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- Subject: Re: Australian Mac systems
- Message-ID: <hammett.714010980@sbsu1.aukuni.ac.nz>
- From: hammett@sbsu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Tim Hammett)
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 00:23:00 GMT
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- sold@kit.uni-kl.de (Christoph Sold) writes:
- >Of course, you can do it the hard way: Assuming the user has set up the
- >right location in the Map control panel, you can ask the system for its
- >location. See Inside Macintosh, Vol VI, Worldwide Software (or something the
- >like).
-
- This won't work for two reasons:
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- 1. Most users don't bother to set their location in the Map control panel.
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- 2. A person's location is not relevant to the System software they are using.
- I might go to Germany, but still use Australian system software. Similarly,
- someone might want to use Japanese system software in the US.
-
- --
- Tim Hammett, Botany Dept, Auckland University, New Zealand.
- t.hammett@aukuni.ac.nz Phone: +64-9-373-7599 x8365 FAX: +64-9-373-7416
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