[Ti] Word X under OS X (10.2.6)

Massimo Marino Massimo_Marino at lbl.gov
Fri May 9 06:54:07 PDT 2003


On Friday, May 9, 2003, at 12:55  PM, Trevor J. Hutley wrote:

> At 16:40 -0400 8-5-2003, John Griffin wrote:
>> Trevor J. Hutley typed this message on 5/8/03 11:49 AM:
>>  > I get the distinct impressionn that Word X, under 10.2.6 is less
>>  > stable than it was before the upgrade.
>>  > > Did anyone else notice a step-change in stability in Word after 
>> the update?
>>
>> Trevor, did you upgrade via the incremental updater or the Combo 
>> updater?
>> This might make a difference.
>
> John - as I usually do, I ran the incremental upgrade.
>
> But based on input from the List, especially from Massimo here in GVA, 
> I downloaded the Combo update (80+ MB) this mornng, and applied that 
> over my existing 10.2.6 system.
>
> Absolutely no problem to do that.
>
> The first thing I noticed was that - as with the incremental updater - 
> my default browser was changed from Safari, and I had to re-set it 
> manually to Safari.  That confirmed the weirdness I had reported for 
> my incremental update!
>
> Too early to comment on any other aspect of the update (Word 
> stability).
>
> In future, I will downlaod (since I have broadband anyway) the Combo 
> updater and use that, if the accepted wisdom is that this is a 
> "better" update protocol.
>
> T.

Interested people could read the last findings on the differences 
between the incremental updater and the COMBO. Apparently even same 
binary files have different versions in the two updaters (latest report 
on Macfixit).

	Massimo
  



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