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- Dear Folks,
-
- Executor-MSW V1.1 has been shipped to everyone (with the
- exception of an overseas order of 20 which will be going out Monday)
- that has previously purchased Executor-MSW V1.0. [you may want to
- check out Jiro Nakamura's review in comp.sys.next.announce]. The big
- addition to V1.1 is printing. However, in V1.1, bitmap fonts are
- used on the screen and even though the Adobe fonts are used when
- printing, the bitmap "metrics" are still being used so text that is
- "right justified" doesn't line up correctly. This will be fixed in
- V1.2 which you will also get for free.
-
- The sad news is that Executor-MSW has been short-changing our
- friends across the puddle because it has not properly handled
- diacritical marks. The good news is that we have fixed the problem.
- The sad news is that the fix came after 1.1 was released. The good
- news is there's a new release, V1.1.1, which is what will be shipped
- to anyone that purchases Executor-MSW from this point on. If you
- need diacritical support (nothing else has been changed), then we're
- willing to send you a copy of V1.1.1 for free. Please don't ask
- unless you really need it. The fix will be in V1.2 and you'll get
- that automatically just like you got (or will get shortly) V1.1.
-
- We still haven't made much progress listing what runs and
- doesn't run, since we've been working without sleep to get V1.1 and
- more importantly V1.2 out the door. V1.1 doesn't help other
- applications run, however by the time V1.2 comes out I want the
- commonly used file utilities to work correctly (notably stuffit and
- compactorpro) as well as a couple of small programs that people have
- been asking for: "Quicken" and "MacInTax".
-
- I believe we can use unmvax.cs.unm.edu for ftp'able material.
- I've sent a letter to the appropriate authorities to make clarify
- that, but unless they say no, I'll put a few things out there for
- general consumption:
-
- setcreatortype.c discussed below
-
- Documentation/Executor-MSW the current manuals for people who
- haven't yet purchased Executor-MSW
- to peruse
-
- ReleaseNotes1.1.rtf the 1.1 release notes for
- non-purchasers
-
- Work on Excel support is going well, a major breakthrough was
- made this weekend and we hope to be shipping copies to beta-testers
- within a couple of weeks.
-
- --Cliff
-
- FOR POWER USERS/PROGRAMMERS ONLY:
-
- There has been some confusion about "Apple Double" format and
- "resource forks". The problem is that there are programs like
- FloppyWorks and kermit that will cheerfully copy the "resource fork"
- of a Macintosh file if you ask for it, but then when you prepend a
- "%" to the fork and try to use it with Executor, you don't get
- anywhere. This is because the files that Executor (and HFS_XFer)
- use/create that begin with "%" actually contain more than just the
- resource fork. They contain other information that's needed as well.
- Still, there are some reasons why you may find yourself with a
- resource fork and want to turn it into something that Executor can
- use, so I wrote a quick hack of a program, called "setcreatortype"
- that will allow you to do just that. The file "type" and "creator"
- are two important things that get thrown away when you use a program
- like FloppyWorks to copy data between a Mac and a UNIX system. An
- example use of "setcreatortype" is:
-
- % setcreatortype "PNC1" "APPL" < Norton_Util > %Norton_Util
-
- That is the command that I used to check to make sure that
- setcreatortype works (I don't have any need for it, because I use
- HFS_XFer to push my stuff across). The first argument, "PNC1", is
- what's known in the Macintosh community as the file "creator"; it is
- a special tag that identifies programs and data files written by
- programs. I found out the proper creator for Norton Utilities by
- using the "ResEdit" program. The second argument, "APPL", tells what
- type of data is in the file that we're using. "APPL" stands for
- application. Another common type is "TEXT". If you know what all
- these are then you may want to pick up the setcreatortype program
- from unmvax.cs.unm.edu (I can mail it to you if you don't have ftp
- access). It is a real hack of a program but some of you have been
- clamoring for it.
-
-