Technote 1142 Mac OS 8.5 Being a compendium of revised and new features of interest to software developers in release 8.5 of the Mac OS. By John Montbriand Apple Worldwide Developer Technical Support

This Technote discusses changes and corrections in the next generation of Mac OS: Mac OS 8.5. This system follows Mac OS 8.1 and contains several new and revised features including: more PowerPC code consolidated control panels faster system startup time improved AppleScript performance new Unicode text drawing facilities new HTML-based help facilities

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Hardware Requirements Installation Install Mac OS Finder Autorouting and Extended Routing New Finder Display Facilities Internet Location Files and Clipping Files AppleScript Support Apple Help Apple Guide Help Viewer Inside the System File General Alias Manager Appearance Manager ATSUI Code Fragment Manager Control Manager Device Manager Dialog Manager Display Manager Disk Initialization Package Drag Manager Driver Services Library Event Manager File Manager File System Manager Folder Manager Font Manager Help Manager Icon Services InterfaceLib List Manager MathLib Memory Manager Menu Manager Navigation Services Notification Manager PC Card Manager PPC Toolbox Process Manager QuickDraw QuickDraw Text Script Manager Serial Driver Sound Manager Standard File Text Services Manager Time Manager Translation Manager Virtual Memory Manager Window Manager Control Panels Appearance Apple Menu Options

Control Panels (Continued) ColorSync Control Strip Date & Time File Exchange File Sharing Internet Keyboard Location Manager Memory Monitors & Sound Remote Access TCP/IP Users and Groups Web Sharing System Extensions Apple CD/DVD Driver Apple Enet AppleScript AppleShare Workstation Client Application Switcher Desktop Printing Find By Content Internet Config LaserWriter 8 Mac OS Runtime for Java Network Setup Extension OpenTransport PlainTalk QuickTime QuickDraw 3D Apple Menu Items Apple System Profiler Key Caps Network Browser Sherlock Apple Extras Apple Video Player SNMP Administrator Utilities Disk Copy Disk First Aid Drive Setup Apple Developer Utilities MacsBug Macintosh Programmer's Workshop (MPW) Items No Longer Supported Appearance Extension Apple Remote Access Client Cyberdog Desktop Pictures control panel Mac OS Easy Open Map control panel OpenDoc Open Transport/PPP WorldScript Power Adapter Acknowledgments

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