Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!oddjob!ncar!ames!coherent!dplatt
From: dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: S.U.M. glitches
Message-ID: <8143@coherent.com>
Date: 19 Aug 88 20:39:33 GMT
References: <20369@cornell.UUCP>
Reply-To: dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt)
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In article <20369@cornell.UUCP> moore@cs.cornell.edu (Doug Moore) writes:
> 
> I just received S.U.M. from Symantec.  I ran DeskCheck right after installing
> S.U.M. and found that S.U.M. was shipped with a couple of defective bundles.
> Namely, Shield INIT's bundle refers to a nonexistent icn# and Disk Clinic's
> bundle refers to two nonexistent icn#'s.  The associated file types are
> GLON, RTST, and RTLE.  This sort of thing does not reassure me about their
> quality control.  Anybody know what these file types are for, or whether
> they can be deleted from the BNDL and FREF's of the respective programs?


Hmmm.  I have another tidbit of information that suggests that Symantec
isn't being as careful as they might.  I've just opened Get Info boxes on
the two replacement INITs (HD Partition and Shield) that came across
comp.binaries.mac earlier this week;  these are supposed to be the ones
that fix the (serious) bugs reported on the net last month.

HD Partition:   created Jul 5 1988 10:31 PM
               modified Jul 5 1988 10:54 PM
               Version: HDPI VERSION 1.0 -- May 15, 1988.

Sheld:          created Jul 5 1988 10:52 PM
               modified Jul 19 1988 8:26 AM
               Version: GLON VERSION 1.0 -- Dec 15, 1987.
               
From the creation and modification dates, I assume that these are in fact
newer versions than the ones shipped in the S.U.M. package.  However, it
doesn't make me feel all that good to see that Symantec didn't bother to
update the Version information (from the signature resource in the INIT
file) to reflect the actual status of the software.  It would have been
so easy to change the version number to 1.1, or 1.0.1, and to change the
text of the creation date.

Sigh... one more little detail that didn't get attended to.  DeskCheck still
complains about Shield, too... ICN# -8066 is still missing.

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