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Re: Mixing old drivers with new System

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From: Shirley Kehr
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 1988 14:43
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In article <16281@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield) writes:
>In article <31624@bbn.COM> levin@BBN.COM (Joel B Levin) writes:
>#>I would like to upgrade my Mac at work to 6.0.2.  It is linked by
>#>PhoneNet to a LaserWriter+ along with a half dozen or so other Macs
>#>running system release 5 (sys 4.2 / finder 6.0).  I don't want at this
>#>time to try to get everyone to move to the new system, however.  I
>#>assume that the LW files in the new release would be incompatible and
>#>would cause continual reinitializing of the LW as various members of
>#>our net used the printer.
>#>
>#>Question: anyone know of a reason I can't upgrade my Mac+ to 6.0.2 and
>#>then replace the LW files with the release 5.0 versions?
>#>
>#>	Thanks / JBL
>#>

That's exactly what I did. The manual says that you won't be able to do
background printing under MultiFinder, but you can. So far, I'm the only
one using System 6 out of about 30 other Macs, and we're all printing just
fine.

Shirley Kehr





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From: kehr@felix.UUCP (Shirley Kehr)
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Subject: Re: Mixing old drivers with new System
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