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I can set my startup disk to a 9.2 folder, no problem. But when it tries to boot into 9.2, it pauses with the smiley mac for a moment and then reboots back to 10.1! I have tried resetting the PRAM (cmd-option-P-R, right?), I have tried booting from an OS 9 installer CD-ROM. It doesn't help. I...

I don't seem to be able to activate the screen saver control panel. Whenever I try, it hangs indefinitely. I can kill it of course, but can never open it. Is anyone else having this problem?

I note that 10.1 now includes Cyrillic and Chinese in addition to the Roman and Japanese scripts available in 10.0 - has anyone seen announcements from Apple on the timing of additional scripts, like Hebrew, Greek, and Arabic?

Does anyone know of any MacOS X-compatible FAX modem software? Do I really have to keep booting back to 9.1 to send and receive faxes?

In MacOS 9, as in previous versions, an application could send an alert by flashing its icon in the application menu, and tagging itself in the pull-down list. This was a very convenient way to discover that you had to do something without the app just forcing its way to the front a la Windows...

I see several entries in /usr/share/man but I cannot get any answers when I type 'man set' or 'man setenv'. And when I type 'apropos setenv' I get: apropos: no whatis.db file found