[Ham-Mac] OS X development

[Chris Smolinski]

Steve Muncy wrote:
> 
> On 2/19/02 6:10 AM, "Chris Smolinski" <csmolinski@erols.com> wrote:
> 
> > I've been distributing as .sit files, which seems to work (assuming
> > folks have Stuffit installed, perhaps a bad assumption). I initally
> > distributed as .sea, then got the flood of "why does your program need
> > Classic" emails. It seems that there's a core group of OSX users who
> > despise Classic, probably related to the group who think that Cocoa apps
> > are the only true OSX apps, and Carbon is somehow "fake"  ;-)  (I do
> > understand that running Classic can slow things down a little, and some
> > people resist even installing the Classic OS on their system, so I can
> > see the issue)
> 
> Chris, I'm running OSX only and have eliminated all but two essential
> classic apps that I almost never use. Since I don't launch Classic on
> startup, I cringe when I go to open an archive file and see it launch
> Classic -- it just takes a lot more time. I don't despise Classic and think
> Carbon is an excellent bridge -- I just don't want to waste time opening
> classic just to unstuff a file.

Hi Steve,

I understant your point completely - starting Classic just to unstuff a
file is silly. I'll have to play around with .dmg files when I get some
free time (I vaguely remember what that is ;-)

73
Chris
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