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From: Greg@AppleLink.Apple.Com (Greg Marriott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: ResEdit Aftermarket Products?
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Date: 26 Feb 91 11:09:41 GMT
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In article <18267@imag.imag.fr>, gourdol@imag.imag.fr (Arnaud Gourdol) writes:
> In article <16903@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> leue@galen.crd.ge.com (Bill Leue) writes:
> >I wonder if any commerical software organizations have considered
> >building plug-in filters and editors for the new, modular ResEdit.
> >-Bill Leue
> >leue@crd.ge.com
> ...(ie, people from the Real World(tm)) don't use ResEdit, and hence, won't
> buy modules for a product they don't own (seems very logical)...
> ...
> As far as now, I'm afraid there's no market for this kind of ResEdit
> extensions. (sigghhhh!).

Seems to me the market for ResEdit "extensions" is the same as for any other
development tool... developers.  A small segment of the Mac population, to
be sure, but several companies make a healthy living selling development tools.

Greg Marriott
Blue Meanie
Apple Computer, Inc.