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A friend forwarded to me a couple of posts from this group talking about
Trapeze and whether the latest version will support System 7 or not.

I was one of the original authors of Trapeze, although I haven't worked
on it since 1987.  However, I called up the other authors (who are still
in Fort Worth, Texas, and were also the authors of DeltaGraph and large
parts of Aldus Persuasion 1.0), and the word from them is that the latest
release runs fine under System 7 as long as you don't use 32-bit addressing;
it was built with a version of the Think C libraries that weren't 32-bit
clean.  There are also apparently some formatting problems on the newest
Macs (Classic, IIsi, LC) due to a change in Apple's SANE number formatting
routines.

This is emphatically *not* the official word from DeltaPoint, though.
I will probably call them next week and see what's up.

Bob Murphy
bobert@autodesk.com
bobert@well.sf.ca.us

P.S. I wrote all the numerics in Trapeze, so if you like the gudermannian
function or dislike the way it handles amortizations...  Anyway, although
it didn't pay as well, working on Trapeze was much more interesting than
what I do now (Mac AutoCAD).