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dsdd@okcforum.osrhe.uoknor.edu (Roy Barrett) writes:

>My news server is really messed at the moment, and I can't get to csa2, so
>since all this SI! talk has been going around, what does SoftSwitch do? It
>multitasks P8 programs? I tried it once, and it looked okay, but I couldn't
>get it working.. 

  SoftSwitch switches between P8 programs on a IIgs.  It's pretty limited
but does what it does fairly well.

>Couldn't you create a "Compatiblity" Aux type for some SI programs and have
>programs in seperate windows? if it writes to the screen, it's incompatible,
>but those "Mac-like" programs that follow all of the "Hell Laws" (aka the
>Apple Human Interface Guidelines) will be able to run in seperate windows..

  There are several (many) other problems, which are all listed in 
the Switch-It! DEMO documentation.

>Jawaid, I thought you said that the SI! Icon was like the Mac Multifinder..
>It SURE doesn't look like one to me.. ;)

  When did I say that?

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