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V1.2 filesystem goodies
Dear Folks,
People have been asking me about what's going to be in V1.2, other than
complete printing support and Word 5.0 support. The other major
difference will be the filesystem. It's not totally clear what will be
in V1.2 and what will have to wait, but here's what things look like now.
V1.2 may have the ability to read and write directly to hard disks. I'm
putting in the code to do that, although there are a couple of questions
I need the answer to before I can be sure that it will be done on time.
I was hoping to have most of the cool filesystem stuff in the Excel beta
testers copy. With Sophy competing tomorrow I won't get to spend any
time on it then, leaving only the rest of today and Sunday to do a whole
bunch of work. I hope to have some good filesystem stuff in for the
first round of Excel testing, but even it it doesn't all make it in by
Sunday night, I'm still ahead of schedule.
V1.2 cool file stuff (+ denotes a feature that probably won't be in the
first Excel beta testers copy, * denotes a feature that may not make it
into V1.2 (implies +) ):
Access to the entire UNIX filesystem (i.e. no need to "dwrite")
Support for multiple floppies
*Support for hard disks
+bugfixes for:
stuffit
compactor pro
Apple's installer (necessary for Word5 and Excel3)
+GatorBox support
+NFS/share support
*uShare support
Access to floppies and hard disks directly from Executor and the
programs that Executor runs
*HFS_XFer and Executor merged
The side effect of all this is that the documentation will not be done by
the time the software is, but we'll be willing to send the software
before the docs are ready if people are interested.
--Cliff