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- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 10:09:07 MDT
- From: yackd@utah.et.byu.edu (Don Yacktman)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
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- References: <1992Sep14.000247.27940@cs.sfu.ca> <1992Sep14.161853.3360@wire.gwinnett.com> <1992Sep15.170334.624@prim>
- Organization: Brigham Young University, Provo UT USA
- Subject: Re: Praise and gripes about 3.0
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- In article <1992Sep15.170334.624@prim>, prim!dave@germany.eu.net (Dave Griffiths) writes:
- >In article <1992Sep14.161853.3360@wire.gwinnett.com> andrew_abernathy@wire.gwinnett.com (andrew abernathy) writes:
- >>In article <1992Sep14.000247.27940@cs.sfu.ca> oneill@cs.sfu.ca (Richard
- >>O'Neill) writes:
- >>
- >>> Well, I had to have the foresight to use the "Plan Upgrade" option and
- >>see
- >>> that it planned on removing Icon because it wasn't part of 3.0. I said
- >>no
- >>> to this, and so I still have my copy and can use it if/when I want to.
- >>Dream on. (As I did.) Icon, unfortunately, is pretty much totally
- >>broken under 3.0, at least PR2. I'm pretty upset about it.
- >Why is Icon worse under 3.0? I thought 3.0 offered binary compatibility?
-
- Well, Icon seems to do a lot of things behind 2.x's back. In other
- words, it seems to have used quite a few undocumented calls...which
- probably no longer exist. Judging from the poking around I've done
- in side the program, I think this is reasonable to say, even though
- I really have no idea what I'm talking about. :->
-
- -Don Yacktman
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