I think that fiddling a little with ResEdit on our part would save 
some of your time, as well as space.  We appreciate your service, so 
I'm more than happy to do some bit fiddling to take advantage of your 
efforts!

Thanks!
   Mark

>Hi,
>  I've built a 2.8a image/changes combo and put it in 2.7/files, a .sit.bin
>for the mac folks and a .tar.gz for the rest.    Question to you mac folks:
>Since you're alpha testing software do y'all feel comfortable enough with
>resedit to change the file types on the .image?  If so I can just leave
>the .tar.gz file there next time.  It saves about 4 meg or so.
>
>Note that you have to file this bit in if you want to update from a 2.7
>image to a 2.8alpha image.
>
>'From Squeak2.8alpha of 19 January 2000 [latest update: #1789] on 19 
>January 2000 at 1:04:57 pm'!
>
>!SystemDictionary methodsFor: 'sources, change log' stamp: 'beo 
>1/19/2000 12:54'!
>version
>	"Answer the version of this release."
>
>	^ EToySystem version , ' of ' , EToySystem versionDate! !
>
>
>I forgot who, but this came across the list before.  The problem is that
>SystemDictionary version got changed to hardcoded values.
>
>cheers
>
>bruce
>
>
>
>Dan Ingalls <Dan.Ingalls at disney.com> wrote:
> > Folks -
> >
> > I've just posted 7 new updates for 2.8alpha, as follows...
> >
> > 	- Dan
> > -------------------------
> > 1783PkgBrowserTweaks-STP -- Stephen Travis Pope -- 13 January 2000
> > This change set repairs a bug that kept the find class and
> > recent menu items from working in the current version of the package
> > browser (*and* it removes more code than it adds). The menu functions did
> > not select the class category for the found class.
> >
> > 1784fixesFromSTP -- Stephen Travis Pope -- 13 January 2000
> > A fix and an enhancement sent out by stp today:
> > *  Fixes the bug that the menu flap's tab was using the menu font 
>instead of the flap font.
> > *  Adds Preferences.setParameter:to: to allow easy programmatic 
>setting of parameters."
> >
> > 1785pkgBrowserStuff-sw -- Scott Wallace -- 13 January 2000
> > Gives the Package Brower a more first-class status in the system 
>through the following changes:
> > * Puts a prototypical PackageBrowser in the tools flap and in the 
>standard parts bin
> > * Adds a separate item to the 'open...' menus to allow the user 
>to request a package browser.
> > * If the 'browserShowsPackagePane' preference is true, then all 
>the 'browse full' and 'browse it' commands will launch a Package 
>rather than a System browser."
> >
> > 1786listDblClick-sw -- Scott Wallace (and, mainly, Bob Arning) -- 
>13 January 2000
> > Based on a custom subclass of PluggableListMorph that was 
>circulated to the Squeak list by Bob Arning in late 1999, but with 
>the feature now elevated to reside in generic PluggableListMorph
> > Allows a PluggableListMorph to have a special action set up to be 
>triggered in response to a double-click on a list item.
> > Harnessed to make a double-click on an item in an 
>inspect-list-pane (in an Inspector or a Debugger) be interpreted as 
>a request to open an inspector on the selected value.
> > For this purpose, a 'double-click' is defined as two successive 
>clicks on the same list item that occur within the number of 
>milliseconds indicated by PluggableListMorph's DoubleClickTime class 
>variable, which starts out life at 1000, representing 1 second,"
> >
> > 1787ftpNewFile-tkMU -- Ted Kaehler -- 13 January 2000
> > Allows RemoteFileStreams to keep track of whether they have valid 
>data in their local stream.  The lack of this knowledge caused ftp 
>errors when closing a newly created remote file, and when writing a 
>file of zero length."
> >
> > 1788inspectElement-sw -- Scott Wallace -- 14 January 2000
> > In Inspectors (and inspect-lists of Debuggers), if the current 
>selection is a non-empty Array or OrderedCollection then the 
>inspect-list menu will now offer a new item, 'inspect element...', 
>which will allow you to open an inspector directly on any element of 
>the selection.
> > The former #smartInspect feature is removed."
> >
> > 1789noPersonalize-sw -- Scott Wallace -- 18 January 2000
> > Adds a new Preference, called 'personalizedWorldMenu', which 
>governs which menu should be put up when the user 
>yellow-button-clicks on the morphic desktop.  If the preference is 
>true, the personalized menu will be used (as before), if false then 
>the standard red-button (world) menu is used instead."

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