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- From: maynard@tamar.msc.cornell.edu (Maynard J. Handley)
- Subject: Re: 7.1 in Beta???
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.221335.16586@msc.cornell.edu>
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- Organization: Cornell-Materials-Science-Center
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- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 22:13:35 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug14.153209.24172@email.tuwien.ac.at>, Peter Purgathofer
- <root@iguwnext.tuwien.ac.at> writes:
- >We (at the institute) saw 7.1b7.
- >
- >The most obvoius thing to change is that WorldScript is included, and it
- >is a great thing, although we didnt get it to run perfect (Well, beta...)
- >
- >The other things we found were:
- >
- >Font folder (no more 15min to open the System Document - well, once
- >more...)
- >Double Byte TrueType Fonts
- >3 new control panels (1 for the PowerBook - the long awaited!!!)
- >Dictionary Manager
- >Text Services Manager
- >(ther latter two being of interest only to developers right now)
- >improved drag-and-drop, even for new CPU-specific extensions (No more
- >7.1.0.2a)
- >This is most of what I found, and what seems to be of interest to me.
-
- Thanks for the info but a few questions:
- 1) Can you settle the ATM question: is it part of 7.1? In what way or
- form?
- 2) Is MODE32 functionality built in now (eg on an SE/30 does the memory
- control panel now have the 32 bits on/off section activated)?
- 3) This talk of a "Translation manager" that looks kinda like XTND. Is that
- what you mean by improved drag & drop? Is it part of the OS? Does it use
- XTND or AFE filters?
- 4) Do we have 3D buttons and a color icon for floppies yet?
- 5) Are the scroll-bars drawn faster?
-
- Maynard
-