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- From: Osma.Ahvenlampi@hut.fi (Osma Ahvenlampi)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Amigaguide Lib V40+
- Date: 28 Jan 1996 10:21:54 +0200
- Organization: What, me, organised?
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- In-reply-to: "Steve Orrell"'s message of Fri, 19 Jan 1996 20:02:48 -0000
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- In article <67348163@belay.demon.co.uk> "Steve Orrell" <steveO@belay.demon.co.uk> writes:
- >Hmm, yeah, I was interested in an answer to this one; I was interested in
- >giving Voodoo a try out. But I can't now because it insisits it needs this
- >particular Amigaguide.library.
- >
- >What's the point in coding something which *requires* a library which is so
- >exclusive as to be confined to OS3.1 ??
- >
- >I'm running 3.0, and its not that uncommon to hear of problems that I don't
- >experience but someone running 2.04 does. What ever happened to maintaining
- >some degree of 'backwards compatibility'? OS3.1 is, AFAIS, an _upgrade, v3.0
- >is by no means obsolete.
- >
- >Looks to me that Voodoo is being targetted at the 'elite' which is not what
- >the world of the Amiga is all about, IMHO....
-
- Excuse me. Voodoo requires two things out of AmigaGuide:
-
- amigaguide.library version 39 or later, because Voodoo requires OS
- version 3.0, and that includes this library. If you don't have it, it
- is because a misbehaving application has overwritten it with an
- obsolete version, and you can get the version 39 back from the
- Workbench floppies.
-
- amigaguide.datatype version 41 or later, if you want to view
- AmigaGuide documents as mail. This is not by choice. Earlier versions
- of amigaguide.datatype will simply not work at all with Voodoo,
- because they were buggy in a way that wasn't caughht by anyone before
- I tried to use amigaguide.datatype in Voodoo. The other reason is that
- version 41 makes it safe to view AmigaGuide documents from unknown
- sources. You wouldn't want an E-Mail to format your hard disk, would
- you? If you don't have amigaguide.datatype V41 (few people at moment
- do), Voodoo will just give you the option of saving the document in a
- file, and will not show it.
-
- You know, if you asked this sort of thing from me instead of bitching
- about it in an obscure newsgroup I skim over once or twice a week (I
- would have missed it were it not for a followup that said "voodoo" in
- the subject), I might stand a chance of answering.
-
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