DragThing 4 is the first release of DragThing to support Carbon.

Carbon is the name given to the version of the Mac OS programming interface which supports both the classic OS 9 operating system, and the new Mac OS X. Simply put, that means that DragThing can now run natively on both OS 9 and X.

Because of the support for Carbon, DragThing requires 8.6 or later, and CarbonLib 1.2 or later installed on systems before OS X. You can download the latest version of CarbonLib from the Apple Software Updates website at

http://asu.info.apple.com/

Unfortunately, because of the requirement for CarbonLib 1.2, it is difficult to produce a version of DragThing that will run on systems earlier than 8.6. In that case, I'd recommend running DragThing 2.9 until you can upgrade.

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