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>From: [log in to unmask] (Robert Smitheram)
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 11:42:33 -0400
>Subject: Re: #5070  CLK 1.2?
>References: <[log in to unmask]>
>Organization: Center for Educational Technology

[log in to unmask] writes:
>If Mr. Smitheram could elaborate on his comment as well provide a source
>or two (even a juicy anecdote would do), we might have a case for the
>impossible mating of MacOS 8.6 and CLK 1.2.  (Obviously, I'm speaking from
>the dark ages of technology -- I'm working with 8.5.1.)  Until then, it
>sounds like you should consider a clean install of the entire system and
>giving CLK 1.2 another go.


I see my name being mentioned so would like to clarify what I know about CLK 1.2 and CLK 2.0. I just had someone in my office who could not get CLK 1.2 to work on her new powerbook G3 with MacOS 8.6 factory installed. Now, I am not sure how she tried to
install CLK 1.2. I needed to guarantee that CLK would work so I went ahead and installed CLK 2.0 instead and all works fine. I have read various reports of fonts failing, input methods failing, etc., with 8.6 and CLK 1.2 but do not know whether the fonts,
the input enabling extensions, or the WorldScript extensions that are to blame. There is one thing that could be tried: with the System installer CD you have the option of installing "Multilingual Internet Extensions" (it is under the custom install.)
This installs a whole slew of language kits (for free by the way) (Arabic, Cyrillic, etc.--no TT fonts, as well as parts of the CLK, JLK and KLK--no input methods, no TT fonts). With that in place, try installing parts of CLK 1.2 and always choose "Newer"
when the installer notices that certain components are already in place. With this combination things might work; or at least it might clarify if indeed the input components of CLK 1.2 do indeed fail in MacOS 8.6 since these do not come with the
Multilingual Internet Extensions installation. Anyone up for an experiment?

Robert H. Smitheram

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