Solutions to Common 6.0 Problems!
By David A. Lyons
Copyright (c) 1992 Apple Users' Group, Sydney
Republished from Applecations, a publication of the Apple Users' Group, Sydney, Australia.
Apple II System Software Engineer
Apple Computer, Inc.
Problems launching or returning from ProDOS 8 applications. Many users are finding that it's a bad idea to have both ProDOS 8 2.0.1 and their RamFAST cards *both* remapping extra devices to unused slots and drives. Solution: Configure the RamFAST to not remap extra devices.
Problems installing to a Vulcan--the Installer asks you to insert your hard drive. We don't know why this happens, but if you put the optional Vulcan driver in the system, it works fine. For example, put the driver on a copy of System.Disk, boot from System.Disk, and launch the Installer from the Install disk. (Alternatively, you can try making room for the driver on a copy of Install by removing unneeded scripts from the Scripts folder.)
Easy Update installs the Finder only if it recognizes a file called Start or Finder. If you've installed ProSel 16, you should rename Start to Start.ProSel and Old.Start back to Start before installing System 6. (Then you can use the SetStart control panel to makeProSel 16 your startup application, if you want.)
Check out the Shortcuts file on SystemTools2 (you can read them with Teach).
If the mouse cursor wipes out everything it moves over, that application does not get along with CloseView. Remove CloseView from System.Setup, or inactivate it using Icon Info. (Leaving CloseView off is not enough; just having it in the system is enough to cause incompatibilities.) Information for developers on CloseView compatibility can be found in Apple IIgs Technical Note #91, The Wonderful World of Universal Access.
EasyAccess, in System.Setup, is incompatible with some applications, especially on ROM 1. Easy Access pre-processes keyboard input, so the keyboard is dead if an application locks out interrupts or if the system hangs (even Command-Control-Reset doesn't work). Easy Access provides sticky keys and mouse keys (you can read about it in Shortcuts). If it's causing you problems, Remove EasyAccess from System.Setup, or mark it Inactive using Icon Info.
If you used Easy Update and did not try clicking Customize, you may not be aware of some System 6 features. Run the Installer again and browse around--you'll find Calculator, Find File, the HFS FST, and more.
If you don't like yellow folders in the Finder you can change the byte at offset +65 in the Finder resource with type $C001 and ID 1. Change the $E0 to whatever you want (the first digit is the default folder foreground color, and the low nibble is for the outline color). Only folders that do *not* already have a color recorded in a Finder.Datafile get the default color. So $F0 would be white background / black outline.
Finder icons that match by name and have a leading wildcard require uppercase letters. For example, a name like "*.txt" never matches, but "*.TXT" works fine (it matches regardless of a file's actual capitalization). (This was accidental; the 5.0.4 Finder did not care about capitalization in icon files.)

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