[filmscanners] Re: Scan Dual IV vs. Scan Dual II

["Carlisle Landel" <clandel@adelphia.net>]

Berry,

To amplify Brad's answer:

When you first set up your Mac under OSX, you create accounts that
will have various levels of administrative privileges. That way you
can set up your machine for multiple users, and everybody gets their
own directory space for storing files, etc., and you can limit what
some of the users (for example, your child, friend, co-worker, etc.)
can get to and do.  At least one of the users has administrative
privileges, that is, can add and delete files and applications at
will.  So, if you set up your machine with an account for you and
your kid, and you fixed it so that your kid had limited privileges,
then only you could load the software, not your kid.

With regards to native vs non-native, what this means is that if you
have some OS9 software that use with plugins for the scanner, then
although that software will run in OSX, the plugins won't.  You will
have to upgrade to the OSX version of the software to run the plugins.

Have a great evening!

Carlisle

At 10:46 AM -0700 9/14/04, Brad Davis wrote:
>Berry,,
>OS X is basically a Unix system, I'm sure you've heard that.  #3 just means
>that you have to have full privileges on the system - the administrator
>privileges.  When you go to OS X you will find that there are differing
>levels of privileges which define what you can do and administrator is the
>only one who can install software.
>
>#4 just means that the program controlling plug-in must have been written
>for OS X.  There were programs that were cobbled together and would run
>under OS X, but weren't native to the operating system.  These existed early
>on for OS X, when there hadn't been time to rewrite everything to run under
>OS X.  Generally, these required an added layer between the program and the
>OS so that a translation could be done.  By now, most everything is native.
>
>By the way, when you go to OS X, you will find that it will run OS 9.2 under
>OS X.  This is so you can run legacy programs. I found that it worked, but
>was not satisfactory (and you can't use the Minolta plug-in with say
>Photoshop running under 9.1, for instance).
>
>With OS X, you get a chance to learn UNIX, if you so choose, or not, there
>is not real need.
>
>Good luck,
>
>Brad
>
>>  I notice on the Minolta compatibility chart, the following footnotes
>>  regarding use of the Scan Dual IV with Mac OS-X:
>>
>>  *3:You must be logged on as an administrator to complete the driver
>>  installation.
>>  *4:The Mac OS X plug-in cannot be used with applications that are not OS X
>>  native.
>>
>>  Since it is stated that various versions of OS-X are compatible, *4 is a
>>  little puzzling.  *3 is a mystery to me.
>>
>>  My main question is whether SD-IV works fine with OS-X 3.x, or are there
>>  some issues.
>>
>>  (I am still using OS 9.1 on a G4, but am considering upgrading the OS or to
>>  G5.)
>>
>>  Berry
>>
>>
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