Sheep Shaver & XCMDs

[Joe Lewis Wilkins]

Hi Ken,

Right this minute I don't even remember what the difference(s)  
between Type 1 and Type 2 "is/are". And the cross platform thing is  
beginning to "cool" as far as I'm concerned. Too many difficulties  
for me, personally, to make it worthwhile. Besides, I've always  
preferred to just support the Mac OSs.

I know that Rev doesn't think the OS9 market is worth diddling with,  
but I'm far more anxious to be able to create Classic apps than  
Windows or Linux. I think it is "huge" - relatively speaking of  
course. And who knows, I suspect that a lot of older Macs running OS9  
are being recycled.

BTW, my externals are not just simple little ditties; each one does a  
lot, often maxing-out the 32k limit.

Joe Wilkins

On Jan 1, 2008, at 11:47 PM, Ken Ray wrote:

> On Tue, 1 Jan 2008 22:36:11 -0800, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote:
>
>> Ken,
>>
>> I, too, have a number of HC stacks that I wish to convert to
>> Revolution; however most of them use XCMDs and XFNs that I created
>> with Compile-it. They are all well tested, having been used by
>> businesses everyday for about 12 years. Do you know if they can be
>> used in Revolution stacks and then in the standalone?
>
> Well, only if you are deploying to OS 9, and only if they were Type 1,
> not Type 2 XCMDs/XFCNs. That said, however, it is very rare that there
> is an external that I've run across where I couldn't encapsulate the
> same functionality using a custom Transcript function. And doing so
> would make it completely cross-platform and OS X compatible, so it is
> the best way to go, IMHO.
>
>
> Ken Ray