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- From: bgrubb@dante.nmsu.edu (GRUBB)
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- Subject: Re: Mac books/System 7.1 fonts
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.210737.16118@nmsu.edu>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 21:07:37 GMT
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- Just got off the phone with Apple technical support for system 7.1 and
- as I have been stating for over a month THERE ARE NOT TO SUPPOSSED TO
- BE ANY FONTS IN THE SYSTEM FILE!
- In fact the person I talked to stated "We [Apple] are telling people to remove
- ALL the fonts from the system file in system 7.1. ...when upgrading from a
- older system the installer leaves the old system fonts in the system file."
- Though I could not get him to admit this is a bug in the installer from the
- evidence it is QED (Progression of logic) that there is a bug.
- A QED progression is a general true statement followed by a specific true
- statement and then a conclusion from the the two statements
- example:
- All men are mortal
- Charles Darwin was a man
- Therefore Charles Darwin was mortal
-
- The QED in the case of the System 7.1 installer is as follows
- 1) Bug: a programing error; error in syntax or logic; the program does not
- do what it is supposed to do( Dictionary of Computer Terms 3rd ed.)
- 2) System 7.1 install leaves fonts in the system file which should not
- be there. (From the Apple represenitive)
- 3) Therefore there is a bug in the System 7.1 installer.
-
- "Eliminate the impossible and what ever remains, no matter how improbable,
- is the truth" -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle through Sherlock Holmes in The
- Adventure of the Beryl Coronet, The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier, Sign
- of Four and The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans.
-