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IMPORTANT: We goofed and sent out 1.2.1 with 1.2.2 labels



Dear Folks,

If you recently received a copy of 1.2.2 from us you should check the  
info panel and see if it claims to be 1.2.2 or 1.2.1.  About two  
dozen (we think) copies of 1.2.1 with 1.2.2 labels were shipped to  
people who should have received 1.2.2.

About a hundred other copies were detected before being dropped in  
the mail.  We're remaking the disks today and hope to have them in  
the mail by Tuesday.

The good news is that we're in the process of changing our delivery  
system.  With the upcoming release of 1.3, which will support Intel  
processors, we'll be leaving complete copies of Executor on the  
various NeXT related anonymous FTP sites and allow people with  
legitimate authentication codes to use those copies without having to  
get a copy directly from us.  People without authentication codes  
will be able to test drive Executor for a few minutes, at a time.

Once this is in place we'll keep two copies out there at all times;  
the latest "official" release and the latest "experimental" release  
so that if we have a bug-fix that fixes *your* bug, we can roll it  
into an experimental release and let everyone who's curious try it.   
If you don't have access to the net, we'll continue to send you  
copies of the official releases on floppy disk.

Ever since February 10th, it's been very hectic over here, because we  
knew that at NeXTWORLD Expo we'd have to show Executor running under  
NeXTSTEP/Intel.  We've succeeded.  1.3 isn't ready for distribution  
yet, but it *does* run under NeXTSTEP/Intel.  In addition, we should  
have a primitive copy running under _DOS_ within a month.  We're  
looking for a publisher for our DOS product and one of the  
prerequisites will be that we get a sufficient advance to allow us to  
buff and polish Executor on all platforms before we release the DOS  
version.  Everyone wins.

The implementation of color took a back seat to support for the  
80x86, but it won't be taking a back seat to the DOS effort.  DOS and  
color will be worked on concurrently.  We hope to release our DOS  
version by September 1, and have Executor 2.0 (with color support) in  
beta sometime around then.

If you received a copy of 1.2.1 labeled as 1.2.2 and you don't  
already have a copy of 1.2.2, please send me some e-mail.  We're  
looking at logs and trying to figure out exactly who got the bad  
copies, but extra e-mail won't hurt.

See you at NeXTWORLD Expo.


	--Cliff