Re: System 6.0.1

[lunatic@netcom.com (Lunatic Johnathan Bruce E'Sex)]

In article <CBAozK.69o@cup.hp.com> tribby@cup.hp.com (Dave Tribby) writes:
>Lunatic Johnathan Bruce E'Sex (lunatic@netcom.com) wrote:
>>                                   So, either sometime in the past one
>>  of the scripts on the Install disk included the SCC.Manager when it
>>  shouldn't have, or a LOT of people have been doing manual installs
>>  (at least of drivers), and they've been blindly putting things in
>>  there without really knowing what they do ("SCC.Manager?  What's
>>  that?  Well, can't hurt to have a few MORE extraneous files in my
>>  System folder so I'll just throw it in...").
>
>I just updated to 6.0.1 via the installer. I used the option to
>install on a hard disk, not Easy Update, and ended up with SCC.Manager
>(and a bunch of other Appletalk files)...even though I didn't request
>it and didn't have it before the instalation. I did request the 6.0.1
>Laser writer driver, and the Installer must have assumed I needed all
>that other junk. (I use the Laser Writer driver to generate Postscript
>files for later uploading to my printer at work.)

 
    \/\/ell, yeah, telling the Installer (via "Customize") to install
 the LaserWriter driver is going to put in the AppleTalk files, as well.
 It wasn't until System 6.0 that using the LaserWriter driver alone, to
 print PostScript files to disk, was officially supported (though it
 wasn't documented until 6.0.1 -- see the Release Notes on p. 17, under
 "DC Printer Control Panel").  I expect no one bothered to change the
 scripts so that adding the LaserWriter driver wouldn't add AppleTalk,
 or at least add a "LaserWriter: No AppleTalk" script.


>By the way, Luny...loved your spot in the II Alive Expo West video!
 
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