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- 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
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