The Avoided Environment

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The Avoided Environment

I f the WOrkShOP Is installed, but the Desktop is the default envIronment., haw can a powered off Lisa be made to go directly to the Environments window when turned on?

Section 1.2 of the preliminary Workshop documentation says

to

press any key while the Lisa is

starting up.

If

this

is tried before the double click is eml tted by the speaker, the Startup menu shown on page G2 of the Lisa Owner's Guide is displayed Uust as troubleshooting Procedure N on page G23 says),

but me EnvIronments w1ndow Is still never reached.

Page 118 says hit any key after the double cllck, but that doesn't seem to have any effect.

Page G26 says to press the Apple and Shift Keys after the double click" but the Desktop is

still

reached when

this is

trIed"

and from then on" clicking on

the

mouse

fails to work properl

y~

This

problem

^{had even}

the

Hotline people stumped. To reach the EnvIronments wIndOW, it seems the Deskstop /78S to be started, and then holding down the Apple key while powering off finall

y

does the triCK.

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Issue 16 16 NOVeIJt)er 1983

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1.4 Release

Fixes LisaCalc

A number of Signal readers have

mentioned hearing rumors about

the unreliability of using the

Apple-period comOlnatlon

to abort operations. We were also

surprised to see a

1.4

version

operating system mentioned in

a letter from a dealer discussing

his experiences using LisaCalc ..

A quick check with the Lisa

hotline explained everything:

yes, there

is a

problem with using Apple-period (documents can be damaged)., but only in

LisaCalc,

WhiCh

also

has a bug that occasionally causes "long"

(on

^the

order of one or two

hour) saves when putting a

document away.

We've learned that users who have been bothered by these two

bugs can tum in their LisaCalc master disk.,

along

with their Office

system I

ana

II master disks., and receive a corrected

LisaCalc and new Office

System (called version 1.4) in exchange.

WOUldn't it be great if Apple

follows this eXChange policy for

every new release of the Lisa

software? E]

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Why Didn"t We Think of That?

William F. Conde" Jr. of Edina ...

Minnesota wrote

to

remind us

that usIng the snift-Optlon-o

"privacy feature" (see page C8 of

the Ownets Guide) is a nice way

to momentarily stop the printer,

and is probably a lot more

convenient than collaring the

mouse wl tn a rubber band" as we

explained under

RlJ/:JtJer Band

Freezes DMP in Signal #5. ~

A Big Retail Discount

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newspaper's business section this

week" to find ads announcing that

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offices in

Dallas; Houston; Detroit and San

Francisco) is advertising the

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More Reader Responses

Our Sjgnal #1 item titled fA,lfJere

to

put that Profile, which mentioned leaving the disk on, even when the Lisa is powered off, prompted

a call

from Terry

Wetterman of L T Consul tants (8 management consulting firm that specializes in working with disk drive manufacturers~ Terry claims the Profile is

a

Seagate unit with a 10,000 hour mean time between fallure rate, WhIch means that leaving the disK on constantl

y

averages out to

only

a little over a year before it needs its first repair.

Terry

was

also the first to

mention that double clicking the mouse before closing a region

nicely solves

the Sl7adjng a

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ROlll1det.1 Region problem on. the front of signal 4t2. (The double click method of prematurely end1ng a pOlygon was also painted out to us by Bill Krause of Island Park, NY, and is brief1 y mentioned on page C34 of the LisaDraw manual.) Note that our original method would

still

have to

be

used for a shape such as

In this

example,

the two arcs on each end are attached by llne segments at top and bottom, but an additional white line rectangle Shades the middle from behind.

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