The Macintosh bible guide to System 7.1

291 Pages·1992·28.511 MB·English

by  Rubin, Charles

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Charles Rubin
The Macintosh Bible Guide to System 7.1
The
Macintosh Bible
to
Guide
System 7.1
by
Charles Rubin
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THE MACINTOSH BIBLE GUIDE TO SYSTEM ].1
Charles Rubin
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Contents
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Acknowledgemellls ........................................................................
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ln'lrocluctlon ....................................................................................
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Getting Sfarfed
PART 1
Chapter 1. System 7.1 at a glance ........................................................ 3
What's new in System 7 .1 ............................................................. 4
System 6 features you won't find in System 7.1 .......................... 9
What you need to run System 7 .1 .............................................. 10
Should you upgrade? .................................................................. 11
Chapter 2. Installing System 7.1 ........................................................ 15
Preparing for the installation ..................................................... 16
The best way to install System 7.1 ............................................. 19
Installing from floppy 4isks ....................................................... 22
Installing from a file server or another local hard disk
or CD-ROM disk ............................................................... 26
If the installation fails .....................................................· . ........... 29
When the Installer is finished .................................................... 29
Installing the QuickTime extension ......................................... .33
Installing WorldScript extensions and scripts .......................... .34
Reclaiming disk space ................................................................. 36
Chapter 3. Starting up. ....................................................................... 37
System software compatibility problems ................................. .38
Starting up with more than one hard disk connected .............. 39
The Desktop and Trash folders ................................................. .41
Opening files automatically at startup ..................................... .42
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The Finder and Its menus
PART 2
Chapter 4. Working with the Finder ................................................ .45
Familiar features, subtle changes .............................................. .46
The Finder works like MultiFinder. ........................................... 48
Managing memory ..................................................................... 49
Printing in the background ........................................................ 50
Icon cosmetics ............................................................................ 51
Window changes ......................................................................... 52
Other file management changes ............................................... .56
Fkeys ............................................................................................ 59
Keyboard shortcuts. .................................................................... 61
For WorldScript users ................................................................ 66
Chapter 5. File and Edit menu commands ....................................... 69
The File menu ............................................................................. 70
The Get Info command. ............................................................. 71
The Sharing ... command ............................................................ 76
The Make Alias command ......................................................... 77
The Find ... and Find Again commands .....................................8 1
The Edit menu ............................................................................ 87
Chapter 6. View, Label, Special, Help and Application
menu commands. ................................................................... 89
The View menu. .......................................................................... 90
The Label menu .......................................................................... 90
Customizing labels ..................................................................... 93
The Special menu ....................................................................... 94
The Clean Up commands .......................................................... 94
The Empty Trash command ...................................................... 96
The Help menu ........................................................................... 98
The Application menu ............................................................. 100
The new System Folder
PART 3
Chapter 7. The System Folder ......................................................... 105
The System Folder .................................................................... 10 6
The Apple Menu Items folder .................................................. 10 7
The Control Panels folder ........................................................ 112
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The Extensions folder ............................................................... 113
The Fonts folder ....................................................................... 114
The Preferences folder .............................................................. 119
The PrintMonitor Documents folder ...................................... 119
The Startup Items folder .......................................................... 120
The System file: installing sounds ............................................ 121
Chapter 8. Using control panels ...................................................... 123
The Control Panels folder ........................................................ 124
Some control panels are the same ........................................... 125
Familiar control panels with new features .............................. 126
The Views, Date & Time, and Numbers control panels ......... 135
Other new control panels ......................................................... 143
International control panels .................................................... 145
PART 4 Working wHh applications
Chapter 9. Using applications ......................................................... 149
Managing program memory ................................................... 150
Opening and saving documents .............................................. 159
Using stationery ........................................................................ 161
Using QuickT ime ..................................................................... 165
Chapter 10. Printing ........................................................................ 169
The three font formats ............................................................. 170
Printing with a StyleW riter, ImageW riter, Personal
LaserW riter LS, or other QuickDraw printers. ............... 172
Printing with a PostScript-compatible LaserW riter
or other laser printer ....................................................... 173
Using PrintMonitor .................................................................. 178
The LaserWriter Font Utility ................................................... 184
Mixing TrueType and other fonts on a LaserWriter ............... 190
Chapter 11. Publishing and subscribing ......................................... 193
What's publishing and subscribing? ........................................ 194
Publishing and subscribing in action ...................................... 195
Publisher and subscriber options ............................................ 198
Publishing and subscribing on a network ............................... 200
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Sharing files and linking programs
PARTs
Chapter 12. File sharing ...................................................................2 03
File sharing for the AppleShare user. .......................................2 04
File sharing step-by-step .......................................................... 206
Connecting your Mac to other Macs ....................................... 216
Chapter 13. Users, groups and access privileges ............................. 223
About users and groups ........................................................... 224
About access privileges ............................................................. 230
Viewing access privileges .......................................................... 234
Access privileges in action ........................................................ 238
How secure is it? ....................................................................... 241
Chapter 14. File sharing tips and troubleshooting ......................... 243
File sharing tips ......................................................................... 244
File sharing troubleshooting .................................................... 246
Chapter 15. Program linking, lAC and Apple Events .................... 253
Two ways to link programs ...................................................... 255
Starting program linking .........................................................2 56
Sharing your programs with other uses .................................. 257
Controlling other users' access to your shared programs ...... 258
Turning program linking off. ................................................... 260
Managing program linking performance. ............................... 260
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lndex ................................................................................................
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Acknowledgements
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I'd first like to thank the thousands of readers who made The
Macintosh Bible Guide To System 7 one of the biggest successes I've
had, and among them those who took the time to write me with
suggestions about how to improve it. I've taken those suggestions
to heart in this book.
To Ted Nace, Helmut Kobler, Suzanne Ludlum and everyone
else at Peachpit Press, thanks for being so pleasant, conscientious,
creative and energetic. I'm very glad to have you all on my side.
To Joel Cannon, Mark Zeren, Elli Holman, Lily Shoemaker and
everyone else at Apple's Developer Technical Support Group,
thanks for your patient assistance with my technical questions,
and for generally putting out a ton of information each month.
Also at Apple, my special thanks to Ron Lichty, a good friend to
have on the inside.
Finally, my continuing gratitude goes to Arthur Naiman, for
creating the Macintosh Bible series and building an audience for it
second to none in the world of Mac books.
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Introduction
It's the system software that makes the
Macintosh unique, and System 7 brought the
most revolutionary changes to the Mac's soft
ware since it was introduced in 1984. Since
System 7 was released in May 1991, over half
of the Mac users worldwide have upgraded to
it. Many of those who didn't upgrade right
away were waiting for the current release,
System 7.1, so application developers would
have time to make their products compatible
with System 7. Now the wait for compatibility
is over.
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