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From: peter@hari.VIEWlogic.com (Peter Colby)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Is MacWrite 5.0 incompat with Sys 6.0.4 & newer?
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Date: 24 Aug 90 14:49:15 GMT
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In article <5390@mace.cc.purdue.edu>, omalley@mace.cc.purdue.edu (John
O'Malley) writes:
|> Does MacWrite 5.0 break while running under System 6.0.4 or 6.0.5?
|> 
|> I remember, perhaps wrongly (wrongly?), reading an article a while
|> back saying that they were incompatible, and that Claris wasn't going
|> to fix the problem.  Claris instead said to upgrade to MacWrite II,
|> which worked fine.
|> 
|> The situation:  We've got a lab full of Mac SE's still running 6.0.2, with
|> a few copies of MacWrite 5.0 available on the file server.  We just came
|> up with a need to upgrade to System 6.0.5.  Will we need to upgrade to
|> MacWrite II?
|> 
|> -John
|> ---
|> John O'Malley               / Macintosh  / Purdue University / (317)
|> omalley@mace.cc.purdue.edu / Specialist / Computing Center  / 494-1787

I have a version of MacWrite 5.0 (might be 5.01 or 5.1 or something like
that) from Claris that works great on 6.0.4. As far as I can tell, Claris
is real good at writing software that works on ALL version of the OS after
whatever the minimal requirements state.

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