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MacInTax 10.01 under Executor 1.2.2c
Here's the status of MacInTax. MacInTax '91 (9.01) can be installed
using Executor to do the installation, and the forms can be filled
out. But MacInTax '92 uses a different Installer than MacInTax '91
uses. In fact '92 uses Apple's Installer, which is known to violate
Apple's own guidelines for what clean programs should do. This is
the same Installer that Word 5 uses and as such requires Executor
users to install Word 5 on a Mac before it can be used.
The Apple Installer really is a bad program. In addition to it not
working under Executor, where we rewrote the Apple ROMs from scratch,
it doesn't work under Liken, which uses Apple's own System File for
most of their Mac support. Furthermore, and here's the clincher: We
can't get our Mac Plus to load MacInTax '92. I've spent some time
fiddling with this, by removing all the INITs we have (we use very
few) and trying under Finder (where it totally hangs the system) and
Multi-Finder where it gives a non-descriptive error message.
Clearly Executor 1.3 will not be able to support MacInTax's
Installer. We can't delay the release of 1.3 chasing down this
problem. I don't know about MacInTax itself. I'm going to keep
fiddling, by first making a copy of our System file and removing all
the Desk Accessories and Fonts from it so it will be smaller, and if
that doesn't work, I'll see if I can find a "virgin" copy of 6.0.7 to
see if the MacInTax's installer is compatible with that.
I won't be working further on MacInTax until after HFS_XFer is
integrated into Executor. Until that's done, people picking up
Executor via anonymous ftp can run programs but don't have any way to
create folders, rename or delete files. I'm hoping to have HFS_XFer
integrated today, but it's too early to tell whether that's a viable
goal.
--Cliff