Monday, October 25, 2004
System 7.6.1 and Find File
For various reasons I've been using System 7.6.1 on some Quadras recently, and I'm pleased at what a nice version of Mac OS this is.
A little essay was posted to one of the Low End Mac email lists titled "Why I like OS 7.6.1 better than OS 8 or 9" by Melvyn Halbert. In summary, he says that graphics are snappier, there is better/faster feedback to commands, and certain old behaviors of the Finder and Save As dialogs can be useful.
He also notes that the older Find File utility from System 7.6.1 is more convenient than Sherlock in many cases, and it still works with systems as new as 9.1 -- "provided that Find File and Find File Extension have been copied from the 7.6.1 System Folder into the new System Folder AND Sherlock 2 is moved out of Applications (Mac OS 9)."
I copied this plan on my every-day Mac OS 9 Power Mac and it works great. You can even have both Find File and Sherlock in your Apple menu.
A little essay was posted to one of the Low End Mac email lists titled "Why I like OS 7.6.1 better than OS 8 or 9" by Melvyn Halbert. In summary, he says that graphics are snappier, there is better/faster feedback to commands, and certain old behaviors of the Finder and Save As dialogs can be useful.
He also notes that the older Find File utility from System 7.6.1 is more convenient than Sherlock in many cases, and it still works with systems as new as 9.1 -- "provided that Find File and Find File Extension have been copied from the 7.6.1 System Folder into the new System Folder AND Sherlock 2 is moved out of Applications (Mac OS 9)."
I copied this plan on my every-day Mac OS 9 Power Mac and it works great. You can even have both Find File and Sherlock in your Apple menu.
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