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- Hi Folks,
-
- Another great screw-up from ARDI. Executor 1.3a doesn't run Excel
- (or a few other programs). As you know, there was a large lag
- between the release of Executor 1.3 and 1.3a. During that time we
- greatly rearranged the guts of Executor (to work more nicely on
- non-NEXT machines), and we fixed many little bugs and added a few
- features (not all of which are additions to the NEXTSTEP version).
- One of the more recent changes must have broken something.
-
- I'll be looking into the Excel problem tonight, and hopefully have a
- fix by tomorrow. If it isn't fixed by then, it won't be over the
- weekend, because I'll be in West Palm Beach doing "Craig Crossman's
- Computer America Show" (a nationally syndicated radio show). Once I
- get back, this bug will be highest priority.
-
- As to MacInTax for '93, I can't say now, because we don't have a copy
- to test with today. We had such a hassle getting one last year that
- I'll just buy one instead of trying to get a free copy, but I won't
- be able to do that until I come back from the radio show. If anyone
- has a copy and is bold enough to try installing it on a Mac and then
- bring all the files over and test it under Executor 1.3a (or 1.3b due
- out shortly), that might give us some information. MacInTax is
- pretty high on the totem pole, but there are things in front of it:
-
- Excel fixed
- << two separate sets of negotiations with two OEMs >>
- Executor/DOS working under Windows (E/D to be renamed E/PC)
- Either a cripple-ware demo or a shareware version of E/PC
- MacInTax
-
- Excel should be fixed very soon, but the sets of negotiations are
- more problematic. They'll probably either be very short (because we
- hit a snag early on) or be a bit drawn out, but provide ARDI with big
- bucks (each is worth enough to fund a complete Executor 2.0
- development team). E/D is mostly already running under Windows and
- the code for a cripple-ware demo or shareware version of E/PC already
- exists, so that shouldn't take too long, *but* even when MacInTax is
- high priority, until I see what the new version looks like, I can't
- really comment.
-
- Sorry that this appears to be dragging on forever. What we're doing
- over here is jockeying for position so that we'll be able to get E/D
- 2.0 (color support, most apps (inc. MacInTax) working, etc.) out the
- door as soon as possible.
-
- --Cliff
-
-