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Cliff (&/or anyone who knows) -- 


	Thanks for the answers to all those questions that have 

been floating around!  The recent run of questions, however, seems 

to have been mainly in the DOS world.  One major question i have
is whether there is currently any kind of list of applications 

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 

already noted), and it'd be good to know how many apps lie in 

between.  I see that NIHimage is close, which is good to hear 

(but i'm not sure if it will hit black hardware as soon as it 

hits PC-land);  are there a lot of apps that work, or just a few?  

Are there a lot that almost work except for certain features or 

activities like color/sound/printing/whatever?  Are apps that 

work for Executor/DOS likely to work for Executor/NeXTstep 

(on black hardware, so that i can infer things from what i see 

in DOS-related discussion?  If not (or even if so) then a 

well-defined list for each platform would be ideal.
	A list like this was circulated lo these many moons ago 

(Sept. 93), but i'm sure that the picture has changed greatly 

since then (Word certainly works better!) and i don't recall 

seeing a more recent list.  If it exists, could someone post 

it to the email list?  And if it doesn't, i'd like to suggest 

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 

try out a new app, so knowing in advance if it'll work is important.

Thanks, and thanks for all the good work!
(and Cliff, have a great trip!)

	-- Maren Cooke
	maren@ossian.harvard.edu