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Having just doinged this mailing list and not knowing if any of this has
been hashed over in the list's past (short) life, what other Mac stuff
have people got working via twiddlings of .execonfig files?  Although I know
that it would be much too much to hope for, I'd love to see if I could get
Pagemaker 4.0 to work. Unfortunately, because I need to split the puppy into
chunks (the executable file is > 1.5meg), and hence use Stuffit to reassemble
it, I get stuck because Stuffit bombs. Perhaps I should binhex it into a huge
file on the mac, chop it into parts, reassemble it in Word, and then try
to unBinHex it? Hmmmm...

Anyway, I'd just be interested to hear what else people have gotten to work
so far..

One other thing... How about getting Executor to pretend to be something
better than a Mac+? I tried running the cool public doman game Solarian (yes,
I know how slow the graphics would be...), but it wouldn't start because
it said it needed a Mac II to run... Granted, if you pretend to be a Mac II,
all of a sudden, there's a lot more toolbox stuff to support, but I'd be happy
to have all that unsupported for now, just so programs like Solarian that 
(maybe) only check for Mac II-ness so that they know that there's a big
screen for them to run on would possibly crank out some results...

Ok, one last question (is everyone keeping all these straight?). Not having
Palantino on my NeXT, I am, of course, overjoyed to see it appear in Word.
If I do someting in Word in Palantino, what I'd like to do is move the Rich
Text over to Edit or something, pick print and save the PostScript to disk, and
then take a floppy disk over to the computer lab and print the postscript.
This works fine normally, but with fonts like Palantino, which Edit has no
knowledge of, I can't get Edit to crank out PostScript, 'on faith' that the
printing printer will know what this Palantino stuff is. I guess the lack of
AFM files or whatever would make it tough for the NeXT to figure out how much
space on the page a given set of characters took, however, so it would be
tough to figure out line-breaks, etc...

Enough for now- I really hope all this was coherent and halfway understandable.

matt



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