Dave Lyons' Solutions to common 6.0 problems!
 
Problems launching or returning from ProDOS 8 applications.  Many users
are finding that it's a bad idea to have both ProDOS 8 2.0.1 and their
RamFAST cards *both* remapping extra devices to unused slots and drives.
Solution:  Configure the RamFAST to not remap extra devices.
 
Problems installing to a Vulcan--the Installer asks you to insert your
hard drive.  We don't know why this happens, but if you put the optional
Vulcan driver in the system, it works fine.  For example, put the driver
on a copy of System.Disk, boot from System.Disk, and launch the Installer
from the Install disk.  (Alternatively, you can try making room for the
driver on a copy of Install by removing unneeded scripts from the Scripts
folder.)
 
Easy Update installs the Finder only if it recognizes a file called
Start or Finder.  If you've installed ProSel 16, you should rename
Start to Start.ProSel and Old.Start back to Start before installing
System 6.  (Then you can use the SetStart control panel to make
ProSel 16 your startup application, if you want.)
 
Check out the Shortcuts file on SystemTools2 (you can read them with Teach).
 
If the mouse cursor wipes out everything it moves over, that application
does not get along with CloseView.  Remove CloseView from System.Setup,
or inactivate it using Icon Info.  (Leaving CloseView off is not enough;
just having it in the system is enough to cause incompatibilities.)
Information for developers on CloseView compatibility can be found in
Apple IIgs Technical Note #91, The Wonderful World of Universal Access.
 
EasyAccess, in System.Setup, is incompatible with some applications,
especially on ROM 1.  Easy Access pre-processes keyboard input, so the
keyboard is dead if an application locks out interrupts or if the system
hangs (even Command-Control-Reset doesn't work).  Easy Access provides
sticky keys and mouse keys (you can read about it in Shortcuts).  If
it's causing you problems, Remove EasyAccess from System.Setup, or mark
it Inactive using Icon Info.
 
If you used Easy Update and did not try clicking Customize, you may not
be aware of some System 6 features.  Run the Installer again and browse
around--you'll find Calculator, Find File, the HFS FST, and more.
 
If you don't like yellow folders in the Finder you can change the
byte at offset +65 in the Finder resource with type $C001 and ID 1.
Change the $E0 to whatever you want (the first digit is the default
folder foreground color, and the low nibble is for the outline color).
Only folders that do *not* already have a color recorded in a Finder.Data
file get the default color.
 
Finder icons that match by name and have a leading wildcard require
uppercase letters.  For example, a name like "*.txt" never matches, but
"*.TXT" works fine (it matches regardless of a file's actual
capitalization).  (This was accidental; the 5.0.4 Finder did not care
about capitalization in icon files.)
 
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David A. Lyons, Apple Computer, Inc.      |   DAL Systems
Apple II System Software Engineer         |   P.O. Box 875
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