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From: phssra@mathcs.emory.edu (Scott Robert Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: ftp.apple.com and Hypercard 2.1
Message-ID: <7513@emory.mathcs.emory.edu>
Date: 18 May 91 16:36:28 GMT
References: <53004@apple.Apple.COM> <43412@netnews.upenn.edu>
Organization: Department of Physics, Emory University, Atlanta
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In article <43412@netnews.upenn.edu> rubinoff@linc.cis.upenn.edu (Robert Rubinoff) writes:
>Will ftp.apple.com have version 2.1 of Hypercard?  The 800K disks don't seem
>to.  And the compatability checker claims that 2.0 won't work under System 7.

The Personal Upgrade Kit includes three disks which don't come with the version
being distributed to user groups and university computer centers (and
presumably via FTP).   These are the disk "Macintosh Networking Basics", which
apparently is a tutorial of some sort, and the two stripped-down HyperCard 2.1
disks.

I contacted Apple Software Licensing, and I was told that at this time, there
are no plans to provide HyperCard 2.1 to user groups, et al.  They said this
was Claris' decision, so they are the ones to complain to.  I tried calling
them yesterday to see exactly how I'm supposed to get 2.1 if I didn't buy the
PUK and I don't want to pay for their "developer" version, but apparently they
take Friday afternoons off.  I'll try again on Monday.

[FLAME ON!]
So much for HyperCard being "System Software"!  There are so many things being
distributed via HyperCard that it is really ridiculous that it is not as freely
available as the System.  I don't even care if all the user groups get is the
stripped-down version; we should at least be able to read the stacks which come
with System 7!  If Claris is going to be so stingy with it, turning HyperCard
over to them was a really *big* mistake.
[FLAME OFF]

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