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Why ARDI doesn't know which apps run + suggestion



Dear Folks,

	I hate to continue a thread whose basic gist is a plea for  
less traffic in this group, but...  The problem is that ARDI doesn't  
know what applications will run under Executor-MSW.  ARDI is in a bit  
of a financial crunch, and has been, more or less, since day 0 (about  
five years ago).  The details boil basically down to:  ARDI expected  
to raise venture capital but wasn't able to because of the  
justifiable fear of lawsuits.  Lately ARDI is involved in all sorts  
of deals that can't be mentioned but none of them have yet panned out  
(there's still fear of lawsuits).

	A while back we had copies of the top 10 selling applications  
for the Mac.  We had to return those copies (no, we didn't do  
anything wrong; that was just part of a deal we had).  We have notes  
that date back to when we had the copies, but recently we discovered  
at least one example, and we suspect there are many more :-(, of a  
program that worked fine a while back that now dies mysteriously, so  
we really don't know the status of programs that we don't have access  
to.  Right now the "big ticket" applications that we have are:

	Word 4.00D
	Excel 3.0
	Excel 3.0A
	Word 5.00
	Fullwrite Professional V? ( I don't recall it's not really a
				concern, but it's what I used to use
				on the Mac and what my mother still
				uses; it doesn't run under Executor
				at all)

	Now being a fellow Albuquerquean, as well as being a very  
good friend [he is indirectly, through Lee Ward responsible for me  
bringing Executor to the NeXT; it was developed on Sun equipment],  
and being a fairly omnisicient kinda guy, Andrew knew all of the  
above.  So when he asked whether or not Quark ran he was asking the  
right place.

	Still, a better solution is needed.  Obviously, ARDI needs to  
track this data (until we can get some more Apps, which is already  
planned), so how's this for a new protocol:

	If you find out that an Application does or doesn't run, send  
the info to "iclone!stef@unmvax.cs.unm.edu".  If you are interested  
in whether or not a particular application runs, send the question to  
stef.  If he doesn't know whether or not a particular application  
runs, then it can be assumed that no one on this list knows, or  
she/he would have sent me the information.  To make it a little  
easier, Stef will post a brief list describing what runs [and how  
well it runs] (not the monster data I sent out earlier) every two  
weeks.  So information doesn't fall through the cracks there will be  
a reminder of what the policy is and a list of applications that  
people have asked about that hasn't been answered (just in case  
someone is inadvertantly sitting on this information).  Someone can  
then put a copy of this list on the NeXT servers on the InterNet.

	With luck that will help everyone out.

	--Cliff