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- >>>>> "Beth" == Elizabeth E Katz <beth@raven.millersv.edu> writes:
-
- Beth> I'm a longtime Executor/NEXTSTEP user. I'm happy to hear
- Beth> that the NEXTSTEP port is coming soon. I hope that we will
- Beth> have a chance to test it (and then test it again with bug
- Beth> fixes) before 2.0 comes out.
-
- Yes, everyone should have a chance to test before 2.0 comes out. I
- don't know when it will first appear -- Mat is getting into the groove
- again, but there will probably be some mods I'll have to make, but we
- will make sure that the NEXTSTEP version of 2.0 has a beta period of
- the same amount of time as the DOS and Linux versions. Those two may
- go into beta before the NEXTSTEP versions do, but *all* the releases
- to date are pre-beta.
-
- Beth> I'm actually using Executor 1.3c because it works okay with
- Beth> Microsoft Word, stumbles (but works enough) on HyperCard,
- Beth> and manages to run ClarisWorks 2.1's word processor and
- Beth> database. It crashes on ClarisWorks spreadsheet however,
- Beth> and I can't print from ClarisWorks.
-
- I'm not sure how much our HyperCard compatibility has improved in the
- last year and a half, but the ClarisWorks spreadsheet crash is fixed.
- We still are being dogged by a variety of printing problems, but some
- have gotten better in the last few releases. HyperCard will probably
- be one of the apps we spend some concentrated hackathon time. If you
- want to make up a list of known problems with HyperCard and send them,
- with stacks that can easily reproduce them, we'll see if those bugs
- still exist and try to eradicate them if they do.
-
- Beth> Anyway, Cliff and company, we're patiently awaiting the
- Beth> NEXTSTEP port. Executor has helped me in the past month,
- Beth> and I look forward to many more happy years with it. More
- Beth> years with NEXTSTEP? Well, those musings belong on
- Beth> comp.sys.next.advocacy.
-
- You're welcome. Sorry it's been so long (and is still taking a little
- while) for a new NEXTSTEP port, but there would be no ports if we had
- gone out of business.
-
- Beth> Thanks for not deserting us.
-
- I only wish there hadn't been this long delay.
-
- --Cliff
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