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Re: Testing the NEXTSTEP port



>>>>> "Beth" == Elizabeth E Katz <beth@raven.millersv.edu> writes:

    Beth> I'm a longtime Executor/NEXTSTEP user. I'm happy to hear
    Beth> that the NEXTSTEP port is coming soon. I hope that we will
    Beth> have a chance to test it (and then test it again with bug
    Beth> fixes) before 2.0 comes out.

Yes, everyone should have a chance to test before 2.0 comes out.  I
don't know when it will first appear -- Mat is getting into the groove
again, but there will probably be some mods I'll have to make, but we
will make sure that the NEXTSTEP version of 2.0 has a beta period of
the same amount of time as the DOS and Linux versions.  Those two may
go into beta before the NEXTSTEP versions do, but *all* the releases
to date are pre-beta.

    Beth> I'm actually using Executor 1.3c because it works okay with
    Beth> Microsoft Word, stumbles (but works enough) on HyperCard,
    Beth> and manages to run ClarisWorks 2.1's word processor and
    Beth> database.  It crashes on ClarisWorks spreadsheet however,
    Beth> and I can't print from ClarisWorks.

I'm not sure how much our HyperCard compatibility has improved in the
last year and a half, but the ClarisWorks spreadsheet crash is fixed.
We still are being dogged by a variety of printing problems, but some
have gotten better in the last few releases.  HyperCard will probably
be one of the apps we spend some concentrated hackathon time.  If you
want to make up a list of known problems with HyperCard and send them,
with stacks that can easily reproduce them, we'll see if those bugs
still exist and try to eradicate them if they do.

    Beth> Anyway, Cliff and company, we're patiently awaiting the
    Beth> NEXTSTEP port.  Executor has helped me in the past month,
    Beth> and I look forward to many more happy years with it. More
    Beth> years with NEXTSTEP? Well, those musings belong on
    Beth> comp.sys.next.advocacy.

You're welcome.  Sorry it's been so long (and is still taking a little
while) for a new NEXTSTEP port, but there would be no ports if we had
gone out of business.

    Beth> Thanks for not deserting us.

I only wish there hadn't been this long delay.

	--Cliff



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