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From: jln@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (John Norstad)
Subject: Re: System 7.0 Installer BUG
Message-ID: <1991May20.145447.28799@casbah.acns.nwu.edu>
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In article <1991May20.040754.28511@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> 
jah@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Jonathan Helton) writes:
> I'm using this disk to double check the status of my "incompatible" 
("must
> upgrade") and unkonwn ("not.avail.") applications and INITS.  Many
> applications tagged "must upgrade" by the Incompatibility Checker work
> fine.  An obvious ploy by software manufacturers...

This is very true. I was quite surprised to discover that many of the 
major applications I had been using with no problems for many months under 
7.0 beta releases were supposedly "incompatible". The checker is very 
conservative.

I think what happened is that when developers were asked to say which 
version of their product was compatible, they told Apple the current 
shipping version number. Older versions of products may indeed be 
compatible also, but they didn't bother checking.

I know I did this. I told Apple that Disinfectant 2.4 was compatible. The 
Checker flags any older version as incompatible, but I'm pretty sure they 
work fine. I just didn't have the time to go back and thoroughly test all 
of them just to make certain.

John Norstad
Academic Computing and Network Services
Northwestern University
j-norstad@nwu.edu