Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!apple!chuq From: chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach, only here for the beer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: System 7.0 compatible stuff Message-ID: <51975@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 24 Apr 91 23:08:36 GMT References: <5010@lib.tmc.edu> Organization: Dottie I's Private Eyes Lines: 59 drg@mdaali.mda.uth.tmc.edu (David Gutierrez) writes: >> Well, I'm probably the only person who uses this particular app, but >FullWrite >> Professional 1.0.1 is fully compatible with System 7 (and I use it very >exten- >> sively and "harshly," if you will). This is why this kind of "on the net" listing is so silly and unreliable. >That's interesting. Ashton-Tate is planning to update the current version >of FullWrite (1.5s) to 1.6 when System 7.0 is released. So FWP 1.0.1 supports apple events? subscribe and the edition manager? Aliases? 7.0 stationery? Look -- the ONLY people who know whether an application is compatible with 7.0 is the vendor. Even Apple doesn't -- we don't have the time or the energy to exhaustively test everything out there, which is why 7.0's been as widely ditributed to the developer world as it was. If someone posts "foo is compatible" on USENET, all that REALLY means is "I haven't crashed it on my system". The same with "Foo crashes badly" -- all that means is that it doesn't work with that person's specific configuration. That information is useful in some ways, but keep it in perspective. Just because program foo works on my MacII with 8 meg doesn't mean it's going to work on a IIsi with internal monitor, 32 bit quickdraw and 17 meg, or a IIfx in 32 bit mode with 16 megs of RAM and an 8x24 card with a 2 page monitor. Just because a program crashes in one place doesn't mean much -- it might have been corrupted software, or a specific set of unhappy inits (um, extenions) or whatever. Or maybe it IS incompatible. Without exhaustive testing on a large number of configurations, you don't knw. It's all rumor and hearsay. Now, none of this means that simply because the vendor says you need a new version means you really need it. If it's not crahsing -- great. Perhaps they're just adding the new functionality like publish/subscribe or events. Or pe3rhaps you're just not running into the bugs because you don't have 16Meg of RAM and are running in 32bit mode. It just means it's not crashing for you. Great. So keep the stuff you hear, evne from us dweebs from Apple, in perspective. The ONLY voice of authority on this is the vendor for each product. Anything you see from any other source -- the net, MacLeak, your neighbor's poodle -- is going to be incomplete, inaccurate, based on simplistic and unexhaustive testing and probably out of date. Use it with caution. -- Chuq Von Rospach >=< chuq@apple.com >=< GEnie: CHUQ >=< AppleLink: CHUQ SFWA Nebula Awards Reports Editor =+= Editor, OtherRealms Book Reviewer, Amazing Stories ---@--- #include Recommended: ORION IN THE DYING TIME Ben Bova (Tor, Aug, ***-); SACRED VISIONS Greeley&Cassutt (Tor, Aug, ****+); MEN AT WORK George Will (****); XENOCIDE Orson Scott Card (August, ****)