Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!claris!apple!keith
From: keith@Apple.COM (Keith Rollin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Help for MPW/MacAPP neophyte?
Keywords: mpw macapp pascal help
Message-ID: <29409@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 23 Apr 89 01:45:27 GMT
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In article <1004@sas.UUCP> cole@sas.UUCP (Tom Cole) writes:
>Okay, I am moderately knowlegeable about the Macintosh, but utterly ignorant
>of MPW and MacApp.  Here's the setup:
>
>	[ List of trials and tribulations deleted ]
>
>HELP!  Conclusion:  I don't really know what is going on, but it sure feels
>like either my software isn't as up-to-date as I think (obvious problem is
>the MacApp 2.0.2 stuff) or I am confused about what I am doing.  Any
>suggestions?  RTFM is an acceptable response, but it sure with help if
>you would supply a chapter/page number in the FM to R.
>
I know that Rick Wong replied to this, but he didn't give you the page number
that you asked for. Check out page 15 of the MPW Shell release notes.

Note to Rick: You mentioned in your followup to the original question that
Apple should be more responsible about making sure that products like MPW and
MacApp stay more in sync with each other. With this I whole-heartedly agree!
Especially since I work in Apple Tech Support, where we get this question once
a week, despite the fact that the problem is mentioned in the release notes.
Regardless, this appears to anyone outside of Apple as flagrant irresponsibil-
ity on our part.

Unfortunately, there is only one programmer working on MacApp right now. Just
one! Saddled with the awesome responsibility of maintaining over 4 meg of
source code, he can't crank out new versions MacApp just like that (despite the
fact that he's almost as fast a programmer as you are).

The reason why there is only one programmer on MacApp is that we haven't been
able to find any programmer's who are willing to come to Apple to work on it.
We'd love to have more people working on MacApp, but haven't seen anyone
beating down the doors to help us out.

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