Errata

The combination of the Apple Key and a mouse click on the tiitle bar does NOT bring
up a menu that lists all of the open windows. It does nothing.

In OS 10.2.1, there is now no finder preference for "keep a window's view the same
when opening other folders in the window" as shown in 5th printing (March 2002).

It is possible to use a virgule (forward slash) in file or folder names, even to
begin them. The virgule is changed by OS X into a colon in the underlying BSD
filesystem, without any notification to the user. (The Finder rejects periods as a
beginning character with an error message.)

Another naming anomaly: creating a profile for a monitor using the System Preferences
"Display" pane ('s Color tab) ends with a dialog that should be a Finder Save File
dialog, as it uses the name you submit to create and save a file. It does not perform
the Finder's filename validation, however; using a virgule in a profile name results
in the profile's disappearing altogether. (Apparently the Save call returns an error
which is not trapped.)

From the Fifth Printing:

It says on page 135 under "Specifying a Classic System Folder," that "each Mac OS 9
System Folder must sit on a different disk or disk partition...."

But over on page 144 in the 7th paragraph, under "Maintaining two different Mac OS 9
System Folders," it says, "Both System Folders...can sit on the same hard drive."

Isn't this a contradiction?

(If the latter is true, it would also be nice to have the instructions for creating a
second System Folder.)

You describe what can be achieved by using two seperate System Folders however you
don't describe how best to actually set it up.

Merely copying the installed OS 9 System Folder and renaming the copy (System Folder
2, or something) is an obvious step, but then how do you deliniate the two folders in
terms of getting Classic to consistantly recognize one over the other?

It seems that Classic merely locates the last one used - either by Classic itself or
by the last time OS 9 was hard booted - which means you don't always get the "trimmed
down" System Folder, say, after running the "full version" on a hard booted OS 9
session.

I mean, I'd love to just keep a non-partitioned disk not worry about re-installing
system software, and just run seperate System Folders with different Extensions
activated, but am I missing something obvious here?

(If not, it would seem the time spent having to shut down a hard boot "full version"
OS 9 session by first restarting in the "trimmed down" System Folder in order to
ensure that Classic will boot up in that particular folder would be counter
productive to the original purpose of saving that time when you later activate
Classic... wouldn't it?)

the apple script in fig 7-8 doesn't seem to work

Maybe it's just me, but...

1) I can't make an alias of any item in the System->Library->PreferencePanes folder.
If I select one or multiple items, the "Make Alias" command is disabled on the File
menu. I went into another folder with some of my documents in it just to be sure I
could make *any* aliases, but there the command worked perfectly.

2) Even in a folder where I can make an alias, command-option dragging does not make
aliases of the dragged items. In fact, I can't drag at all that way; when I mouse
down the item directly beneath the pointer is deselected, and the pointer changes
from an arrow to a "gloved hand" until the mouse button is released. Not sure what
that's all about, but still, no aliases.

I'm running 10.1.3 on a G3 iBook (dual-USB). No unusual software/extensions, etc.

"DVD-RAM is just like a CD-rewritable..."

This appears to be incorrect.
I can't erase the DVD-R using Disk Utility.
I assume that this means it is not "rewritable".
Please correct me if I am mistaken.

From the Apple Site I found this note:
"A DVD-R (or a Video DVD-R) can only be "burned" (written) using a Superdrive (CD-
RW/DVD-R). "

Here is the URL for the note above:
http://discussions.info.apple.com/WebX?14@253.Nteeaqg6dCw.58@.3bb7d05d/2

If I am mistaken, and the DVD-R is "rewritable", then either I'm
running into a limitation of the Superdrive or the Disk Utility?

Last Function entry should read:

Function Keystroke

show/hide movie Info Control-I

A mention that putting os 9 on a separate partition enables anyboby to put into os 9
bypassing os X's security by holding option when booting. It's convient to not mess
with startup disk, but does cause a security loophole.

This error is a serious misunderstanding of Unix privileges. I have verified that it
is not in the lists of changes of printings 5, 6 and 7.

The author misunderstands the 'Read only' privilege for a folder. He claims that
visitors of such a folder "can't save changes to files they find there".

This is wrong. Visitors can't add to or delete from the directory. But they may
change files and folders that are already there (unless these files and folders also
have read only privileges).

For example, in a Home folder, the Public folder has read only privileges for
visitors. But its content, the Drop Box, has privileges set to write only for
visitors. Thus a folder with read only privileges contains a directory whose only use
it to be modified...

The error also appears on page 289, 1st paragraph after the Tip.

command

sudo chown -R chris /jim's Digipix

appears to be fishy.
1) Jim's has been capitalized elsewhere (e.g. Fig. 16-5)
2) Why is there a backslash between Jim's and Digipix?

<http://idisk.mac.com/username/Public> does not appear to provide access to public
folders.
...whereas...
<http://homepage.mac.com/username> does.

This is just an echo of another reader's remark. Since I first got the book I've been
checking back here to see if it's been clarified.

The instructions for ftp through Connect to Server returns an error:

"No file services are available at the URL ftp://ftp.anywhere.com.

Try again later or try a different URL (server returned error - 1)."

Like the previous reader, I've tried servers I can access otherwise (ftp through
terminal).

He reported for OS X 10.1.4, I can confirm the problem for 10.1.2 and 10.1.5.

In 11th printing

it reads:

"icons with little blank triangles ..."

and should be:

"icons with little black triangles ..."

You said that USB Printer Sharing was gone because you set up shared printers using
the Print Center. However, that doesn't work for everyone. We have two iMacs here, my
wife's runs 9.1 and I just moved mine over to 10.1.5. My wife's has a USB color
inkjet attached to it that I used to be able to see from mine when it ran 9.2, but
now that I'm in 10, my computer doesn't even know it exists.

After spending some time checking out Apple's website, I was finally able to find out
that the current implementation of OS X *won't* let you share printers that way,
however there have been hints that USB Printer Sharing will be coming back.

It would've been nice if somewhere in the chapters on networking or printing, you had
mentioned how this one very popular method of printer sharing didn't work in the new
OS, and had warned us that everything you mentioned about networking printers only
applied to those connected by Ethernet.

I hope this makes it into the next edition.