This morning the weekly Macintosh-oriented TidBITS ran the first of 2 articles by Geoff Duncan on OS9 (http://www.tidbits.com/). Included in the article was mention that some applications may not be compatible with the OS9 file control block table that keeps track of open files (i hope i don't sound as if i know what i'm talking about here). the following paragraph is extracted from the article: Whenever a program tries to use unsupported methods for accessing information about open files, Mac OS 9 shuts down the application with an error number 119, and displays a dialog saying you need an updated version of that application. It's annoying. What's more annoying is that many commonly used applications and utilities need updating - I've included a partial list of major problems below. Disk tools, file utilities, font management tools, and anti-virus software are especially likely to be impacted. Alsoft has released a checker that can inspect PowerPC applications for compatibility with the Mac OS 9 file system - it produces an HTML report you can view in a Web browser. I can't vouch for its results, but it could prove useful. <http://www.alsoft.com/AskAl/askalreport-9comp.html> When I ran Alsoft's "Check 9 File Mgr Compatibility", it said that my old version of CellQuest (3.1) is a "program that appears incompatible". ModFit, WinList, and FlowJo appeared toe compatible. I would be very interested in hearing whether others get the same report. As Duncan states, who knows how accurate Alsoft's utility is; and it probably has never been primed to encounter specialty applications like CQ. So until someone tries it and makes it work, we all have to wait (and hopefuilly BD will test it and let us all know soon). roger >This sounds very interesting. (no pun intended) ;~) > >Can we be sure that it's compatible with CellQuest and all the >related software yet? > >Always Cautious... > Joseph. > >PS >I might give it a try when 9.2 comes along :-) > JLW. > >At 07:02 23/10/99, Keith Bahjat wrote: >>How about upgrading to MacOS 9.0? Then you can use voice print login for >>your users (a new feature of OS 9, similar to the user login when you boot >>up Win95 or 98, only voice prints can be used instead of normal passwords), >>and it saves the desired desktop configuration for each user. You can also >>use the more conventional passwords, by why?!! >> >>kb >> >>on 10/21/99 12:07 PM, Duecker, Chris at CLDuecker@bcsew.edu wrote: >>> Hello all, >>> Our laboratory has just upgraded the computers on our FACScans and >>> FACStar Plus to Becton Dickinson's Macs with CellQuest Software. I am >>> looking for a logging program that I can run with these machines similar to >>> the FACSLOG program from Neal Benson that was run on the Consort 32 system >>> with the old HP computers. Any leads would be much appreciated. Thanks. > >Joseph Webster, Flow Cytometry Facility, >Centenary Institute >Locked Bag No.6, Newtown, NSW 2042, AUSTRALIA. >Ph: 61-2-9565-6110 Fax: 61-2-9565-6101 >e-mail: J.Webster@centenary.usyd.edu.au
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