MailBITS/30-Mar-92

Mark H. Anbinder passes on this important bit of information. John Norstad of Northwestern University has released version 2.7.1 of Disinfectant to fix what John calls a "stupid error" in version 2.7, released just days earlier. John wrote, "a note to Mac C programmers: Assigning a pointer to a Boolean variable is rarely useful. Releasing your own CODE resources is also a bad thing to do."

2.7.1 will be available from all the usual suspects. Please replace your copy of Disinfectant (2.7 or earlier) with 2.7.1 right away.

The Disinfectant INIT has not changed from 2.7 to 2.7.1, but you should install the 2.7.1 INIT anyway to avoid getting alert messages about an outdated version being installed.

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Mark H. Anbinder, TidBITS Contributing Editor

More RAM for IIf and IIg -- In TidBITS-108/24-Feb-92 we reported a rumor that the LaserWriter IIf and IIg were likely to be upgraded with extra RAM, and indeed, that has happened. We hoped that Apple US would follow the lead of Apple UK and offer free upgrades for people who already bought one of the printers. This has not happened, and users who wish to add an additional 4 MB of RAM to the either of the printers will have to buy a 4 MB upgrade kit, which lists for $249. Oh well, if you heeded our advice and waited, you can now get a IIf with 4 MB for $3599 list or a IIg with 8 MB for $4599 list, instead of the previous 2 MB and 5 MB incarnations.

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Mark H. Anbinder, TidBITS Contributing Editor