John, thank you for your ongoing work to keep SS, and WP within it, running better all the time. I want to take advantage of the improvements you have made,...
Hi, I first launched Sheepshaver over a year ago, and by tinkering around over the past year I managed 4 months ago or so to manage to upgrade from OS 7.5...
... wrote: I therefore bought a second hand ... Have you tried simply copying the System Folder from the iMac? I think there are extensions which won't work,...
Hugh, Thanks for the help. Buying the Indigo Intel was the only way I could find to easily get hold of the right OS to launch the OS 9 on an Intel. The Indigo...
... ... But how on earth did you get an Indigo Intel? The only Indigo iMacs I've ever heard of were G3 which is third-generation PPC (Acorn and/or IBM rather...
Unless you took out the PPC processor of the Indigo iMac and swapped in an Intel one somehow, this is not possible. There is no official Indigo Intel ... get ...
... The SheepShaver-WordPerfect install comes with what i think are the best osaxen: Jon's Commands, Akua Sweets, Dialog Director, Regular Expressions,...
... Tom, I didn't keep a record of what I added but, looking around, all I see is: Installed QuickHelp correctly Set CarbonLib to load by default Updated...
Again, kudos to John for keeping this going. I'm still thinking about the most sensible way to use SS in a Leopard installation. Two comments. I've learned...
Hi, I don't know what I did wrong, but the installation of WordPerfect SheepSaver seems to be incomplete. After installation, when I click on the SheepSaver...
Did you try just selecting (click once) the SheepSaver volume and trying to open it with either command-O or "open" in the File menu? I've found that...
Hi, I am in the process of switching from a PC to a Mac OS X 10.5.1. I was using the latest version of Word Perfect on the PC, and I'm wondering if I'll be...
... MacLinkPlus Deluxe will convert documents of many different formats. From one file at a time up to every file (of a kind of your choice) on your hard...
Linda If your files are WP Windows, convert them to .doc now under Windows. Word for Windows and Word for Mac formats are identical. If you are getting an...
Geoff Gilbert
Geoff@...
Feb 9, 2008 7:40 pm
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... Don't quote me, but I gather there's been a major file format change between Word Mac 2004 and 2008, the latter format being XML-based. The fun part of...
... It sounds like your installation was successful, and you're looking at the SheepShaver (Mac classic OS) desktop. Can you double-click the SheepShaver icon...
... I'd start over with a clean SheepShaver install from the package here. Sound should work at that point. It requires the Sound control panel (not Monitors...
... Have you tried rebuilding the SS desktop after you've put these applications in the Unix folder? The best way to do that is use the "Desktop Reset" utility...
If you're on OS 10.4 or later, Spotlight works great for finding WP files - name, metadata and contents, as well if the file is in the Unix folder for use with...
I would guess that there are many in this group who, like myself, have been pounding away on a Mac keyboard since System 6 or 7. And I suspect that at one...
Word for Windows' .docx format is incompatible with Word for Mac 2004. However, Word for Mac 2008 can read Word for Mac 2004 .doc format and Word for Windows...
Geoff Gilbert
Geoff@...
Feb 10, 2008 7:24 am
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One thing to look out for VBA for Mac has had a Stake put in it. its dead. So Macro Recorder and any Macros depending on VBA will not work on a Mac under...
... My understanding is that Microsoft has merely reflected all of the bizarre complexities of the the binary format into XML, so that if you don't know the...
... Maybe not, since a Word 2008 translator would be useful, and insofar as macros could search for XML tags and replace them with WP codes, not too hard to...
... Wow, that brings back memories! As a matter of fact, I'm still running Classic Macs and wish I could get my hands on a PaperPort to go with my Powerbook. ...
... Yes, sort of but... As "Geoff Gilbert" Geoff@... said, ... But *of course* they've implemented a non-standard proprietary format deceptively named...
... Yes, I've tried that without any success. But I did discover that if an application in the Unix folder was running, if I tried to open a document...
I have not been able to load SS 1.1 on my PPC MacMini with Leopard installed. Is it possible to do so? If so, what do I need and where can I find them? David...
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