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From: mjsamorodny@thunder.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Screen snapshot ROM bug not fixed
Message-ID: <339@thunder.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 10-Jul-87 20:37:53 EDT
Article-I.D.: thunder.339
Posted: Fri Jul 10 20:37:53 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 12-Jul-87 07:32:43 EDT
Reply-To: mjsamorodny@thunder.UUCP (Sonny Crockett)
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Organization: Lakehead U; Thunder Bay, Ontario
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I have been using System 4.1/Finder 5.5 on a Mac SE for a few weeks now
and I have a major complaint against Apple.

You will remember when the 128K ROMs came out that the familiar
command-shift-3 screen snapshot would no longer work with a menu pulled
down (or anything where the mouse button was held down).
Apple admitted this was a bug in the ROM and released a patch for this
problem.

Now comes another new (256K) ROM, AND THE BUG IS STILL THERE!!!
This is inexcusable.  At the very least, the patch should have been
incorporated in the new System software, but it is not.  I have read
on this net that the old patch will no longer work.

In simple language, this stinks.  I now use the PD DA Camera to do
screenshots, but the version I have is pre-HFS and puts all dump
documents in the System Folder instead of the main window so I have to
fish them out.

I ask the Apple people who read this newsgroup to explain why the
bug has persisted through a ROM change and two System releases,
and what, if anything, is going to be done about it?


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