system, I generally don't have problems, EXCEPT:

when using Word 3.01, the pencil cursor (blinking one) does not always
display in the proper place - it is often displayed several characters away
from the actual insert point (I forget whether it's forward or back).

I have only noticed this phenomenon with Word using Times font.
I don't know whether it happens with other fonts or programs - I'v only
noticed it with this combination.

It doesn't happen when using a later version of the system, or on a Plus.


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