Re: OpenVMS - When downtime is not an option

johnhreinhardt@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Jun 20, 9:37 pm, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I too am setting up a new mac with OS-X and it is quite the learning
curve and headaches since Apple decided to widthdraw support for
Appletalk and I cannot copy files from my 8.6 system to the new system,
and the user interface between 8.6 and 10.x is akin to decwindows and
CDE. One was very simple and easily customisable to fit your
organisational needs, the other is cute, but a lot harder to customise
and much less natural to use.



Yeah. There have been a LOT of complaints about that. I'll even
agree with some of them. The new "Finder" in OS X 10.5 is supposed to
fix at least some of these problems. Though I finally upgraded from
an OS 9 system to OS X 10.4 last year without too much problem. Now
all I have left in the Windows area is my wife's PC (I'm working on
that) and a Windows 2000 server that I share files on and have to keep
because its required to administer my HP EVA5000 SAN storage
controllers.


Now, having clicked on the wrong button, I have set it to use my mouse's
button as the main button... but my mouse has only one button and it has
rendered the system useless.



How new is this "new" Mac? Unless its a Mac Mini (which you have to
provide your own keyboard and mouse) you should have at least a 2-
button mouse. Apple hasn't packaged a 1-button mouse with a Mac in
years now. I didn't even know you could get a 1-button USB mouse (it
has to be a USB mouse since Apple dropped the ADB interface several
generations of systems ago. None of the ADB Mac are even supported
for OS X anymore as far as I know).



Does the touchpad on my PowerBook count as a 1-button mouse?


John H. Reinhardt





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