On 25 Apr 2002, at 13:31, Philip Aker wrote: > On Thursday, April 25, 2002, at 10:42 AM, David W. Fenton wrote: > > >>> 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). > > > Ditto for Windows. > > Well then I didn't understand what P. Daley meant. > > Exactly how does the bootstrap code determine which M$ system will run?
Depends on what you are using as your boot manager. In my experience, a menu with a choice pops up, along with a default choice. There's certainly no reason why a keystroke command during boot could not trigger the choice (as opposed to booting the default OS), but I don't have firsthand experience with this. > >> 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. > > > I knew that the discussion would descend into platform bashing. > > But you all are claiming that it's really weird that Macintoshes > don't have have the same mechanism to determine "Applications" > and "Documents" folders. Given the choice of built-in PostScript > and a Control Panel to select the location of those folders, I > know which I'd rather have. I didn't say that it was weird. I speculated that it was likely that the Mac OS *did* make it a user configurable option, and I understood from all the previous messages answering mine that there was no such capability. You now say it *is* user configurable, and I don't know whether we've miscommunicated or if all the others were wrong. As to PostScript, I don't understand why it's a flaw that Windows supports it less well than the Mac, given that it was designed into the base architecture of the Mac. PS is simply irrelevant to me and certainly to the vast majority of Windows users. For people for whom it is *not* irrelevant, that's one of the many good reasons to choose a Mac. -- David W. Fenton | http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates | http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
