[G4] Mac Classic Environment

[John Baltutis]

On 03/05/07, "Celia Lawton-Livingstone" <lawli56 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> On 03/05/07 Warren Hemple <badhawk at comcast.net>
>
>> OS9 and older is classic.  I have 1 G3 1 G4 and 1 intel mac and do
>> not use classic at all. It you plan on running programs that are not
>> OSX you will need it.>

> I've only been running this Mac with OS X for 2 days so at the moment I have
> no idea what are OS X and OS 9 applications... so I suppose the question
> really should have been "am I likely to need it?"
>
> Actually as primarally a PC user I've got loads of questions I want to ask,
> some of them I've found the answer to myself like "how do I/do I need to
> defrad/optimize the drive."
>
> But others like installing aps are eluding me... eg I've downloaded Firefox
> and double-clicked on the file to install it but it doesn't do what I expect
> it to do... install on the drive... it seems to exist as a volume (i think
> that's what it's called) on the desktop which dismounts? when I shutdown.
> Then the next time I want to use it i have to double-click on the .dmg file
> again to "re-install" it... what am I doing wrong?
>
> X11,  Onyx, Open Office, MSN Messenger and The gimp all installed on the
> drive.  So I'm confused. ?(
>
> Also iChat doesn't seem to do anything when I click on it.

Since you're a "new" Mac user, you should peruse the tutorial links at:
<http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304971>. Afterwards, there are
application-specific tutorials at
<http://search.info.apple.com/?as_q=&as_epq=tutorials&as_oq=&as_eq=&btnG=Search&lr=lang_en&kword=&type=&Submit=Search>.