characters. The “traditional” Macintosh character set stopped at ASCII 232, leaving 24 characters available for a hodgepodge of foreign characters.
Adobe fonts have long provided a set of additional characters. System 6.0.4 formalizes these characters, adds a few, and fixes some bugs in how these characters are sorted.
These new characters are available in the Times, Helvetica, and Courier fonts provided on the “Utilities 2” disk, so you’ll need to replace your old ones.
Finder
In addition to supporting the new CPUs
(such as a “Sleep” command under the Special menu for the Mac Portable), the Finder has been tweaked with some minor enhancements.
Finder windows can now be sized larger
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than the main screen (primarily for multi-screen users). Also, the Finder no longer paints the desktop pattern when running under MultiFinder. In previous versions both Finder and MultiFinder painted the desktop.
When using CD-ROMs (and in general on locked volumes), closing folders is much faster as the Finder does not try to save the new locations. For those of you who use AppleShare’s “Desktop Manager” on your non-AppleShare volumes, the Finder should now properly unmount (eject) these volumes. In old versions a request for an
‘eject’ would cause the Finder to walk through the file list to see if any files were open, and would