Phil Daley wrote: Just while I'm thinking about it Phil, could you possibly change your emailer address for the Finale List to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks!
> Can you install the MacOS to the third hard drive? Dennis Manasco has answered adequately. >> I don't think we're on the same page here. On Macintosh, there >> are individual user settings when the system is configured for >> multiple users. That's not what I've been trying to illustrate. > No, no. Each OS installed on a windows system has profiles > installed in the %SystemRoot% directory. Typically, there is > only one profile on a single user machine. Then that's one of the differences which I've been trying to get across. There is no one root directory accessible to different systems running MacOS. Each system contains it's own configuration(s). > This is probably the problem. What does "whatever Control > Panel one activates" mean? Control Panels affect code installed at the system level. They present the system settings by category such as "Date & Time", "Internet", "Mouse", "Keyboard", etc. Mostly these are items from Apple but 3rd party software such as QuicKeys use them because the product operates at that level. No matter where a Control Panel is installed on disk, it can be activated and affect the settings of the current system. This means for instance that it's possible in many cases to use a CP from OS 8 to adjust settings on an OS 9 machine. That's because they're just an interface to the APIs. > On Windows there is only _one_ Control Panel per Installed OS. > You cannot activate any "other" control panel. What is a Mac > "Control Panel"? * >> I guess one would actually have to work with a MacOS for a few >> years in order to perceive the difference. > I have used a Mac extensively since it's origin in the Lisa > (1982). For about 10 years. I even own one. But I have not > used it in the last few years. Even so, you shouldn't have to ask what a Macintosh Control Panel is. Let's arrive at a meaningful set of circumstances huh? Anything before MacOS 8 and W95 is not germane to this thread. >> There are two main notions being discussed. The default >> installation location for software that does not offer the >> user a choice, and the names and places of where one keeps >> one's applications and documents. > But the latter should be configurable, per application. The documents folder a particular application uses may or may not be configurable by an application. Finale offers us these kinds of choices. Other software does not. That's a developer responsibility on the Macintosh. Another way of looking at it is that the OS should be configurable as to whether or not the user should "include all fonts" in PostScript and EPS files generated by her applications even if she doesn't have a PostScript printer. That's a huge problem with OSes from Redmond WA. It's not a problem with MacOS. Philip Aker http://www.aker.ca _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
