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Why ARDI doesn't know which apps run + suggestion
Dear Folks,
I hate to continue a thread whose basic gist is a plea for
less traffic in this group, but... The problem is that ARDI doesn't
know what applications will run under Executor-MSW. ARDI is in a bit
of a financial crunch, and has been, more or less, since day 0 (about
five years ago). The details boil basically down to: ARDI expected
to raise venture capital but wasn't able to because of the
justifiable fear of lawsuits. Lately ARDI is involved in all sorts
of deals that can't be mentioned but none of them have yet panned out
(there's still fear of lawsuits).
A while back we had copies of the top 10 selling applications
for the Mac. We had to return those copies (no, we didn't do
anything wrong; that was just part of a deal we had). We have notes
that date back to when we had the copies, but recently we discovered
at least one example, and we suspect there are many more :-(, of a
program that worked fine a while back that now dies mysteriously, so
we really don't know the status of programs that we don't have access
to. Right now the "big ticket" applications that we have are:
Word 4.00D
Excel 3.0
Excel 3.0A
Word 5.00
Fullwrite Professional V? ( I don't recall it's not really a
concern, but it's what I used to use
on the Mac and what my mother still
uses; it doesn't run under Executor
at all)
Now being a fellow Albuquerquean, as well as being a very
good friend [he is indirectly, through Lee Ward responsible for me
bringing Executor to the NeXT; it was developed on Sun equipment],
and being a fairly omnisicient kinda guy, Andrew knew all of the
above. So when he asked whether or not Quark ran he was asking the
right place.
Still, a better solution is needed. Obviously, ARDI needs to
track this data (until we can get some more Apps, which is already
planned), so how's this for a new protocol:
If you find out that an Application does or doesn't run, send
the info to "iclone!stef@unmvax.cs.unm.edu". If you are interested
in whether or not a particular application runs, send the question to
stef. If he doesn't know whether or not a particular application
runs, then it can be assumed that no one on this list knows, or
she/he would have sent me the information. To make it a little
easier, Stef will post a brief list describing what runs [and how
well it runs] (not the monster data I sent out earlier) every two
weeks. So information doesn't fall through the cracks there will be
a reminder of what the policy is and a list of applications that
people have asked about that hasn't been answered (just in case
someone is inadvertantly sitting on this information). Someone can
then put a copy of this list on the NeXT servers on the InterNet.
With luck that will help everyone out.
--Cliff