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- From: mark@prepress.com (Mark S. Bubien)
- Subject: Re: AfterDark PC to MAC
- In-Reply-To: teague@us17501.mdc.com's message of Mon, 21 Dec 92 21:40:40 GMT
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 14:30:22 GMT
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- >Does anyone know of a way to translate MAC afterdark modules to PC modules, or
- >vice-versa?
-
- I am not an expert, but I'd venture to say that the answer is "no."
-
- The AD modules aren't just files, they're code resources which are
- loaded and executed by the AD Control Panel. That means they're
- just like normal programs (except that they need another program
- to load and execute them) which are stored in an executable
- format for a specific computer. To translate the modules, you'd
- need some way to translate the executable machine code from
- one platform to the other. Plus, you need to translate the Windows
- specific function calls to Mac specific toolbox calls.
-
- I'm not sure if the technology is there to do something like this
- (I'd be interested to hear if it were, though). But even if there
- is a program out there that can do such a task, I'd bet it's damn
- expensive!
-
- Sorry,
- Mark
-
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