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From: keith@Apple.COM (Keith Rollin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: ResEdit 1.3d1
Keywords: ResEdit 1.3d1, virus?, Trojan Horse?, Real?
Message-ID: <36499@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 15 Nov 89 10:54:43 GMT
References: <1989Nov14.204614.18246@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> <16925@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>
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In article <16925@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> earleh@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Earle R. Horton) writes:
>In article <1989Nov14.204614.18246@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
>	tdrinkar@cosmos.acs.calpoly.edu.UUCP (Terrell Drinkard) writes:
>>It was a dark and stormy night... and I was ftping all over the
>>place and I found a copy of ResEdit which purported to be version
>>1.3d1.
>...
>>A friend of mine had just returned from a visit with Apple Sunday,
>>and he says that Apple knows nothing of a version 1.3d1 ResEdit.
>...
>>So how about it guys.  Is this ResEdit a Trojan horse or what?
>>I've swept it with Disinfectant 1.2 with no results.  
>
>This thing appeared on a number of ftp sites a few months ago, and
>then abruptly disappeared a few days later.  Afterwards, there was a
>message here from MacDTS to the effect that the program had been
>released by mistake, and would you please delete all copies in your
>possession please?
>
>This is a real copy of ResEdit, but you are not supposed to have it.
>Version 1.2 of ResEdit is the current release version, to my knowledge.

I wouldn't want to put it those terms, Earle. Propogates the Thought Police
fears...I hate that, because I'd like people to like Apple, and I do everything
in my power to promote that.

I was one of the people who posted about the genesis of ResEdit 1.3d1. At the
time, what I wanted to get across was that given 1.3d1 and 1.2, you should
WANT to use 1.2. 1.3d1 came about when someone took a version of 1.2d4, and
slapped in a public domain (I think) fancy menu editor. They then renumbered
it to 1.3d1 and passed it around. 

The differences between 1.2 final and 1.3d1, therefore, are a) 1.2 doesn't have 
the fancy menu editor, and b) 1.2 doesn't have all the bugs that 1.3d1 does. 
No one that I know has reported any problems with crashed disks or corrupted 
files when using 1.3d1, but if you're as cautious as I am with your data (and 
you should be given the Mac's propensity to crash all the time), you'll stick 
with 1.2. I know that I do. But then, I use Rez to define my menus anyway...

I hope that this clears things up, once and for all.

(By the way, I think that I've heard references to a 1.3d2. My guess would be
that this is a version of 1.2 final with the fancy menu editor in it, but I
don't know for sure. What I DO know is that it is not an Apple release).

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