Max OS X: The Missing Manual
by David Pogue

Corrections made in the 5th printing (February 2002)


(intro)
3 (Typo or formatting problem)

The text used to read:

But crash resistance is only the big-ticket item

It now reads:

But crash resistance isn't only the big-ticket item


[295]  "Change the Key Caps font";
Well. I don't know if it's that serious, but it's certainly a real problem.

You state "...Key Caps lets you see the characters lurking within any installed
font;..."  Not true.  Some fonts yes, some fonts no.  I don't know why.  Discussion
in the Apple Disussion Forum suggests it has something to do with "keyboads" but I
don't understand it.  All I know is that many of my fonts do not show up correctly in
Key Caps under OS-X.  The obvious one is the Symbol font.  It's true of my math
fonts, too, and even some relatively standard english alphabet fonts.  The sad thing
is that Key Caps pretends to work (there are usually no error messages or other
warnings), but does not (it shows the standard keyboard character in some other
font), so things just get frustrating.  When I select Symbol font I sometimes get a
warning that "some" of the characters might not show up correctly, but the warning is
not consistent (in that the warning does not always appear) or accurate (it's not
"some" of the characters, but "most" of the characters, that show up incorrectl!
y.)

The work-around is to use Key Caps in Classic.

AUTHOR: Fixed in 5th printing


[289]  Caption for Fig 9-15, last two words.;
The text says "click OK" - but there is NO "OK" button, as can be seen from the
figure itself!

I honestly do not know what the correct text should be.  In my own case, I fumbled
around for about 15 minutes, re-formatting/partitioning my drive three times before I
finally got what I wanted.  But I don't know what I did different that third time.

There is also a fudamental interface issue with this dialog box, and I suggest some
explanation or warning.  The default is for "Install Mac OS 9 Disk Drivers" to be
checked (as shown) in the "Partition" tab, but unchecked in the "Erase" tab.  So
which takes priority?  The interface issue is: How do I know if the information
entered under all tabs is executed or just those under the active tab?  It seems to
be different in different tabbed dialog boxes.

AUTHOR: Fixed in 5th printing


369

The text used to read:

Figure 6-3:
Top left: Begin by sharing certain folders on the Windows machine.
Top right: In the Connect to Server box, type out the network address of the
folder you want to access from the Mac.
Top left: Specify your name and password, if necessary. If this box doesn't
appear, then you may need to add the PC's workgroup name, such as MSHOME, to the
address you typed in the second dialog box. The full address might look like
this: smb://MSHOME/Dell4100/Drafts.
Bottom right: Like magic, the Windows folder shows up on your Mac screen, ready
to use!

It now reads:

Figure 6-3:
Top left: Begin by sharing certain folders on the Windows machine.
Top right: In the Connect to Server box, type out the network address of the
folder you want to access from the Mac. If the shared folder name contains
spaces (My Documents), leave them out (MyDocuments).
Bottom left: Specify your name and password, if necessary. If you just get an
error message, then you may need to add the PCÕs workgroup name, such as MSHOME,
followed by a semicolon, to the address you typed in the second dialog box. The
full address might look like this:
smb://MSHOME;Dell4100/Drafts.
Bottom right: Like magic, the Windows folder shows up on your Mac screen, ready
to use!