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1.3a doesn't run Excel + MacInTax info



Hi Folks,

Another great screw-up from ARDI.  Executor 1.3a doesn't run Excel  
(or a few other programs).  As you know, there was a large lag  
between the release of Executor 1.3 and 1.3a.  During that time we  
greatly rearranged the guts of Executor (to work more nicely on  
non-NEXT machines), and we fixed many little bugs and added a few  
features (not all of which are additions to the NEXTSTEP version).   
One of the more recent changes must have broken something.

I'll be looking into the Excel problem tonight, and hopefully have a  
fix by tomorrow.  If it isn't fixed by then, it won't be over the  
weekend, because I'll be in West Palm Beach doing "Craig Crossman's  
Computer America Show" (a nationally syndicated radio show).  Once I  
get back, this bug will be highest priority.

As to MacInTax for '93, I can't say now, because we don't have a copy  
to test with today.  We had such a hassle getting one last year that  
I'll just buy one instead of trying to get a free copy, but I won't  
be able to do that until I come back from the radio show.  If anyone  
has a copy and is bold enough to try installing it on a Mac and then  
bring all the files over and test it under Executor 1.3a (or 1.3b due  
out shortly), that might give us some information.  MacInTax is  
pretty high on the totem pole, but there are things in front of it:

	Excel fixed
	<< two separate sets of negotiations with two OEMs >>
	Executor/DOS working under Windows (E/D to be renamed E/PC)
	Either a cripple-ware demo or a shareware version of E/PC
	MacInTax

Excel should be fixed very soon, but the sets of negotiations are  
more problematic.  They'll probably either be very short (because we  
hit a snag early on) or be a bit drawn out, but provide ARDI with big  
bucks (each is worth enough to fund a complete Executor 2.0  
development team).  E/D is mostly already running under Windows and  
the code for a cripple-ware demo or shareware version of E/PC already  
exists, so that shouldn't take too long, *but* even when MacInTax is  
high priority, until I see what the new version looks like, I can't  
really comment.

Sorry that this appears to be dragging on forever.  What we're doing  
over here is jockeying for position so that we'll be able to get E/D  
2.0 (color support, most apps (inc. MacInTax) working, etc.) out the  
door as soon as possible.

	--Cliff