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In article <1992Sep25.174215.5653@news.columbia.edu> nwc@blackbox.cc.columbia.edu (Nick Christopher) writes:
>In pre-3.0 Librarian you could offer your own file filters to get
>ascii out of a file type. So you could handle things like WordPerfect.
>This was done by placing a <filetype>-ascii program in the .index
>directory. This appears to be broken now. Also the descriptions that
>appeared in the Librarian browser could be created by hand with a
><filetype>-desc program in the .index, this too is gone.
>
>Librarian does not seemed to have improved with 3.0... NeXT has so far
>ignored my questions on the topic.
>

This makes depressing reading. The lowest common denominator seems to be
getting lower. Librarian is one of my favourite applications, but it crashes
a lot under 2.0, so I was looking forward to a new improved version.

Haven't heard much about the Mail app yet. Does that have lots of new
features to replace all the little service workarounds?

Seems to me that NeXT's first priority should have been to improve the
application kit and the basic applications. They are reputed to have some
good programmers and they are working on the premier development system
under which you can write apps two or three times faster (or whatever the
marketing hype says), so the two years that they've been working on 3.0 are
equivalent to FIVE years on a Sun system, so we should expect great leaps
forward in 3.0. No?

Dave Griffiths