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Resource Editor



Hi world,

Good news. I (finally) found a Resource Editor that works with Executor 1.99m.
As you will recall there have been extensive reports by a.o. myself that
Apple's ResEdit does
not work (seems to work but it crashes whenever you try to do something
useful - come to think
of it that that is more or less the definition of a computer anyway!).

The one that does work is a very, very, very old version, namely the
precursor to ResEdit, called
REdit. Its release date is January, 7th 1986 so it is a bit obsolete to say
the least.

This was the first publicly available resource editor from Apple (and
probably still is copyrighted
by Apple). The version (1.2) I tested comes from CompuServe, but it might be
available on the net also.

The program (REDIT.APP) probably is much more limited than ResEdit 2.1.3 but
it is a start.
There also is an excellent (MacWrite) manual in the file REDIT.WRT

I tried editing an icon and that worked fine (in b/w though; in 1986 there
were no color Macs).

I fully agree with Clifford's remarks about not uploading software to this
mailing list so you will not find
it here, but if someone emails me directly I can send the two files to you.
Please bear in mind that this
probably still is Apple copyrighted software which implies that you probably
can only use this software
legally when you own a Mac (thus having paid for the operating system). I
own a PB165 so I am fine =:-)


Ernst J. Oud

'Appreciate what you've got, 'cause basically I'm fantastic.'
                                  Holly the ship's computer of spaceship Red
Dwarf.