Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site utastro.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!hoxna!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!timeinc!phri!pesnta!amd!vecpyr!lll-crg!gymble!umcp-cs!seismo!ut-sally!utastro!bill From: bill@utastro.UUCP (William H. Jefferys) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac Subject: MacPascal Question Message-ID: <294@utastro.UUCP> Date: Sat, 29-Jun-85 16:39:37 EDT Article-I.D.: utastro.294 Posted: Sat Jun 29 16:39:37 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 2-Jul-85 05:45:08 EDT Distribution: net Organization: U. Texas, Astronomy, Austin, TX Lines: 32 I have two simple questions about MacPascal and the new Finder. I would like to use it under the new Finder, but fear ruining my disk if I were to update it with System Update. As is common knowledge, Think Technologies chose to use a fearsome copy protection scheme on MacPascal, complete with worms and other nasties (fie on you, Think Technologies!) Unless one of the newer bit copy programs has overcome these "worms", one is forced to run off the master diskette. The questions are: (1) Is it safe to use System Update to install the new Finder (4.1) on the master MacPascal disk? Has anyone tried it? Does someone at Apple *know* the answer to this question? (2) A related question is the following. I use a Mac XL at work. After quitting MacPascal, one returns to the desktop with MacPascal selected as the startup disk. This takes forever, since I have quite a few files on the hard disk, and it's the old finder. Then I have to launch the finder on the hard disk which also takes time. This is a pain. Is there an easy way to prevent this from happening, again, without destroying the MacPascal disk? Any information is welcome, but an Authoritative (read: Official Apple) reply would be best! -- "Men never do evil so cheerfully and so completely as when they do so from religious conviction." -- Blaise Pascal Bill Jefferys 8-% Astronomy Dept, University of Texas, Austin TX 78712 (USnail) {allegra,ihnp4}!{ut-sally,noao}!utastro!bill (uucp) bill%utastro.UTEXAS@ut-sally.ARPA (ARPANET)