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Re: Norton 3.2.1 and 9500 - Incompatible?

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From: Jason Haines
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 00:00
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In article <1996Mar20.204929.583@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>,
ttha@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Tom Thatcher) wrote:

> Norton tried to design their startup disk builder to work with future
> system developments but I'm not surprised it doesn't work for everyone.
> Exactly how should they write a program to be fully compatible with a
> version of the MacOS not released until 2 years after the original program?

By providing their users with updates via their ftp site.
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From: jason@nectar.com.au (Jason Haines)
Subject: Re: Norton 3.2.1 and 9500 - Incompatible?
Date: 1996/03/21
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