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- Cliff (&/or anyone who knows) --
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- Thanks for the answers to all those questions that have
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- been floating around! The recent run of questions, however, seems
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- to have been mainly in the DOS world. One major question i have
- is whether there is currently any kind of list of applications
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- that work, or work partly/mostly, under Executor on black hardware.
- I've started new projects collaborating with Mac-users, and it'd
- be very useful to have a handle on where i can be compatible.
- Word is great to have, but ResEdit failed (as someone else has
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- already noted), and it'd be good to know how many apps lie in
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- between. I see that NIHimage is close, which is good to hear
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- (but i'm not sure if it will hit black hardware as soon as it
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- hits PC-land); are there a lot of apps that work, or just a few?
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- Are there a lot that almost work except for certain features or
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- activities like color/sound/printing/whatever? Are apps that
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- work for Executor/DOS likely to work for Executor/NeXTstep
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- (on black hardware, so that i can infer things from what i see
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- in DOS-related discussion? If not (or even if so) then a
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- well-defined list for each platform would be ideal.
- A list like this was circulated lo these many moons ago
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- (Sept. 93), but i'm sure that the picture has changed greatly
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- since then (Word certainly works better!) and i don't recall
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- seeing a more recent list. If it exists, could someone post
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- it to the email list? And if it doesn't, i'd like to suggest
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- that one be compiled -- perhaps ARDI could put out what is known,
- and other folks could then add info based on their experiences.
- Significant time, effort, and/or $$ can be required to
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- try out a new app, so knowing in advance if it'll work is important.
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- Thanks, and thanks for all the good work!
- (and Cliff, have a great trip!)
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- -- Maren Cooke
- maren@ossian.harvard.edu
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