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From: jkc@Apple.COM (John Kevin Calhoun)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: MOS 7 - are we having fun yet?
Message-ID: <53304@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 24 May 91 16:29:22 GMT
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In article <11949.283C9CB3@stjhmc.fidonet.org>
Leo.Bores@p25.f15.n114.z1.fidonet.org (Leo Bores) writes:

>Have you run the Incompatibilty Checker yet?
[stuff deleted]
>Even the newest version of Hypercard can't hack it - you "must upgrade"
>to version 2.1 - and you can't get it on any BBS service.

Let's talk facts.

HyperCard 2.0v2, released six months ago, is "mostly compatible" with
System 7.0.  When I run the Compatibility Checker, it says

Item                      Your
Checked                   Version  Status         Notes
------------------------  -------  -------------  ---------
HyperCard                 2.0v2    Mostly comp.   2.1    RI

The "RI" means "When you upgrade to System 7, replace this item with the
version on the System 7 installation disks (or on one of the other disks)
included with your upgrade materials."  HyperCard 2.1, released two weeks
ago, is "fully compatible" with 7.0. It's included in the System 7.0
Personal Upgrade Kit and the Group Upgrade Kit.  Furthermore, if you're
a registered user of HyperCard 2.0v2, Claris will send you 2.1 at no
charge at your request.  However, as you pointed out, it's not available
for downloading.

Here are the known incompatibilities between HyperCard 2.0v2 and System 7.0.
They have all been fixed in HyperCard 2.1.

- When you ask for the names of the system Help or Application menus from
  HyperTalk, you get indecipherable strings.
- "the menus" doesn't include the system Help and Application menus.
- When you launch HyperCard and it can't find the Home stack, you must
  select a Home stack from a standard file dialog.  If the stack you
  select can't be opened (this can happen if it has already been opened
  with write permission by another application) HyperCard will freeze
  the machine.
- If there are no user menus, the System 7 Help menu disappears when the
  userLevel changes.  It comes back if a user menu is created from a script.
- The HyperTalk commands that refer to files don't work with alias files.

Kevin Calhoun
jkc@apple.com